On This Day: Oct 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 16 posts previously published on October 10th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 161 I'm going to have to keep track of which shirts I wear for presentations. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Short Treks E06: “The Trouble with Edward” Okay…yes, it’s funny (and be sure to watch all of it). I laughed quite a few times. But wow, are they playing fast and loose with canon and biology. Hard to say much more without spoilers, but…I’m very torn on what to think. 🖖 ➡
  • 2016
    • Thanks to the construction fencing, leaving work felt a bit like getting herded through some sort of cattle chute. (283/366) ➡
  • 2008
    • Links for October 10th from 10:52 to 17:27 Sometime between 10:52 and 17:27, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • Over-Distributed Identity What I need is some form of comment aggregator service that would track when a particular post (of any form) is made, monitor its status on each of the various services, then either collect any comments at a central location or even simply alert me when a comment is made. ➡
    • Links for October 8th through October 10th Sometime between October 8th and October 10th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
  • 2007
    • Why We Had to Move After returning home from Hawaii (no, those pictures aren't done yet, I'm just busy with work and school), Prairie and I found out we had to move. This shot is of what used to be our cute little apartment. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
    • What Bush wants us to forget Things that Bush wants us to forget. ➡
    • A proposal If/when we catch the Maryland sniper, howabout we just airlift him into Iraq and set him loose on Saddam? ➡
    • Journalistic Integrity at its finest The story 'Filipino-American history recognized' stated that the 'Nuestra Senora de Buena Esperanza,' the galleon on which the first Filipinos landed at Morro, Bay, Calif., loosely translates to 'The Big Ass Spanish Boat.' It actually translates to 'Our Lady of Good Hope.' ➡
    • Test post Test post to see if regex is working correctly. ➡
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I feel like Republicans get together in dark, secret back rooms, stare nervously at a mirror on the wall, and giggle as they dare each other to say “Hillary Clinton” three times.

On This Day: Oct 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 13 posts previously published on October 9th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • I feel like Republicans get together in dark, secret back rooms, stare nervously at a mirror on the wall, and giggle as they dare each other to say “Hillary Clinton” three times. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 9 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 9 ➡
  • 2018
    • My local indigenous history I live on Duwamish tribal land, part of the Puget Sound Coast Salish tribal group. The Duwamish Tribe is still not recognized as an indigenous nation. ➡
  • 2016
    • Almost time for the second #2016debate. Just how much of a train wreck will it be? (282/366) ➡
  • 2006
    • About to be published… ...the freakin’ New Yorker just purchased one of my photos to use in an ‘advertorial’ for the MGM Grand casino for $250! ➡
  • 2005
    • The Ten Commandments of Clubbing All of it seems pretty obvious to me, but I can't count the number of times when I've wished that more people had these in their head. Bunch o' savages in this town.... ➡
    • Birthdays Yay! Much fun -- birthday parties, friends old and new, and bouncing and flirting at the Vogue. All told, not a bad night in the least. ➡
  • 2003
    • Help Bush flush out the leak! Our dear Pres. Bush is apparently having some difficulties with the task of narrowing down just who in his staff would have been so underhanded as to leak Valerie Plame's name and CIA affiliation to the press. However, we can help! ➡
    • New $20 bills The US's new twenty-dollar bills should start hitting banks today, soon to start circulating around to everyone else. ➡
    • Sigh As of right now — 10am on the day that tickets were available to be purchased — the Lord of the Rings Marathon at the Cinerama is sold out. ➡
  • 2002
    • MovableType upgrade I've just upgraded to MovableType 2.5. This will probably break a few of the features (off the top of my head, the smileys will need to be fixed, and possibly the 'recent comments' section), but I'll get those re-enabled as quickly as I can. ➡
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📚 forty-one of 2020: A Rock and a Hard Place by Peter David ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng 🖖

Riker’s sent off on a B-plot, so a troublesome first officer is temporarily assigned to the Enterprise in the hopes that Picard can corral this loose cannon. He’s an ass, but is he unstable?

On This Day: Oct 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 23 posts previously published on October 8th

  • 2025
    • Ranking the Star Trek Films (Again) An update to my last attempt at doing this back in 2009. I originally posted this to Mastodon back in April after watching Star Trek: Section 31, and after realizing I hadn't cross-posted it here, am doing that now. ➡
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 📚 forty-one of 2020: A Rock and a Hard Place by Peter David ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng 🖖 Riker’s sent off on a B-plot, so a troublesome first officer is temporarily assigned to the Enterprise in the hopes that Picard can corral this loose cannon. He’s an ass, but is he unstable? ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 8 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 8 ➡
  • 2018
    • ⌚️ day! New Series 4 Apple Watch (on the right), along with an original “Series 0” watch on the left. Wearing both was just for the photo, the older model is going to a new home. ➡
    • Oh, wow — well, that’s it for Google+, folks. It was probably only a matter of time, but going out on a customer-data exposing bug is a bad way to go. ➡
  • 2016
    • Prairie’s mom pulled out this big weird book that looked like Google Maps, but was on paper and didn’t change, or scroll, or have traffic updates, or anything! ;) ➡
    • Of course, being an uncle isn’t always about sitting and reading storybooks. Sometimes we make excellent jungle gyms. ➡
    • Being a good uncle and reading a storybook to my niblings at a birthday party for two of them. (281/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • I’m highly suspicious about…something. ➡
  • 2008
    • Links for October 8th from 06:39 to 13:58 Sometime between 06:39 and 13:58, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • An Ode to the Short Story Following up, in a way, to a quote from Stephen King that I posted a couple weeks ago, comes this essay by Steven Millhauser, The Ambition of the Short Story. ➡
    • That One This goes beyond refusing to look at Obama in the first debate. With this slightly dehumanizing phrase, McCain may have just played into the emerging narrative of Obama-hate that has been sprouting at McCain-Palin rallies. ➡
  • 2006
    • Not in our stars, but in ourselves. Every time I hear this monologue, it strikes me just how topical it is. How easy it would be to replace the references to Sen. McCarthy with references to President Bush and have it read just as accurately. ➡
  • 2004
    • Presidential Debate #2 The Presidential debate starts in about ten minutes. As before, I'll be watching it on C-SPAN's internet feed. Rambling, incoherent, stream of consciousness commentary to be posted once the debate is over with. ➡
    • The Global Test The President isn't passing this test. ➡
  • 2003
    • It must've been the full moon A small but important project came through. Had to be finished tonight, as they were needed for a meeting with BillG and SteveB tomorrow morning. Which, of course, meant that Murphy's Law kicked in — with a vengeance. ➡
    • iChat faxes? A minor but amusing goof on Apple's site right now: in the Top New Panther Features sidebar on many of the pages, iChat's one-line summary is 'Send and receive faxes.' ➡
    • Panther Announced Mac OS X 10.3, a.k.a. Panther, has finally had its official release date announced — October 24th, just a little over two weeks from now. ➡
  • 2002
    • Animatrix What is the Animatrix? Well, okay, so my first answer would probably involve something along the lines of Betty Page making a cameo in a Roger Rabbit cartoon. But that'd be wrong. ➡
    • If the shoe fits… Khatami said the U.S. possesses the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, weapons 'that, when first developed, were used immediately to kill half a million innocent civilians just months after acquiring them. No nation that has committed nuclear genocide can be entrusted with weapons of mass destruction.' ➡
  • 2001
    • Necrophilia? Having sex with a Goth does not count as necrophilia! ➡
    • Ch ch ch ch ch changes After considering it for a few days, I finally figured I'd give it a shot this morning, and for the first time in about 8 years or so, I'm clean shaven. ➡

Harris v. Pence

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Watched the first hour of the VP debate (which means I turned it off before the fly landed, which I’m a little disappointed about).

On the whole, I thought Harris did well. She had actual answers for the questions, presented them solidly (even when they were answers I didn’t like, such as the repeated emphasis that Biden won’t ban fracking, at least she had them and didn’t prevaricate, dissemble, or flat-out lie), and came across as extremely competent and knowledgeable. All, of course, while constantly having to negotiate the minefield of being a woman of color, who is at all times a fraction of a hair’s width from being perceived as hysterical, or a bitch, or a “shrieking harpy”, or an “angry Black woman”, or any of the many other standards women are subjected to if they deign to exhibit behavior that is lauded in men.

Pence, on the other hand, rather surprised me in how badly he came across. I’m not sure if he ever actually answered a single question: frequently he didn’t even try to obfuscate it or do a quick pivot, but simply ignored what he’d been asked and talked about whatever he wanted to. What content there was in what he said will be celebrated by those who are in the bag for Trump/Pence, but if there were people watching who are still undecided (a concept which I honestly find rather mind boggling), they just might have noticed (hopefully, though I’m probably being overly optimistic) how empty and often outright laughably false his statements were. And then there was his constant tactic of steamrolling over both Harris and the moderator, entirely ignoring time limits. It was more controlled than Trump’s interrupting and outbursts, but no less rude, and quite likely (again, hopefully) even more of a turn-off to any women who have had years of men ignoring them and speaking over them. Given how poorly Trump’s bluster played in the first debate, I’m a little surprised that Pence took this approach tonight. They’re both playing to their base, but it doesn’t seem like a good strategy for picking up (or reclaiming) anyone outside of their base.

The moderator, unfortunately, was almost entirely ineffectual. Any future debates should be moderated not by journalists, but by a fourth grade teacher with a good decade of experience in the classroom, armed with a kill switch for the microphones (and/or a Super Soaker).

On This Day: Oct 7

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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 October 7th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Harris v. Pence Watched the first hour of the VP debate (which means I turned it off before the fly landed, which I’m a little disappointed about). On the whole, I thought Harris did well. She had actual answers for the questions, presented them solidly (even when they were answers I didn’t like, such as the repeated emphasis ... Read more ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 7 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 7 ➡
  • 2017
    • Just a few hours until #LordsofAcid! ➡
  • 2016
    • The #tinydinosaur was quite entertained by the laser #pinkfloyd show (as was I…it had been decades since I’d been to one of these)! ➡
    • The #tinydinosaur is quite excited to be taking the #tinyelephant out on a date to Burgerville – and the sweet potato fries and pumpkin milkshakes are in season! ➡
    • Turns out the #tinydinosaur is a fan of, well…whatever kind of architecture this is. He’s not quite educated enough to know the terminology, just that he likes it. ➡
    • Ellensburg just doesn’t get fall colors like this. Quite impressive to the #tinydinosaur! ➡
    • There is at least one old-school #Apple #Mac fan on this campus! #clarus #clarusthedogcow #moof ➡
    • Exploring the Reed College campus with the #tinydinosaur while we wait for Prairie’s conference to end. This is a really pretty campus! ➡
    • Indian food makes a great lunch for a #tinydinosaur! ➡
    • Shelves and shelves of #startrek! The #tinydinosaur is going to have a hard time choosing. ➡
    • The #tinydinosaur is debating what to do on a grey, drizzly day in Portland. ➡
    • First time ever taking advantage of a hotel’s exercise room. Got the morning workout in! (280/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • I’m very disturbed by this flavor of goldfish snacks. ➡
    • Just got another neat Kickstarter project – a collection of comics by Native American creators. Looking forward to reading it! #moonshot ➡
  • 2014
    • This really is a gorgeous campus. Glad I had a reason to get out of the office for a bit! ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • IN’s Reproduction Bill Yoinked A controversial proposed bill to prohibit gays, lesbians and single people from using medical procedures to become pregnant has been dropped by its legislative sponsor. ➡
  • 2004
    • About the server switch Okay, so what's up with switching servers? Those of you who are regulars have probably seen me mention that I was considering doing this a time or two in the past, and now I've just gone and done it. Well, really, the primary motivation is very simple… ➡
    • Server Switch If you're seeing this entry, it means that the transfer to my new server has gone through. Expect images to be broken for a while as I get them transferred over — all the actual information should be here, though. ➡
    • Ex-cellent… Parody image of Edwards and his opponet at the VP debates. ➡
  • 2003
    • 42 minutes Not having a digital video camera to play with video bits, and hot having any multi-megabyte Photoshop files to play with, I have to admit that I haven't exactly been taxing my G5 since I got it. I'm loving the speed, to be sure — but I also know I haven't even begun to push the limits of what this machine can do. ➡
    • No kidding Microsoft Digital Image Pro 9: Sorry, this file can't be opened. ➡
  • 2002
    • Shameless greed Seeing as how Christmas is slightly less than three months away, I figured I'd indulge my lust for new-'n'-shiny-things and add a link to my Amazon Wishlist to my site (it's towards the bottom of the sidebar, just above the shameless plea for money — gotta keep my greed centralized!). ➡
    • The argument for war So it seems that Bush will be making his case for war against Iraq tonight on television. Unfortunately, I'll be at work, and won't be able to listen in. Bummer. ➡
    • Not In Our Name rally Today was the day for NION rallies across the country. Something of a new experience for me — I'm fairly vocal with my friends and occasionally here on my site about my beliefs, but I'd yet to ever actually participate in anything like this. I figured it was time to 'put my money where my mouth is', so to speak, and so about 12:30pm we started walking up to Volunteer Park for the rally, in time to get there right about 1pm when it was scheduled to start. ➡

On This Day: Oct 6

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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 18 posts previously published on October 6th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Short Treks E05 “Q&A”: Cute, and nice to see Spock and Una playing against each other. Really dislike the Discovery-style “exterior” views of turbolifts, though; it makes no sense, and is as visually jarring as the Budweiser version of engineering from the Abramsverse. 🖖 ➡
  • 2016
    • Sometimes, the evening calls for a martini. (279/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Sunny and 88, with a nice breeze. I know it’s summer’s last gasp, but it sure is nice. ➡
  • 2011
  • 2008
    • Links for October 6th from 09:07 to 18:54 Sometime between 09:07 and 18:54, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • The Phantom of the Opera Yesterday afternoon, Prairie and I got a call from her sister Hope offering us tickets to the closing night show of _The Phantom of the Opera_ at the Paramount. We, of course, were happy to take them, and headed out for an unexpected but not unwelcome night out at the theater. ➡
  • 2005
    • Lost s02e03: Orientation Scribbled notes while watching last night's episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to... ➡
  • 2004
    • .com, .org, what’s the difference? Last night during the VP debates, I noted that Dick Cheney mentioned factcheck.com when responding to some of Edwards' claims about Haliburton. I didn't actually check out the site immediately post-debate, so I'm just now picking up on this funny little tidbit: ➡
    • Next track! Next track! It always screws with my head when a radio station is playing a song from a CD that skips. ➡
    • World on Fire If you haven't watched it yet, watch Sarah McLachlan's video for 'World on Fire' (iTunes required). Just do it. ➡
  • 2003
    • Don't ignore the youth It's always incredible when people can stop and take the time to recognize that if you can talk to today's youth rather than at them, if you can take them seriously, and if you can tap that enthusiasm, energy, and initiative, that you can muster a force that is truly one to be reckoned with. The PB knew that at EYE, and it looks like Dean and the people at Generation Dean know it and are doing everything they can to put that boundless energy to good use, and to knock Bush on his elitist little keister in 2004. ➡
    • TypePad discount codes Today TypePad moved out of 'Preview Release' status, making them officially open for business. I still have fifteen discount codes available that will get anyone who uses one a 20% discount for as long as they stay with the TypePad service. ➡
    • 32 cents At first I thought the guy at the register had goofed up my order, but nope. A manager came over and said that over the weekend, they'd raised the price of their small drinks. Okay, prices fluctuate from time to time, usually upwards, but a 32 cent jump for a 12oz (if that) soda? Yikes! ➡
    • Words, words, words So if my posts are a little less frequent than they sometimes are for a bit…at least you know why. ;) ➡
    • Male contraceptive on the way? With a few more years of testing and study, it appears that may finally be an effective male contraceptive. ➡
  • 2001
    • A sunny Saturday afternoon The movie 2001 has been cleaned up, restored, and is hitting theaters again, and yesterday was the opening night of its run here in Seattle -- at the Cinerama, no less. ➡
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📚 forty of 2020: A Call to Darkness by Michael Jan Friedman ⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng 🖖

Almost a standard 3-star “stranded in primitive conditions/‘Bread and Circuses’ variant” adventure, but had some really weird oversights that knocked a star off.

On This Day: Oct 5

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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 21 posts previously published on October 5th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 📚 forty of 2020: A Call to Darkness by Michael Jan Friedman ⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng 🖖 Almost a standard 3-star “stranded in primitive conditions/‘Bread and Circuses’ variant” adventure, but had some really weird oversights that knocked a star off. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 5 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 5 ➡
  • 2018
    • I can’t remember the last time I had to do this, but it’s nice to know that changing a tire is still a life skill I can handle. Yay? ➡
    • Book thirty-six of 2018: Flash Gordon: The Witch Queen of Mongo, by Alex Raymond and Carson Bingham. ⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Book forty-four of 2016: Death’s Angel, by Kathleen Sky. ⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • It’s foggy outside, and the house’s heat kicked on for the first time this morning. It’s definitely feeling like fall! (278/366) ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Links for October 3rd through October 5th Sometime between October 3rd and October 5th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • My Nephews A few weekends ago, Prairie and I went down to visit family south of us: her mom and sister in Vancouver, WA; my brother and his family in Corvallis, OR; then Prairie's dad and grandpa in Woodland, WA on our way back up to Seattle. ➡
  • 2005
    • On that whole TV thing… Most people who've known me for a while are aware that I'm not much of a fan of television -- and actually haven't really _watched_ television in a long, long time. Seeing as how a couple people commented on my watching Lost, I thought it might be worth addressing this. :) ➡
    • Want a child? Better get married… If this passes, I may want to _stop_ admitting that, though I grew up in Alaska, I was _born_ in Indiana...and most of my extended family on my dad's side is still there. Indiana Republicans are working on a bill that will make it so that only legally married women will be allowed to reproduce. ➡
    • The Sesame Street Theme…in Klingon A day of the daytime star. / The clouds are compelled to commence fleeing, and are filled with dread. / I have a destination; / and there, because of the atmosphere, I am pleased. / Describe to me **immediately** / how to go to Sesame Street. ➡
  • 2004
    • Looking for a little assistance Okay, I'm hoping someone out there might be able to give me a hand here. I'm working on moving Eclecticism from TypePad over to my own server. I've got 95% of the site framework finished, but I've got one little thing that's causing me issues. ➡
    • Vice Presidential Debate The Vice Presidential debate starts in about ten minutes. I'll be watching the live feed via C-SPAN, and will update this post with ramblings once the debate is done. ➡
    • Placeholder Entry Number Two And again with the testing of things to make sure they're working right. Exciting, isn't it? ➡
  • 2003
    • Poet Laureate…George Bush? Did you know that our President is a poet? Neither did I — thankfully, CNN gives us a taste of his lyrical genius. ➡
    • Would you buy this shirt? I'm just here to get laid. ➡
    • Dean 'meat-ups' Hmmm — seems like I need to get out of the house and go to some of the local Dean meet-ups at some point. Apparently, they're the newest hot place to meet singles! ➡
    • Advice for clubbers and bouncers Having DJ'd for around eight years in Anchorage, and having been a clubgoer for many years both before and after my DJ years, I've worked with and seen a lot of both really good, and really bad people. Ogre, the doorman at the Vogue, is definitely one of the good ones. ➡