Eclecticism

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. ➡

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

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 30 posts previously published on February 28th

• 2024
  • Year 50 Day 302 Every office should have a T-rex somewhere in it. ➡
  • My New Osborne 1 Though our full-size Osbornes were disposed of years ago, I'm ridiculously pleased to have this lil' guy on my desk now. ➡
• 2023
  • 📚 The High Country by John Jackson Miller A fun, light romp of an adventure, rather perfect for the first Strange New Worlds book. ➡
• 2021
  • Difficult Listening Hour 2021.02.27 Unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants, let's-see-what-happens mixing. You never know what might fall into one of these! ➡
  • 📚 11/2011: Dance on Saturday by Elwin Cotman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee 4/6 A really strong collection of short stories and one novella. I really enjoyed the way these slipped between the real and the fantastic, and between mundanity and surreal horror and humor. ➡
• 2020
  • The Body Shop is adopting “open hiring”: No interviews, no background checks, no drug tests. When there is a job available, just answer three yes-or-no questions and the job is yours. It’s a new philosophy called “open hiring”—and it works. ➡
  • Bookshop: A centralized shopping website for independent bookstores. Start here instead of at Amazon! Discovered through this Forbes article. ➡
  • 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.” ➡
  • Ranking the Democratic Candidates on Black Issues There you have it. Elizabeth Warren’s 'black agenda' is the blackest of them all. ➡
  • A “live laugh love”-style sign, but using text from the Long-Time Nuclear Waste Warning Messages. I love this. ➡
  • On This Day: Feb 28 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 28 ➡
• 2019
  • 🖖 #StarTrekDiscovery S02E07: Yay! No more Spock-teasing! Space squid are fun, and Tilly gets flustered around causality violations. Glad Pike at least mentioned Ash killing Culber. Still really unsure about Section 31, all the Spock stuff, and now time travel, but holding on. ➡
  • Well, now I know who to blame for my dreary fashion sense: Beau Brummell (well, and discovering the goth community in my youth….). I break out of the drab-ness occasionally (my Pride kilt from Verillas, for example), but…yeah. Maybe I could do more. Need to ruminate on this. ➡
• 2016
  • Weekends should be longer than two days. (59/366) ➡
• 2014
  • Once again, frozen yogurt for dessert before heading out to a show. :) ➡
• 2009
  • Dollhouse As evidenced by my recent tweet, I've now given Joss two chances to win me over to Dollhouse, and he's 0 for 2. It just doesn't work for me, and there's a number of smaller reasons that add up to one big fail. ➡
• 2008
  • Eek! A Mouse! Silly little video made during a boring day at work. ➡
• 2007
  • The root of the problem… It’s nothing really, but the grammatically preferable version of this phrase is 'for whom I’m supposed to root,' which is the most hilarious collection of words I’ve encountered since 'Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ben Affleck.' ➡
  • Numbers I don't get it: why is the latest Enterprise the NCC-4 8 15 16 23 42? ➡
• 2006
  • Tuesday Ten (In My Pants) A variation on the 'ten random tracks' music meme, adding in the fortune-cookie game of adding '...in my pants' to the end of the fortune...or in this case, song title. ➡
  • I’m 6.29% Slut Just a cute little bit of web silliness: using the Slut-o-Meter to compute your promiscuity according to Google. According to the Slut-o-meter, I'm 6.29% slut. ➡
• 2005
  • Keeping New Readers Problogger has a short series of posts with tips on how to keep readers who have stumbled across your site via a search engine hit or some other method. Interesting stuff, though nothing groundbreaking, and as it turns out, I do most of what he recommends already. ➡
• 2004
  • XBox2, G5…and Virtual PC? Musings on Microsoft, XBoxes, and PowerPC Processors. ➡
• 2003
  • Search improvements While MovableType does include its own search function, I've chosen not to use it for djwudi.com because I have a number of pages that live outside of my weblog, which MT would not be able to search. However, I'd run into a bit of a problem with the search engine I am using, and I think I've finally got it solved. ➡
• 2002
  • Where were you? I found an interesting discussion today, and thought it was well worth cribbing to use here on my site. One of the members of the HTF started a thread asking where people were and what they remember about significant dates in history. ➡
  • They fight crime! He's a hate-fuelled misogynist stage actor from the Mississippi delta. She's a transdimensional red-headed nun who hides her beauty behind a pair of thick-framed spectacles. They fight crime! ➡
  • Moving soon I talked to Melvin last night, and got the go-ahead to move into the new apartment, probably starting next week sometime, so that I can be in by the 15th. ➡
• 2001
  • Shake, rattle and roll I just found out when I got to work that Seattle got quite a bit of a shaker yesterday -- current estimates put the quake that just hit them at 6.8. ➡
  • Radio – and future gigs? My personal moment of triumph was when one person called to tell Nick to quit playing a compilation CD, at which point Nick let him know that it was actually me mixing live. I guess my mixes were going pretty smoothly! ➡
  • Back online Sorry 'bout the recent downtime over the past couple of days...problems with the cable modem. In any case, everything's resolved now, and things are looking good. ➡