The idea first proposed for early unmanned missions to Mars eventually (and somewhat surprisingly) became a standard part of manned landings. As he watched the landing pod inflate, he looked forward to another wild ride careening across a planet’s surface in a giant hamster ball.
Three cheers:
Cheers – to Kamala Harris
Cheers – to Joe Biden
Cheers – to an administration looking towards hope instead of hate
On This Day: Nov 7
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 7th
- 2023
- Year 50 Day 189 This week is Highline College's Disability Justice Week. ➡
- 2021
- 📚 43/2021: My Brother’s Keeper: Constitution by Michael Jan Friedman ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
- 2020
- The idea first proposed for early unmanned missions to Mars eventually (and somewhat surprisingly) became a standard part of manned landings. As he watched the landing pod inflate, he looked forward to another wild ride careening across a planet’s surface in a giant hamster ball. ➡
- Three cheers: Cheers – to Kamala Harris Cheers – to Joe Biden Cheers – to an administration looking towards hope instead of hate ➡
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- On This Day: Nov 7 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 7 ➡
- 2019
- “I thought you said this haunted house was supposed to be frightening,” he complained. “No,” she said calmly as she led him onward. “I merely promised you’d be frightened. I didn’t tell you when. Or why.” Microblogvember: frightening ➡
- 2016
- Book forty-six of 2016: Cabal, by Clive Barker. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (312/366) ➡
- 2010
- 2008
- Links for November 5th through November 7th Sometime between November 5th and November 7th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
- 2007
- Uninspired I'm really trying to give this daily posting thing a good shot...but there are just some days when nothing seems particularly postworthy. Hopefully there won't be too terribly many blatant 'filler' posts like this one over the course of the month. ➡
- 2006
- Probable Downtime It's entirely possible that at some point in the upcoming weeks, there may be a few days (hopefully not much more than that) where this website isn't accessible. I hope that this won't last very long, if at all, but it's a distinct possibility. Consider yourselves warned. ➡
- 2005
- Where I’ve Been Where I've been in the world and within the USA. ➡
- Jason Webley Fall 2005 Show So last night was Jason Webley's fall concert for the year. This makes the fourth consecutive fall concert that Prairie and I have been able to attend together, and all in all, it was a good show -- not the best that Prairie and I have been to, but overall still quite enjoyable. ➡
- 2004
- First Timer I always have fun introducing someone to the Vogue for the first time, as I always end up stepping back a bit mentally and trying to look at the club from an 'outsider's' point of view. ➡
- The Incredibles Pixar can do no wrong. ➡
- Four More Years of… Last night, while I was standing outside the front door of the Vogue to cool off and get some air, there were a couple guy standing around and chatting with Ogre (the doorman). Ogre looked around at everyone, leaned back against the wall of the club, and said, 'You know what I'm not looking forward to?' ➡
- 2003
- What the hell's on my doorknob? The entire doorplate on my door has been covered in some sort of slick goo that I can't identify, enough so that the goo has dripped down the front of my door. There's a slightly sweet smell that I can't identify to the goo, and it appears to be eating through the paint on the door. ➡
- It'll never happen, but… Well, word just broke on the 'net this past week that Microsoft is moving to the IBM PowerPC processor (the same family of processors used in Apple's PowerMac G5) for their next generation of XBox game systems. ➡
- Political Compass (redux) According to the Political Compass, I lean even more left and libertarian than I did a year and a half ago. ➡
- Belkin routers hijacking websurfing Belkin's routers hijack one http request every eight hours and redirect the user's browser to an advertising page. Not good. ➡
- Openly Episcopal Man Joins Village People For the first time in their three decades of existence, the disco band The Village People have inducted an openly Episcopal man, igniting a controversy that threatens to tear the fabled group asunder. ➡
- Pvt. Lynch refutes military rescue claims Private Jessica Lynch, in her first public statements since her heavily reported capture and rescue, has expressed her discomfort with the military using her for propaganda purposes. ➡
- Iraq Casualties A graph of military casualties in Iraq. 389 total as of 11/7/03. 250 since combat operations were declared over. An average of 1.3 casualties per day since the beginning of the conflict. ➡
- Questions? We don' need no steenkin' questions! The director of the White House Office of Administration, Timothy A. Campen, has decreed that any questions to the White House must be filtered through Republican committee chairmen, effectively cutting off any questioning from Democratic representatives. ➡
- The allegations are untrue According to CNN, Prince Charles has come out to publicly announce that the allegations are 'totally untrue and without a shred of substance.' ➡
- 2002
- Goodbye forever, once again Suffice to say, the show was incredible. Jason's bigger shows are generally somewhere between performance and performance art, and involve a lot of crowd participation, sometimes blurring the line between performer and audience. ➡
- 2001
- The human adventure is just beginning The effects shots are doubly impressive, in part because they're so seamlessly integrated into the body of the film, that I didn't even notice many of them until they were pointed out in a documentary! ➡
📚 forty-four of 2020: Gulliver’s Fugitives by Keith Sharee #startrek #tng
This was a weird one. Fahrenheit 451 plus technobabble plus mythology plus pieces that felt tacked on. Felt like the author had several ideas, couldn’t pick one, and tried to get ‘em all in.
The signals were clear, and after much checking, it was agreed that they were likely not natural and of probable alien origin, but the source was puzzling: an apparently empty point exactly 758 feet above the geometric center of Tilly Anderson’s house in Atkins, Arkansas.
On This Day: Nov 6
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 22 posts previously published on November 6th
- 2025
- Affinity by Canva Accessible PDF Output Test Canva/Affinity is making improvements, but Affinity in its current state is definitely _not_ ready to be a replacement for Adobe InDesign. But I'm happy to see the progress they've made, and really hope they keep improving their accessible output capabilities! ➡
- 2024
- 2023
- Year 50 Day 188 Have you voted yet? ➡
- 2021
- 📚 42/2021: My Brother’s Keeper: Republic by Michael Jan Friedman ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
- 2020
- 📚 forty-four of 2020: Gulliver’s Fugitives by Keith Sharee #startrek #tng This was a weird one. Fahrenheit 451 plus technobabble plus mythology plus pieces that felt tacked on. Felt like the author had several ideas, couldn’t pick one, and tried to get ‘em all in. ➡
- The signals were clear, and after much checking, it was agreed that they were likely not natural and of probable alien origin, but the source was puzzling: an apparently empty point exactly 758 feet above the geometric center of Tilly Anderson’s house in Atkins, Arkansas. ➡
- On This Day: Nov 6 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 6 ➡
- 2019
- Modern Problems With the Staircase Grading Method One of Prairie’s classes turns in papers tomorrow, and as she’s dealing with a cold, she said she wasn’t looking forward to having to grade while her head is all foggy. So I suggested using the “staircase method” (for those who aren’t teachers, this involves tossing the papers down the staircase: the further down the ... Read more ➡
- It’s not the scarecrow itself that’s bothersome. Okay, we don’t know who put it up, and it’s a bit disquieting that it’s dressed in our child’s old clothes. But it’s the slowly oozing goo that constantly drips off of the stick fingers that really gets me. Microblogvember: stick ➡
- Good news: My Norwegian Blu-ray Edition Monty Python box set from Network arrived! Bad news: As gorgeous as the box is, the internal structure didn’t hold up through international shipping. Still, it’s the content that counts, and I’m looking forward to watching these! ➡
- 2016
- Closing out the weekend watching Netflix with Prairie, who is finally back home! (311/366) ➡
- 2010
- HTML5 Audio Safari Extension Comes in very handy when combined with John Gruber's suggestions for running your Mac Flash-free. ➡
- 2009
- Windows 7 + Digital River = Headaches Microsoft's partnership with Digital River for electronic distribution of Windows 7 is a customer service nightmare. For the record: as of November 6th, 2009, **Digital River's customer service phone number is (952) 253-1234**. ➡
- 2008
- Principles in Campaigning John McCain's concession speech was by far his best of the campaign. He was, convincing, generous, and passionate. It brought to mind Hillary Clinton's concession speech last summer, which was also widely heralded as her best. What is it with these politicians that [they] can only give a good speech after they have lost? ➡
- 2007
- Overspecialization? With all the different specialized blogging, pseudo-blogging, or linking websites and services available these days, I'm starting to lose track of how I'm 'supposed' to do this one-to-many online communication thing. ➡
- 2006
- Bowed but not Broken So, there we are. Some small amount of actual content. It had to happen at _some_ point, right? ;) ➡
- 2005
- Panexa (Acidachrome Promanganate) Panexa. Ask your doctor for a reason to take it. ➡
- 2003
- Alien Quadrilogy Just in case any Alien/Aliens/Alien3/Alien Resurrection fans happen to stop by here who haven't heard about this yet… ➡
- More on the unintended consequences of blogging It seems I'm not the only person in the blogosphere who's recently faced surprising consequences due to the content of their weblog. Shelley Powers, aka Burningbird, had a rather interesting conversation with the IRS this morning… ➡
- Twenty thousand percent? Alexa lists me as showing a 20,000% jump in site traffic. ➡
- Fun with piercings He then unwrapped the straw, brought it up to his face, and slid the straw into the hole in his tongue until his tongue was halfway along the length of the straw. ➡
- 2002
🖖 Discovery S03E04: Really enjoying the more relaxed and comfortable feel for this season. No major action set pieces, no overwrought drama, instead learning more about Adria and how the Trill are doing while the DIS crew start to work towards healing. Very welcome.
2020 Should Be the Last Time We Vote Like This: “For decades, limiting who gets to vote has been a key strategy of the Republican Party — though usually people on the right have not been quite so proud of this fact. This year, as has happened often with Donald Trump, subtext became text.”
“What was that?” He stopped to stoop down to the child who had spoken to him as he walked along the path.
Suddenly the child reached out and grabbed him, pulling him off-balance before scrambling on top of him as he landed in the dirt. He only got a glimpse of sharpened teeth.