On This Day: Nov 10

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Since I’ll 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 17 posts previously published on November 10th

  • 2024
    • Mad Max 🎥: ⭐️⭐️: In today's franchises, it would be the origin story that no-one really asked for but the studio felt compelled to make. ➡
  • 2023
    • 🎥 Asteroid City I don’t always entirely _get_ Wes Anderson’s films, but I invariably enjoy watching them. ➡
    • Year 50 Day 192 Since we had the day off today, we decided to make it a movie day. ➡
  • 2020
    • The elderly woman was always at the same spot at the corner, sitting on a bench and watching people go by, and she always had a smile for him. She was so familiar that it was decades before he started to wonder that she hadn’t died—or even aged as far as he could tell. ➡
    • I Guess I Just Expected a Little More from This Country: “How could a people that had to be explicitly told not to eat Tide Pods be so short-sighted? Or are some things simply beyond explanation?” ➡
    • Toolkit for Supporting GA US Senate Races – Jan 2021 (FEEL FREE TO SHARE!): “This doc is a volunteer-generated effort by Ana Diaz-Hernandez. Follow her on Twitter at @anadzhz. Ana is originally from South GA and wants to help folks from out of state plug in to help.” ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 10 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 10 ➡
  • 2019
    • Perky and bubbly as ever, the real estate agent opened the door and ushered them in, exclaiming as he did that, “you’ll be amazed at the space in this one!” He watched them fall into the void until they were out of sight, then carefully locked the door. Microblogvember: space ➡
  • 2016
    • Not a good day. Nothing more. (315/366) ➡
  • 2010
  • 2008
    • 2008 Puyallup Fair It took a while, but I finally got my photos from the Puyallup Fair processed and uploaded. Prairie and I went on a whim late in the summer, and had a really good day wandering around the fairgrounds. We didn't go on any rides, but did play some of the carny games, got some cotton candy, looked at exhibits, and had a _blast_ watching the Mutton Bustin'! ➡
  • 2007
    • Tideland Tideland is one of the most bizarre and disturbing films I've seen in a long time. Terry Gilliam certainly isn't getting any more normal as the years go by. ➡
  • 2004
    • From the vaults I've been playing with HTML for quite a few years now. Every so often over the years, I've actually been bright enough to make a quick copy of my website and archive it. Tonight, in a mad burst of misplaced nostalgia, I pulled them all out of the digital dustbin and have put them back online. ➡
  • 2003
    • iTMS = IotY …for finally finding a middle ground between the foot-dragging record labels and the free-for-all digital pirates and for creating a bandwagon onto which its competitors immediately jumped, Apple's iTunes Music Store is Time's Coolest Invention of 2003. ➡
    • Traditional Christian marriage The consecration of Gene Robison as bishop of the New Hampshire Diocese of the Episcopal Church is an affront to Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that the church's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon, and his wife Anne Boleyn, and his wife Jane Seymour, and his wife Anne of Cleves, and his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife Catherine Parr are no longer here to suffer through this assault on traditional Christian marriage. ➡
    • Klienfelters Syndrome While for most people these days, any discussion of men with breasts will immediately lead to quotes from Fight Club, it's a very real medical condition called Klienfelters Syndrome. ➡
  • 2001
    • Just dropping in My monitors are here! It's still going to be a few days before I'm online more regularly from the looks of it -- but at least they're here. ➡
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The old house stood abandoned at the end of the street, slowly decaying as the years passed. The only signs of life were the sickly grayish weeds that would force their way up through cracks in the boards, covering and engulfing everything except the bodies seated at the table.

On This Day: Nov 9

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Since I’ll 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 28 posts previously published on November 9th

  • 2025
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • The old house stood abandoned at the end of the street, slowly decaying as the years passed. The only signs of life were the sickly grayish weeds that would force their way up through cracks in the boards, covering and engulfing everything except the bodies seated at the table. ➡
    • U.S. election maps are wildly misleading, so this designer fixed them: A nice background piece on the viral “land doesn’t vote, people do” animation switching between a standard county-by-county electoral map and one with points sized by population. ➡
    • Black People Repudiated Trump Like He Was a Piece of Used Gum: It’s time for centrist Democrats to stop whining about Black Lives Matters protests and start recognizing that Black voters literally saved the election. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 9 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 9 ➡
  • 2019
    • They had always hated the cold, growing up. Thick clothes and as many layers as possible defined the winter months. But now, as they felt the heat of the overworked reactor move through the ship, they actually looked forward to feeling the cold of space. Microblogvember: cold ➡
  • 2018
    • Book forty-four of 2018: The Romulan Stratagem, by Robert Greenberger. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Linkdump for October 2nd through November 9th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between October 2nd and November 9th. ➡
    • Bringing Optimism Back to Star Trek This quote from Michael Chabon, writer of the just-released Short Treks episode Calypso, about his work on the in-development Picard series, gives me a lot of hope for that series. ➡
    • The first Short Trek, focusing on Tilly, was cute and funny, but had too many plot holes to really stand up. But this month’s, Calypso, is much better. Plus, as its writer, Michael Chabon, is part of the team behind the in-development Picard series, I’m more optimistic about that one when it appears. ➡
  • 2017
    • Happy Thursnesday! :) ➡
  • 2016
    • Spent much of the day in a jumble of the various stages of grief, I think. Pretty sure I’ve settled on anger. Acceptance can kiss right off. (314/366) ➡
  • 2010
    • Drama-Free Facebook Leave it to the kids to figure out how to make Facebook as safe, secure, and drama-free as possible. ➡
  • 2007
    • $8,000 for Wrongful Detention of Photographer An amateur photographer who was taken into custody last year after shooting pictures of two Seattle police officers making an arrest on a public street received an $8,000 settlement this week. ➡
  • 2006
    • Jumping Ship? ...if, while moving over to my new digs, I were to take advantage of the one-click WordPress installation offered by Dreamhost and finally dip my toes in waters other than those of Movable Type, are there any pieces of advice I should know about? ➡
  • 2005
    • Lost s02e06: Abandoned Scribbled notes while watching tonight's episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to... ➡
    • Lots of Pictures I've spent much of the afternoon and evening continuing to work on scanning in old photos that I've had lying jumbled up in various boxes. Quite a few have been scanned in and uploaded to my Flickr account. ➡
    • Who’s going to die tonight? A few weeks ago, after the promo for tonight's episode of Lost promised that, 'one of these survivors will be lost forever,' I put a poll up (both here and on my LiveJournal) to see who people thought was going to be the unlucky party. Here's the results... ➡
  • 2004
    • Schrödinger’s Arafat I hinted at this in one of my linklog posts last week, but this whole situation with Arafat keeps reminding me of the Schrödinger's Cat quantum mechanics paradox. Maybe he's dead, maybe he's alive. Nobody seems to really know, and nobody wants to open the box to find out. ➡
    • Voltaire at the Vogue tomorrow Just a heads-up for anyone who might be in the area and interested: Voltaire will be playing at the Vogue tomorrow night, along with The Arid Sea. ➡
    • Delicious Library Ars Technica has a great review of Delicious Library, the new book/movie/music/game cataloguing software from Delicious Monster. I've downloaded the demo and have started to poke around with it…so far, quite enjoying what I see. ➡
    • P2P: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece In the summer of 1990, just after my junior year of high school, I was accepted into the People to People program as a 'student ambassador' and got to go on a six-week trip across Europe. Starting with a few days in Washington, D.C., we travelled through Germany, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, and Greece. ➡
    • Brad Bird Like the Brothers Grimm, Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak, Brad Bird knows that kids can handle some tough concepts, and he never insults the intelligence of his audience. The greatest children's entertainment has always been challenging and sometimes difficult. But those are the books, films and shows that transcend pop culture to become timeless classics. ➡
  • 2003
    • Feed of the day Nifty — I have no idea what the selection criteria is (quality? frequency? content? entirely random?) but it seems that I'm being highlighted as 'Feed of the day' on Feedster. So…hello to all of you who wander my way! ➡
    • Employment is a good thing Oh, by the way...starting Tuesday, I'm working again. ➡
    • Taking cues from Reagan Much as I may dislike Rumsfeld (along with the rest of the Bush administration), I always figured he at least had some amount of intelligence. But this latest 'I didn't say that' spiel is nothing short of ludicrous… ➡
  • 2001
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They had been trying for hours to get the hull plates to bind together properly as air slowly leaked out into the void of space. Something was preventing the solvents from working, and it was only a matter of time before their suit’s tanks would be their only breathable air.

Difficult Listening Hour 2020.11.07: Biden/Harris Win Edition

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90 minutes of upbeat, happy, celebratory songs. No real plan; I started by searching my library for the keywords ‘party’, ‘celebrate’, and ‘America’, and improvised from there, with a few requests tossed in as the set went along.

Congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris! It’s been a long four years.

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On This Day: Nov 8

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Since I’ll 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 November 8th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 44/2021: My Brother’s Keeper: Enterprise by Michael Jan Friedman ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
  • 2020
    • They had been trying for hours to get the hull plates to bind together properly as air slowly leaked out into the void of space. Something was preventing the solvents from working, and it was only a matter of time before their suit’s tanks would be their only breathable air. ➡
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2020.11.07: Biden/Harris Win Edition 90 minutes of upbeat, happy, celebratory songs. Congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris! It's been a long four years. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 8 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 8 ➡
  • 2019
    • New addition to the library: Number 230 of 1,250 signed copies of #nwc37 Special Guest of Honor Seanan McGuire’s collection Laughter at the Academy, from #nwc42 Spotlight Publisher Subterranean Press! Supporting Norwescon and our GoH’s one book at a time. :) 📚 ➡
    • He had said he wanted to be a star his entire life. They didn’t understand until he started to glow, incandescent, heat pouring out of him, immolating everything around him as he grew ever larger, brighter, and hotter. He finally got his wish. Microblogvember: star ➡
  • 2016
    • Not going to lie…kinda freaking out a bit. Even if Clinton manages to carry it, I am so incredibly saddened and frightened by our country. And if she doesn’t…I just don’t know. #election2016 (313/366) ➡
    • Okay, folks: this is about as patriotic as I get. Flag #chucks and #CaptainAmerica undies. :) If you haven’t already, get out there and #vote, and lets make sure we move our country forward, and not succumb to fear and hate. #imwithher #election #election2016 #2016election ➡
  • 2015
    • An historic moment: The last moments before sending my final presentation for my master’s degree off to my committee chair. Unless something wonky happens, from here on out its just waiting for the paperwork to process. ➡
  • 2008
    • Secrets of the 2008 Campaign eBook Obviously, seeing as how the only thing keeping me from breaking copyright criminally (rather than simply fragrantly, which is were I stand now) is that I'm not charging for this, so should Newsweek decide to give me the smackdown, this will be disappearing faster than Sarah Palin leaving the stage after McCain's concession speech. ➡
  • 2007
    • Any Questions? As long as I'm trying to come up with things to babble about, I might as well haul this idea out: anyone out there have any questions? Toss 'em at me. I'll see what I can do to answer them. ➡
  • 2005
    • Wikipedia as Political Commentary It's not that this kind of thing doesn't happen often, it's just the first time that I've seen it before it got fixed. Currently, a Wikipedia search for Scott McClellan returns this... ➡
    • Before I was around Last time I went up to visit my folks in Anchorage, I snagged some old family photos. I'm (finally) starting to get some of them scanned in. ➡
    • Voting: Nov. 8th General Election My votes for today's ballot (yes, I'm just now filling it out...but at least I'm voting, even if it's on the deadline day). Thanks to Metroblogging Seattle's endorsement rundown, too. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • I'm such an underachiever Some days I think I'm doing okay in my life. I may not have a set career or a ton of money or anything along those lines, but I'm not doing too badly. Then, I find things like this… ➡
    • The Purity of the English Language The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. ➡
  • 2001
    • Enterprise: Breaking the Ice Just how much gravity does an 86km diameter snowball have? Apparently, it's pretty Earth-normal, so that psyllium they were mining must be some pretty amazingly dense stuff. ➡