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 23 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 29 posts previously published on March 8th

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  • 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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  • 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

On This Day: Mar 6

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 20 posts previously published on March 6th

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  • 2021
    • 📚 12/2021: The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee 5/6 What started as fairly standard post-apocalyptic setting (small pseudo-medieval communities relying on poorly understood surviving tech) went in more interesting directions than I expected. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • If I see a link to a movie trailer that looks interesting, and I click through to YouTube or wherever to watch it, it drives me up the wall when the first 5-10 seconds is a mini-trailer for the trailer I’m trying to watch. Why has this become a thing? ➡
  • 2016
    • Book ten of 2016: Edge of Dark, by Brenda Cooper. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee. (66/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Me at about 2 1/2, doing my best mid-70s open-collar chest-revealing loud-print-shirt lounge against Dad’s records. #throwbackthursday ➡
  • 2008
    • I Am Legend Original Ending For some reason, the last ten minutes or so of the film completely diverge from everything that had been set up until that point, taking what had been an interesting apocalyptic zombie film and ruining it for us with an ending that didn't make any sense. ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • Episcopalian and Anglican Superheroes A brief rundown of comic-book superheroes of either Episcopalian or Anglican beliefs, sourced from The Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Characters, and pointed out to me by dad. ➡
  • 2005
    • Marriage Equality rally Photos from today's protest march and rally in favor of equal marriage rights for homosexuals are now up in a Flickr photoset. ➡
    • Good night tonight No particular reason for that, just a good night. Evan (the DJ at the Vogue) was doing quite well, and the club was just crowded enough to be definitely crowded, without being so bad that I couldn't get on the floor and bounce around. ➡
  • 2003
    • Soundtrack for a Century Sony has dug into their vaults to compile an absolutley astounding collection of music — ranging from an 1890 recording on wax cylinder of John Philip Sousa conducting the United States Marine Band in 'The Washington Post March' up to Lauryn Hill's 1998 pop hit 'Doo Wop (That Thing)' — across all genres, and encompassing a ton of songs, both popular hits and little-known gems. ➡
    • Love me, love my country A question for Dave — you state that you can't like us and not like our government, and vice versa. Turning that around, does that mean that because you dislike the decisions of France, Germany, and Russia, that you now dislike the French, Germans, and Russians en masse? Or that because you dislike what Saddam is doing, that you dislike all Iraquis? I don't really think that that is the case, but it's the same attitude, and it's one that worries me. ➡
  • 2002

Difficult Listening Hour 2020.03.05: COVID-19 Edition

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Week six, and this is one of the few times I’ve put together a set list ahead of time instead of going by the seat of my pants. Consider this the COVID-19 edition of DLH–the tracklist titles should make both inspiration and selection clear. :) This does mean that this set is less about trying for a smooth mix all the way through and more about just having fun with the idea.

As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts on Thursday nights. These are the results.

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