On This Day: Sep 17

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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 20 posts previously published on September 17th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 📚 thirty-seven of 2020: Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids by Isaac Asimov ⭐️⭐️ Even for this series of ‘50s YA space adventures, a bit underwhelming. A key point basically depends on magic, and has a twist that is painfully obvious very early on. ➡
    • White House Killed USPS Plan to Distribute Masks The service specifically identified Orleans and Jefferson parishes in Louisiana as the first areas to receive face coverings, with deliveries shortly thereafter to King County, Wash.; Wayne County, Mich.; and New York. ➡
    • Trump on 200,000 COVID deaths: So we’re down in this territory. And that’s despite the fact that the blue states had tremendous death rates. If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at. We’re really at a very low level. ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 17 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 17 ➡
  • 2018
    • Found on Tumblr: The Magic Wand Throughout Art History, an amusingly irreverent journey through art history, in which every painting has had a (ahem) personal massager added. ➡
    • My first MeMoji Just a little bit of silliness, playing with iOS 12's new "MeMoji" customizable character emojis. ➡
  • 2016
    • At our first @norwescon planning meeting for #nwc40! Lots of friendly geeks fiendishly scheming and dreaming up ideas for next year’s convention. Much fun! (261/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Whatever it was, I’m innocent. You can tell by the halo. ;) ➡
  • 2008
  • 2006
    • Amazing Race 10 Premiere Two quick thoughts on the season premiere of The Amazing Race (which I may not watch any more of, but we figured we should at least watch the first one since they started off here in Seattle)... ➡
  • 2005
    • Secession Found this via Chris Randall. Yes, I know it's over-simplified hyperbole, and I'm guessing that it dates from roundabout election time. So what. It gave me a grin. ➡
  • 2003
    • Moonshine Run This weekend Rick stopped by for a bit, bringing with him a CD of .mp3s that he'd made from the MiniDisc. I just got them copied over to my Mac, and now I'm sitting here listening to Kevin and his friends play some good old down-home bluegrass. It's great — every so often between songs I can hear Kevin laughing in the background. ➡
    • Comment spam for Dean? Well, this is a shame. It appears that 'Laura in DC' has recently started a new pro-Dean weblog, and is so excited about it that she feels that spamming weblog comments is the best way to get the word out. ➡
    • Beware: You might be next! WARNING: Do not forward this column through e-mail, make photocopies to send to a child in college, tape it to your dorm-room door or put it on a bulletin board in your office — or you may be receiving an unexpected knock on your door. ➡
    • How To… Every now and then, a new topic will be posted. It could be anything from 'How to eat peas.' to 'How to build an areoplane.' No answer is wrong and it's up to you, the player, to explain how to do it. ➡
  • 2002
    • fCon fCon is dedicated to creating and controlling the future we know you want. Even if you don't know it yet, don't worry. Because we do. And we are committed to making our dream a reality. ➡
  • 2001
    • I don’t even know what to say to this It may be the single most disgusting and infuriating response I've seen yet to last week's tragedy, and all the more so because of the people it comes from -- men who claim to be spreading God's word on earth. ➡

On This Day: Sep 16

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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 23 posts previously published on September 16th

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  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • Barbados will remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state (this is mostly symbolic at this point, as they’ve been independent since 1966). However, this doesn’t mean that the sun will finally set on the British Empire — that doesn’t happen until they lose the Pitcairn Islands. ➡
    • Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This year we are compelled to do so. We do not do this lightly. ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 16 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 16 ➡
  • 2017
    • Taking our nieces to the fair today! ➡
  • 2016
    • Got a fist bump of solidarity from a fellow kilted gent at lunch today (at Kiku-Chan, the little Japanese place near campus…because where else would you find kilted men in Ellensburg than at a Japanese restaurant?). :) (260/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • I seem to have been slacking on my photo a day project. Gotta get back in the swing of things. ➡
    • First-world problems: my new Apple Extreme router is tall enough that I had to move the gigabit Ethernet switch two spaces higher on the rack in my home’s networking closet. ➡
  • 2009
    • Pre-makes Three trailers for movies you didn't know were remakes (probably because they weren't really...). ➡
  • 2008
    • Say Cheese! Y'know, I probably shouldn't have posted anything about that textbook I popped up in the other day. After months of quiet, as soon as that goes up, the Washington Post includes me in a list of twelve photos that should never have been posted online. ➡
  • 2005
    • Yet More Tweaks A few more tweaks and oddments. ➡
    • …has a posse There's more and more posses out there these days. Andre the Giant had the first, Charles Darwin has one, Darth Vader, even Tony Danza...and I _know_ there's more. But there was only one problem. _I_ didn't have a posse. So I had to take care of that. ➡
  • 2003
    • JetBlue and CAPPS II I don't know anything about what area of the country they serve, as I've never heard of them before, but it seems like the JetBlue airline is going to be the testbed for the blatantly invasive CAPPS II program. ➡
    • PCs are Voodoo Well, that was entertaining. In roughly the same way that playing rugby against a team of rabid hyenas is entertaining, but entertaining none the less. ➡
    • Notable me And while it's really, really geeky, I love the fact that she complimented me on my source code (hey, like I said, it's really geeky). ➡
    • Cauliflower of love It doesn't get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to charge your ass. ➡
  • 2002
  • 2001
    • A good weekend for movies In the midst of more and more news about the continuing aftermath of the WTC and Pentagon attacks, and in a world where it looks more and more like the U.S. may soon be declaring war, I decided it was a good time to take a bit of a vacation and head out to the movies. ➡

On This Day: Sep 15

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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 27 posts previously published on September 15th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Book fifty of 2019: Conjure Wife, by Fritz Leiber. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1944 Retro Hugo Best Novel I enjoyed this one more than I expected when I started it. There’s an entertaining story in here, you just have to deal with the very mid-40s gender stereotypes. ➡
    • Today, on my dad’s birthday, I’ll be seeing the 40th anniversary theatrical screening of Star Trek: TMP. Two-year-old me sat on his lap watching TOS, exclaiming “speesh!” and pointing somewhere over my shoulder as the Enterprise whooshed across the screen…. 🖖 ➡
  • 2018
    • E.T. phone home! E.T. phone home! If you ever get the chance to see E.T. in the theater, with a crowd full of kids who have never seen it before, I highly recommend it. I’ll admit that I got kinda choked up at the resurrection scene, and I think a large part of that wasn’t even the movie itself, but from ... Read more ➡
    • Book thirty-four of 2018: Flash Gordon: The Lion Men of Mongo, by Alex Raymond and Con Steffanson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • I got a name tag today! I guess this means that after five years, I’m official now? ;) (All the COTS secretaries got them at this morning’s meeting.) (259/366) ➡
    • Book forty-one of 2016: Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead, by Dafydd ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver. ⭐️⭐️ (258/366) (Yesterday’s photo that I forgot to post.) ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Do Bats Tweet? I found the Joker through a Wired article yesterday (I think). Today Rachel started following me, and I found most of the rest directly and indirectly through her, except for Edward, who added me while I was exploring. ➡
    • Links for September 12th through September 15th Sometime between September 12th and September 15th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
  • 2006
  • 2005
    • Happy Birthday Dad! Hi dad -- happy birthday! From your boy in Seattle. :) ➡
    • LiveJournal/OpenID Authenticated Commenting Thanks to Mark Paschal's OpenId Comments plugin, visitors can now authenticate themselves when leaving comments using a LiveJournal or OpenID account in addition to TypeKey authentication (or no authentication at all). ➡
  • 2003
    • New PowerBooks! Well, it finally happened — Apple has finally updated their PowerBook line. Since the keynote is still in progress, details are a bit sketchy, but here's some key points of what MacRumors has posted so far… ➡
    • Hurricane Isabel Seems like every time the human race starts to get a little egotistical, good ol' Mother Nature comes along to show us who's really in charge around here. Good for her. ➡
    • Just another day of lies The Powers That Be that run this country (into the ground, apparently) don't seem to be physically or psychologically capable of telling the truth anymore. The Nation's David Corn takes a look at 'The Latest Bush Gang Whoppers' today. ➡
    • A question for Windows experts Why can't I delete a partition from within the Windows 2000 setup utility? ➡
    • Updates, updates, updates Windows Update has just notified me that I have 33 'critical updates' to install to my copy of Windows 2000 SP 2. ➡
    • Pinocchio Something else to add to my ever-growing reading list, thanks to Cory Doctorow: a beautiful new edition of the original Pinocchio fairy tale. ➡
    • Dean Seattle flashmob Last week I mentioned the Doonesbury-inspired flashmob at the Space Needle. I didn't go (to be honest, I remembered it exactly when it was scheduled to happen), but pictures and a quick account have been posted by Harvey Wallbanger. ➡
    • Happy birthday Dad! Today's my dad's birthday! Feel free to stop by and wish him the best. :) ➡
    • Just needed a break Sometimes, a weekend staying away from the 'puter is just what one needs to keep one's sanity. ➡
  • 2002
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Rise Up. Show Up. Unite!

We believe one of the most important things we can do right now…is to get more people showing visible support for the candidates. We hope you’ll join us in spreading this message of unity and loudly proclaim your support for the Biden/Harris campaign!

On This Day: Sep 14

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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 15 posts previously published on September 14th

  • 2024
    • Murder Mystery 2 🎥: ⭐️⭐️⭐️: Adam Sandler always makes my skin crawl, but Jennifer Aniston makes up for it. ➡
    • The Fall Guy 🎥: ⭐️⭐️: An uninteresting, occasionally slightly amusing mess, with one great split-screen scene. ➡
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Rise Up. Show Up. Unite! We believe one of the most important things we can do right now…is to get more people showing visible support for the candidates. We hope you’ll join us in spreading this message of unity and loudly proclaim your support for the Biden/Harris campaign! ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 14 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 14 ➡
  • 2018
    • “If you actually care about reducing or eliminating the number of abortions in our country, simply HOLD MEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS. ALL unwanted pregnancies are caused by the irresponsible ejaculations of men. Period. Don’t believe me? Let me walk you through it.” ➡
  • 2010
  • 2009
    • Geek Appreciation This is my first year getting involved with Norwescon beyond showing up and snapping pictures, and I think it's going to be a fun experience. ➡
  • 2005
    • Transitioned There are a _few_ benefits to being unemployed for a little bit. One of those is having more available hours in the day to spend tinkering around with some of my neverending PROJECTs. I've just (mostly) finished converting all of my pages over to the new template styles provided by Movable Type 3.2. ➡
    • Pussy Power! Story No. 1: 'A German inventor has angered animal rights activists with his answer to fighting the soaring cost of fuel -- dead cats.' Story No. 2: 'A German inventor said he has developed a method to produce crude oil products from waste that he believes can be an answer the soaring costs of fuel, but denied a German newspaper story implying he also used dead cats.' ➡
  • 2004
    • Mid-trip notes (updated) Just jotting some stuff down for the moment — while I'm technically not entirely cut off from the 'net while I'm visiting, I'm not spending a ton of time online. ➡
  • 2002
    • Bush Good Bush / Bad Bush ➡
    • …says God And it came to pass that God visited the earth, and He did behold a series of billboard ads attributing to Him utterances of such banality that they would never pass His lips in a billion years. ➡
    • iCal questions It's been out for a couple days now, but I just donwloaded iCal, Apple's new calendar/scheduling application. I haven't even got it installed yet, and I'm coming up with curiosities. ➡
    • I don’t ‘forward’! I get a lot of things sent to me by the people I know, and that have my e-mail address. Some (many) annoy me, but at times I get sent stuff that I actually like, or find amusing, or some such. ➡
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📚 thirty-six of 2020: Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus by Isaac Asimov ⭐️⭐️⭐️

It’s ‘50s pulp young-adult space adventure. Quality? Accurate? Progressive? Nope. But for what it is, it serves just fine. Plus, you know, telepathic Venusian frogs.

Difficult Listening Hour 2020.09.12

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Week twenty-eight 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: Sep 13

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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 September 13th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 📚 thirty-six of 2020: Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus by Isaac Asimov ⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s ‘50s pulp young-adult space adventure. Quality? Accurate? Progressive? Nope. But for what it is, it serves just fine. Plus, you know, telepathic Venusian frogs. ➡
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2020.09.12 Week twenty-eight of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 13 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 13 ➡
  • 2016
    • A better shot of both #goth #lego #minifigures (plus a couple of their friends — the #zombie #cheerleader and a #ghost — in the background). ➡
    • It was totally worth paying the premium to order this adorable little #lego #goth girl #minifigure to keep the goth boy from the current series company. She even has a cute little bear! (257/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Gorgeous day today; nice view from the hotel as we plot and scheme for #nwc38! ➡
  • 2013
    • Difficult Listening Hour 11 Something new! No particular theme or idea behind this one, this was just me goofing around with the recently released djay 2 upgrade while prepping for tomorrow's Rodeo City Rollergirls double header. ➡
  • 2010
    • Regarding Facebook 'Facebook should not be a timesink where you slowly drown in all the half-remembered named of your youth. It's a community like any other. What makes it great is that you control every member of your own community.' ➡
  • 2005
    • Goodbye FedEx Kinko’s Right, so, following up on a previous post...I'm no longer working for FedEx Kinko's. The full, long, sordid story can be sent to friends and family. ➡
    • You’ve gotta be kidding me So...when did CNN start hiring The Onion's writers? Oh, wait. They're _serious_? ➡
  • 2002
    • Wag the dog, Bushie I know Dick Cheney finds it 'reprehensible' that anyone could think the White House's timing on Iraq is politically inspired, but the administration has exhibited a pattern of behavior that (as Cheney rightly warns with Saddam) creates a context that raises extra concerns. What else should reasonable people make of these facts? ➡
    • Even cops get to play sometimes The next officer, already starting to ride down the stairs on his bike, managed to both avoid the one who'd just fallen off his bike and was laughing and trying to disentangle himself from the spokes, and keep going down without taking a spill. ➡
    • :-) I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways. ➡
    • Good kitty…nice kitty… Long story short — after two weeks of waiting, and a good few hours of 'puter work, I've just upgraded my main mac (and webserver) to the newest version of Mac OS X, 'Jaguar' (v10.2). ➡
  • 2001
    • Hollywood Squares funnies Peter Marshall: It is the most abused and neglected part of your body -- what is it? Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused but it certainly isn't neglected! ➡