On This Day: Jan 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. Here are my past posts for January 27…

There are 25 posts previously published on January 27th

  • 2025
    • The End of Section 31 Just write it off as a special forces unit that has been dangerously embarrassing and embarrassingly dangerous and needs to be disbanded. ➡
  • 2024
  • 2023
    • Norwescon 39 Thursday Night Dance Now that I’m prepping to DJ the Thursday night dance at Norwescon 45 in a couple months, I realized that I’d never posted my Norwescon 39 Thursday night dance recording here. Whoops! So here it is, a few years late — four and a half hours of music from the opening night of a science-fiction ... Read more ➡
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • Ring doorbell app packed with third-party trackers: “Ring isn’t just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers.” ➡
    • On This Day: Jan 27 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 27 ➡
    • SF Disco Preservation Society: Huge archive of DJ mixtapes from the 2000s back to the days of disco. ➡
  • 2019
    • Book ten of 2019: Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories by Abbey Mei Otis. #PKDickAward nominee. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 Some of these are funny, many of them are disquieting and leave the reader a little uneasy. I didn’t dislike it, though I’m not sure I can really say that I liked it. ➡
    • Book nine of 2019: Time Was, by Ian McDonald. #PKDickAward nominee. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 A short, sweet tale of soldiers in love, time travel, the unraveling of their story, and the love of books. I very much enjoyed this one. ➡
  • 2018
    • Before and after. ➡
  • 2016
    • Happy Wednesday! The lightbulb-over-the-head thing isn’t as impressive when one bank of fluorescent lights is burnt out. (27/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Another find in old boxes. Nobody’s sure what this is; the only thing everyone agreed on was “creepy.” So, of course, I asked if I could have it. :D ➡
    • Found while going through Prairie’s grandpa’s old boxes: an Alaska travel brochure published in 1976. So much good stuff in here! ➡
    • Trying something new: a swordfish sandwich! ➡
    • Footies in the surf! ➡
    • Another pretty morning, another pretty beach walk. I can understand why SoCal is such a draw for so many people. ➡
    • We didn’t think to bring sandals when we packed, so we both got new sandals for beach walking. Prairie’s are really cute, mine look good in a very guy-ish way. ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for January 26th through January 27th Sometime between January 26th and January 27th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • _Gods and Monsters_ Is 99 Cents Jan. 27th, 2009 Thru Feb. 03rd, 2009 at iTunes US • Obama Tells Arabic Network US Is 'Not Your Enemy' • 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read: Science Fiction & Fantasy • Layers | Screen Forensics • Pope Outrages Jews Over Holocaust Denier ➡
  • 2007
    • Faux Klingons Don't let faux Klingons send real Americans to war. It's wrong. ➡
  • 2005
    • Michael Hanscom for Governor of Washington If these idiots actually force us into a re-vote, I'll mount a write-in candidacy drive. Michael Hanscom for Governor of Washington. Sounds good to me. Hell, just running on a platform of 'no re-votes if I lose' should get me a sizeable chunk of the vote. ➡
    • A pronounced deficiency in IQ | Metafilter My theory - it's Bush's comprehensive knowledge of and fluency in Latin that leads to his pronunciation. ➡
  • 2004
    • One cookie = $10 billion TrueMajority.org has a nicely effective flash animation posted using Oreo cookies to demonstrate how easy it really could be to fund social needs and keep our military budget at a resonable level. ➡
  • 2003
    • Crossing my fingers So, a while back, I'd gone poking around Apple's job site, as it was rumored that they were going to be opening an Apple Store just outside of Seattle, in Bellingham, and I signed up for their job search. Tonight I got e-mailed details on four job openings for the upcoming Bellevue store, and decided what the heck — it's worth a shot! So, I've applied for two of the positions: Mac Specialist and Mac Genius. ➡
  • 1996
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📚 seven of 2020: The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

As fascinating as the first book, this tale of invasion broadens the scope, giving more detail on the alien invaders and moving to a multiple viewpoint narrative. Really enjoying this series.

On This Day: Jan 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. Here are my past posts for January 26…

There are 23 posts previously published on January 26th

  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
    • Updating My Computing History TL;DR: Apple II, Commodore 64, BASIC, Osborne 1, a Mac Classic, Hermes and BBSs, a VAX and the Internet, pine, ftp, Usenet, IRC, and gopher, the WWW, blogging, and many more Mac computers. ➡
  • 2021
    • Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction: “This work-in-progress is a comprehensive quotation-based dictionary of the language of science fiction. The HD/SF is an offshoot of a project begun by the Oxford English Dictionary (though it is no longer formally affiliated with it).” ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 seven of 2020: The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ As fascinating as the first book, this tale of invasion broadens the scope, giving more detail on the alien invaders and moving to a multiple viewpoint narrative. Really enjoying this series. ➡
    • On This Day: Jan 26 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 26 ➡
  • 2019
    • Book eight of 2019: The Body Library, by Jeff Noon. #PKDickAward nominee. ⭐️⭐️ 📚 Much like the first in this series, there are a lot of interesting ideas, in this case about stories, narratives, and our relationships with them…yet it simply didn’t resonate with me at all. ➡
  • 2016
    • Watching Anthony Bourdain drink frightening amounts of Guinness in Dublin. I can’t stand the stuff, though both my mom and brother enjoy beers so dark they’re served with a knife and fork. (26/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • We had some crazy, proverbial pea soup, Exorcist poster levels of fog in the ‘Burg tonight. Creepy, but pretty! ➡
  • 2014
    • Couldn’t quite tell if the hole in this rock was natural or artificial. ➡
    • Found someone’s project. ➡
    • Off for another morning beach walk. ➡
  • 2010
    • Microsoft Excel .xls and .xlsx weirdness I've been attempting to troubleshoot some issues with sending Excel files back and forth between my Mac at home and a professor who uses a Mac at home and a Windows PC at school. Even though we're both using current versions of Excel, and though the files opened fine on her Mac, she was having consistent problems on the Windows machine. ➡
    • Links for January 20th through January 26th Sometime between January 20th and January 26th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Here comes the new cell phone etiquette • Menifee school officials remove dictionary over term 'oral sex' • The Cost of Care • The Science & the Fiction • Christopher Hitchens on "Like" ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for January 21st through January 26th Sometime between January 21st and January 26th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Improved Del.Icio.Us Posting Bookmarklet (With Gruber’s Title Case Goodness) • Time Machine backups on network shares in Leopard • Obama signs order to close Guantanamo in a year • The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises • US Democracy Server: Patch Day ➡
  • 2007
    • No More West Wing For a guy who doesn't much like TV, I'm sure enjoying some of the shows. Quite a bit after the fact, but it's _so_ much nicer this way! ➡
  • 2006
    • Ultraviolet Or, to put it another way: Milla Jovovich + tight outfits + promising effects + promising action = my ass is in the theatre. ;) ➡
    • iTunes Ratings Following in the footsteps of jwz, Tim Bray, AKMA, and Paul, here's the rating system I use in iTunes. ➡
    • Lost s02e11: Fire + Water Scribbled notes while watching last night's episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to... ➡
  • 2005
    • I hate it when I’m stupid So now I've got a TypePad account that I'm not using that's all paid up and useable until next December. What in the world do I do with that? ➡
  • 2004
    • Pedometer pedometer measures how many children you touch inappropriately...? ➡
  • 2003
    • I want Trinity for my birthday Anyway, one of the big deals about the Superbowl is always the various commercials and trailers that are shown during the game, since it's always got such a huge audience. The majority of these generally wouldn't concern me any more than the Superbowl itself would, but I did find out that the latest trailer for the next two Matrix films was released, and is already available on the net. ➡
    • This is a test Just testing to see if I've sucessfully enabled MT's built-in image processing capabilities. ➡

On This Day: Jan 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. Here are my past posts for January 25…

There are 25 posts previously published on January 25th

  • 2025
    • Star Trek: Section 31 🎥: ⭐️⭐️⭐️: As a Trek film…well, it's a generic space spy movie with Trek references. ➡
  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 268 It should work just fine, we're just amused at how tiny and cute it is! ➡
  • 2023
    • Coming Back to Norwescon! I'll be popping up again in public for the first time in a few years at Norwescon 45 for the Thursday night dance! ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Star Trek Doesn’t Exist Within Star Trek As Star Trek doesn’t include itself, historical displays on the Enterprise shouldn’t show the first space shuttle. ➡
    • Displays of prior ships named Enterprise in Star Trek shouldn’t include the original space shuttle, as it was only named such due to support from fans of the show, which wouldn’t exist within the Star Trek universe. 🖖 ➡
  • 2016
    • Nice foggy night tonight. Cold…but looks neat. (25/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Authentic Southern California take-out burrito from a cute little hole-in-the-wall joint for dinner. So good! ➡
    • Why we’re in California: Paying our respects to Prairie’s grandfather. Very nice service and reception today. ➡
    • Prairie’s treasures. ➡
    • Beautiful morning here. ➡
    • A nice morning walk along the beach, watching the surfers. ➡
    • My newest niece has the most adorable purple monster feetie socks! ➡
  • 2009
    • Pacific Science Center’s Lucy Exhibit Stumbling Lucy's second stop on the tour is at Seattle's Pacific Science Center, where her exhibit is running from October through March 8th. Unfortunately, that could very well be her _last_ stop before heading home to Ethiopia. Apparently, not enough people are bothering to see the exhibit. ➡
  • 2006
    • An’ that’s the truth! If those bible-thumpers really want a conundrum, how about this? If you take the word 'presbyterians' and rearrange the letters...it spells 'Britney Spears'. ➡
    • Dad’s on Flickr After having some recurring problems with the Gallery software that we'd been using for the Hanscom Family Gallery, I decided to throw in the towel and talked dad into putting his Flickr account to use. I'm so glad I did. ➡
    • Lost s02e11: The Hunting Party Scribbled notes while watching last Wednesday night's episode of Lost (I actually watched it a few days ago, but just realized that I'd forgotten to post this. Oops!). Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to... ➡
  • 2005
    • Consequences of an Overactive Imagination People passing me on the streets at night never know of the creatures stalking them. Wingless batlike creatures the size of large dogs, walking on their forelegs, hind legs slung up and over their shoulders and terminating in wicked-looking claws. ➡
  • 2004
    • Living my dreams Tonight, as I left the dance floor and stood against the wall, I had to smile. Years ago, things like this were nothing more than a fantasy, something I'd seen and knew that I wanted to be a part of, but didn't have the opportunities to take advantage of. Now, though, it's a fantasy no longer, but a world that I'm part of. ➡
    • You have to wonder about the gift shop… Something for a list of places to go should I ever visit Los Angeles: the brand spanking (ahem) new sex museum. ➡
    • R.I.P. Captain Kangaroo Bob Keeshan, more popularly known as Captain Kangaroo, has died. ➡
    • The Joys of McDonalds His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald's and document the impact on his health. Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock's entire body deteriorated. ➡
  • 2003
    • Lizette& A while back, while digging through my friend Kory's mp3.com page, I stumbled across a remix he did of a song called 'Breathe,' by an artist going by Lizette&. I downloaded his mix and liked it a lot. Curious by that point, I decided to see if I could track down the original version to see what Kory had started with. ➡
    • Reminder – DJ Wüdi mixes Just a quick reminder for those of you who may be new to my site, and might not have bounced around some of the rest of what I have up here. Over on my DJ Wüdi propaganda page, I have eleven mix sessions available for download as .mp3 files. They range from 22 minutes to an hour and seventeen minutes in length, and from 26 Mb to 88 Mb in file size, so you'll probably want to have a broadband connection (or a lot of patience) to download them. ➡
    • MT upgrades I've just added a new plug-in to MovableType — SmartyPants. It's a relatively minor thing, but one that's nice to have — it automatically converts common characters into their typographically-correct versions. I've also hacked into the code to build TrackBack pings as they happen, speeding up individual page requests. ➡

Difficult Listening Hour 2020.01.23

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Unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing (hopefully) regular Twitch broadcasts on Thursday nights. These are the results. Anything goes.

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