On This Day: Dec 11

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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 20 posts previously published on December 11th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 223 The longer this ‘photo-a-day’ project goes on, the more difficult it gets. ➡
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans: “Moviemakers have perfected the art of rendering skin and hair—but only for white people.” ➡
    • On This Day: Dec 11 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 11 ➡
  • 2019
    • 2019 Mac Pro isn’t the most expensive Mac ever. Not even close.: “There has been much handwaving over the $5,999 price tag on the 2019 Mac Pro. It’s often been criticized for being Apple’s expensive computer ever. But it’s not. And it’s not even close, if you factor in inflation. Many of the early Macs ... Read more ➡
    • 📚 fifty-nine of 2019: Gods Above, by Peter David. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A little odd, because I didn’t know beforehand that the New Frontier books were quite so serialized, and I was coming in mid-story. Still an enjoyable follow up to TOS’s “Who Mourns for Adonais?”. 🖖 ➡
    • On This Day Looking back on 20 years of blogging ➡
  • 2016
    • Book fifty-four of 2016: Hollow City, by Ransom Riggs. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Piles of presents under the tree! We’re all Christmassed up and ready to go! (346/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • I’m Concerned About I-1351’s Effects on Higher Education Filed under 'yes, even I can have unpopular opinions': I'm _very_ concerned about where the money to fund I-1351's directives is going to come from. We live in a state where voters refuse to put money into the system, and it's really not even clear that smaller class sizes will make that much of a difference. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Expressiveness I think a short passage in a Reuters Photographers blog may have nailed one of the reasons why my interest in sports is limited to football (_real_ football, that is -- most of you know this as 'soccer'). ➡
    • A Vogue New Year’s Eve I don't guess that I'll be going -- Prairie and I, over the past few years, have found that New Years Eve out and about is often just a bit too much -- but it's nice to see one of my photos in use on the flyer for Monsignior and Roxy's New Years Eve' bash! ➡
  • 2005
    • Let it snow! Heh -- cool web toy of the moment (if you have a web cam -- without a cam you can read about it and see the sample images, but the effect just won't quite be the same): Webcam Snowstorm. ➡
    • Going Going Gone (And I Did Nothing Wrong) Amusing moment of the evening: now that the club is non-smoking, it made the one guy who forgot about the smoking ban really, _really_ obvious as he sat in the corner having a cigarette. ➡
  • 2003
    • What you leave behind Well, it's done. Last night I finished the last episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The Dominion War is done. ➡
  • 2002
    • Interesting Apple rumors Some unusually interesting (to me, at least, as both an Apple fan and a music fan) rumors surfacing over at /. today. ➡
    • Message from our sponsor Written and performed back in 1992, I was listening to this spoken word piece by Jello Biafra tonight and it struck me how little has changed since it was written. Aside from the reference to Al Haig, this little pice of satire is just as relevant today as it was ten years ago. Kind of funny and sad at the same time, I think. ➡
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🖖 Discovery S03E09: Nice to see DIS remember that Trek gets a little weird every so often (Hi Carl!). Back to the mirror universe, but is this an actual trip back, or something else? Nice to see how the Prime universe has been affecting the former Emperor. And those costumes!

On This Day: Dec 10

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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 23 posts previously published on December 10th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • Friendly, foul-mouthed crow befriends entire Oregon elementary school before state police are called in: The bird could say, “What’s up?” and “I’m fine” and “a lot of swear words.” ➡
    • Fast-forward on the Future Really interesting list from Politico of seventeen pandemic innovations that are here to stay. ➡
  • 2020
    • 🖖 Discovery S03E09: Nice to see DIS remember that Trek gets a little weird every so often (Hi Carl!). Back to the mirror universe, but is this an actual trip back, or something else? Nice to see how the Prime universe has been affecting the former Emperor. And those costumes! ➡
    • One of my current ongoing projects is an in-universe chronological rewatch of Star Trek. To do this, I created a tracking spreadsheet based on the work of the Star Trek Chronology Project. I should hit the 20% point tonight, with This Side of Paradise and Devil in the Dark. 🖖🏻 ➡
    • On This Day: Dec 10 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 10 ➡
  • 2019
  • 2016
    • Back home after a good Seattle jaunt. Tired, but feeling good. (345/366) ➡
    • Me and my good friends Jack and Sally at the Merc’s Sandy Claws Ball. :) ➡
  • 2015
    • #StandingWithMuslims I am ‪#‎standingwithmuslims‬. I condemn Islamophobia and hate speech. And I'm greatly saddened that so many people who profess to love this country are so scared that they're so willing to abandon many of the core concepts that this country is built on. ➡
  • 2014
    • Inside Out’s Trailer Didn’t Impress Me So, the first full trailer for Pixar's next film showed up today. I'd been cautiously optimistic about this one, hoping for a change from the past, but after watching the trailer...I have concerns. ➡
  • 2008
    • Greed and Avarice In the spirit of the season, I've updated my Amazon profile and gone through to sort and reorganize my Amazon Wishlist into five categorized wishlists: Photography Bits, Print Media, Movies and Music, Electronic Gadgets and Gizmos and Random Nifty Bits. ➡
    • Traditional Marriage Since marriage is for life, neither this Constitution nor the constitution of any State, nor any state or federal law, shall be construed to permit divorce. ➡
  • 2007
    • 56 Geeks, 7 of Them Are Me Of the 56 geeks pictured here, I think I can lay claim to having elements of at least seven of them (obviously some are more overt than others)... ➡
  • 2004
    • New camera! Nine months ago (yikes!), I was an idiot and left my camera at a bus stop on my way to work. Ever since then, I've been using a camera that my friend Rick very kindly let me borrow until I could afford a new camera of my own. Well, it looks like that day may be coming pretty soon — I'm getting a new camera for free! ➡
  • 2003
    • You've got to be kidding me President Bush found himself in the awkward position on Wednesday of calling the leaders of France, Germany and Russia to ask them to forgive Iraq's debts, just a day after the Pentagon excluded those countries and others from $18 billion in American-financed Iraqi reconstruction projects. ➡
    • Panther bug: Dragging /System to the trash Apparently one can drag the Panther /System folder to the trash, which then freezes the computer. Upon reboot, since the System is now in the trash, the computer can't boot up. ➡
    • From 299,792,458 m/s to 0 Fun with science -- physicists have just managed to (very briefly) stop light in its tracks! ➡
    • A bus driver I can relate to Please pull forward and to the right. [PAUSE] ...and get off the phone. ➡
  • 2002
    • More on FOAF Today, Phil pointed out something I'd actually looked for the other day, but hadn't managed to find: a web-based FOAF explorer that loads and parses FOAF files. ➡
  • 2000
    • Quick update from Seattle I'm actually still in the midst of my vacation, but while sitting here at a friends house checking e-mail, I figured I might as well take the opportunity to get a little updating done here. If nothing else, just to get something changing on here to assure people that I am alive, and have survived my travels so far. ➡

On This Day: Dec 9

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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 24 posts previously published on December 9th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • So…Free Guy is basically The Truman Show, but starring Deadpool, right? ➡
    • Ghostbusters: Afterlife Trailer Still bummed that the reboot is being ignored, but also looking forward to the new film. ➡
  • 2016
    • “I am Drunk of Borg. Your ass will be laminated. Resistance is floor tile.” #startrek #borg #startrekemp 🖖 ➡
    • Quite happy to have made it to the @mopopseattle #startrek exhibit this afternoon. (344/366) 🖖 ➡
  • 2014
    • …and a lot of stickers that absolutely, positively should not be used in public. ➡
    • Got more @cah goodies today! Some comic pages… ➡
    • Battle Flag Lo-Fidelity All Stars' 'Battle Flag' is one of the few times when I've heard a group release a de-profanitized radio-friendly edit of a track that I actually prefer to the original uncensored version. ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Comcast Clarification Looks like I've got my answer: our Limited Basic service shouldn't change. Here are the relevant tweets... ➡
    • Comcast Confusion Well, maybe this transition thing isn't as cleared up as I thought. An update to the earlier article about Comcast's transition to (nearly) all-digital broadcasting went online, and it seems to be contradicting what I was told earlier. ➡
    • UtiliTV As long as I'm babbling about the boob tube and whining about cable pricing, I might as well toss out my pie-in-the-sky, never-going-to-happen concept for what _I_ want as an option. I actually have two possible concepts, both of which seem like they'd be very doable in the present or soon-to-exist all-digital world. ➡
    • Maybe @comcastcares after all! I'm used to 'customer service' that actually _prevents_ me from even making an attempt. Being able to toss off a short, quick note and get a useful and polite response within a few hours is _wonderful_. ➡
  • 2006
    • Geeks and Film Top 20 Hackers in Film History, Servers in the Movies, and What Code DOESN'T Do in Real Life (That it Does in the Movies) ➡
  • 2005
    • iTunes Signature Maker iTSM selects a small number of your 'favorite' tracks based on some simple selection criteria, such as the number of times you have played them or the rating you have assigned them. Then it analyzes the audio content of these files, combining a small bit of each of them to create the signature. ➡
    • That school thing Well, it's official -- there will be no financial aid for me in the immediate future. Since aid for the current '05-'06 year is determined by how much was made in 2004, and as I was applying for winter quarter, I just don't qualify. Meh. ➡
  • 2003
    • Safari bug: Amazon Associates Build-A-Link I'm battling a Safari bug on the Amazon Associates Build-A-Link tool where code inside a textarea doesn't appear when the page is rendered. ➡
    • 3-Way Capitalism? Mom and Dad just got back to Anchorage after a trip to Florida and Indiana to visit Mom's parents and Dad's family, respectively, and Dad just posted his pictures with commentary. ➡
    • The Dominion War keeps distracting me… The war is at its peak now that the Breen have joined forces with the Dominion, the Founders appear to be dying, Gul Dukat (disguised as a Bajoran) is manipulating Kai Wynn's lust for power on Bajor to try to release the Pah Wraiths, and we just lost the Defiant in a major battle. ➡
    • Gore endorses Dean The news actually 'broke' yesterday, with a bunch of 'this is about to happen' articles, but now it's official: Al Gore has endorsed Howard Dean's presidential campaign. ➡
    • Stradivarius' secret While I've never had the opportunity to hear one in person, nearly anyone involved in the world of music is aware of the near-legendary quality of the instruments created by Italian violin maker Antonio Stradivari. ➡
    • LotR Research Project A team of researchers is going to be looking for our impressions of Peter Jackson's films, with the questionnaire going live the day that Return of the King opens. Could be interesting… ➡

On This Day: Dec 8

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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 8th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Of our two silly little window things, one seems notably more invested than the other. ➡
    • The Silent Coup The US is being run by a government that no longer represents the people: Today, representative democracy is on the brink as our government demonstrates an unprecedented disconnect from public opinion. For instance, 83% of the public supports background checks for gun owners, but that hasn’t come to fruition. Some 77% of Americans want Roe ... Read more ➡
  • 2016
    • Wandering downtown Seattle on a brisk winter evening. ➡
    • In Seattle! Around buildings more than three stories high! ;) (343/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Day three (I think) of @cah is here! Hopefully my day two envelope shows up soon! ➡
    • A Better Bond Skyfall was the first Bond film in years to hit the right balance between action and humor. Here's hoping that the upcoming SPECTRE keeps that trend going. ➡
  • 2008
    • Breadcrummy Would it be too much trouble to say 'I read about this _here_, and you can buy it or get more info _here_,' instead of forcing your readers to jump through multiple hoops? By the time I found my way to the source page, I'd pretty much lost interest in it. ➡
    • …that isn’t the question. After some reviewing of finances and priorities, Prairie and I decided to stay in Standard Definition for the time being, and save our purchase of a fancy-schmancy new HDTV set for some as-yet undetermined future date. ➡
    • Links for December 5th through December 8th Sometime between December 5th and December 8th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
  • 2005
    • Narnia followup A selection of quotes from reviews of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe... ➡
  • 2004
    • 100 Overlooked Films of the ’90s I stumbled across this list of the 100 most overlooked films of the 1990's yesterday, meant to do a meme-style 'seen it' list, and then spaced it. I was reminded today when DeAnna beat me to the punch — so here's mine. Bold title films I've seen… ➡
    • Konichiwa! First off, my apologies, as it's entirely likely that I managed to mangle the Americanized version of a Japanese greeting. Looks like the recent Wired article that I'm mentioned in just got picked up in Japan, which is sending another round of visitors my way. ➡
  • 2003
    • Get a cheap PC from AOL Okay — I'm no great fan of either AOL or Windows-based PCs, but I have to admit that if you're looking for a cheap computer and are willing to settle for Windows XP Home and use AOL for your 'net connection, this isn't a bad deal (though not quite as good as they lead you to believe on first blush). ➡
    • MiddleEarth mania, week one: The Fellowship of the Ring Saturday Prairie and I started our three-week string of Lord of the Rings movie watching with the Cinerama's showing of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition. ➡
  • 2002
    • ¡TchKunG! at the FUNC It's so difficult to convey in words the energy that is present during one of their shows, but they're by far one of my favorite bands to see live. The best word I can think of to describe any show by them is 'tribal', in the truest sense of the word -- the crowd gets so wrapped up in things, that it becomes something more than a collection of individuals, and something closer to a 'tribe', I suppose...oh, whatever. You get the point. Or you don't. ➡

On This Day: Dec 7

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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 24 posts previously published on December 7th

  • 2025
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • A “behind the scenes” peek at how my setup for indulging my DJ Wüdi alter-ego is arranged. djay Pro AI on the top monitor, OBS and associated support apps on the iMac’s screen. The controller is a Pioneer DDJ-400. ➡
    • On This Day: Dec 7 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 7 ➡
  • 2019
    • 📚 fifty-eight of 2019: Sleeping Beauties, by Stephen and Owen King. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A King take on the fears that women have of men, of the men that generate those fears, and how they all react when mysteriously separated. King (and his son) still knows how to tell a good tale. ➡
  • 2018
    • Book fifty-three of 2018: Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon Book Three: Enemy Territory, by Keith. R.A. DeCandido. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
  • 2013
    • Sounds From the Lost Abbey 08 Back in February, I took up a challenge from one of my friends to create a mix based around songs that I'd have played at the Lost Abbey, during the mid- to late-1990s. Here's the eighth of quite a few to come! ➡
    • Sounds From the Lost Abbey 07 Back in February, I took up a challenge from one of my friends to create a mix based around songs that I'd have played at the Lost Abbey, during the mid- to late-1990s. Here's the seventh of quite a few to come! ➡
  • 2010
    • Doozy of a Dream I very rarely remember my dreams, and usually when I do, it's just a few very vague bits that fade almost immediately upon waking up. Last night, though, I had something of a doozy. ➡
  • 2006
    • Scary Mary I think this just became my favorite recut trailer. ➡
  • 2004
    • Mind Hacks Just added to my daily reads: Mind Hacks, the companion blog to Tom Stafford and Matt Webb's book Mind Hacks, recently released by O'Reilly. ➡
  • 2003
    • Our strategy in Iraq With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them. ➡
    • Oh, goodie! Well, whaddaya know — Britney Spears will be performing in Seattle! Um…yeah. I think I'll be staying away from Seattle Center that evening. ➡
    • TypePad gets PCMag Editor's Choice Congratulations to Six Apart for TypePad's getting an Editor's Choice nod from PC Mag in their roundup of blogging tools. ➡
    • Is it that obvious? You ought to turn on your G3 and launch iTunes and give it a totally different name and pretend you have a friend. ➡
    • The dangers of mayonnaise A Texas woman was sentenced to 10 years in jail for running over the manager of a McDonald's with her car because she wanted mayonnaise on her cheeseburger. ➡
    • NetFlix Freak (nee Fanatic) There used to be a handy little application for managing your NetFlix queue called Netflix Fanatic. However, now comes NetFlix Freak — all the goodness of NetFlix Fanatic, and then some. ➡
  • 2002
  • 1993
    • [From Usenet: 12.7.93 2238] Was curious if anyone else out there had discovered Blackhappy...incredibly good band. Two guitarists, two drummers, a bass, two trombones and a sax...lots of sound, powerful music. ➡
    • [From Usenet: 12.7.93 2217] Don't know the technical info (only that I got the 3-incher up here in Alaska), but the songs are 'Too Physica' by Adam Ant, and 'Suck' by Pigface. Suck is available on a couple different Pigface albums in a couple different versions. ➡
    • [From Usenet 12.7.93 2107] I'm not sure if I remember all of them from this book, but I remember seeing some in a book I picked up in England years ago...something about Mistaikes (sic). Don't know for sure, tho... ➡

Difficult Listening Hour 2020.12.05

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Week thirty-six of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts, now on Saturday afternoons. These are the results. Anything goes.

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On This Day: Dec 6

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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 27 posts previously published on December 6th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • 📚 51/2021: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1977 Hugo Best Novel ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2017
    • Day two! #cardsagainsthumanity #cah ➡
  • 2016
    • Dinner tonight was homemade chili and cornbread. Not pictured because I quite happily ate it all. (341/366) ➡
    • Resistance is Not Futile The day we accept ANY of this as normal, we have already lost. Fascism accumulates power by pushing people, by testing us, by testing boundaries. ➡
  • 2014
    • Yay! Day one of this year’s @cah silliness is here! ➡
  • 2010
    • 2010 Wish List I took a little time to go through my Amazon wishlists to see what was sitting in there. After a bit of editing (removed some, added one or two items), here's what I've ended up with, in rough order from most realistic (less expensive) to least realistic (most expensive). ➡
  • 2007
    • Best Xmas Commercials (So Far) It's only a top two, rather than a top ten or top three or any such thing (mostly because it's so rare that commercials are actually fun that it'd be nearly impossible to get a list longer than two). However, here for your amusement are the top two commercials of this Christmas season, as chosen by Prairie and me. ➡
    • One Hundred and Forty Peeps So far, I'm a little unimpressed with the leading contender for a collective noun for 'those people I follow/am following on Twitter,' which appears to be 'tweeple'. To my ears, it's rather silly, and a rather glaringly obvious portmanteau. ➡
  • 2005
    • Time to put my money where my mouth is? Ten months ago, I wrote that 'I’d gladly pay a few dollars per episode to download high-quality versions....' And now, wouldn't you know it -- Battlestar Galactica is available through the iTunes Music Store at $1.99 per episode! Very nice. ➡
    • Narnia and Christianity — does it matter? Sure, you can read all sorts of meaning into the stories and why they're being brought to the screen now -- religious indoctrination, right-wing propelled mass media conspiracy theories, whatever. You can also tell your inner Fox Mulder that every so often _it doesn't matter_ and go watch a movie. ➡
  • 2004
    • Blade Trinity I'd been iffy on whether I wanted to bother, but this pre-release review of Blade Trinity just put it on my 'must see' list. ➡
    • Howdy, Wired readers! Over a year after the incident, I'm getting another few seconds added to my fifteen minutes of fame: last week I was interviewed by phone by Wired, and their article hit the 'net today. ➡
    • A Book of Blogs Thanks to Alicia, I just found out about this book project of Tvindy's, and so I've pulled out a couple possible nominations for inclusion. ➡
  • 2003
    • Vote for me! (Or not…) Voting for the 2003 Weblog Awards is now open! My self-nomination for the Best Looking Blog category made it in, so feel free to bounce over there, check out all the contenders, and then vote for me! ;) ➡
  • 2002
    • Psychoptrometry The optometrist as psychotherapist, I thought to myself, what an intriguing character. ➡
    • It’s just snow, folks No, I'm not really annoyed. Quite amused, though. Admittedly, though, this is not a type of post I'm immune to, so I probably shouldn't talk. The trend in posts did catch my eye, though. ➡
  • 1993
    • [From Usenet: 12.6.93 0432] Don't know anything about Seal, but I've seen a few Tori Amos import singles at some local stores...not exactly a new release, but some of them have some songs not on her album... ➡
    • [From Usenet 12.6.93 0432] I've got two...not sure where they came from though. One's on RCA Victor (Swquentiae: Gregorian Chant/K. Ruhland [GD 71953]), the other on ProArte (Gregorian Chants * Ruhland [CDD 287]). Got 'em as presents a while ago. Oh, that first album should be Sequentiae. ➡
    • [From Usenet: 12.6.93 0432] Bingo...you've probably got a ton of answers to this already, but the song is "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth" off of Meatloaf's first album, _Bat Out Of Hell_. Good, good album...awesome music. ➡
    • [From Usenet 12.6.93 0432] Also, picked up a single for Religion...good remixes, including a _really_ fast techno version remixed by the Prodigy...two mixes of Crapage by the Orb, and having the Orb remixing 242 is just bizarre...and one fun mix of Religion with lots of samples from Deep Throat. ➡