On This Day: Jun 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 17 posts previously published on June 7th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 36 The building behind me here is a lecture hall, often nicknamed the 'turtle'. ➡
  • 2021
    • Map of the Internet — Halcyon Maps Inspired by design of historical maps, this project aims to concisely, but still comprehensively visualize the current state of the World Wide Web, and document the largest and most popular websites over the period of 2020-2021, along with their countless aspects and features. ➡
  • 2020
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2020.06.06 Week sixteen of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. ➡
    • 📚 twenty-seven of 2020: Star Trek S.C.E.: Have Tech, Will Travel by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Kevin Dillmore, Christie Golden, Dean Wesley Smith, and Dayton Ward ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A collection of four novellas following the S.C.E. characters. More of Trek’s expanded universe. ➡
    • On This Day: Jun 7 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 7 ➡
  • 2016
    • Book twenty-four of 2016: Demons, by J.M. Dillard. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (159/366) #startrek #tos #startrektos ➡
    • Seems this #tinydinosaur enjoys watching #WestWing while using his exercise ball. ➡
    • Chucks of the day (8/?): dark grey monotone low tops with black sidewalls. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2014
    • Bad bout of insomnia last night means tired me and early bed tonight. Ugh. ➡
  • 2005
    • Flip der Svitch!!! If you're seeing this entry, then the switch has been thrown, and Eclecticism has successfully transferred over to its new server! ➡
  • 2004
    • First look inside the new Sci-Fi museum I'm jealous — while the public isn't allowed in just yet, there was a 'family and friends' night at the EMP's new Science-Fiction museum last night, and Thumbmonkey has the details… ➡
    • Airport Express feat. AirTunes This looks very cool: Airport Express featuring AirTunes, a small wireless basestation that will connect to a stereo to allow music streaming, for only $129. ➡
    • I’m a music whore 879 albums, 2,927 artists, 44.13GB, 33.5 days, 10,282 tracks in my music collection…so far. ➡
    • Spring Cleaning With a lot of very appreciated help from Prairie, my apartment is now cleaner than it has been in…oh, probably in about a year, since the last time I went on a mad spring cleaning rampage. ➡
  • 2003
  • 2001
    • Moulin Rouge The entire movie is a lush, sumptious feast for the eyes and ears. Wonderful, wonderful film. ➡
    • Homophobic idiots There was a display put up at the Loussac library dealing with gay pride issues on Monday evening. Before the library opened on Tuesday morning, though, Mayor Weurch had ordered the library to pull the exhibit. ➡

On This Day: Jun 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 22 posts previously published on June 6th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • It was already 75° when we left for work at 7:30 this morning. It peaked at 96°, and has come all the way down to 94° now. Could someone please turn the sun down a few notches? (158/366) ➡
    • Chucks of the day (7/?): Black and tan low tops with black laces. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2015
    • Even at 90 degrees, it’s actually quite nice out here in the shade with a bit of a breeze. ➡
    • Ugh. Thank goodness for A/C! ➡
  • 2014
    • Mmm…pre-show FroYo, then off to a selection of opera pieces! ➡
    • For #funfeetfriday: Almost illegible (which is probably why they were at Ross) “Jedi Master” socks, paired with graffiti design Converse. ➡
  • 2010
    • Links for May 29th through June 6th Sometime between May 29th and June 6th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • After 10 Years, Experience Music Project Is Still Perplexing • How You Can Live Like a Vulcan Without Bleeding Green • Google Ditches Windows on Security Concerns • Facebook: Privacy Problems and PR Nightmare • Presidential Proclamation--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month ➡
  • 2006
    • 6:66 6/6/06 You've seen it everywhere else already, of course, but it does bear mentioning that today is 6/6/6 (at least, it is as long as you drop the leading zero on the year notation). ➡
    • 11 Saints Release Concert Okay...it's finally time to take a few minutes break from math and play catch-up on this weekend. Friday night was the concert for the release of Eleven Saints, Jason Webley's latest release, written collaboratively with Jay Thompson. ➡
  • 2005
    • 100+ Things Meme 153 things (minus three, as 5, 13, and 14 have gone mysteriously missing), some of which I've done, some I haven't. Meme fun! ➡
    • Initial thoughts Some brief initial thoughts on today's news... ➡
    • Slashdot Slashdotted Here's an amusing little something that I'd never seen before. I tried to take a look at a Slashdot story about the Apple/Intel switch, when... ➡
    • Mac moving to Intel Short on details at the moment, as the keynote is still going on, and I'm just watching the MacRumors updates, but...Apple is moving to Intel for their processors. ➡
  • 2004
    • Part Three Through no real reason other than happenstance, this became a weekend of 'Part Three's — Scary Movie 3, American Wedding (the third American Pie movie), and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban were all part of the weekend entertainment. ➡
  • 2003
    • TypePad and web standards There's an excellent article up at A List Apart that provides far more information about TypePad's features and capabilities than has been released so far. ➡
    • Apple woos indie labels for iTMS Yesterday Apple hosted a special invitation only event for independent and smaller music labels, giving them information on how they could join with the iTMS. A representative from CDBaby was at the event, and has posted an extremely interesting rundown of Apple's offer to indy labels, mixed in with a lot of information about the iTMS system. ➡
    • That explains it I'm the commander. See, I don't need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation. ➡
    • Related entries I'm experimenting with Adam Kalsey's Related Entried Revisited MovableType modification. ➡
  • 2002
    • Ship of Fools A good, though not excellent, sci-fi novel following a group of people on a deep-space ship wandering the universe looking for a home. Their travels bring them to a planet where they discover a staggeringly disturbing massacre, the investigation of which leads them to an alien ship — and even more problems. ➡

On This Day: Jun 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 24 posts previously published on June 5th

  • 2024
  • 2023
    • 2023 WWDC Thoughts Autocorrect is due for updates, but a Transformer language model? Hopefully I get the Autobot release and not the Decepticon release. ➡
    • Year 50 Day 34 We'll see how many of the WWDC hardware and software rumors pan out! ➡
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • 📚 22/2021: Foul Deeds Will Rise by Greg Cox ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek 🖖 Aside from Cox’s tendency to get a little too cute with references, this was one of the better moments of picking up a dropped thread; in this case, Leonore Karidian, now released from psychiatric treatment. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Fellow cis/straight/allosexual/alloromantic people: The “A” in LGBTQIA+ isn’t for us. Allyship is an action, not an identity; by claiming the “A”, we center ourselves rather than those we say we support and erase (or, at minimum, risk erasing) asexual and aromantic people. ➡
  • 2018
    • Got my Women of NASA Lego set! ➡
    • Today’s bit of awesomeness: the THX “Deep Note” sound…acapella! ➡
  • 2016
    • Dug down to one of my older t-shirts today. I don’t get out to many concerts; I’m glad that #mlwttkk was one that I made it to. (157/366) ➡
    • Chucks of the day (6/?): Black and white mid tops, with diagonal white accent stripes, of the newer more cushioned style. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2015
    • Ducklings! ➡
  • 2014
    • It’s a martini kind of day. ➡
    • For #throwbackthursday, posing in my first Utilikilt…10 years ago, in mid-May 2004. A full decade of kilting! ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for June 1st through June 5th Sometime between June 1st and June 5th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Goths in Hot Weather • Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen • Creating New Documents • Geotracking Your Photos With the AGL 3080 • What Plagiarism Looks Like ➡
  • 2008
    • The Threat of Photography Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don't seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer? ➡
  • 2007
  • 2003
    • Quiet time At a loss for words / Nothing much to write about / Entertain yourselves ➡
    • Justifying the space program It costs NASA less to send a probe to Mars than it would cost Hollywood to make a movie about it. ➡
    • Fear Fear is the darkroom where negatives develop. ➡
    • Tarot Time Tarot decks for everyone! ➡
    • Could be? Look — give me a few gallons of bleach and a few gallons of ammonia, and my bathtub could be used to produce chemical weapons. ➡
  • 2002
    • New mixes online It took a while, but I finally got two new mixes encoded and available from download. I actually made these a few months ago, before I moved out of my old apartment, but just now found them and got around to posting them. ➡
  • 2001
    • Catching up with old friends So, here I am again, doing my usual late-night post before crashing out. Funny how these keep getting later and later — I knew that as soon as I wasn't working, I'd start slipping back into my nocturnal ways. Good or bad, I'm not sure, but I'm quite definitely a night owl…. ➡

On This Day: Jun 4

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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 June 4th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • After taking a year off for job switch, move, settling in to life back in the Seattle area, etc., I finally decided to re-start my exercise routine this morning. My legs are so, so, very not happy with me right now. Ow. /whimper/ ➡
  • 2016
    • The fashion show was good, as expected. We had dinner, then dessert, and in a bit, will be off to this evening’s dance program, always one of our favorites. Not a bad Saturday! (156/366) ➡
    • Chucks of the day (5/?): Black on black high tops with flower-garland bedecked skull design. I’ve never been sure if this is a design for some specific thing, entity, or organization, or if it’s just a fun design. #chucks #converse ➡
    • Chucks of the day (4/?): low top slip-ons, originally brown and orange…until the day I forgot to change shoes before heading out to mow the lawn. These are now my yard work shoes. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2015
    • Odd observation of the day: I don’t really know how the sensors on this building’s urinals’ auto-flushers work, but this shirt sure seems to confuse the heck out of them. FLUSH! FLUSH AGAIN! KEEP FLUSHING!!! ➡
  • 2014
    • Some days one of me just isn’t enough. ➡
  • 2008
    • Photographing the Police ...is perfectly legal. Not that this should be a big surprise, but after the City of Seattle settled a lawsuit with a photographer last year to the tune of $8,000, the Seattle Police Department has clarified its policies. ➡
    • Fire Tornadoes While I've never been around one (something I'm not at all disappointed about), I've certainly heard of tornadoes, waterspouts, and I've seen many of their smaller cousin, the dust devil. However, I'd never thought about what the wind patterns around a wildfire might do. ➡
    • Deficit Attention Disorder From the Christian Science Monitor, a funny editorial advertising Restraint®, a cure for Deficit Attention Disorder (DAD)! ➡
  • 2004
    • Puzzle time How many petals around the rose? I figured it out in under a minute (my first guess was half right, three subsequent rolls allowed me to fine tune and confirm the answer). ➡
    • Dress Code Yesterday I needed to grab something to drink about an hour after I started my shift, so I ducked over to the Starbucks Coffee next door. The barrista gave me a quick look up and down, then asked, 'Hey! Where's the Utilikilt?' ➡
    • Almost famous A couple of months ago, I was interviewed by a prominent news/entertainment magazine for an article they were preparing on webloggers who had lost their jobs or faced some other form of catastrophe due to their weblogging. Unfortunately, the article's since been shelved. ➡
  • 2003
    • Well, hey there, sailor! In an unusual act of patriotism, a Nevada brothel is offering free sex to troops returning from the U.S.-Iraq war. ➡
  • 2002
    • Back in the day I'm about to head to bed, but I just found this article, and as far as I'm concerned, it should be required reading for anyone who's been online for more than just the past few years: When 300 baud was the bomb, from Salon. ➡
  • 1998
    • [From Usenet: 6.4.98 2300] I'm wondering if anyone has any pointers or tips as far as getting on any label promotional mailing lists. It's hard enough weeding through what new music we get up here to find the stuff worth spending the money on...freebies could be a major benefit. ➡

The Police Must Be Better

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From my friend Liz on Facebook (permission was granted to copy and paste, but the original post is friends-locked and not linkable):

To the people who ask why do we want to hate cops: WE DON’T.

I grew up on Mister Rogers. I grew up white and middle class. I grew up being taught that the police were the people in my neighborhood. That they were there to protect me. That if I was ever in trouble, find a police officer. Learning that they had become the villains was devastating. I resisted hard at first, but the evidence became overwhelming. It’s like Steve Rogers being revealed as Hydra, but in real life. Even more devastating was when I discovered that black people had known all along. When I learned the horrific conversations that all black people have to have with thier children. It broke my heart, and I can’t even imagine what it’s like for them. We don’t want to hate them, all we want is for them to stop being villains, we want them to become the heroes they were supposed to be, that white people are taught they are. But when we ask them to, they beat us and gas us and mace us, and tell everyone we started it. It’s like some heavy handed dystopian sci-fi story, except it’s REAL and we’re LIVING IN IT. I am constantly fighting back the tears while people ask why we are so full of hate. We are not. We are sad, and tired, and angry, and hurt.

Further thoughts from me:

I’m not an ACAB hardliner, but saying “not all cops are bad” is like any other “not all [group]!” response: Saying that does nothing but ignore the issue at hand.

I’m perfectly aware that there are “good cops” out there. But I’m also aware that our policing structure and culture, both nationwide and in local jurisdictions, is set up to the disadvantage of the public, especially any sort of minority or disadvantaged group. That even if the “good cops” outnumber the “bad cops”, too many of them either do not or cannot reign in the influence of the “bad cops”, and there are any number of reasons why that might be the case.

And so we are where we are now. Where the police are supposed to protect us, but we view them with distrust and suspicion, because we never know when we’ll suddenly be a target to be taken down instead of a citizen to be protected, or when they’ll stand up after taking a knee in performative solidarity just to deploy batons, flash bangs, and tear gas — and that’s me speaking as a middle-class white male, who can only imagine what it must like to grow up as a POC, knowing that you’re seen as a threat first and foremost.

Police can be better than they are — but it’s not going to be easy, and it’s not going to happen overnight, and it’s certainly not going to happen without a fair mount of upheaval in the process.

All the progress that has been made has happened not in spite of the protests, but because of the protests. And for that very reason, the protests will continue as long as the police as a whole act the way they do.

Martin Luther King on Violent Protests

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Something that people sharing photos of MLK walking in peaceful protests should keep in mind: By the end of his life, Martin Luther King realized the validity of violence:

One of the foundational notions of nonviolence is that in order to be respected, one must behave well and abide by the social contract: work hard, follow the rules, and prosper. The problem is that since the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade, black people had worked harder and followed more rules, more strictly than anyone in America. And still they found themselves in an impossible and impoverished situation. King might not have been as militant as the militants would have liked, and he may have become an even greater citizen of the world while cities were on fire, but by the time he spoke in the fall of 1967, he recognized that it would no longer be effective to tell black folks to only protest peacefully, kindly, and respectfully. They could not prosper in a game where they were the only ones expected to play by the rules. King closed that speech with a stark truth:

“Let us say boldly that if the violations of law by the white man in the slums over the years were calculated and compared with the law-breaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man. These are often difficult things to say but I have come to see more and more that it is necessary to utter the truth in order to deal with the great problems that we face in our society.”

Something else they should keep in mind: One of the most commonly shared such photos was taken minutes before police moved in and brutally attacked the protesters.

MLK protest and police abuse photos

On This Day: Jun 3

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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 24 posts previously published on June 3rd

  • 2023
  • 2021
  • 2020
    • The Police Must Be Better All the progress that has been made has happened not in spite of the protests, but _because of_ the protests. And for that very reason, the protests will continue as long as the police as a whole act the way they do. ➡
    • Martin Luther King on Violent Protests [Black people] could not prosper in a game where they were the only ones expected to play by the rules. ➡
    • On This Day: Jun 3 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 3 ➡
  • 2019
    • Book thirty-six of 2019: How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back, by Diana Rowland. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ These continue to be fun, as the world and the conspiracies grow in scope. Some things have improved, but some continue to go downhill…. ➡
  • 2016
    • Today’s the last day of #pride week at #cwu. Remembered to pick up this year’s shirt, too! (155/366) #cwupride #prideweek #pride2016 ➡
    • Chucks of the day (3/?): white high tops with black accents, red flecks/speckles along the sidewalks. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2014
    • I dunno…this character looks pretty shady to me. You sure he can be trusted? ➡
  • 2007
    • Snorkel Practice So now we've got flippers. Apparently, this makes Prairie a mermaid...and me a frog. I don't know, I just report what I'm told.... ;) ➡
  • 2005
    • In Search of a Sugar Daddy Y'know, all I need right now is for some kind wealthy benefactor to drop about six grand in my bank account. Of course, that's not exactly likely. Possible sure...but improbable enough that as I don't have easy access to the Heart of Gold, I don't expect it'll happen. ➡
    • The IRS is more thorough than I thought… Amusing bits from IRS Publication 525, Taxable and Nontaxable Income, Other Income: Bribes, Found Property, Illegal Income, Kickbacks, and Stolen Property. ➡
    • DJ Humor Two DJs were talking. One of them says 'Hey, you should see this movie I saw the other day! It's GREAT!' The other one replies, 'Oh, I don't know...Who's the projectionist?' ➡
  • 2004
    • One down… On a not entirely unrelated note, though, I had one thought when I saw Tenet's picture in this Time article: George Tenet and Bill Murray…separated at birth? ➡
    • Folklife reports I only made it out to one day of this year's Folklife festival, but Chas made it through all four days. He's got a good writeup of his time there, contrasting it to a similar event in DC and pointing out quite a few links to local bands worth investigating. ➡
    • Withdrawal symptoms Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on. ➡
  • 2003
    • Don't talk and drive I've never felt that talking and driving at the same time was a good idea, even to the point of ticking off some of my friends by refusing to talk with them if they were driving. If it were up to me, there'd just be a non-conditional ban on using cell phones while driving, period. ➡
    • 26 Things on tuesday july 1st 2003, 26 things to hunt for will be posted on this website and you are free to complete the project on or before thursday july 31st 2003. come back friday august 1st to submit your 26 things website. ➡
    • Caption Contest What's the best caption you can come up with for this sign? ➡
  • 2002
    • I used to have fingerprints Saturday was a fun day. At least, it was if you consider that I'm using 'fun' in the most bitterly sarcastic way humanly possible. ➡
    • Americans are never this nice An African Masai tribesman who was visiting New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks went back to his tribe and explained to them what had happened and how it had affected life here in America. The tribe took donations and are donating 14 head of cattle to the United States of America! ➡
    • Kidney Thieves/16 Volt/KMFDM/Pig Well, it took a few days for me to get off my lazy butt and actually put anything up on my page — but the concert I went to on Friday night kicked much ass! ➡
  • 2001
    • DVDs: Closets, aliens, and dinos I was only planning on one purchase for the week, but ended up with three, as I got a $25 gift certificate from Suncoast the other day. The Celluloid Closet, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Allosaurus. ➡
    • Unemployed weekends Well, it's official. As of 5pm today, I am officially unemployed. Now I've got no solid pans for the next two weeks other than getting everything I own sorted, packed, and ready to ship to Seattle. Kinda cool -- kinda scary. I haven't been without a job in about ten years...this is a new thing for me. ➡

On This Day: Jun 2

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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 June 2nd

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • Out at the ballfields for the annual #CWU #LAJ end-of-year softball, BBQ, and awards shindig. So windy! (154/366) ➡
    • Chucks of the day (2/?): black on black high tops. One of my older and more worn pairs. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2014
    • Lunch with Prairie in the shade on the CWU lawn on a pretty day. (“Yay!” says Prairie.) ➡
  • 2010
  • 2006
  • 2005
    • Kumquat Mania I generally skip most of Fark's photoshop threads, as they're generally only of fair-to-middling quality, and the level of humor is often lower than I generally get a kick out of. This one I had to check out though...and I'm glad I did. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • More on Salam Pax Slate's Peter Maass offers some more details on Iraqi blogger Salam Pax, after realizing that he knew Salam personally. ➡
    • Looney Tunes John Gruber of Daring Fireball says many of the same things I did, only far more professionally. ➡
    • The Animatrix End result — thanks to Amazon, I've got my copy of The Animatrix one day before its official street date. As long as I was awake, and didn't have to actually wander out to my bus stop until around noon, I popped in the disc. ➡

On This Day: Jun 1

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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 June 1st

  • 2024
    • Elusive Salvation by Dayton Ward 📚: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: A fun standalone-but-sequel-of-sorts to Ward’s earlier _From History’s Shadow_, with time travel, Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln, and lots of fun nods to Trek timeline shenanigans. ➡
  • 2023
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Book nineteen of 2018: Crossplay, by Niki Smith. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Book eighteen of 2018: Cormorant Run, by Lilith Saintcrow. ⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Increasingly convinced that Trump’s tariffs will manage to crash the economy right after the Nov. elections, so that if we do get a “blue wave”, Dems will get blamed for the crash, setting up either Trump’s re-election or some other racist, sexist piece of trash’s win in 2020. ➡
  • 2016
    • This hat showed up in the mail — it’s got to be a graduation present from Dad and/or Mom. A bit ahead of the game, perhaps, but the optimism is appreciated! (153/366) ➡
    • Chucks of the day (1/?): low tops, black with maroon stripe, black/grey/maroon striped tongue and lining, black laces. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2014
    • Are you sure the weekend’s over? Like, really, really sure? ➡
  • 2009
    • Preliminary Vacation Plans We haven't been on a big vacation since the trip to Hawaii for Hope and Peter's wedding a couple years ago, and haven't even had a lot of chances for smaller weekend 'mini-breaks' lately, so we're really looking forward to this. ➡
    • Links for May 26th through June 1st Sometime between May 26th and June 1st, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • On the (Rebooted) Final Frontier • 15 Sexist Vintage Ads • Seattle Police Dispatched to Zombie Walk • Confessions of an Introverted Traveler • Meme Scenery ➡
  • 2007
    • Photography Workflow I just had someone ask me through my Flickr account about my photography workflow and sales experience, and I figured I might as well put my response up here for...um...posterity? Ego-stroking? ;) ➡
  • 2006
    • It’s just not the same… It occurs to me that I've never done this without a half-dozen other girls. ➡
    • Random Bits… I'm healthy, the Simpsons are funny, I have dress clothes for prom, and there will be lots of Jason Webley goodness in the upcoming days. ➡
  • 2005
    • March of the Penguins This is rather horrendously teen-girl-Livejournal-y, but for once, I'm actually tempted to let lose with an "EEEEEEEEEE! PENGUINS!" ➡
  • 2004
    • Fun on the bus For the rest of the trip, she sat next to me, talking to herself (and occasionally to me, though very rarely did I actually catch any intelligible words), inflection bouncing up and down the scale as she asked and then answered her own questions, and occasionally bursting into a sudden fit of giggles. ➡
    • Vacation time! Laying out rough plans for an upcoming vacation in September to see Marc and Laura get married and celebrate Erika and my dad's birthdays. ➡
    • Suggestions: Good candidate overview sites? i know i don't want bush in office again, but i don't want to vote for just anyone, either. if you can find me a site that lays it all out in a clear, concise manner, i'll read through it all and see if i can't decide which person i feel would do the best job in office ➡
    • If I were to move anywhere… …I often think it would be San Francisco. First they give the gay marriage movement a rousing kick-start — now a San Francisco judge has ruled Bush's recent ban on abortions unconstitutional. ➡
  • 2003
    • Good luck, Larry Wachowski There's a very interesting and serious story that's just staring to break on the 'net, that I'm afraid is going to be presented in extremely unflattering and quite probably derrogative ways once it starts to spread. ➡
    • Newly Digital (Back in the Day, redux) Adam Kalsey has started a project he calls Newly Digital -- a collection of stories about when people first discovered computers, got online, and so on. In that vein, I'm updating and reposting my 'Back in the Day' post from roughly a year ago, to contribute to the project. Enjoy! ➡
    • Finding Nemo Pixar continues their as yet unbroken string of excellent movies with Finding Nemo, the story of a father's hunt for his missing child. ➡
    • The Bourne Identity Quite fun to watch — more known for his dramatic roles, Damon does a very credible job with the action scenes, and Famke Potente (of Run Lola Run) is very enjoyable as a girl swept up in Damon's flight and search for clues. ➡
    • Traffic Traffic got a ton of good reviews when it came out, but for one reason or another, it just didn't grab me very much. ➡
  • 2001
    • This I’ve gotta get! Henry Rollins has finally just released a spoken-word performance to DVD! I was lucky enough (as were a bunch of my friends) to be able to see him when he came to give one of his spoken word performances at UAA a few years back, and I've already got two of the spoken word CD's he's released. ➡
    • I’m hungry… …and since it's after my lunch time, I can't exactly bail out of here to grab something to eat. Guess I'll just have to order myself a Ninja Burger. ➡
    • Slight page updates I just went through and made some slight adjustments to some of the pages on the site (mainly this one, my resume, and my DJ Wüdi propaganda) to reflect the fact that I'm not going to be in Anchorage for much longer. ➡

Difficult Listening Hour 2020.05.30

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Week fifteen 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 mid-mornings. These are the results. Anything goes.

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