On This Day: Mar 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 17 posts previously published on March 3rd

  • 2024
  • 2021
    • Reading in Pandemicland Science fiction, dystopia’s similar but more optimistic counterpart, is also seeing an increase in popularity during the pandemic. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Chucks of the day (58): black and grey cushioned high tops with rear ankle cut-out. #chucks #converse ➡
    • Book twelve of 2018 (and sixth #pkdickaward nominee): Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2014
    • I really hope the forecasts are right, because this sure doesn’t look like we’ll be in the mid-50s in just a day or two. ➡
  • 2013
  • 2009
    • Gearing Up First off, thanks for all the commiseration and kind wishes I've received from everyone, whether it be via e-mail, blog/LiveJournal/Facebook comments, or Twitter. E-support is definitely still support, and it's nice to have so much! ➡
  • 2005
    • That’s it?!? John pointed out The Commonly Confused Words Test, so I gave it a shot. My results: Advanced -- You scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 61% Expert! ➡
    • TechNewsWorld commentary mention Romm pointed out a mention of me in a commentary piece on TechNewsWorld that was published a couple of weeks ago. It's a nice mention, too, as in addition to the standard 'another fired blogger' mention, the author also follows up with my reaction to the incident, and contrasts it to Ellen 'Queen of Sky' Simonetti's Bloggers' Bill of Rights campaign. ➡
    • Another interview I just got done with a lunchtime phone interview with a reporter for the AP. There's no telling where it might show up, but there's at least a chance that my name will start popping up again over the next day or so in the midst of another story about blogging and jobs. ➡
  • 2004
    • Coolio ‘Smokin’ Stix’ (DJ Wüdi Remix) For the past couple days, I've been fiddling around with GarageBand and Amadeus II, first snipping the song into lots of little pieces and attempting to isolate the vocals from the background music, then re-assembling everything with my own choices of drum beats, instruments, and electronic bleeps and bloops. ➡
    • Avi Rubin vs. Diebold Avi Rubin, one of the primary authors of a highly critical look at Diebold's electronic voting machines, decided to answer some of his critics, put his money where his mouth is, and spend a day as an election judge, working with the very machines about which he had expressed strong security concerns. ➡
    • Omoshiroi kedo, kankei ga nai Two Japanese phrases I need to remember (and possibly eventually learn to pronounce...). ➡
    • Training fun I think I can feel my brain dribbling out of my ears. ➡
  • 2003
    • Just Hang Up Hang up when I'm talking to you. Get off your cell phone. In fact, turn off your cell phone. Just turn it off, put it down somewhere out of reach, and pay attention to the conversation that you're already invovled in. ➡
  • 2001
    • DJ’ing tonight! I'm DJ'ing tonight at Studio 99, above Ariel's Hair Salon in the Northway Mall. This is an all-ages dance club -- 16 (?) and up before 1am, 18 and up until 3 am. ➡
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Watched the last three episodes of season three of Enterprise this evening. The show definitely improved over the first two seasons, but went to some pretty dark places. Was not expecting the cliffhanger ending, though! One more season of the only Trek I haven’t watched. 🖖

On This Day: Mar 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 26 posts previously published on March 2nd

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • Watched the last three episodes of season three of Enterprise this evening. The show definitely improved over the first two seasons, but went to some pretty dark places. Was not expecting the cliffhanger ending, though! One more season of the only Trek I haven’t watched. 🖖 ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 2 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 2 ➡
  • 2017
    • Got my Mercury hoodie! ➡
  • 2016
    • Tonight’s workout included 20 pull-ups (in four sets of five, with other exercises, not all together). Still rather pleasantly surprised I can do that (not cleanly, and with much complaining, and oh, the ow…but I did it). (62/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • You can’t prove I’m not naked in this photo. ➡
  • 2013
  • 2009
    • Back to the Breadline I suppose I should take a moment to expand a bit on today's happenings, though there's really not a whole lot more to say than what I tweeted earlier: the company needs to cut back, and as I was a temp employee, I was easily expendable. ➡
  • 2004
    • The movie alphabet quiz This is really, really evil — identify the movies whose logos were used to create this alphabet. ➡
    • I’m 100 percent British! I'm 100% British! Jolly good, wot! Anyone for tennis? That'll be ten ponies, guv. I'm the epitome of everything that is English. Yey :) Hoist that Union Jack! ➡
    • Getting closer! It's still not Seattle, but it's at least closer than San Francisco…the Multnomah County (Portland, Oregon) Clerk's office plans to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples starting tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. at their office located at 501 S.E. Hawthorne. ➡
    • A republican sent this to me… A republican friend sent me some anti-bush political humor… ➡
    • My new motto Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. ➡
    • Literary Macs Two books to add to my future reading list, both sound interesting, and both feature Mac computers in the plot. ➡
    • Toilet tourism Ever wanted to use a public toilet? Usually, they're items to be avoided, not sought out. Seattle looks to be trying to change that, though, with our new high-tech public lavatories… ➡
  • 2003
    • Gun control 2003 Federal authorities believe the list of convicted felons, drug dealers, suspected terrorists, spouse beaters, illegal immigrants and others should only be used to help gun dealers determine if someone is allowed to buy a gun, not police investigating other gun-control violations. ➡
    • Everything's broken Four months ago, workmen started on a two-month project to renovate the apartment building I live in. We're still waiting for them to finish. ➡
    • On battling stereotypes The current March/April issue has a rundown of six top Oscar contenders: Nicole Kidman, Jack Nicholson, Julianne Moore, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Anniston, and Robin Williams. In the article, there were two quotes from Nicholson and Hanks that really stood out to me in the differences between how the two actors confront the stereotypes they've been saddled with — and illustrates why I tend to think more of Nicholson than I do of Hanks. ➡
    • Sleep – from the painting by Salvadore Dali This is a piece I wrote in 11th grade, which would put it at around 1989 or 1990. We were given an assignment to write an essay exploring any painting we chose, and the teacher was kind enough to leave the exact nature of the requested essay very open for interpretation. Salvadore Dali has long been one of my favorite artists, so I chose his painting 'Sleep' to work with. ➡
    • Stonehenge porn? The design of Stonehenge, the 4,800-year-old monument in southwestern England, was based on female sexual anatomy, according to a paper in the current Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. ➡
    • Who gave them the loudspeakers? But if most people in the world are in fact normal, how have I been left with the distinctly opposite impression for most of my life? ➡
  • 2002
    • Hippies on Mars! Scientists estimated that at most, Deadheads account for just a small percentage of the hippies on the Martian surface, but are spread over vast stretches of the landscape, mixed with Phishheads and other sub-classifications of hippie. ➡
  • 2001
    • It’s official! As of 10:30am today, after cleaning all my personal material off of the machines, I turned in my resignation at TimeFrame. I start work at GCI's NOC as a Service Repair Coordinator Monday morning at 9am. ➡
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📚 twelve of 2020: Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee

Really enjoyed this collection. Hopeful themes, and music winds its way through nearly every story in neat ways.

On This Day: Mar 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 26 posts previously published on March 1st

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 304 Somehow, Mariner's sarcastic back-handed Vulcan salute just seems appropriate when wearing my Swear Trek t-shirt. ➡
  • 2021
    • MailTrackerBlocker for Mail on macOS: An email tracker, read receipt and spy pixel blocker plugin for macOS Apple Mail. ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 twelve of 2020: Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee Really enjoyed this collection. Hopeful themes, and music winds its way through nearly every story in neat ways. ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 1 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 1 ➡
  • 2019
    • Still in the very early stages, but in an effort to combat the website ennui I mentioned a few days ago, I’ve started playing with building a new personal site at a URL so clever I wish I’d picked it up years ago: michaelhans.com. Not much there, but a new playground is nice! ➡
    • Nice writeup of the Norwescon Book Club in today’s Seattle Times! 📚 If you’re a SF/F reader local to the Seattle (or general Pacific Northwest) area and haven’t checked out Norwescon yet, you really should! Four days of SF/F panels, book talk, costumes, and fun. Join us! ➡
  • 2016
    • We did get a really nice bright rainbow this evening, at least. ➡
    • Sun showers aren’t nearly as nice when accompanied by cold blustery wind gusts. We do not approve. (61/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Just a nice lazy Saturday afternoon at home. ➡
  • 2006
    • On Coining Euphemisms Just a quick word of advice. When deciding to coin a euphamism, one might want to find out if the phrase in question has already been appropriated for something else. ➡
    • Queen! (But who’s Paul Rodgers?) Queen (plus Paul Rodgers) is going to be performing in Seattle! On the one hand, I'm a _long_ time Queen fan...on the other hand...it's not Freddy. ➡
    • Name Five… 'Quick -- name all the members of the Simpsons.' 'Um...Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie.' 'Now -- what are the five rights given by the first amendment?' '...um. Oh. Heh...that's not good.' ➡
  • 2005
    • Anybody hungry? Every Tuesday night, I have about the same routine. I get home from work a little after 5pm, Prairie and I chat via iChat until about 7pm, and I browse through NetNewsWire while we're chatting. At 7pm, I close down NetNewsWire, order some pizza, and pop in a DVD. ➡
  • 2004
    • My brain hurts Wow...there's nothing quite like a Slashdot discussion of theoretical physics to make me feel _really_ unintelligent. ➡
    • Just feeling a little quiet There's a lot of stuff out there on that in-tar-web thing these days, but I just haven't felt terribly talkative as of late. It's not really writers block as such, more of a general feeling of not having anything to add. It happens every so often. ➡
    • Congratulations Peter (and everyone else)… …on setting a new record for the Oscars by winning every single one of the 11 Oscars that you were nominated for. ➡
  • 2003
    • It came from Outer Faith Though no one's yet written a book on how to convert aliens, some religions do accept the idea of extraterrestrial intelligence. Find out how much you know about the intersection of faith and sci-fi. ➡
    • Welcome to Earth, meet the leaders The world isn't run by a clever cabal. It's run by about 5,000 bickering, sometimes charming, usually arrogant, mostly male people who are accustomed to living in either phenomenal wealth, or great personal power. A few have both. ➡
    • tail -f access_log Too often we get this image of the Web as a vast well-oiled machine, with glossy browser screens in front and masses of gleaming software in back. Watching the access_log is like a window into the side lobby of the legislature, or a tour of the fermentation vats at the brewery.➡
    • Snowflake pictures My parents have often teased me about how long it would take me to walk the three blocks to school when I was a kid, usually assuming that I had to examine every snowflake I saw to see if they were really all different. In normal Alaskan winters, of course, there are a lot of snowflakes. Even in only three blocks. ➡
    • Credibility Gap The Bush Credibility Gap: The Photographic History of the Bush Administration Putting Its Mouth Where Its Money Isn't — it's nice to see something like this coming from the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Mayhaps we're starting to see a hint of Democratic backbone again? ➡
    • Letter of Resignation …until this Administration it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer. ➡
    • Pledge ruling upheld I have to admit, the mental picture of a man like Ashcroft — who's likely to equate Wiccanism with 'Satanism' — trying to cope with the concept of a 'patriotic Witch' makes me laugh. A lot. ➡
    • Yawn! It's 8:30 in the morning, and I'm at work. Ugh. ➡
  • 2001
    • Career changes It looks like tomorrow I'll give notice to TimeFrame that it's my last day, and come Monday I'll start working at GCI! ➡
    • Cam improvements I'm up a bit later than I should be, as I stumbled across some JavaScript code that's allowed me to improve the Wudicam page a bit. So, less unecessary data being thrown across the 'net, and a much faster refresh time on the cam picture. ➡

On This Day: Feb 29

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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.

No posts were previously published on March 1st

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This moment from Deadline’s Picard podcast made me laugh: in a discussion of how the various Trek governments mapped to real-world governments, Jonathan Frakes ends with, “And now we have a Pakled as a President.”