On This Day

Should you dig back through my archives, please keep in mind that the further in the past a post was published, the more likely it is that the information has become outdated or my beliefs have changed. I sincerely believe that learning, growing, examining, and often changing beliefs is an integral part of being a responsible human being. My personal journey socially and politically has been ever leftwards, and there are many posts in the archives that I would not write the same way today, if at all. Thanks for understanding!

There are 18 posts previously published on December 12th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 224 I've been feeling a little spacey today.... ;) ➡
    • Apple Music Grumbling That's both 'the Apple Music service' and 'using Apple devices to listen to music', to be clear. Apple changed something with iOS 17 and made Apple Music less useful for me, and I'm ranting about it. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • The Newest Short Treks Offer a Bright Hope for Star Trek’s Animated Future: “These two tales, on their own, may not be the grandest Star Trek stories ever told—but they don’t have to be. They prove there is space for Star Trek, on the precipice on an unprecedented level of saturation, to tell tales which ... Read more ➡
    • Trying an experiment which I hope I won’t end up regretting: Re-enabling comments on blog posts on my site (but leaving them set to auto-close after two weeks). Don’t know how often they’ll get used, or whether it’ll just be spammers and trolls, but it’s worth an attempt. ➡
    • Short Treks E09: “The Girl Who Made the Stars”: A sweet fable told to a young Michael Burnham (with an adorable tardigrade stuffie) by her dad. Gorgeous animation—and the being the girl in the story meets sure looks like it came right out of The Abyss! Maybe a crossover? 😉 🖖 ➡
    • Short Treks E08: “Ephriam and Dot”: Extremely cute, and definitely a love letter to TOS Trek—though perhaps so much so that more casual or newer watchers might be confused by some of the images that flash by. It worked for me, though. Plus, the narrator is Kirk Thatcher! 🖖 ➡
    • Continuing my Instagram Lurker Status After (almost) a year away, I toyed with resuming uploading to Instagram. But in the end, nope — I'll lurk, but I won't contribute. ➡
  • 2018
    • Book fifty-four of 2018: Star Trek: Klingon Empire: A Burning House, by Keith R. A. DeCandido. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2017
    • Day three! #cah #cardsagainsthumanity ➡
  • 2016
    • We picked this one up a while ago, but decided to save building it until there was a day crappy enough to warrant a #Lego sanitation truck and portapotty. Guess how my day was. (At least the Lego set is really cute.) #💩 ➡
  • 2015
    • Thank you Pike Place Market for supplying the fixings for breakfast in bed! Various croissants, a couple donuts, and fresh dates and Turkish figs for Prairie. ➡
  • 2007
    • Pet Dreams These people need to get together with these people so that Prairie and I can get a hypoallergenic glow in the dark kitten. ➡
  • 2004
    • New Styles I've done very little posting or reading over the weekend, and I'm up way too late tonight (tomorrow morning is really going to suck), but it's all for a good cause as there are now two new stylesheets available in the switcher over to the right. ➡
  • 2003
    • I'm a dork It's a phone. Nothing else. No call waiting, no caller ID, no voice mail, no fancy goodies of any sort. Just a phone. If someone calls when I'm home, I pick it up and answer it. If they call when I'm out, then they'll just have to call back later. ➡
    • Ooga-chaka! Ooga-chaka! Presented for your amusement: one of the most bizarre, funny, and somewhat disturbing music videos I've ever seen. ➡
    • Resume of George W. Bush I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record. ➡
  • 2001