On This Day: Aug 19

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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 August 19th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • The announcement of the 2019 Hugo Awards winners means that I’ve had to readjust my progress on my Hugo “best novel” reading project, and am now at only 21.33% of the way through. As I said when I started, this is a marathon, not a sprint. ➡
  • 2017
    • A longer and more adventurous day than anticipated, but mom has made it to her new home! ➡
    • Mom’s ferry coming in to Bellingham, right on time! ➡
  • 2016
    • I don’t know why there is a knife stuck into this utility pole, but it amused me when it caught my eye. (232/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Just playing. I like the combination of pixelation and retro effect filters. ➡
    • This morning’s clouds wrapped into a #RollWorld Image @RollWorldApp, #TinyPlanet #PhotoSphere #StereoGraphic #RollWorldApp ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • Incommunicado Well, not really, the next few days should be pretty good overall. They're just going to be _really_ busy, and probably not entirely unstressful. As such, I'm likely not going to be reachable or even online until...um...Wednesday, at the earliest. I think. No guarantees. ➡
  • 2004
    • Schwarzkopf avoids endorsing Bush Four years ago, retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf enthusiastically endorsed George W. Bush in his presidential bid. This year, however, 'Stormin'' Norman appears to be singing a different tune. On Tuesday's Hardball television show, host Chris Matthews tried to sound out who Schwarzkopf would be voting for. ➡
    • Preaching to the Choir More of Bush and company applying his ridiculously nearsighted 'if you're not with us, you're against us' policy to his own constituents. It's very clear now: if you're not a raving fan, you have no business being anywhere near the President of the United States. ➡
  • 2003
    • Time for that operation The Gender Genie is a potentially cute little application that examines a block of text, and uses an algorithm to attempt to determine the sex of the author. According to the authors of the algorithm, it's supposed to be correct roughly 80% of the time. ➡
    • Seattle skyline poster My friend Tim is going to be selling a gorgeous panoramic poster of the Seattle skyline. More details and contact information can be found on his weblog. ➡
  • 2001
    • Pie, ghosties, scots, and naked girls (kinda) Saturday, I headed out with a full crew of people to go see the Barenaked Ladies in concert out at the Gorge. Casey had bought me the ticket before I had even made it down to Seattle as a 'welcome to Washington' present, which I thought was all sorts of cool. ➡

On This Day: Aug 18

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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 August 18th

  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 108 This trip isn’t over yet! And further posts may be delayed by about a week. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Leaning ever closer to closing down my Twitter account once I’ve passed on the keys to the Norwescon social media accounts. Between their inconsistent application of rules and their neutering of third-party clients, it’s harder to care about staying. ➡
  • 2016
    • Well, that’s unpleasant. I did not authorize this. ➡
    • Well, that was interesting. I was taking an afternoon walk by Kiwanis Park when I heard a big cracking, ripping noise. Looked over, and a big branch had fallen off one of the trees, right near the picnic shelter. Startled a small family, too…lucky they weren’t any closer! Emailed the #Ellensburg Parks Dept. to let ... Read more ➡
    • Found a nice shady spot in the campus Japanese Gardens for lunch today. (231/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • This one’s for mom and dad, who use the Alaska Native words “Aga” and “Apa” rather than “grandma/mother” and “grandpa/father” with their grandchildren. The “in” on the end of “again” getting rubbed off made it look like part of this restaurant’s mission is a plan to return mum (Aga) soon. I was rather surprised that ... Read more ➡
  • 2014
    • From the walk back to the car after work this afternoon. 95 degrees, and I’m wearing black. Goth fashion and desert climates don’t play well together. ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2006
    • Conversation 90's rock group Soul Asylum gave a free show at the Pike Place market on Thursday morning, and Prairie and I headed down to see them. While we were waiting for the show to start I took a few random people shots around the gathering crowd. This shot is by far my favorite of the morning. ➡
  • 2005
  • 2003
    • Oh, lord, now what? I think I preferred the never-ending stream of Viagra spam, to be honest. ➡
    • Are you registered to vote? I certainly hope that everyone is registered to vote, and is planning on voting when the time comes. However, on the off chance that you're not registered yet, you can now do so through Howard Dean's website. ➡
    • A little bit of magic The elusive elf has enchanted Twin Citians ever since the 6-inch wooden door appeared eight years ago, just off a walking path around popular Lake Harriet. ➡
    • Warning: These hurt! Just remember…the beauty of the pun is in the 'oy…' of the beholder. ➡

On This Day: Aug 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 11 posts previously published on August 17th

  • 2024
    • Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 🎥: ⭐️⭐️⭐️: Another fun entry into the primary canon. A few plot holes here and there, sure, so don’t try to put too much thought into it. ➡
  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • Taken on my way to lunch today, on one of the bridges over the “Ganges” — the local nickname for the irrigation canal that runs through campus; so named because, well, it runs through a lot of livestock fields, and you really don’t want to swim in it. (I don’t actually know how bad it ... Read more ➡
  • 2015
    • Birds have claimed one of the library entrances. ➡
  • 2014
    • Actually took this one yesterday evening, after a wedding reception party for some friends. ➡
  • 2006
    • Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ My co-worker Nick got me hooked on the new single by the Scissor Sisters, 'Don't Feel Like Dancin''. So far, I can't get enough of it (and Prairie's getting a laugh out of watching me bounce around in my seat while it's playing). ➡
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Just stop already! If this actually gets made, I just hope they all die. No resurrections. No sequels. There obviously isn't anything more that can actually be done with any of the characters that actually involves any amount of creativity, so just let them die already. ➡
  • 2003
    • Experience level …somewhere between 'power user' and 'geek' — in other words, I know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to get paid for it. ➡
    • Howard Dean…spammer? While it appears that the Dean campaign has discontinued their contract with the vendors, a single comment left in the midst of a /. thread isn't going to be seen by many people. ➡
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📚 thirty-one of 2020: The Children of Hamlin by Carmen Carter ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tos

Decent for early TNG, though more than a bit on-the-nose with the Pied Piper connections (children abducted from a place called Hamlin by aliens whose language is music). 🖖

Difficult Listening Hour 2020.08.15

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Week twenty-five 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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On This Day: Aug 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 14 posts previously published on August 16th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 📚 thirty-one of 2020: The Children of Hamlin by Carmen Carter ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tos Decent for early TNG, though more than a bit on-the-nose with the Pied Piper connections (children abducted from a place called Hamlin by aliens whose language is music). 🖖 ➡
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2020.08.15 Week twenty-five of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. ➡
    • On This Day: Aug 16 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from August 16 ➡
  • 2019
  • 2018
    • First Facebook cuts off posts from external sources, and now Twitter’s crippled any third-party clients. Even after years of talk of how social media is adversely affecting our culture, I didn’t really expect the platforms themselves to be so invested in driving users away. ➡
  • 2017
    • Book thirty-seven of 2017: The Soldiers of Fear (Invasion! Book Two), by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • What was conceived as a “flopped on the bed” shot turned into a “oh wow this made my forehead look gigantic” shot. Amusement overrode vanity, and here we are. (229/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Giving the bald-and-bearded look a try. I think it’s working for me. ➡
  • 2004
    • Costco Caskets? This is just silly: in case you're looking to save a few bucks while shopping for the latest death in the family, you can now pick up coffins at Costco. ➡
    • M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village The Village is by far my favorite of Shyamalan's films. ➡
    • Whoever Wins…We Lose No, I haven't seen it yet, but it appears that as much as I was hoping this wouldn't happen, it has: Alien vs. Predator is a dud. ➡
  • 2003
    • Oh, go ahead and point, it's okay As I walked out, I noticed a couple girls out of the corner of my eye, one of whom was doing a fairly obvious 'oh-there-he-is-look-wait-don't-make-it-obvious' motion to her friend. Being used to this, and rather amused that I'd caught her, I turned around with a grin and told them, 'Oh, go ahead and point, it's okay.' ➡
    • Discovering Deep Space Nine At this rate, DS9 may just end up supplanting Next Gen as my favorite Star Trek series. ➡

On This Day: Aug 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 12 posts previously published on August 15th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • Scheduling conflicts meant I got to walk home today…in 95° heat. Ugh. This is the kind of experience that “builds character”, right? (228/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • It’s margarita time! ➡
    • Blatant false advertising. These are neither large enough nor strong enough to hold a pony. Don’t ask me how I know that. ➡
  • 2007
    • Aloha! Right now, I'm sitting in our room on the sixth floor of the Lagoon Tower, looking out over Waiulua Bay. Stepping out onto the deck, I can look nearly directly down into a pool where people are swimming with dolphins. Not long ago, I was snorkeling along through the resort's lagoon, sidling on up to pat a sea turtle's shell as it nosed through the spray of a waterfall. ➡
  • 2006
    • Queueing Up… On the verge of just canceling the Netflix account, we decided we'd take a little time to brainstorm a bit and put together a queue that we'd be more likely to enjoy going through. I completely nuked the queue I had built up, we found three basic ideas to start from, and got a new queue set up. ➡
  • 2005
    • Preparations Much of the weekend was spent running around, getting boxes, making plans, and generally starting to get things ready for the move. We've got a Hanscom family get together this coming weekend, and I managed to get a week off of work for the move and a bit of vacation, so our current game plan goes something like this: ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • Water shutoff – again Needless to say, if anyone happens to be apartment hunting in the lower First Hill/Downtown Seattle area, I can wholeheartedly recommend avoiding the Park Seneca (recently renamed Alfaretta) Apartments, and I'd be wary of any building controlled by Kauri Investments. ➡
    • 'I like New York' A couple things I've noticed about the recent power failure on the East Coast. Every so often, you run across something that makes you think that there might be hope for this world after all. ➡

On This Day: Aug 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 14 posts previously published on August 14th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 104 Sitting in our private sleeper cabin and watching the country roll by. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Interesting side effect to Facebook killing the ability to mirror content from outside and my mirroring not just my blog, but also (not all but) many random links and tweets to Tumblr: my Tumblr is probably my most comprehensive online presence right now. ➡
  • 2017
    • My boarding pass is on my watch. That’s just freaking cool. ➡
  • 2016
    • Highlighting my #tattoo (just the one…so far…). Yin/Yang made up of joined smiley faces. Good or bad, light or dark, there’s always something to smile about, some humor to be found, some way to get through. (227/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • For #throwbackthursday: In 2001, shortly before moving down to Seattle. Obviously, cleaning my room wasn’t a priority. :p ➡
  • 2009
    • Norwescon on Flickr Just a quick notice that Norwescon is expanding its presence on Flickr. First off, there is now an official Norwescon account. Additionally, we're working on making it easier for people to contribute and share their memories of cons past (and future). ➡
  • 2007
    • More Fun with Flossie Flossie continues to head for the Big Island, which is on hurricane watch, tropical storm warning, and flash flood watch, has closed its public schools, and is officially under a state of emergency. Oh, and there was an earthquake this morning, too. ➡
  • 2003
    • Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Hey, even I can succumb to the occasional giggle at juvenile fart humor every so often. ➡
    • 'go to referrer' bookmarklet Ever opened up a link in a new tab or a new window, then left it alone for a while? Come back to it in a couple hours, figure it's interesting enough to blog about, then realize that you can't remember just whose site pointed you to the link? It's a minor annoyance, if you try to link back to your sources. ➡
    • Whiner Yeah, George, there's, like, a presidential race, in, like, fifteen months or so. This California thing is, like, right around the corner. Like, really, man. Do you really want us all to, like, spend all our time just, like, bashing you instead? Because we're certainly capable of it. Especially when your English usage is so, like, impeccable and everything. ➡
    • Fun with Pig Latin Evennay ownay, it'sway eallyray easyway orfay emay otay eakspay Igpay Atinlay ithoutway avinghay otay inkthay aboutway itway uchmay atway allway. Ypingtay itway isway away ittlelay oremay ifficutlday, utbay eakingspay itway? Easyway asway iepay. ➡
    • Who turned out the lights? Just bizarre, to know that that much of the eastern seaboard lost power today. There doesn't seem to be any real news to the news, but John Hoke has been keeping up with the news as best he can over at his Asylum. ➡
    • Army of One Excellent flash ad from Take Back the Media: 'Army of One'. They're collecting donations to see if they can get it put on national TV, too. ➡

Star Trek: LDS meets TAS

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Here’s a gag I’d like to see on Lower Decks: Either through needing to research something that happened on the TOS Enterprise and reviewing ship’s logs, or perhaps (if necessary, though it’s been done to death) through a time travel mishap, we see the TAS Enterprise crew in all their ’70s Filmation glory.

Here’s a few quick mockups I tossed together using screenshots from the first LDS episode.

The TAS bridge crew says hello to…well, a few random background extras, I guess, since this was the only bridge shot with the view screen in LDS S01E01.

TAS vs. LDS 1

Captain Freeman looks up some historical data on Captain Kirk while briefing Ensign Boimler.

TAS vs. LDS 2

Someone reviewing one of Mr. Spock’s science logs, perhaps?

TAS vs. LDS 3

On This Day: Aug 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 21 posts previously published on August 13th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • Book thirty-seven of 2016: The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson. 🌟🌟🌟🌟 ➡
    • No shame in ordering delivery when it’s 99° outside. I certainly don’t want to be out there! (226/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Post-dinner dishes. For some reason, Prairie seems to think this is a particularly appealing activity. ;) ➡
  • 2010
  • 2009
    • Links for August 12th through August 13th Sometime between August 12th and August 13th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • I'm a Photographer, Not a Terrorist • Ten Things We Don't Understand About Humans • The 5 Best Films Made by John Hughes • Children's Hospital May Have to Leave Seattle • Meet the Generations • Shorty ➡
  • 2008
    • Links for August 12th through August 13th Sometime between August 12th and August 13th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • His own Olympic trial: 24 hours of viewing • Unsubstantiated but interesting info on what Return of the Jedi might have been • Young Guns: A new brand of gangster grows up in a killing culture • Maperture • The Anchorpoint Essays • Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products” ➡
    • Recommended: Jordan River Moving and Storage In the end, our entire move was done under the estimated time (and therefore under the estimated budget), and we were more than happy to give them a good-sized tip. While we don't expect to be moving anytime soon again, we'll definitely be giving Jordan River a call when the time comes. _Highly_ recommended. ➡
  • 2007
    • Dance Off 2007 About a week and a half ago, six teams of people with dance in their souls -- if not their soles -- gathered together for a battle royale at Dance Off 2007. Truly, such fleetfooted feats (feets?) shall never grace a stage again. Until next year, of course. ;) ➡
  • 2004
    • Hurricane Charlie My mom's parents, Harold and Arlene Ward, live in a nursing home in Fort Meyers, Florida — currently hurricane central. ➡
    • Iran planning to attack US forces The rhetoric coming out of the Bush administration has convinced Iran that military conflict is inevitable and rather than await an attack at a time and place of America's choosing, the Iranians will try to inflict significant damage to U.S. forces on Iraqi soil by means of the Mahdi Army and other Shi'a groups. ➡
  • 2003
    • The spectre of Spinal Tap Gravel Man was our signal that the revolving circular stage we were on was about to turn us briskly to face the audience and, we suspected, hurl our much ridiculed, old before his time guitarist into the front row like a ball off a dodgy roulette wheel. ➡
    • Cattle Call 2004 Having watched this for a while, I started to wonder just how the various candidates have fared over the months. So, with a little browsing through the Daily Kos archives and some tinkering in Excel, I can present a (fairly ugly) little graph of each candidate's potential to grab the Democratic nomination, as ranked by Kos. ➡
    • Tomorrow's news, today! There's a good interview with Tom Tomorrow in Salon today. ➡
  • 1995
    • [From Usenet 8.13.95 2300] Down here in Anchorage, about the best place to find anything is at Mammoth Music. They've got two locations for new cd's/tapes, one musical instrument store, and one used-cd store. ➡
    • [From Usenet: 8.13.95 2300] Pop Will Eat Itself, 'Ich bin ein Auslander,' off of Dos Deidos mi Amigos. Sweet album...lots of good stuff. ➡