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keep in mind that the further in the past a post was published, the more likely it is that the information has become outdated or my beliefs have changed.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 19 posts previously published on August 2nd

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2020.08.01 Week twenty-three of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. ➡
    • My nieces’ grandparents (on their dad’s side) found an old park bench for their family, and my nieces decorated it. I think this is wonderful, and am sharing with permission from their mom. ➡
    • On This Day: Aug 2 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from August 2 ➡
  • 2018
    • Do you like the color purple? Turns out you can thank rancid mollusc butt mucus! “This is a colour that pretends to transcend the vulgar vagaries of this world, all the while remaining mired in its muck.” ➡
  • 2016
    • Used #Pixelmator to combine two #Prisma effects (Heisenberg and Mosaic). On a miniature computer I carry in my pocket and only semi-accurately call a “phone” (as that’s one of its least used functions). Even with all the crap in the world today, living in the future is cool. (215/366) ➡
    • We voted! ➡
    • For one brief, odd moment, I was sure there was some sort of robotic snake on the road outside our house. ➡
  • 2014
    • An afternoon visiting The circus planet. #RollWorld Image @RollWorldApp, #TinyPlanet #PhotoSphere #StereoGraphic ➡
    • At the circus! Yesterday we noticed that the Wenatchee Youth Circus was in town for the weekend, so here we are, watching them prep for the show! ➡
  • 2006
    • Vegas Vacation It's vacation time -- a full five days off from work. Tomorrow morning, at some horrendous hour, Prairie's sister is driving us to the airport where we'll board a plane to fly down to Las Vegas for three days with Xebeth! ➡
  • 2004
    • Meme Propagation Test This posting is a community experiment started by Minding the Planet to see how a meme represented by a blog posting spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. ➡
    • Seeing Cheney requires signing ‘loyalty oath’ Kirsten sent this my way earlier today, and then I ran across it again on Len's site, and both times it just made my skin crawl: Obtaining Cheney Rally Ticket Requires Signing Bush Endorsement. ➡
    • iTunes and Jazz: More about Metadata Regular readers of this mess I call a website will occasionally have seen me rant about metadata, especially where the iTunes Music Store is concerned. In short, it's woefully incomplete, and at times, flat-out inaccurate. It was quite heartening for me to run across Jazz in 2500?, a jazz-lovers look at the disservice done to music when only the least possible information is preserved when purchasing music online. ➡
    • Ballard Locks Photo Workshop So yesterday was the big photo gathering at the Locks. Prairie and I picked up her sister Hope and then headed out, eventually getting there about an hour into the event. As I'd never been to the Locks before, I wasn't entirely sure where to go at first, so we just started following the paths and wandering around. It wasn't long before we stumbled across a fairly large group with a higher-than-average ratio of cameras… ➡
  • 2003
    • Overpriced? Oh, come on. Why in the world, then, would I want to pay $15/month (not counting any discounts I get for being a TypePad beta tester) to sign up with TypePad? Quite a few reasons, actually. ➡
  • 2002