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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 17 posts previously published on September 14th

  • 2025
  • 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! ➡
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A new program in Denver that sends a paramedic and a mental health expert to 911 calls instead of police launched amid calls for alternatives to policing. So far, the van has taken more than 350 calls without once having to call in police backup.

Conspiracy vs. Democracy

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How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election

This matters not just because of what these voters believe but also because of what they don’t. The facts that should anchor a sense of shared reality are meaningless to them; the news developments that might ordinarily inform their vote fall on deaf ears. They will not be swayed by data on coronavirus deaths, they won’t be persuaded by job losses or stock market gains, and they won’t care if Trump called America’s fallen soldiers “losers” or “suckers,” as the Atlantic reported, because they won’t believe it. They are impervious to messaging, advertising or data. They aren’t just infected with conspiracy; they appear to be inoculated against reality.

Democracy relies on an informed and engaged public responding in rational ways to the real-life facts and challenges before us. But a growing number of Americans are untethered from that. “They’re not on the same epistemological grounding, they’re not living in the same worlds,” says Whitney Phillips, a professor at Syracuse who studies online disinformation. “You cannot have a functioning democracy when people are not at the very least occupying the same solar system.”

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Everything is the wrong color. Happy to not actually have fires near us, but we’re definitely getting hit by the smoke.

On This Day: Sep 12

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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 12th

  • 2025
  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 32/2021: Head On by John Scalzi ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2020
    • A new program in Denver that sends a paramedic and a mental health expert to 911 calls instead of police launched amid calls for alternatives to policing. So far, the van has taken more than 350 calls without once having to call in police backup. ➡
    • Conspiracy vs. Democracy How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election This matters not just because of what these voters believe but also because of what they don’t. The facts that should anchor a sense of shared reality are meaningless to them; the news developments that might ordinarily inform their vote fall on deaf ears. They will not ... Read more ➡
    • Why Goodreads is bad for books After years of complaints from users, Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end.  ➡
    • Everything is the wrong color. Happy to not actually have fires near us, but we’re definitely getting hit by the smoke. ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 12 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 12 ➡
  • 2018
    • Study finds no link between transgender rights law and bathroom crimes. Well, now. And in other shocking and entirely unforeseeable news, water is wet. ➡
    • Well, crud. I was worried this would happen, but hoped it wouldn’t: Apple has discontinued the iPhone SE. While it doesn’t affect me directly, it does make it probable that when it’s time to upgrade, my wife will move away from Apple in order to get a comfortably sized phone. ➡
    • In a perfect world, I’d have Apple’s iPhone X photo processing capabilities attached to a full-frame sensor in a Nikon f-mount compatible body. ➡
    • Listening to whatever’s playing on Apple’s livestream, with less than ten minutes before the event should start. Gotta see the new goodies (new iPhone X, Apple Watch) and then wait for the usual round of post-event dueling “Apple is the messiah/is clueless and doomed” roundups! ➡
  • 2016
    • Apparently, feeling tired and a bit worn out is good inspiration for moody album cover style photos. (256/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Looking particularly scruffy this pleasant Friday evening. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2006
    • Boy Meets Dragon I love, love, _love_ this shot -- possibly my favorite from yesterday's trip to the zoo. ➡
    • Keith Olbermann to Bush While skimming over my LiveJournal Friends Page, sirriamnis led me to this 'Special Comment' by Keith Olbermann. It's one of the few things I've found worth using YouTube's embed feature for -- this is good. For the bandwidth challenged, the transcript is under the jump. ➡
  • 2005
  • 2003
    • Namedropper ;) You lucky bastard. ➡
    • Twenty Questions Why don't we have answers to these 9/11 questions? ➡
    • Persistance of Mouse Thanks to some of today's Disney animators, Destino has been completed, and will likely be shown in theaters next year before a Disney film, and eventually end up on DVD. I'm really looking forward to seeing this. ➡
    • The Man in Black Johnny Cash has left the building. ➡
  • 2002
  • 2001
    • It all keeps getting scarier Anytime a noice like a plane is heard everyone instantly starts looking up, trying to figure out where it's coming from, where it might be going, and whether it's friendly or not. The speed that something as familiar as an airplane engine can become a trigger for paranoia and fright is just staggering. ➡
    • Fascinating, frightening, and touching: eyewitness accounts Blogs from ground zero. I wouldn't have had time to search all these out, many thanks to Big Pink Cookie for originally posting most of them. ➡
    • Political cartoons There's a feature over at Slate with a lot of different political cartoons responding to yesterday's tragic attacks. Most share a few obvious common themes, but there's one theme that struck me as I kept seeing it come from the pen of so many different artists. ➡