On This Day: Mar 11

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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 29 posts previously published on March 11th

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  • 2020
    • New Mac app Slideas is like Keynote powered by Markdown: Saving for later: A Keynote/PowerPoint-style presentation app powered by Markdown formatted text. Requires macOS Mojave, though, so I can’t run it yet. ➡
    • Die, Heretic! 90% agreement, 10% burn it all down to the ground. ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 11 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 11 ➡
  • 2017
    • Down in Vancouver visiting Prairie’s family, and spent some time playing Calvinball with the niblings (in the garage, due to rain). ➡
  • 2016
    • Sporting my new #CWU LAJ t-shirt today. #CWUpride :) (71/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • 57 degrees and gorgeous blue skies. Feels like spring! ➡
    • A shiny new doodad…er…quick-release keychain to replace the one that died. I’m amused at how much of the chrome plating wore off of the old one over the years. ➡
  • 2010
    • Links for February 24th through March 11th Sometime between February 24th and March 11th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • The FCC Wants You to Test Your Broadband Speeds • Zip Code Boundary Map • Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X • Hummer Brand to Be Wound Down After Sale Fails • Stryde Hax: The Spy at Harriton High ➡
  • 2009
    • LibraryThing Screensaver (for Mac OS X) For those of you that are LT members (and Mac OS X users), they've just released a new toy: the LibraryThing Mac Screensaver. It's actually just a specialized RSS feed that grabs random book covers from your library which you can put into Mac OS X's RSS feed screensaver. ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • Marriage Equality Now Today was the 2nd annual Marriage Equality march and rally in support of marriage rights for _everyone_. Just like last year, I was there, camera in hand. ➡
  • 2005
    • Geek Conflicts After two incredible trailers which were then followed up by two horrid movies, I really should know better than to put any faith in George Lucas anymore. Meanwhile, the _other_ Sci-Fi franchise that heavily influenced my growing years has just announced that sometime in 2007, yet another Star Trek film will land in the theaters. ➡
    • Beautiful! I've decided it's going to be a good day today. I woke up in a good mood, felt more rested than I have fairly often recently, and there was _gorgeous_ golden sunshine coming in through the windows. ➡
  • 2004
    • More camera ramblings I've spent a good portion of the evening bouncing around various camera reviews and specifications, comparing all the various suggestions made in my comments today (many thanks to all of you!). Right now, I'm leaning towards one of two possibilities… ➡
    • Digital camera recommendations? Okay, so it looks like I'm going to be in the market for a new camera as soon as I can afford it (which, knowing me will be sometime in 2007, but that's beside the point). ➡
    • Today sucks The crowning moment so far, though, was getting so engrossed in reading The Stranger's 'Marriage Issue' that when the bus comes, I stand up, get on, and sit down…then realize halfway to work and ten minutes later that I left my bookbag at the bus stop at 2nd and Spring. ➡
    • Elation and Frustration Been somewhat of a roller coaster morning here. ➡
  • 2003
    • Happy Space Alien Day! Oh, the number of times in my life — past, present, and future — when it'd be so nice to capitalize on something that did or did not happen! ➡
    • Now I just need a french kiss! I think tonight's menu will include french fries, french bread, and french dressing — in honor (ahem) of the House of Representatives to serve Freedom fries and Freedom toast instead of French fries and French toast. Bonus points to anyone who knows where I got that particular menu…. ➡
    • Quiet time I'll surface a bit more later on tonight, after I'm home from work, but I wanted to get a quick note of this up — the Seattle Times is starting a weblog tracking the Iraq conflict called Battle Lines. No clue where it'll go, as they're still on their first post, but it might be worth keeping an eye on. ➡
  • 2002
    • Blogsnob I just signed up with BlogSnob to display little text ads. I display links to other people's blogs, and my link gets displayed on other people's blogs. ➡
    • Tempus fugit Not too long ago, as part of my 'Where were you?' post, I talked about how I found out about the events of Sep. 11th. Now it's six months later, and in many ways, I'm still not sure how I feel about the whole thing. I am quite sure, however, that what we've seen happen in the past six months is just the beginning, and that the repurcussions are far from over. ➡
    • Wierd dog food ads You won't see dogfood ads like these in the U.S.! Those crazy Kiwis.... ➡
    • note 2 lamerz note 2 lamerz: serious enquiris only plz ➡
    • Maybe copyright too? While this site and its contents are protected by U.S. Copyright Law, I may want to look into officially registering. ➡
    • ISSN for The Long Letter? I can apply for an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) for my blog, making it a legitimate publication in the eyes of librarians everywhere! Pretty cool, huh? ➡
  • 1995
    • [From Usenet 3.11.95 0416] I've only ever heard one song of theirs. Was called 'Dance or Die' and is on a compilation I picked up in Berlin called the 'German Mystic Sound Sampler' good song...one of my faves on the comp. ➡

On This Day: Mar 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 23 posts previously published on March 10th

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  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Book twenty-three of 2019: Recovery, by J.M. Dillard. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 🖖 ➡
  • 2018
    • Will you get #ALLTHERIBBONS at @norwescon this year? Find me during #nwc41 and show me your collection! ➡
    • Final ConCom before @norwescon 41! ➡
  • 2016
    • Dessert time! Who wants jello? (70/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Why, look – we’re home from work, and there’s light in the sky! Of course, there was light in the sky when we got home from work last week, too. And last week, there was light when we left for work in the morning, but now mornings are dark and dreary again. I’m not seeing ... Read more ➡
  • 2013
  • 2011
    • Flare A fun new piece of photo editing/post-processing software was just released yesterday evening. All in all, I'm really impressed with Flare, and had a lot of fun playing with it and exploring different filters and combinations of effects. ➡
  • 2009
    • Watchmen Credits While Watchmen didn't end up as my favorite movie ever, I do want to join a number of people in recognizing the excellence of the opening credit sequence. In fact, this was probably my favorite part of the movie itself. ➡
    • Vanilla Ice: “I’m Sorry” I'm not entirely convinced this is a heartfelt apology, given that it comes from an (admittedly, amusing) Virgin Mobile promo site called 'Right Music Wrongs', but it _is_ about damn time! ➡
    • 30 Years of CDs I didn't even have a CD player at this point, but this was a _limited edition_! Who knew how long it would be on the market, or whether we'd _ever_ be able to get it in the frozen wastelands of Alaska! As a Queen fan, I had to have it, and I plunked my money down. ➡
    • Mixed Messages So...would this be an irony FAIL or irony WIN? 16 arrested in fight at nonviolence concert. ➡
  • 2008
    • Sick Boy Generally speaking, I don't get sick very often. The occasional sniffles or light cold, but not much more than that. I made up for it this weekend, though, when I managed to come down with some nasty 48-hour-ish flu bug. ➡
  • 2006
    • schrodingerscat I was just looking over the list of tags used on my site in the past month as displayed on my archives page, when one tag in particular suddenly gave me the giggles. A simple mis-parsing, and I ended up with two competing definitions for the same tag. ➡
  • 2005
    • Going to? As in, future tense? 'Search Engine Optimizers have discovered blogs, specifically blogspot. We're going to have to develop some systems for dealing with this.' No kidding? And what's with the future tense? ➡
    • Another convert And another man escapes from the tyranny of trousers. ➡
  • 2004
    • Congratulations Lane, Tina…and Maxwell! Many congratulations to Lane and Tina on the birth of the 'Wee Tomato' — Maxwell James! Many long years of happiness to all three of you (four, if you count the dog). :) ➡
    • Sounds like it’s closed I passed a TV news crew either filming a report for later or broadcasting live, and overheard the reporter say that Jensonia residents were only being let in the building to retrieve personal belongings, and that the Red Cross is going to be assisting them find places to live. Sounds like the Jensonia finally got shut down. ➡
    • Random presents I got a nice surprise in the mail today: Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light, by Patrick McGilligan, from someone (a reader, I'm guessing?) in Italy. ➡
    • More trouble at the Jensonia And with those thoughts to wake me up at 7:45am today, I found out that the Jensonia hotel, right next door to my apartment building just off of 8th and Seneca, was on fire. Again. ➡
    • Fire Major fire next door, close to the intersection of 8th and Seneca, right now. More soon. ➡
  • 2001
    • DJ Wudi @ Studio 99 tonight Tonight's the Spring Break Party co-hosted by 92.9 KFAT, AL Productions, and the new Studio 99, featuring DJ Wudi (me) and DJ Manaiacal, with KFAT's Kim Keane broadcasting live on the air! ➡
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📚 thirteen of 2020: Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O’Keefe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee

Good grand scope space opera, with neat questions on consciousness and the psychology of AI as used in ships of war. Figured out many of the reveals quickly, but still quite good.

On This Day: Mar 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 22 posts previously published on March 9th

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  • 2022
  • 2020
    • 📚 thirteen of 2020: Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O’Keefe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee Good grand scope space opera, with neat questions on consciousness and the psychology of AI as used in ships of war. Figured out many of the reveals quickly, but still quite good. ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 9 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 9 ➡
  • 2016
    • Just two weeks to vacation! (69/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Brunch at Dave’s after a lazy morning lounging around the hotel. ➡
  • 2009
    • Watching the Watchmen Since I can only spend so many hours a day tossing resumes out across the 'net before I start to go buggy, I decided to take a few hours out of the day and head out to catch the matinee of Watchmen. I got home a bit ago, and I'm going to see what I can do as far as getting my thoughts down. Perhaps a little jumbled, but so it goes. ➡
  • 2005
    • Boom! Wow. I so want to be able to actually _see_ this happen someday. Not from too close, you understand...but from a nice safe distance. Just incredible. ➡
    • Mashups Lately I've been getting more and more into Mashups -- songs created by taking two or more different songs and 'mashing' them together into one. While some aren't much more complex than the simple beatmatching I did while I was dj'ing, others I've found are jaw-droppingly cool, with layers of multiple tracks that really shouldn't work together as well as they do. ➡
  • 2004
    • Insignificant Microbe Jacqueline pointed out The Truth Laid Bear's Weblog Ecosystem, which ranks weblogs by how many links point to them. Similar to Technorati, really, as far as I can tell. Not that that's a bad thing, of course…just something I noticed. ➡
    • Beating Internet Explorer into the 21st Century I can hardly wait until this is finished enough for the 'download' link to be active: IE7, a hack to force IE into behaving like a modern browser. ➡
    • Even startup pranks are harder in Windows Once that was done, every time they started up their computer, as the system went through the Startup Items, it'd find that program, and shut right down again. Simple, and wonderfully annoying. ➡
    • Hanscom Family Gallery RSS feed For those of you (if there are any, of course) that use an RSS newsreader and occasionally check into the Hanscom Family Photo Gallery, there is now an RSS feed available to notify you of updates, courtesy of the Gallery RSS Generator. ➡
    • Romeo! Hey, doll! Where you at? This makes me cringe just thinking about it…Shakespeare re-written in modern prose, as kids can't seem to comprehend it as it was originally written. ➡
    • Tori Amos: Tales of a Librarian Tori Amos has a new 'greatest hits' collection available at the iTunes Music Store called 'A Tori Amos Collection — Tales of a Librarian'. Normally, this wouldn't be terribly interesting to me, as I already have a very large Tori collection, and therefore wouldn't have much need for a compilation album. However, this one caught my eye for two reasons. ➡
  • 2003
    • An honorary offer I once knew a woman who offered her honor, so I honored her offer and all night long I was on her and off her. ➡
    • Panda It's a link. Click on it. ➡
  • 2002
    • Plans always change Well, I was going to go see Daniel Ash at the Crocodile tonight, but unfortunately, due to a car crash, that's been postponed for a month and a half. Bummer. ➡
    • More archive tweaks Hopefully this will make digging through my archives a bit easier (in case there's anyone here quite crazy enough to bother). ➡
    • The Times regrets both incidents In yesterday's issue, The New York Times did not report on riots in Milan and the subsequent murder of the lay religious reformer Erlembald. These events took place in 1075, the year given in the dateline under the nameplate on Page 1. ➡
    • Boring sex? Is your sex life too boring? ➡

Modern Political Sexism

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From Elizabeth Warren, 2020, and the Sexism Next Door – The Atlantic

“Electability” claims to be a benign and objective concern. It is neither. It merely outsources biases, rationalizing them by appealing to the moral failings of imagined others. It talks about neighbors, and “other people,” and “what the country is ready for.” It throws up its hands and washes them at the same time. And it suggests an especially insidious strain of sexism. The sexism of the political past has often been blunt and unashamed in its expression (“Lock! Her! Up!”/ “Iron! My! Shirt!” / “She-devil”). The sexism of the political present, however, is slightly different: It knows better, even if it fails to be better. It is a little bit cannier. It has lawyered up. It is figuring out, day by day, how to maintain plausible deniability.

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Wishing a good #InternationalWomensDay to all women: family, friends, acquaintances, and those not known to me; cis, trans, or enby, however you present, openly or closeted; whatever your history and however you choose to live your life. May you be healthy, safe, and valued.

On This Day: Mar 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 28 posts previously published on March 8th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 311 Making a few adjustments to some floor placements so that they can be used. ➡
  • 2021
  • 2020
    • Modern Political Sexism From Elizabeth Warren, 2020, and the Sexism Next Door – The Atlantic “Electability” claims to be a benign and objective concern. It is neither. It merely outsources biases, rationalizing them by appealing to the moral failings of imagined others. It talks about neighbors, and “other people,” and “what the country is ready for.” It throws ... Read more ➡
    • Don’t Panic: The comprehensive Ars Technica guide to the coronavirus: “You should be concerned and take this seriously. But you should not panic. This is the mantra public health experts have adopted since the epidemic mushroomed in January—and it’s about as comforting as it is easy to accomplish. But it’s important that we all try.” ➡
    • Wishing a good #InternationalWomensDay to all women: family, friends, acquaintances, and those not known to me; cis, trans, or enby, however you present, openly or closeted; whatever your history and however you choose to live your life. May you be healthy, safe, and valued. ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 8 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 8 ➡
  • 2019
    • Fond wishes on International Women’s Day to all the marvelous women in my life. Whether related by blood or by choice, whether near or far, whether AFAB or not, whether you feel like a woman every day or only some, and however you express yourself. I’m glad we know each other. ➡
  • 2017
    • Wearing red in support of #internationalwomensday, the #daywithoutawoman, all women who are not working today, and all women who for whatever reason are not able to not work today. ➡
  • 2016
    • Thanks to some dead bulbs, the bathroom at work has amusingly over-dramatic lighting. (Taken earlier today.) (68/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Prairie found bunches of socks for me today, including Superman and Batman socks! ➡
    • Waiting for the breakout sessions to end and the main #nwc37 meeting to get going again. ➡
  • 2011
    • New Design Initially I was just hoping to find a decent temporary placeholder theme until I had time to really dive into a full redesign, but as it turned out, I think I'm happy enough with this to simply declare it my new look (until I get bored again). ➡
  • 2007
    • Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 (Said in your best Crocodile Dundee voice) 'You call that a zoom lens? Now, _that's_ a zoom lens!' ➡
    • International Women’s Day International Women's Day has been observed since in the early 1900's, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. ➡
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Seattle recognizes gay marriages! Okay, so we're not performing the ceremonies yet, but it's a start. Mayor Greg Nickles issued an executive order today declaring that the City of Seattle will recognize gay marriages. ➡
    • The Pig War of San Juan Island How the death of a pig on San Juan Island nearly drove America and Britain to war in 1859. ➡
  • 2002
    • True patriots True patriots do not blindly accept all that comes from Washington D.C., Juneau, etc., regardless (nor, for that matter, rejects regardless). True patriots work toward the mending of flaws, putting self-control on our government, and making sure our laws are ones of liberty. ➡
    • Seattle snow Right now there's pictures on the morning news of the West Seattle bridge backed up after two Metro buses jackknifed, and people have been abandoning their cars along the sides of the highways and walking. ➡
    • ‘net radio in jeopardy A Call to Arson: more good information on the attempted shutdown of 'net radio. ➡
    • New iMac ad I about died when it stuck its 'tongue' out! ➡
    • Rubberband gatling gun! Rubberband Gatling Gun? COOL! I want one! ➡
    • Da plane! Da plane! Following up on one of yesterday's bits: after people started pointing out that there didn't seem to be an airplane in the released shots of the Pentagon 9/11 attack, some new photos have been released. ➡
  • 2001
    • The Scotsman Well a Scotsman clad in kilt left a bar one evening fair... ➡
    • It is way too early Amazing the differences that can appear when you've got a job that you actually enjoy, huh? ➡

On This Day: Mar 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 33 posts previously published on March 7th

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  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • 🖖 #StarTrekDiscovery S02E08: For all I think DSC needs to do its own thing, a TOS-heavy episode was one of the best so far. Enjoyed the Cage recap, esp. the cut from TOS Pike to DSC Pike. Happily impressed by Peck’s Spock; he has the gravitas and delivery down. Good episode. ➡
    • Milestone: As of today, I’m 10.96% of my way through my Hugo Best Novel reading project. 📚 ➡
    • In today’s offering of “weirdly cute”: a snail playing with a carrot. At least, that’s sure what it looks like is going on, at the risk of being too quick to anthropomorphize snail behavior. ➡
    • Book twenty-two of 2019: Farmer in the Sky, by Robert Heinlein. ⭐️⭐️ 1951 Retro Hugo Best Novel 📚 A Boy Scout moves to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede to homestead and start a farm from scratch. Mildly interesting for the early ideas around terraforming and colonization. Meh. ➡
  • 2017
    • This was just the walk from office to car. I do not approve. ➡
  • 2016
    • Made it halfway through tonight’s workout and my toes cramped up. Painful and makes push-ups (which already suck) basically impossible. Guess I’ll try again tomorrow. (67/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Proof that I do occasionally get to be social! ➡
  • 2011
    • Back (Sorta) While I don't really think that very many people noticed, something went all pear-shaped over the weekend and this blog disappeared for a few days. Thanks to some assistance from Dreamhost support, I'm back up and running...mostly. ➡
  • 2008
    • 50 Gayest Songs of All Time I figured I'd run down the list and figure out just how many of these camp classics have made it into my music collection over the years. So, under the cut -- does my music collection make the grade? How's my collection of gay anthems? ➡
  • 2006
  • 2005
    • Hitchcock A few weeks ago, Prairie and I watched Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, and tonight I watched North by Northwest. Man I'm bummed I didn't discover Hitchcock earlier. ➡
  • 2004
    • San Juan Island: ducks and pigs The weekend was quite pleasant, though it ended up being a bit more adventurous and taking longer than we expected. I'll get to the details of the 'pig incident' in my next post. ;) Gotta keep y'all coming back somehow, after all! ➡
  • 2002
    • A.I. (Absolutely Incredible) Lots of good discussion about the movie AI is going on over at the Home Theater Forum, and I got lost in it for a few hours. ➡
    • Ashcroft sings? Why Attorney General John Ashcroft just might be insane. ➡
    • Googlewhack I think GoogleWhack could entertain me for hours. ➡
    • Where’s the plane? If a 737 slammed into the Pentagon, shouldn't we have seen more debris? Or just another crackpot conspiracy theory? ➡
    • Under God? Certainly, faith in God has often been linked to patriotism in the US through the pledge of allegiance. But God is, in fact, a relative newcomer to the pledge and was only included in it because of a right-wing religious lobby's efforts during the McCarthyite era. ➡
    • Terror Widows Another political cartoon is causing an uproar -- there's an excellent editorial examining the cartoon in question and the motivations behind it. ➡
    • A prayer for America A Prayer for America, by US Rep Dennis Kucinich. ➡
    • War riddles Apparently the US Military isn't too hot and bothered to find Osama. I'd be surprised if I weren't so damn cynical. ➡
    • What’s a ‘blog’? Dad's asked me in the past what a weblog is. Rebecca does a much better job explaining it than I ever could. ➡
    • Scientology vs. Google Scientologists are trying to manipulate Google results in their favor. The blogosphere fights back. ➡
    • Googlebombing bad? An interesting commentary on the flipside to Googlebombing. ➡
  • 2001
    • Gimme some sugar, baby! My single DVD purchase for the day -- The Evil Dead II! ➡
    • DJ alert I've been confirmed to be DJ'ing this Sat. night at the new Studio 99, in the Northway Mall above Ariel's Hair Salon. ➡

Soap: The Final Frontier

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CDC reccommends washing your hands for 20 seconds. You know what takes roughly 20 seconds to say?

“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.”

You’re not required to hum the theme afterwards, but who’s gonna stop you, honestly.

— Monica Marier on Facebook