On This Day: Feb 27

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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 February 27th

  • 2024
  • 2020
    • Star Trek: Picard S01E06: Much better than last week. Borg cube action that isn’t just squicky siblings, Soji hits a point of no return, and Picard comes face to face with parts of his past, good and bad. But who gave the Romulans a Lament Configuration? ;) ➡
    • Was the Democratic Nomination Rigged? A Reexamination of the Clinton-Sanders Presidential Race by Anthony J. Gaughan: “This article makes three central points. First, it contends that the overwhelming weight of evidence makes clear the 2016 Democratic nomination process was not rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton. Second, this article argues that the Democratic Party rules ... Read more ➡
    • On Bernie Bros Perfect, superhuman leaders do not exist in life. ➡
    • Running A Con, Conference Or Festival In The Age Of A Burgeoning Pandemic!: “Get ahead of this now. Do not make us e-mail you to ask you what’s up. This isn’t about causing panic — it’s about undercutting it. It’s about reassuring us that you have this in your mind, with plans forming.” ➡
    • Coronavirus: Don’t Panic! Liberally adapted from a Washington Post article, a list of best practices for dealing with the coronavirus. ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 27 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 27 ➡
  • 2019
  • 2018
    • So this bust of Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman is something I brought home from Alaska after Dad died. He had it on his desk for years, and now I have it near mine. I got curious (after watching a little Antiques Roadshow) and did some Googling to see what I could find out about ... Read more ➡
  • 2016
    • I’m sportsing! With the sports and the running and the I have no idea what’s going on! We’re out cheering on one of Prairie’s students at today’s #CWU vs. #OSU rugby match. Go Wildcats! Sports that ball! Woo! #CWUpride (58/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Live long and prosper. _\// ➡
  • 2014
    • I guess I can jump on the #throwbackthursday bandwagon too! Here’s me at around two, looking at a Playboy centerfold with my mom. One of my favorite childhood pictures. :) ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for February 25th through February 27th Sometime between February 25th and February 27th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • The Whedonite's Dilemma • New Frontiers Sweepstakes • Young 'Slumdog' Stars Back in Mumbai Slums • Yoda Is a Muppet • Mermaid Dream Comes True Thanks to Weta ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • BSG on the iTMS followup Just a quick followup to my post comparing Battlestar Galactica downloads via Bittorrent and via the iTMS: according to MacRumors, recent BSG episodes are appearing in an uncropped widescreen ratio. ➡
  • 2005
    • Battlestar Galactica Season 1…done! Up until this week, I never got the whole thing with people downloading and watching shows on their computer. I've got such a low opinion of the majority of TV shows that I just couldn't see spending the time and resources on such a project. Then I got bit by the Battlestar bug. ➡
    • Halle Berry wins Razzie…and respect Halle Berry staged an Oscar-worthy parody of her Academy Awards meltdown at last night's 25th annual Razzie awards in Los Angeles. Breaking with tradition, the Catwoman star showed up in person to collect her award as the worst actress of 2004. ➡
    • Just stop talking Many years ago, I went to a summer camp in which one of the activities was horseback riding. This ended up being a less-than-successful experience for me, though, as as soon as I got up in the saddle the horse reared up, dumping me rather unceremoniously on the ground as I slid off the saddle and over the horse's rear end. ➡
    • MT-Blogroll I've just updated and revised my blogroll over to the right. Instead of relying on an external service to manage my blogroll, I'm now using a new plugin from Arvind Satyanarayan called MT-Blogroll that implements blogroll management directly into the MT interface. ➡
  • 2004
    • Nickels, Sims: Quit yappin’ and start doin’! When I wrote out the list of cities supporting equal marriage rights, it was a little disappointing to not have Seattle in that list, too. Living in the area of Seattle I do, it always seemed to me that Seattle would be a natural for supporting this kind of movement. ➡
  • 2003
    • Dive! Dive! Dive! NASA has had its day. It's given us technological marvels from cell phones to SETI screensavers. But we're not mining the moon. We're not terraforming Mars. And we're certainly not finding any aliens. ➡
  • 2002
    • Enterprise: Fusion Finally...after 16 episodes of interesting but non-typical behavior (as far as we know) from the Vulcans shown on Enterprise, we finally get a show exploring a bit more about Vulcan culture...albeit in an unusual fashion. ➡
    • No more splash page I just nuked the splash page for my site, so now this page should be the first thing you see. I'd been tossing it over in my head for a while, as it really didn't serve a purpose other than making it just a little harder to get to the actual content of my site. ➡
    • Cross-platform 3.0 Just wanted to let you know that you should revise your opinion about OmniWeb. The latest sneaky peek versions have much improved CSS support. The attached screenshot shows your page using the latest sneaky peek version 49 released today. While it's not perfect, you'll surely agree that it's a huge step forward. ➡
    • Enterprise parody season THE TROUBLE WITH TROUSERS: The Enterprise discovers the planet of the Geramines, descendants of radical feminists who fled Earth after the Phallus Wars. As the inhabitants will only speak to women, T'Pol beams down to make First Contact. Disaster ensues when the Geramines take offence to her trousers, a symbol of male patriarchy. ➡

RIP Clive Cussler

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Clive Cussler is dead at 88.

His books weren’t exactly great…

Often compared to the thrillers churned out by Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum and Ian Fleming, the Cussler novels featured formulaic plots, one- or two-word titles (“Cyclops,” “Dragon,” “Inca Gold,” “Poseidon’s Arrow”) and frequently a recurring hero, Dirk Pitt, an undersea explorer who cheats death and saves the world as he foils the diabolical plots of megalomaniac villains, while satisfying his taste for exotic cars and lusty women.

Mr. Cussler was hardly a stylist. Critics called his characters wooden, his dialogue leaden and his prose clichéd (“the cold touch of fear,” “a narrow brush with death”), while praising his descriptions of marine hardware, underwater struggles and salvage operations.

…but I’ll admit, they can be fun (when you’re in the mood for that sort of thing), and I’ve read quite a few of them. And whatever you think of his books, the work he did in the real world is pretty impressive.

He first created the National Underwater and Marine Agency as a fictional government organization that employed his hero in the Dirk Pitt books. Then, in 1979, he founded an actual National Underwater and Marine Agency as a private nonprofit group committed to “preserving maritime heritage through the discovery, archaeological survey and conservation of shipwreck artifacts.” It underwrote his maritime ventures.

With Mr. Cussler leading expeditions and joining dives, the organization eventually located some 60 wrecks. Among them were the Cunard steamship Carpathia, first to reach survivors of the lost Titanic on April 15, 1912, then itself sunk by German torpedoes off Ireland in 1918; Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt’s coastal steamer Lexington, which caught fire and went down in Long Island Sound in 1840; and Manassas, the Confederacy’s first Civil War ironclad, sunk in battle in the Lower Mississippi in 1862.

Maybe I’ll toss Sahara on tonight.

On This Day: Feb 26

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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 February 26th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 300 I had to go out and stand in the snail. ➡
    • These Are Facts 'I want to present a list of items which are very well documented facts, but would’ve been absolutely, patently insane 10 years ago.' ➡
  • 2020
    • RIP Clive Cussler His books weren't exactly great, but I'll admit, they can be fun. And whatever you think of his books, the work he did in the real world is pretty impressive. ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 26 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 26 ➡
  • 2019
    • Unsolicited Mac app recommendation: I don’t have to use the command line very often, but when I do, I really enjoy using Cathode, a vintage terminal emulator. Scan lines! Green/amber (or whatever) screens! Curved CRTs! Fading scroll artifacts! It’s ridiculous and a lot of fun. ➡
    • I’ve been thinking about moving away from WordPress for a while now, and I think I may have found my replacement backend: Grav. I’ve got a base install running. Next: play with settings and design, look for WordPress importers, external editor/microblog support options, etc. ➡
    • Book twenty of 2019: Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1946 Retro Hugo Best Novel (for The Mule, part two of this book) 📚 Very much enjoying finally reading these (and surprised that it seems I never had, or had done so so long ago that I’d forgotten). ➡
  • 2018
    • Linkdump for February 26th from 08:00 to 08:06 An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between 08:00 and 08:06 on February 26th. • The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery • Gun Rights, ‘Positive Good’ and the Evolution of Mutually Assured Massacre • The AR-15 Is Different: What I Learned Treating Parkland Victims • Inside The Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns • Why the Second Amendment does not stymie gun control • Slavery, the Second Amendment, and the Origins of Public-Carry Jurisprudence ➡
    • Linkdump for January 17th through February 26th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between January 17th and February 26th. • 4 Laws That Could Stem the Rising Threat of Mass Shootings • How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment • A Gun Ban Is Inevitable. Not just high-capacity assault rifles. ALL the guns. • One Teacher’s Brilliant Strategy to Stop Future School Shootings • How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment • The Problem with Panic ➡
  • 2016
    • 57° at the end of the workday. I was comfortable without my coat! :) (57/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • A somewhat better view of my one (so far) tattoo than in last night’s shot. Got this a few years before I left Alaska, so…oh, at least 15 years ago now. Someday I’ll get another – I know what and where, I just haven’t done it yet. ➡
  • 2009
    • On the Neverending Story Yes, there's a chance that they're taking a film that's loved by many who were kids when it came out and 'updating' it to be bigger, louder, and _stupider_. However, if we're lucky, this could turn out to be one of those cases where they just might improve on the original. ➡
  • 2005
    • …ask what you can do for your country. One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed.  He awakens to see George Washington standing by him.  Bush asks him, 'George, what's the best thing I can do to help the country?' ➡
    • My Movable Type tweaks I got an e-mail from a friend who's in the process of switching over to Movable Type, and he asked if I had any recommendations for plugins or tweaks to the core system. Here's a look at what I'm currently using. ➡
    • C-List Blogging According to Dave Pollard's breakdown, I'm a 'C-List Blogger'. ➡
    • Theatre Plans The Seattle Times has announced the 5th Ave. Theatre's 2005-2006 season. Lots of good stuff coming up, including The King and I, but the one that's really catching my eye is Sweeny Todd. ➡
  • 2004
    • Violence is ( bad | good ) ! Group One blames violence in video games and movies for the behavior of today's youth. Group Two buys out entire theaters for church groups, youth groups and families to see Mel Gibson's 'The Passion'. Any bets on just how separate those two groups really are? ➡
    • An insider’s view of MS Word 6.0 Microsoft Word for the Mac versions 4 and 5 were my introductions to Word, and in the opinion of myself and many other people, were the pinnacle of Microsoft's Mac programming. Then came Word 6. ➡
  • 2003
    • By the infinite dick of God I first found this on the 'net ages ago, and used to have a copy somewhere on my hard drive. I'd forgotten about it for a long time, then the phrase "by the infinite dick of God" popped into my head tonight, and I decided to search this out and... ➡
    • We'll bomb who we want! The Propaganda Remix Project has a book of posters being released in March, complete with forward by Kurt Vonnegut, introduction by Howard Zinn, and commentary by the Center for Constitutional Rights. Looks worth picking up — my copy is on order. ➡
    • New WTC plan chosen Well, it looks like the winning plan for the replacement complex for the WTC has been revealed. While it's not the one I favored, maybe it'll translate better into the real world than the pictures of it I've seen so far. ➡
    • This isn't helping A few days ago, Robert Scoble asked what we think Microsoft should do in the future, both with technology and to improve their public persona. I haven't done much for coming up with a list of what they should do, but here's a hint to Micosoft: this is something you really shouldn't do. ➡
    • Caring for your Introvert The worst of it is that extroverts have no idea of the torment they put us through. Sometimes, as we gasp for air amid the fog of their 98-percent-content-free talk, we wonder if extroverts even bother to listen to themselves. We can only dream that someday…it will not be impolite to say "I'm an introvert. You are a wonderful person and I like you. But now please shush." ➡
  • 2002
  • 1995
    • [From Usenet: 2.26.95 0238] Somewhere around a year or more ago, there was an ftp site that had a remix of 'last' by Butch Vig that had been nixed from the 'fixed' ep. As far as I've been able to tell, it's not available anywhere else, and has never been released. ➡

We know what. But what about how?

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End the filibuster, flip the Senate: the debate Democrats almost had

We’re deep into the primary now. There have been 10 Democratic debates (12 if you count the debates broken into two nights), and even more forums, town halls, and so on. We know, at this point, what the candidates want to do. It’s time for debate moderators to start pressing them, in a serious and sustained way, on how they’ll do it.

On This Day: Feb 25

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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 37 posts previously published on February 25th

  • 2024
  • 2023
    • Induction Ranges are Magic Cooking with an induction range is really neat, and IKEA gave us really good service. ➡
    • 📚 Ymir by Rich Larson No review, as this book is a Philip K. Dick Award nominee, and I am the coordinator for the award ceremony at Norwescon. While I have no input into the selection of nominees or judging, I want to be sure to avoid any appearance of influence. ➡
  • 2021
    • TT2020: TT2020 is an advanced, open source, hyperrealistic, multilingual typewriter font for a new decade! ➡
  • 2020
    • We know what. But what about how? End the filibuster, flip the Senate: the debate Democrats almost had We’re deep into the primary now. There have been 10 Democratic debates (12 if you count the debates broken into two nights), and even more forums, town halls, and so on. We know, at this point, what the candidates want to do. It’s time ... Read more ➡
    • You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus: Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain.: “Certain containment measures will be appropriate, but widely banning travel, closing down cities, and hoarding resources are not realistic solutions for an outbreak that lasts years.” ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 25 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 25 ➡
    • How to win Monopoly in the shortest possible time: “Refuse to let bank fail. Rushing one million Monopoly dollars to you by airmail – carry on.” ➡
  • 2018
    • Time for the next film in our Hitchcock collection. As with many of these (all of them so far, actually), my first time seeing this one. ➡
    • Book eleven of 2018 (and fifth #pkdickaward nominee): The Wrong Stars, by Tim Pratt. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2017
    • Prairie decided to bring out two settings worth of the antique Noritake china she inherited from her grandparents. It’s actually the first time I’ve seen it; it’s a really pretty set. ➡
    • This makes me laugh every time I see it. Some of you will do the same, others may not understand. But it’s funny to me. ➡
  • 2016
    • Good: One month from today, I’ll be geeking out at #nwc39 with many geeky friends. Bad: The rest of today. At least tomorrow’s Friday. (56/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Done…and got the t-shirt to prove it! ➡
    • All hooked up. Just hope they remember to unhook me in time. ;) “Always give 100%…unless you’re donating blood.” ➡
    • Waiting to give blood. The chairs look…somewhat intimidating. At least there aren’t any straps. :) ➡
  • 2014
    • End of the day, time to get ready for bed. ➡
  • 2009
    • Pixar and Gender Long-time readers will recognize this particular soapbox, but it's good to know I'm not the only one standing on it: Pixar's gender problem. ➡
    • Links for February 24th through February 25th Sometime between February 24th and February 25th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • 'Trek' Cast to Reunite on 'Family Guy' • "Dear President Obama": The President Reads 10 Letters a Day From the Public, With Policy Ramifications • FIRST PHOTOS: Weird Fish With Transparent Head • EMI Music Debuts First iTunes Pass With Depeche Mode • doubleTwist ➡
    • Nacelles Monthly J.J. Abrams: 'The key is to appreciate that there are purists and fans of 'Star Trek' who are going to be very vocal if they see things that aren’t what what they want. But I can’t make this movie for readers of Nacelles Monthly...' ➡
  • 2005
    • Flickr being bought by…everybody? For the past few days, rumors have been flying around that Yahoo is buying Flickr. Whatever the truth of the matter, never let it be said that Flickr isn't handling the rumors with good grace and a sense of humor. ➡
    • Critical Mass While I don't currently own a bike, so I couldn't join in the ride, I did wander down to Westlake Plaza today to catch the gathering of riders for this month's Critical Mass ride. ➡
    • Brad! Janet! Professor Snape! This week, at Frank N. Furter's School of Wizardry and Witchcraft... ➡
    • Etch-A-Sketch Tech Support Thank you for calling Etch-A-Sketch Support! ➡
  • 2004
    • The Passion The more I read about Mel Gibson's 'The Passion', the less interested I am in seeing two hours of one man being brutally tortured to death. ➡
    • Irony, copyright, and site design First, read what this gentleman has to say about the appropriation of content from other weblogs…then, head on over and check out his site design ➡
    • I’ve got a fan! Last week, almost a year since he left his original comment, Deakster came back. I now have 75 bogus trackback pings from Deakster — why, I do believe I'm being harassed, ladies and gentlemen. ➡
    • Biosphere There's an interesting article from the Philadelphia Inquirer looking at the early-90's Biosphere experiment. I remember being fascinated by this at the time it was going on. Apparently the experiment did last the full two years planned, though not without problems. ➡
    • Grey Tuesday followup Downhill Battle has posted a followup to yesterday's 'Grey Tuesday' event. ➡
  • 2002
    • BtSOD (Blue t-Shirt of Death) Once I know I've got the funds settled for both the move and my June trip to Alaska for James and Stacy's wedding, I'm getting at least one of these. Probably one of the BSOD-t's and the Mac Bomb-t. ➡
    • Copy-proof CD’s not so copy-proof? I found a thread on the HTF today (which has since been deleted) -- apparently the new 'copy proof' CD's can be copied with some old software. The copies may actually be better than the original CD's, too! ➡
    • I knew it wouldn’t all be good news Because I'll be starting the connection process over, my website could be down for as much as close to 2 months. Speakeasy asks to allow up to two weeks for the connection to take place (from placing the order to the signal coming up and online), and they can't start the process until after you've had a working phone at the address for a month. ➡
    • Hedwig – first impressions I just got done watching Hedwig and the Angry Inch and...well...to be honest, I'm not really sure right off the bat just what I thought of this film. I'm going to let it percolate in my brain for a bit -- I've got to get to bed right now and post more thoughts on it later. ➡
  • 2001
    • Free DVDs Every year during the holiday season the Suncoast company has a sales competition for its member stores, and this year our store won -- from what I'm told, not a rare thing. ➡
    • Back from UAA, possibly on the radio This Tuesday, I'll be spinning on 88.1 FM KRUA sometime between 7pm and 10pm! Should be fun…looking forward to trying my hand at a radio gig. And, as an added bonus, if anyone feels like it, you can listen in over the web (as long as you have Real Player G2 installed) through KRUA's website! ➡

On This Day: Feb 24

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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 31 posts previously published on February 24th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 298 Prepping my music library for DJing the Thursday night dance at Norwescon. ➡
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • 📚 10/2021: Road Out of Winter by Alison Stine ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee 3/6 Another apocalyptic trudge through wastelands (Appalachia during the long winter of an ecological collapse), finding other travelers, & trying to avoid predatory groups. Well written; not my thing. ➡
    • New glasses! Similar to the old pair, just half frames instead of frameless. They’ll do just fine. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • I don’t think I’ve seen any of Billy Porter’s work, don’t really know who he is, but that is one hell of an outfit, and I really like what he has to say about it. ➡
    • Book nineteen of 2019: Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 Though I’m a big fan of Asimov’s short fiction, I don’t think I’d actually read this series, and I’m happy to see that (for the most part) Asimov’s writing doesn’t suffer as much as other works from this era do. ➡
  • 2018
    • Out to enjoy a chilly, drizzly, Seattle winter day at the zoo! ➡
  • 2016
    • Really liking these sunny and 50° afternoons. Spring’s closer! (55/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Without women, the story doesn’t even begin But what the story really says, this story men made up to hold women down, is that women have the power to change the world. Women have the power to throw the world into chaos and they do it because the world as it is isn’t good enough. ➡
    • Yesterday’s calendar page. This is about the only sports poll I could have an opinion on. ➡
  • 2014
    • Playing with filters; I think I made an album cover. ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for February 23rd through February 24th Sometime between February 23rd and February 24th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Safari 4 Hidden Preferences • And the Circle Is Complete • UserFriendly comic plagiarized multiple punchlines from Metafilter comments • Last.fm – the Blog · "Techcrunch Are Full of Shit" • Roger Ebert: The Oscars are Outsourced ➡
  • 2007
    • It’s Academic, Really… The sea squirt has a very simple brain which is used only to find a suitable spot to root itself for life. Once it's settled into a spot, it no longer needs the brain, so it eats it. This has been compared by at least one Researcher to a professor receiving tenure at a university. ➡
  • 2006
    • Schrodinger’s Mac This is the kind of geeky science stuff that I love: quantum computers that give results when they're turned off. ➡
    • Quote of the Day 15,000 atheists in London rioted after a blank sheet of paper was found on a cartoonist's desk. ➡
  • 2005
    • You Ashcroft! Well, it turns out that some airline passengers watching the Oscar-nominated film 'Sideways' on foreign flights are, in fact, hearing 'Ashcroft' as a substitute for a certain seven-letter epithet commonly used to denote a human orifice. ➡
    • Yeah, I’m clueless about these things… Now, in theory, it's supposed to be possible for me to go out onto the 'net somewhere to find digitized copies of tv shows that I could download and then watch on my computer. How in the world would I go about this? ➡
    • Battlestar Galactica Episode 1 This is incredibly cool: The Sci-Fi Channel has posted the first episode of Battlestar Galactica season one on their website, free, uncut, and without commercials. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • Catching up, part four: political bits Yeah, well, I had to jump back into this side of things eventually. On the bright side, much as this stuff might worry and/or scare me, at least I'm paying attention to it now, which I wasn't for far too many years. ➡
    • Catching up, part three Again, in no particular order, bits and pieces from my 'technology' grouping in NetNewsWire… ➡
    • Catching up, part two This time, the focus is on Macintosh goodies. All you PC-using heathens can read on in wistful fantasyland, or just find something else to do — like reinstall Windows again. ;) ➡
    • Playing catchup I'm skimming over a lot of stuff in my newsreader (758 new items after being out of touch for a week!), but in no particular order, here's some of the stuff that caught my eye… ➡
    • Need some free shoes? Enough soggy Nike basketball shoes to outfit every high school team in the state are drifting through the Pacific Ocean toward Alaska after spilling from a container ship off Northern California. ➡
    • He's got a point If anyone in [My Fair Lady] was gay, it had to be Higgins and Pickering -- you're telling me two single men in their late fifties who live together and enjoy speaking properly and dressing Audrey Hepburn in fabulous outfits aren't? ➡
    • Back online We're back! Sorry about the downtime. In the end, I have to admit that it all boils down to one simple thing — money matters aren't my strong point. ➡
  • 2002
    • Infocom presents Tetris You are looking at the shaft. A large red block, four units by one unit, is above your head, dropping slowly. It has its long edge horizontally aligned. ➡
    • A splash of color A bit of visual design tweaking on the website, which, of course, messes something else up. ➡
    • Lots of moves, and Casey turns 30 I don't think I remember quite all of it, but I think it was crumb cake and white cake crumbled into pieces and mixed with pudding, put into a litterbox, with a litter scooper for a cutting/serving tool, and complete with Tootsie Rolls melted and formed into the right shapes to serve as kitty poop! ➡

On This Day: Feb 23

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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 15 posts previously published on February 23rd

  • 2024
  • 2022
    • Hey, friends? I love you! I hope you are doing well, and for those of you who have the privilege, time, energy, and ability, that you do what you can to give your friends and loved ones the support they need. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • It seems my recent photos may have been overly moody. So here’s a post-workout grin with minimal processing. (54/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • I never left the house today, so I figured I’d see if these guys had any ideas for an interesting photo. ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for February 18th through February 23rd Sometime between February 18th and February 23rd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Reality TV Helps Break Down Racial Barriers • Can You Really Just Waltz Into SAM, Say You Have No Money to Pay the Suggested Donation, and Be Let In? • Re: The P-I's Online Plan • The Mystery of Ireland's Worst Driver • Wil Wheaton: Spoiler Alert: WATCHMEN is fucking awesome. • Writing Star Trek Novels, Or, Why Don’t You Get a Morally Acceptable Job? ➡
  • 2007
    • The Clothesline Project The Clothesline Project is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 to address the issue of violence against women. It is a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. ➡
  • 2006
    • Option 30 I have no idea where this came from or who dug it up, but it gave me a good laugh: Trent Reznor, _long_ before Nine Inch Nails, covering Billy Idol's 'Eyes Without A Face' with Reznor's early-80's band Option 30. ➡
    • Alaskan Barbies A new (to me) variation of an old joke. This particular version will likely only be amusing to those who've lived in Anchorage at some point. Others may find it a handy guide to Anchorage's neighborhoods. ;) ➡
  • 2005
    • Now with Markdown I've just added John Gruber's excellent text-processing plugin Markdown to the site, and enabled it for comments as well as for my own use when writing posts. ➡
    • Hunter S. Thompson Seeing all the many varied reports of Hunter S. Thompson's unfortunate demise reminds me that I've actually never read any of his work. So, then, a question for those more familiar with Thompson's work than I am: any recommendations? ➡
  • 2004
    • Grey Tuesday It's time for music fans to stand up and demand change from the music industry's copyright cartel. Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site for 24 hours in protest of EMI's attempts to censor this work. ➡
    • Mardi Gras I'll be making one of my few mid-week appearances at the Vogue tonight… ➡
    • Welcome to the neighborhood After watching Phil struggle with his hosting provider for a couple weeks over system resources, he and I got to talking, and in the name of good geek-karma, I offered him a spot on my personal webserver. ➡
    • Introductions Got to introduce Jonas, Jon, and Jeannie to Fetish Night at the Vogue last night. Much fun was had by all, as far as I know, even if Jonas did give me crap for going out to dance to Depeche Mode's 'Strangelove'. ;) ➡

Elizabeth Warren Seattle Rally

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We went out to Elizabeth Warren’s rally at the Seattle Center Armory tonight. Warren was great. So glad we went out and got to see her. She’s really does come across just as good as you’d hope she would: incredibly intelligent, passionate, articulate, engaged, warm, and through everything, energetic and having fun.

She went through about a fifteen minute stump speech, then took five questions from pre-selected attendees, and spent about 30 minutes total answering them. Her answers were incredible—both because she gave good answers to the questions, and also because she very deftly was able to use each of them as launching points for touching on other focus points and areas of her campaign, but always coming back to the original question and never giving the impression that the question didn’t actually matter. I didn’t record the stump speech, but did record the Q&A; I’ve got it going up to YouTube now and will add it to this post later…but rather than bother with my amateur, from-the-crowd video, here’s King 5’s video of the full thing (Warren starts speaking at about 25 minutes in):

So, yes. Warren is my preferred candidate. I absolutely believe that she has a plan for everything, and knows exactly how to get about getting it done.

Once again, very glad we got to go.

Now, though, we’re exhausted.