On This Day: Dec 16

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Since I hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 22 posts previously published on December 16th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • Jean and Jorts As Metaphor For Disability Accommodations. ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 fifty-one of 2020: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sure, Asimov’s gender politics don’t age particularly well. But he was always a brilliant and breezy writer, and for all his faults, he’ll always be a favorite. This collection of robotic puzzlers is always enjoyable. ➡
    • On This Day: Dec 16 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 16 ➡
  • 2019
    • An Alarmingly Deep Dive Into the Science of Baby Yoda: “But whether the Yoda is Baby Yoda’s true daddy isn’t what fascinates us every time we tune into The Mandalorian. What keeps us coming back for more is trying to figure out what in the actual hell Baby Yoda is supposed to be. […] We ... Read more ➡
  • 2018
    • Book fifty-six of 2018: Gigantic Worlds, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • I made dinner! Well, I helped. We had French dip sandwiches, I made the au jus. From a powdered mix. Okay, I stirred hot flavored water. (351/366) ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2004
    • 32.4 Days After adding as many of the 100 overlooked films to my Netflix queue as I could, my queue is now 389 discs long. Assuming an average of two hours per movie, that's 32.4 days of movies lined up. Something tells me that that's going to take a while to get through. ;) ➡
  • 2003
    • MiddleEarth mania, week two: The Two Towers And speaking of LotR, I just realized that I'd completely forgotten to say anything about seeing LotR:TTTEE at the Cinerama on Saturday. ➡
    • It's almost time… I'm whining. ➡
    • Another star for Clark Just not another star on his collar. Rather, the four-star General's newest star is none other than Madonna, who expressed her support for Clark's campaign in a CNN interview. ➡
    • The cost of Longhorn [Longhorn], according to Microsoft chief architect Bill Gates, will cost more to develop than it did the US government to put a man on the moon. ➡
  • 2002
    • Blogs: 1, Lott: 0 It's been really fascinating over the past week or so to see Senator Lott's comments create such a stir (and rightly so, I'd say) — primarily because it's entirely possible that his comment just may have gotten swept under the rug had the 'blogosphere' not started voicing their outrage. ➡
    • Giant sea sparrows? No giant sea sparrow is known to be endangered by the eating habits of goats. ➡
    • You’re owed $20 If enough people file claims that the disbursement would end up less than $5 per claimant, then the entirety of the settlement fee would be donated to not-for-profit, charitable, governmental or public entities to be used for music-related purposes or programs for the benefit of consumers who purchased Music Products. ➡
  • 2001
  • 1994
    • [From Usenet 12.16.94 0626] As far as I can tell, after being a fan of both Queen and nin for quite a while, I'd be willing to bet that all that 'sample' is, is holding down the fast forward button on a cd player and panning it back and forth during the goofball experimental middle section of GDML. ➡

On This Day: Dec 15

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Since I hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 19 posts previously published on December 15th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement: “The change started in 1959, when the federal government mandated that everyone use the international foot but allowed surveyors to keep to the old U.S. survey foot for a while. That temporary reprieve has lasted 60 years, but it will finally end in 2022.” ➡
  • 2016
    • I am now an official card-carrying member of the #ACLU. (350/366) cc: @aclu_nationwide ➡
    • That’s two days this week I spaced on my photo. At least Snapchat had an Edward Scissorhands filter to play with! (349/366) ➡
  • 2013
    • On our way back to the burg. Prairie’s driving, so I get to take silly selfies. #roadtrip ➡
    • Saw this on a wall as we were walking around yesterday. Remnants of climbing plants that had been removed, the paths of the vines can still be seen. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Done with Hawaii I was beginning to doubt that I'd ever find the time to finish this project, but I'm _finally_ done with the pictures from our trip to Hawaii last summer! ➡
  • 2006
    • Congratulations H and P! Prairie’s sister and her boyfriend just got engaged -- to each other, even! ;) ➡
    • Post-Storm Report All in all, nothing major to report, as far as we're concerned. Elsewhere in Seattle, though, it's far different. Flooding, mudslides, downed trees, three people dead (one a woman who drowned in her basement apartment) and one million people without power. ➡
  • 2004
    • He had a piercing stare… This is hands-down one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time — eyeglasses without rims, bows, or even a bridge. They're attached via a bridge piercing. ➡
    • Well, it sounded good… That camera I won? Nevermind. Turns out that that was the prize for the account manager. I, as the valued employee who interacts with the customers on a daily basis and provide the customer service that gets such high praise, get the hearty thanks of the company for a job well done. ➡
    • Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika Very cool: an early 1950's pictoral map of the United States of America, apparently issued by the US Government to introduce our country to the people of Germany, most of whom knew little of us outside of what they'd picked up from GIs in their country during World War II. ➡
    • Popular Public Potties According to the PI, our new space-age public restrooms are a success. I've still not used one of these things — but then, I'm still convinced that they're eating people. ➡
  • 2003
    • Spider-Man 2 Teaser A disappointingly low-rez but very cool teaser trailer for Spider-Man 2 just hit the net. ➡
    • Billy Idol’s ‘Cyberpunk’ The future has imploded into the present. With no nuclear war, the new battlefields are people's minds and souls. Megacorporations are the new government. The computer generated info-domains are the new frontiers. Though there is better living through science and chemistry, we are all becoming cyborgs. ➡
    • 0 is also a number Does anyone know how to access and rip the hidden tracks on the X-Files Songs in the Key of X soundtrack CD on a Mac? ➡
  • 2000
    • Back again Got in (late…damn airlines) from my vacation last night, and am currently enjoying my last actual unscheduled day, as far as I know. I may not be on the schedule at my weekend job this weekend, but this being the Christmas shopping season, I'm not betting on that, and just working on the assumption that this is my last "day of rest." ➡
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AI Weirdness • 2020 headlines: “Midway through 2020, people started suggesting that I train a neural net on 2020 headlines, and I was skeptical that there would be enough weird ones to make a decent project. Then 2020 continued to be 2020.”

On This Day: Dec 14

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Since I hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 32 posts previously published on December 14th

  • 2025
  • 2023
  • 2021
    • I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us. ➡
    • Preparing for My New Office NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D. ➡
    • The Micropedia of Microaggressions – the first encyclopedia of microaggressions.: The Micropedia aims to collect everyday microaggressions and highlight their harmful impact through source-based definitions and real-world examples. ➡
  • 2020
    • AI Weirdness • 2020 headlines: “Midway through 2020, people started suggesting that I train a neural net on 2020 headlines, and I was skeptical that there would be enough weird ones to make a decent project. Then 2020 continued to be 2020.” ➡
    • ‘Plaguecore’ and the Rise of Tumblr’s Dress-Up Culture: “Young people are weathering the pandemic by posting photos of themselves in 17th-century plague-doctor outfits.” Discussed here (with lots of links to Tumblr posts): plaguecore, cottagecore, and dark academia. ➡
    • On This Day: Dec 14 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 14 ➡
  • 2019
    • Meeting’s done, time for the Norwescon holiday party! For which, of course, I brought out my most seasonally appropriate suit coat. ➡
    • Gathering the troops for this month’s Norwescon planning meeting. Just four months to go until this year’s con! ➡
  • 2014
    • Christmas cookies! #nomnomnom ➡
  • 2013
    • Stuffed full of tasty tasty Ethiopian food. #QueenofSheba ➡
    • Me: “Don’t jump, Santa!” Prairie: “Why don’t you care about the snowman?” #morbidxmasjokes ➡
    • The chase is on… #looff #carousel ➡
    • Carousel! ➡
    • Love the ice patterns on the rocks. Taken from the SkyRide tram. #spokanefalls ➡
    • The Spokane falls are gorgeous! ➡
    • Debating playing with Instagram again. Took this on Friday back in Eburg. ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • Stormpocalypse ’06 Looks like the strongest storm in 13 years is going to be hitting Seattle tonight. Yesterday hit hard enough to knock out power at our apartment for a few hours in the morning, with other outages reported across town. Tonight, though, is predicted to make yesterday look positively balmy. ➡
  • 2005
    • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe So. Very. Good. Some small quibbles here and there, to be sure, but on the whole a marvelously successful job of translating the book to the screen. Hurrah! ➡
    • iTMS Affiliation is a pain in the butt While I love the idea of iTMS affiliation -- and if I got more traffic, it might even bring me more than a few pennies here and there -- I've got to agree with Scot Hacker that the whole shebang is really a pain to deal with. ➡
    • Poseidon In my version of the movie, the survivors of the capsized ship would make it to the surface, find a life raft, and make it to shore only to discover that the wave had been generated by a huge meteor or asteroid crashing into the ocean not far from their ship. ➡
    • My favorite random facts about… There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Vin Diesel allows to live. Superman owns a pair of Chuck Norris pajamas. The last man who made eye contact with Mr. T was Ray Charles. ➡
  • 2004
    • Found slides from 1979 Most of what I find is general office and printing stuff, some of which I can use for my job, some of which I can't. Yesterday, however, I found an old box of slides. I can't be sure when they were taken, but the date stamp on the slides from when they were developed is April of 1979. Most of the slides were horribly overexposed and unuseable, but seven of them were good. ➡
    • LotR:TYEBEE update A reminder e-mail with directions and details has been sent out to those of you who expressed interest in attending my little Lord of the Rings: Till Your Eyes Bleed Extended Edition deal on Saturday. ➡
  • 2003
    • CSS geek humor Last week, CSS guru Eric Meyer and his wife Kat had their first child, Carolyn, which resulted in a large number of congratulatory posts using css-ish puns. ➡
    • Profile of a Spammer Ever wonder about the people responsible for cramming your inboxes full of offers that you neither want or need? ➡
    • US Political Regions Commonwealth Magazine, unsatisfied with the standard blue (Democrat) vs. Red (Republican) political reporting of elections past, has proposed an interesting division of the country into ten seperate political regions. ➡
    • Emperor Norton You are Joshua Abraham Norton, first and only Emperor of the United States of America! ➡
    • Security: Mac OS X vs. Windows Last week, a minor firestorm erupted when PC Magazine columnist Lance Ulanoff wrote a ridiculously inflammatory article gleefully declaring that, 'the Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows.' ➡
    • Saddam captured – what now? Of course, me being me, I have to wonder where things are going to go from here. Two things immediately stick out in my mind. ➡

Fine Halcyon Days

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I have a number of mixes that I created a long time ago when I was mixing off an external CD mixer, recording the audio stream, and then posting that unedited. Here and there when I have time, I’m going to be going back and re-creating them with the more modern tools I have today. Here’s the first!

This is an update of A Fine Day’s Mix, stringing together three takes on Opus III’s “It’s A Fine Day”. Basically twenty minutes of the same thing, I can see it being either enjoyable background dreaminess or unending aggravation, depending on your fondness for the original track.

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On This Day: Dec 13

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Since I hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 21 posts previously published on December 13th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • Good update to a classic track: It’s Raining Them (hallelujah!). ➡
    • When one of the most effective and frightening villains of 1980s-era Trek is a collective without individuals, it’s not surprising that an inability to look beyond the individual to act in the interests of the common good is our biggest real-world barrier to dealing with Covid. ➡
    • We’ve Lost the Ideal of the Common Good From the New York Times: Vaccine Hesitancy Is About Trust and Class: …people who reject vaccines are not necessarily less scientifically literate or less well-informed than those who don’t. Instead, hesitancy reflects a transformation of our core beliefs about what we owe one another. Over the past four decades, governments have slashed budgets and privatized ... Read more ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Amused to realize that at the moment, thanks to my posts about books and Short Trek episodes, I’m kind of dominating micro.blog’s 🖖 Star Trek “discover” feed. Maybe once Picard starts broadcasting more micro.blog Trekkies/ers will show up? ➡
    • From what I understand of the U.K. election, comparing British politics to American politics is now like the tag line to Alien vs. Predator: Whoever wins, we lose. I’m tired of feeling like we’re in a race to the bottom. Can we get back to trying to set a good example, please? ➡
  • 2018
    • Book fifty-five of 2018: Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Ever pause the TV at the perfect moment? 😜 (348/366) #izombie ➡
    • Was being cranky and forgot yesterday’s photo. Snapchat filter penance time. (347/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Got our lights put up this afternoon. We’re all twinkly now! ➡
    • Yay…more behind-the-scenes Trek geekiness! Only 1,000 printed, and mine is one of only the first 100 to come autographed. #startrek #trekkie #trekker #geek More info: http://creaturefeatures.com/shop/books/returntotomorrow/ ➡
  • 2007
    • Finally, More Photos! I actually had a day off today. No school, no work, nothing. So, I spent the day working on getting caught up on some of my photographic backlog. I started by processing a set of shots of Club V that I'd been asked to take, then dove back into the vacation photos from this summer. Lots of photos of the Pana'ewa Rainforest Zoo just outside of Hilo (one of which ended up being my 11,000th photo uploaded to Flickr!), plus some more snorkeling. ➡
  • 2006
    • Happy Holidays from Me, Prairie…and Flickr A bit of silliness on Flickr these days: if you add a note that says simply 'ho ho ho hat' to a photo, Flickr will add a Santa hat to the photo where the note is placed. ➡
    • Other Life Updates It was pointed out to me by Casey when I ran into him, Jen, and their daughter on the bus yesterday as I was heading home from school that, with the dearth of posts here lately, I've been letting down those (poor, sad) souls who depend on my rambling here to live vicariously through me. Sorry 'bout that! ➡
    • Another Quarter Done No final in English (just a final paper that was turned in last week), my History final was yesterday, and my Intro to Programming final was today. ➡
  • 2005
    • Marie Antoinette How very odd this is -- odd, though, in a way that gives me a grin. The first trailer for Marie Antoinette, a new film by Sofia Coppola. It's a period piece starting Kirsten Dunst as the ill-fated queen...and the trailer is all set to New Order's 'Age of Consent'. ➡
  • 2004
    • Quick Review: Dawn of the Dead Last night's fun was the modern remake of Dawn of the Dead. I've not seen the original, so I can't compare the two in any way, but this one was exactly what I expected it would be &dmash; a fun, sometimes silly, and very gory horror flick. ➡
    • Quick Review: Timeline I just finished watching Timeline, based on the book by Michael Crichton. I don't know anything about the book it's based on — I haven't read a Crichton novel in years — but the movie? Oooh, ouch. Bad movie. No biscuit. ➡

On This Day: Dec 12

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Since I hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

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