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Goop’s Netflix series: It’s so much worse than I expected and I can’t unsee it: “Disclaimer: This review contains detailed information about the Netflix series the goop lab with Gwyneth Paltrow. If you plan to watch the show (please, don’t) and do not wish to know details in advance, this is not the review for you. Normally, we would refer to such information as ‘spoilers,’ but in our editorial opinion, nothing in this series is spoil-able.”

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YouTube RSS: “1. First I find a YouTube channel I want to watch. 2. View its source code in my browser 3. Search for ‘channelid’ 4. And append the Channel ID to the end of this URL https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=“

On This Day: Jan 17

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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. Here are my past posts for January 17…

There are 28 posts previously published on January 17th

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  • 2021
    • 📚 3/2021: Ringworld by Larry Niven ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1971 Hugo Best Novel This was one of my formative SF books of childhood, and for the most part, still holds up well, especially in the sheer mind-boggling nature of the Ringworld itself and the true alien-ness of the puppeteers. ➡
  • 2020
    • Goop’s Netflix series: It’s so much worse than I expected and I can’t unsee it: “Disclaimer: This review contains detailed information about the Netflix series the goop lab with Gwyneth Paltrow. If you plan to watch the show (please, don’t) and do not wish to know details in advance, this is not the review for ... Read more ➡
    • YouTube RSS: “1. First I find a YouTube channel I want to watch. 2. View its source code in my browser 3. Search for ‘channelid’ 4. And append the Channel ID to the end of this URL https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=“ ➡
    • On This Day: Jan 17 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 17 ➡
    • I’ll admit, I never was much for Thomas the Tank Engine…but I think I’m all sorts of interested in the reboot. ➡
    • They Should Have Sent A Poet… Every macOS wallpaper from Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah to macOS 10.15 Catalina combined ➡
  • 2019
    • Book five of 2019: The Once and Future King, by T.H. White. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1939 Retro Hugo Best Novel 📚 ➡
  • 2018
    • Book four of 2018: Wetware, by Rudy Rucker. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Book three of 2016: Seveneves by #nealstephenson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (17/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Friday night of a three day weekend! Hope all of you enjoy yours. ➡
    • Really foggy morning today, the campus just seems to disappear. ➡
  • 2011
    • Moving to Ellensburg, Part III The moral of the story? If you're looking for rental properties in Ellensburg, _stay away_ from Ellensburg Property Management, LLC. Andrew at Hatlestad Investment Group, LLC, however? Originally, we thought he was good. No longer recommended. See update at the end of this post and comments from others. ➡
    • Moving to Ellensburg, Part II Okay. So at the end of Part I of this little adventure, I'd left off with ominous words about how moving in to the new apartment did not go smoothly. That's actually something of an understatement! ➡
    • Moving to Ellensburg, Part I Bet'cha you never expected _those_ words to come from me, did'ja? But you did, and this is the point where I can finally publicly ramble on about what I haven't been allowed to talk about until now. Here's the deal. ➡
  • 2010
    • Links for January 13th through January 17th Sometime between January 13th and January 17th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on Petition-Signers’ Rights • Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets • Here's to Planet Earth! Doomsday Clock Moved Back 1 Minute • Pat Robertson Cites Haiti’s Earthquake as What Happens When You ‘Swear a Pact to the Devil’ ➡
  • 2006
    • Disaffected! Disaffected! - a videogame parody of the Kinko’s copy store, a source of frustration from its patrons. Disaffected! puts the player in the role employees forced to service customers under the particular incompetences common to a Kinko’s store. ➡
  • 2005
    • Technorati Tags Change of plans as far as my keywords/tags project goes. Thanks to George's TechoratiTags plugin, I'm now listing tags in the metadata for each post, just underneath the title. The tags are drawn from the keywords for each entry, and clicking on any one of them will take you to that tag's Technorati search page. ➡
    • God Save the Queen According to Alabama's ABC affiliate, rap legend and actress Queen Latifah, well…just isn't looking herself lately. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • More color/code tweaking I've also managed to get the hide/show smileys function when leaving comments working, thanks to a new Scriptygoddess script (that I even helped debug — go me!), and I think (though feel free to correct me on this) that I've got the 'Remember Me' function when leaving comments fixed too. Just so all five (actually, I might be up to eight!) of my regular visitors won't have to keep entering their information into the form. ➡
    • TIA getting the smackdown I've mentioned the Total Information Awareness program a couple times here, usually in a context of horror and bemused amazement at a program so tailor-made for conspiracy theorists. ➡
    • Suckers How absolutely mindblowingly perfect is this? A French yacht taking place in a round-the-world sailing race was attacked by a giant squid. The perfect part? The trophy they're going for is the Jules Verne around-the-world sailing trophy. ➡
    • Sound familiar? Excellent op-ed piece over at Slate right now: Fool me twice — the press swallows a story. Be sure to read all the way through, of course. ➡
  • 2002
    • Enterprise: Silent Enemy It's just starting to seem like their desire to be the first explorers from space is getting in the way of their better judgement -- almost like they're afraid that if they do go back to earth, they won't be allowed to go play anymore. ➡
  • 2001
    • Lock, Stock and Logan’s Garden Stomper First off, just finished watching Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, which I borrowed from a co-worker. Absolutely hilarious little crime drama. Next off, three more DVD's to my collection. ➡
    • Things to remember while e-mailing This is another of the very few random e-mails I received that did not get immediately nuked...and I think not only is worth sharing, but should be the default new message in every freshly installed e-mail client across the internet. ➡
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I’ll admit, I never was much for Thomas the Tank Engine…but I think I’m all sorts of interested in the reboot.

On This Day: Jan 16

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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. Here are my past posts for January 16…

There are 30 posts previously published on January 16th

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  • 2020
    • The Tokyo 2020 Official Art Posters are fascinating, with a wide range of styles and imagery. I’m particularly fond of this one for the Paralympic games, which has a very retro-SF feel to it. A bonus: This 73-page, 15MB .pdf showcasing summer Olympic posters from 1896 to 2016. ➡
    • Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens: It’s the Real Deal: “Today, Mojo Vision announced that it has…put 14K pixels-per-inch microdisplays, wireless radios, image sensors, and motion sensors into contact lenses that fit comfortably in the eyes.” ➡
    • On This Day: Jan 16 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 16 ➡
    • How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy: “We’re in an age of manufactured nihilism. The issue for many people isn’t exactly a denial of truth as such. It’s more a growing weariness over the process of finding the truth at all. And that weariness leads more and more people to abandon the idea that the truth is ... Read more ➡
  • 2019
    • I’ve updated my post about Marie Kondo’s approach to cleaning out bookshelves with a few more thoughts, prompted by an article calling out the classist and racist undertones of the reactions to her advice. ➡
    • My stack of this year’s Philip K. Dick Award nominees has arrived! 📚 ➡
  • 2017
    • Playing with a set of silly clip-on phone camera lenses we got in Alaska (there were four sets on dad’s desk; we all assumed he’d meant them to be Xmas presents, and they got distributed among us all). Kinda chintzy, but could be fun to play with occasionally. ➡
    • Book seven of 2017: March, Book 3, by John Lewis. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Went outside long enough to shovel the driveway and fill the bird feeders. The rest of the day so far has been sitting in the library and reading (finishing Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves). Lunchtime looks amusingly juvenile, but hey, it works for me. (16/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Really pretty morning. Clear skies and sun after yesterday’s snow. ➡
  • 2014
    • Kicked back on the exercise bike doing my nightly ride while watching the newest episode of Bones. ➡
  • 2013
    • See Something? Check Snopes! So here's a little contribution I made to the world today, after seeing yet another Facebook friend sharing yet another easily disproven bit of misinformation. ➡
  • 2010
    • To: Pat Robertson. Your Pal, Satan. I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I'm all over that action. But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating. I may be evil incarnate, but I'm no welcher. ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for January 15th through January 16th Sometime between January 15th and January 16th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • no news is bad news • Cool Stuff: Olly Moss’s Poster Remakes • Strong Women Steer Battlestar Galactica's Final Voyage • Little Progress on Adult Literacy • Top 10 Sci Fi Flicks For The Thinking Man (beerandscifi version) ➡
  • 2008
    • Make a Band (Altered) The title of whatever random Wikipedia page you land on is the name of the band. The last four words of the last quote on this page is the title of the album. The third image this Flickr search is the cover of the album (this will search Creative Commons Attribution licensed photos and sort them by interestingness). ➡
  • 2006
    • Martin Luther King Day Three items caught my eye today: The New Yorker's reprinted account of the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; Dr. King's speech, which I'd never actually read in its entirety before; and dad's recollection of marching in a rally in Kokomo, IN, after Dr. King's assassination. ➡
    • Lost s02e10: The 23rd Psalm Scribbled notes while watching last Wednesday night's episode of Lost (yes, I know, almost a full week late...but this was my first chance to finally watch it). Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to... ➡
    • Happy Battlestar Galactica Bunny I have _no_ idea where or when I found this, but it just turned up while cleaning out my 'downloads' directory. The middle one's my favorite. ➡
  • 2004
    • Oh, no, not again. I don't have time to rant about this like I'd really like to. As far as I'm concerned, though, getting Bush out of office should be the number one priority — and Nader just isn't the answer. He wasn't last election, and he won't be this election. ➡
  • 2003
    • Getting pissy… Would everyone mind too terribly switching over to webbrowsers that actually support CSS layout declarations properly? Mozilla, Netscape, Chimera, whatever. ➡
    • Colors aren't my strongpoint I'm experimenting with different colorschemes for the site. Colors outside of black and white just aren't my strong suit. ;) So this may go on for the next few days until I find something I settle on. Bear with me. ➡
  • 2002
    • Bad site slowdowns Okay -- if you're reading this, you may (or may have not) noticed that for some reason, my website is responding _incredibly slowly_ at the moment. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out just why this is happening yet. ➡
    • Too weird to be fake Now here's a headline that I don't think I could have made up if I tried: 'Jesus Charged With Bail Jumping, Intimidating Witness!' ➡
    • Resurrections I'm slowly but surely getting all the old posts that disappeared when I borked things up put back in. ➡
    • A good day for quotes, as it turns out Clearly he failed to reckon with an attention span deficit so profound it makes even a roomful of espresso-torqued toddlers with power tools seem focused by comparison. ➡
    • Another quote All we may say is, that the more purely an aesthete a man is, the more likely he is to prefer cats; since the superior grace, beauty, manners and neatness of the cat cannot but conquer the fancy of any impartial observer emancipated from mundane and ethical illusions. ➡
    • Spooky… The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. ➡
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How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy: “We’re in an age of manufactured nihilism. The issue for many people isn’t exactly a denial of truth as such. It’s more a growing weariness over the process of finding the truth at all. And that weariness leads more and more people to abandon the idea that the truth is knowable.”

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📚 five of 2020: Return of the Jedi, by James Kahn ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A much better adaptation than Empire was. Most interesting moment: Wicket’s long speech convincing the Ewok leaders to assist the Rebels in their attack on the bunker. Those teddy bears are pretty eloquent!