On This Day: Jan 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. Here are my past posts for January 7…

There are 34 posts previously published on January 7th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2021
    • ITV on the Trump Insurrection A good seven-minute overview of yesterday's events in Washington, D.C. ➡
    • 20 Macs for 2020: Now that this is done, I’m bookmarking it so I can come back and read through the full thing. Eventually. Someday. :) ➡
    • This shirt seemed particularly important today. ➡
  • 2020
    • It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It: “Originality is a con: Pop music history is the history of near overlap. Ideas rarely emerge in complete isolation. In studios around the world, performers, producers and songwriters are all trying to innovate just one step beyond where music currently is, working ... Read more ➡
    • Defining the decade: ten years of Apple on one page: “Apple had to graduate through the passing of its founder, juggle relationships with an ever-expanding list of consumer and professional market segments, and adapt to the public attention and scrunity that only comes along as a consequence of being the biggest company in the world.” ➡
    • On This Day: Jan 7 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 7 ➡
  • 2018
    • Chucks of the day (56/56): bright all-pink waterproofed low-tops. These will be great for Jan. 20th! #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2017
    • Selfie with moose! ➡
    • Time to start heading home. I’ll put up a fuller post later, but thanks to all of you who made it to my dad’s service today. It was very appreciated. ➡
    • Book three of 2017: Attack the Geek, by Michael R. Underwood. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Pretty Alaskan sunrise over the Chugach range…at 10-o-freaking-clock in the morning! Gotta appreciate those five hours of sunlight we’ll get today! ➡
  • 2016
    • Another workday done. Taken on my way to coax Prairie out of her office. It didn’t take much coaxing. :) (7/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Default Human Being We need to realize that our concept of the 'default human being' is highly dependent upon our own culture and ingrained biases. ➡
  • 2014
    • Snow! ➡
    • These two just would not stop squabbling. Had to banish them to opposite sides of the desk. ➡
  • 2013
    • Where Time Becomes A Loop Number seven from my old collection of mixes that I'm re-posting. We're moving back into longer sessions again, with this one coming in at just under an hour. ➡
  • 2010
    • Links for January 5th through January 7th Sometime between January 5th and January 7th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • The Online 78 Rpm Discographical Project • Best Buy Optimization Is a Big Stupid Annoying Waste of Money • Word of the Year 2009: Distracted Driving • The Science of Success • The Darwin Awards ➡
  • 2008
    • Pre-Seattle Days Those who follow me on Flickr will have noticed this already, but I've been spending some time digging through my old archive CDs and uploading a bunch of old photos from years (and digital cameras) past. At this point, I've made it through all my digital photos up to the last few days before I bailed out of Anchorage and migrated south to Seattle. ➡
  • 2005
    • Gallimaufry 3 Third verse, same as the first… ➡
    • Netflix and Best Buy? Interesting — Netflix' header navigation tab graphics have changed (less rounded and all gold tones now), and there's a Best Buy logo next to the Netflix logo up top. There's nothing in their Press Releases section about partnering with Best Buy…is this something that's been announced at CES? ➡
  • 2004
    • This GarageBand is a hit You look at an application like GarageBand -- you can't get that on another platform at any price. People will buy Macs on the basis of GarageBand. ➡
    • Firsts For how many of you was your first sexual experience consensual? For how many of you was your first penetrative sexual experience consensual? ➡
    • Zeugma Cool word of the day: zeugma. ➡
    • Even if it…what? This little $20 app is a must-have, even if it weren't made by Microsoft. ➡
    • Works for me! Republicans for Voldemort ➡
    • This town is a mess I won't be surprsied at all if today turns out to have more accidents, simply because since it's not snowing, people will think that they can drive normally. Conditions like this certainly don't make for safe driving, though, and it's my bet that quite a few people will be figuring that out over the course of the day. ➡
  • 2003
    • Revamping the Archives My archives finally approach something resembling user-friendliness. What I did and why I did it. ➡
    • More on Safari In order to give it something of a workout, I went ahead and set Safari to be my default web browser. Mark Pilgrim has a good rundown of current CSS bugs that he's uncovered in Safari so far (thankfully, though, it renders djwudi.com just fine). Amusingly enough, I may have just found one more while I was reading his post. ➡
    • Thoughts on the keynote Just a couple quick thoughts I had regarding some of the news from Steve Jobs' keynote speech today at MacWorld. ➡
    • MacWorld Expo '03 Keynote Summary of Steve Jobs' keynote address at MacWorld San Francisco. Lots and lots of really cool stuff that I can't afford! ➡
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📚 two of 2020: Encounter at Farpoint, by David Gerrold ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A fairly straight adaptation, only a few notable differences from the broadcast episode. As a friend noted, quite amused by the descriptions of men (competence, personality) and women (they’re hot!). 🖖

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You Can’t Keep Your Relatives’ Skulls: “In theory, people get to decide what happens to their body after death. In reality, it is near impossible to get legal permission to display a relative’s skeleton.” I’d never considered this before, but now that I have, is it weird that I’m a little disappointed? ;)

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I’m going to be (slowly) moving my web presence from michaelhanscom.com to michaelhans.com (because it’s a clever URL), and suddenly had the amusing urge–which, to be clear, I would not actually succumb to–to legally change my last name to “Hans.com”, complete with dot.

On This Day: Jan 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. Here are my past posts for January 6…

There are 37 posts previously published on January 6th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 249 Out at Seattle’s goth club the Mercury with friends for their Caturday night of musical randomness. ➡
  • 2023
    • Museum of Glass Another day of wandering around a museum, enjoying the pretty sights, and getting back into practice with my camera. ➡
    • 🎥 Enola Holmes 2 Like the first, it was a cute and entertaining adventure, though not quite as good as the first. ➡
  • 2021
    • Trump could be removed from office today, if Pence would actually act to uphold the oath he swore to protect this country. I’m absolutely fine with letting Pence be POTUS46 for the next two weeks, and letting Biden take up the mantle of POTUS47. ➡
    • Meet The Black Women Who turned Georgia Blue: “Yep, it was Stacey. But don’t forget about Nsé, Helen, Tamieka, Melanie, LaTosha and Deborah.” ➡
    • Trifecta There's still a lot of work to do. But at least now, we have a good chance of actually being able to get things done. ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 two of 2020: Encounter at Farpoint, by David Gerrold ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A fairly straight adaptation, only a few notable differences from the broadcast episode. As a friend noted, quite amused by the descriptions of men (competence, personality) and women (they’re hot!). 🖖 ➡
    • You Can’t Keep Your Relatives’ Skulls: “In theory, people get to decide what happens to their body after death. In reality, it is near impossible to get legal permission to display a relative’s skeleton.” I’d never considered this before, but now that I have, is it weird that I’m a little disappointed? ;) ➡
    • I’m going to be (slowly) moving my web presence from michaelhanscom.com to michaelhans.com (because it’s a clever URL), and suddenly had the amusing urge–which, to be clear, I would not actually succumb to–to legally change my last name to “Hans.com”, complete with dot. ➡
    • On This Day: Jan 6 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 6 ➡
  • 2019
    • A quote from N. K. Jemisin’s The Stone Sky, the third in the Broken Earth trilogy. ➡
    • When you want a warm drink in the morning, but the power is out and your apartment only has an electric stove. ➡
  • 2017
    • One of the earliest photos of my dad I think I’ve ever seen. Late teens or early 20s, I’m guessing? Which would put this photo from sometime in the early to mid ’60s. ➡
    • Me and my mum! ➡
    • My parents’ nativity crèche needed a #tinydinosaur cameo appearance. ➡
    • Took the #tinydinosaur for a romp in the snow. Dinosaurs don’t wear boots, so it was pretty cold on his toes. ➡
  • 2016
    • Home, fed, exercised, and relaxing in front of the TV. The usual evening routine. (6/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Whoever decided to combine the fun and excitement of the first day of classes with the energy, smiles, and cheer of a Monday is so fired. (Okay, it’s not that bad, but this idea amused me.) ➡
  • 2013
    • ToriMix v2 Number six in my old collection of mix sessions that I'm putting up for download and podcast. Another 'theme' mix, this is a forty-five minute mix of Tori Amos dance remixes. ➡
    • Pickpocket Magic This profile of a professional pickpocket in the New Yorker is fascinating. There's also a video clip of Apollo doing his thing. Amazing. ➡
  • 2006
    • Weblog Hot or Not? A little bit of silliness being resurrected after finding an old post -- is my weblog Hot or Not? ➡
    • Etymologic Here's one for dad: Etymologic. In this etymology game you'll be presented with 10 randomly selected etymology (word origin) or word definition puzzles to solve. ➡
    • Portfolio 1: The Berger Partnership Landscape designers The Berger Partnership are using one of my photos on their website detailing their work on renovating Cal Anderson Park. ➡
    • Moles and Trolls, Moles and Trolls! Snagged from lemurlad -- and as he pointed out, these results shouldn't surprise _anyone_ who knows me. I'm a Real Genius genius! ➡
  • 2005
    • Weekend Project: Keyword Search While running ideas and vague concepts related to my tag-categorization wishlist of the other day, I figured it was worth poking around in the Movable Type Support Forums, where I found these posts by ishbadiddle -- and while he's calling it something else, that looks to be (nearly) exactly what I've been looking for! ➡
    • 13 Free Songs from iTunes Have an iPod? Want some free music from iTunes? ➡
    • It’s official: Six Apart acquires LiveJournal Looks like the rumors were true: Six Apart acquires LiveJournal. Congrats to both Six Apart and LiveJournal — I'm looking forward to seeing where you all go with this. ➡
  • 2004
    • iTMS updates Along with all the other introductions from this morning's keynote, the iTunes Music Store got a lot of new goodies. ➡
    • Home early A gallery of pictures of the downtown Seattle area that I took during my quest for a bus to get me to work have been uploaded to the Hanscom family photo gallery. Enjoy! ➡
    • At least 4 inches so far! I've got about half an hour before my next possible bus (on a different route), so I'm going to head back out and get some more pictures. Expect a fairly large gallery when I get home tonight! ➡
    • Macworld SF 2004 Keynote Macworld SF 2004 Keynote notes, updated live as it happens. ➡
    • Seattle is Closed ;) By my estimation, there's between half an inch and an inch of snow in downtown Seattle right now, and it's coming down strong. ➡
  • 2003
    • Gibson gets a blog Noted sci-fi/cyberpunk author William Gibson has just started his blog. No RSS feed, though, which means I'll probably forget to check it on a regular basis. Bummer. ➡
    • Searchling I just stumbled across Searchling, a very cool little mini-application for OS X. When running, it adds a system-wide search field that allows you to search Google, Slashdot, or a few other sites. ➡
    • So many books, so little time In a fortuitous bit of serendipity, I just re-discovered a website I'd found a few months ago, but forgotten to bookmark — All Consuming, which scans recently updated weblogs for Amazon book links, and uses that data to track what books are currently popular in the weblog world. Nifty stuff to explore! ➡
    • Web Writing Style Guide Popular sites filled with cutting-edge Internet cognoscenti (such as Slashdot and ShackNews) give the lie to this harmful and destructive myth: they are brimming with horrific grammar, atrocious spelling, gratuitous abbreviation and childish, arrogant attitude. To be "in" on the net, you must write like a wanker. ➡
  • 1996
    • [From Usenet: 1.6.96 0000] Okay...just read this last night, so dug up the passage, as I remembered this discussion while I was reading.... From the hardbound edition of the first three books of the Belgariad, pg. 514 (Magician's Gambit, near the end of Chapter Ten). ➡
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📚 one of 2020: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, by Fredrik Backman. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A great first book for the year, this one is wonderful. Touching, heartfelt, and hilarious, and a beautiful blend of real and fantasy worlds. An instant favorite.

On This Day: Jan 5

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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 5…

There are 30 posts previously published on January 5th

  • 2024
  • 2021
    • Lots of Reason to Laugh Whether it’s war and peace or public relations and gardening, sorting out the truth is a complicated endeavor when it relates to Donald Trump. ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 one of 2020: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, by Fredrik Backman. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A great first book for the year, this one is wonderful. Touching, heartfelt, and hilarious, and a beautiful blend of real and fantasy worlds. An instant favorite. ➡
    • On This Day: Jan 5 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 5 ➡
  • 2019
    • At the DoubleTree SeaTac for today’s Norwescon planning meeting, and Aki Con is here this weekend! Having another con here with people running around in costume feels so much better (home-y) than on weekends when it’s just a “normal” hotel. ➡
    • Book two of 2019: The Obelisk Gate, by N. K. Jemisin. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #hugowinner 📚 ➡
    • Trump’s bizarre Rose Garden news conference shows why he’s impossible to negotiate with: Forget impeachment, it’s more and more obvious that the 25th Amendment should be under serious consideration. This man has no business holding the office of President. ➡
  • 2016
    • Icicles! (5/366) ➡
    • This well-hung snowman appeared in front of my building today. The students are back in town! ➡
  • 2015
    • Santa or eyeball? This time of year the candy bowl on my desk is always an amusing mix of leftover Halloween and Christmas candy. ➡
  • 2014
    • Mmmmm: Pork chops with baked apples, green beans, and sweet potato. ➡
    • Prepping for the zombie apocalypse? Or cooking up meth? Either way, looks creepy. ➡
    • Another morning walk, this time along the John Wayne Memorial Trail down the Iron Horse State Park. ➡
  • 2013
    • Blurry Boundaries Honestly, I'm not entirely sure just where the boundary between 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable' violence lies for me. I like my horror creepy and/or with a good dose of humor mixed in. Today's trend towards ultra-violent torture porn just makes me feel ill. ➡
    • A Fine Day’s Mix The fifth of my old collection of mix sessions that I'm posting. This one is another 'theme' idea I had, and depending on how much you like the base song, could be either enjoyable or excruciating. ➡
    • Free Islamist SF anthology eBook A Mosque Among The Stars was the first anthology that dealt with the subject of Muslim characters and/or Islamic themes and Science Fiction. ➡
  • 2008
    • Better Buy I may not ever get to a point of just stopping by to browse, or remotely look forward to having to dive into Best Buy...but at least at the moment, I don't feel the need to actively avoid the store or it's sales droids when I do stop in. And, for Best Buy, that's saying a _lot_. ➡
  • 2005
    • Timeline Meme I guess it's a good day for picking up on memes — this one comes from Mike: the Timeline Meme. ➡
    • De-Lurker Day Well, the day's actually almost over, but I just now found about about this thanks to Carla saying hi — today's been declared De-Lurker day! ➡
    • Veronica Moser, Type Key Spammer While there's a fair amount of chatter today about spammers shifting tactics away from comments and towards Trackback, I ran into a different approach — my first TypeKey authenticated spammer. ➡
    • On Ebonics As someone who's long had an (entirely unschooled) interest in language and linguistics, much of what's in here is absolutely fascinating. ➡
  • 2004
    • :hover support in IE! Hot damn — someone figured out how to hack :hover support into Internet Explorer! ➡
    • I used to be a DJ / Gig’s Music Theater I finally got tired of letting my old domain sit inactive, and have resurrected djwudi.com as a monument (however small) to my years as a club DJ, along with a 1998 archive of the Gig's Music Theater website. ➡
    • How to screw your employees A proposed Labor Department rule suggests ways employers can avoid paying overtime to some of the 1.3 million low-income workers who would become eligible this year. ➡
    • Macworld keynote tomorrow This week is the Macworld expo in San Francisco, and Jim has a good roundup of the current rumors posted. As Lane pointed out, I'll certainly be keeping up with the news during tomorrow's keynote. ➡
    • Sympathy for the Devil remixes Sympathy for the Devil has been one of my favorite songs for years, and I've collected quite a few versions over the years. I'm sure I don't have all of the various versions out there yet, but so far I've managed to dig up… ➡
  • 2003
    • Fine tuning Site adjustments: sidebar reorganization, and bringing back the book reviews. ➡
  • 2001
    • Babies are so darn cute Miranda had a beautiful little girl on Christmas Eve, and she just sent me a picture of the little munchkin! She's a cutie! ➡
    • High Fidelity Imposters Dream of Hallmark I'd actually managed to go through a couple release days without anything catching my eye enough to spend money on — miracles never cease, eh? After work today I had to go by Suncoast to figure out when I work this weekend, and discovered that I had a paycheck waiting for me. Rock on…but funny, I didn't have it when I walked out. ➡

On This Day: Jan 4

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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 4…

There are 33 posts previously published on January 4th

  • 2024
  • 2023
    • Museum of Flight Went out to the Museum of Flight and took a few shots with my DSLR for the first time in something over three years. ➡
  • 2021
  • 2020
    • Out for a night of goth clubbing at The Mercury. ➡
    • On This Day: Jan 4 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 4 ➡
  • 2017
    • This much winter is a new thing for the #tinydinosaur (not so new for me, though). ➡
    • The #tinydinosaur thought that Batman V Superman was spectacular…ly stupid. Wonder Woman really was the only worthwhile part. Is there a bootleg 10-minute WW edit somewhere out there? #batman #superman #wonderwoman #batmanvsuperman ➡
    • Traveling can be stressful, so the #tinydinosaur recommends the occasional ice cream break. ➡
    • People watching with the #tinydinosaur at SeaTac airport. ➡
    • Book two of 2016: Windows on a Lost World, by V. E. Mitchell. ⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tos ➡
  • 2016
    • Can we just be done with this already? (Answer: no. More snow predicted.) (4/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • The @CardsAgainstHumanity @cah base game, plus five official expansions, two years of holiday bullshit, the 90s mini-pack, and four Crabs Adjust Humidity expansions. I’ve had to split this so the white cards are in the Bigger Blacker Box, and the black cards are in the Case for Humanity box. ➡
  • 2014
    • A nice walk by the Yakima river on a brisk winter’s morning. ➡
  • 2013
    • Mission Accomplished The fourth of my old collection of mix sessions that I'm posting. This one starts a few that move away from the 'Difficult Listening Hour' series to explore some other ideas I had running through my head. ➡
  • 2011
  • 2010
    • School Schedule, Winter Quarter 2010 Well, even though classes don't _officially_ start until tomorrow, I'm already up and running and beginning to dig into the readings for my classes. Here's what I'll be playing with this quarter. ➡
    • Links for December 16th through January 4th Sometime between December 16th and January 4th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Why Is JJ Abrams Obsessed With Alice in Wonderland? • Population of the Dead • The Weekly World News on Google Books • This Dumb Decade: The 87 Lamest Moments in Tech, 2000-2009 • 20 Greatest SF Movies of the Past Decade ➡
  • 2007
    • Christmas in Alaska It took a few days, but the photos from our trip up to Anchorage to visit my parents are finally up. ➡
  • 2006
    • The Future is Not What It Used to Be Ever since the total, irretrievable collapse of the Internet in a chaos of viruses, worms, spam, terrorism and busts by the FBI anti-porn squad, [bloggers] had become a bigger street menace than mimes, Jehovah's Witnesses, or panhandlers ever were. ➡
    • Plato’s a Putz No, no -- not Plato. Plato Learning, Inc. They're the company that provides the online program that we're using in my math class -- that really shouldn't be incompatible with Macs. ➡
  • 2005
    • Quick Review: The Lion in Winter I'm not really sure when I put The Lion in Winter in my queue, nor what prompted me to do so. I'm very glad I did, though — what a wonderful, deliciously wicked film! ➡
    • My best photos of 2004 I've just created a flickr photoset of my favorite photographs from this past year (hey, every news organization on the planet does this, I might as well join in the fun, right?). ➡
  • 2003
    • Can corporations lie? Nearly one hundred and forty years ago, towards the end of the Civil War, Pres. Lincoln foresaw the rising power of the corporations that had grown the most due to wartime industries. Now, in a case heading for the U.S. Supreme Court, the corporate world may be fighting to hold onto everything that Pres. Lincoln feared, and that has come all too true. ➡
    • I wish… I'm not too sure how they stumbled across me, but I just got notification today that I've been added to the list of birthdays at I Wish, You Wish. They're working on collecting links of bloggers that have their Amazon Wishlists posted, and listing them alongside their birthdays. ➡
  • 2002
    • Rick sent me this quote Video games don't affect kids. If Pac Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms munching magic pills and listening to repetitive, electronic music. ➡
    • The new album from M.C. Escher, ‘Please Escher Don’t Hurt ‘Em,’ featuring the hit single, ‘You Can’t Draw This!’ Hmm...if I didn't babble so much, the title of this post would probably be longer than the post itself. Score one for being talkative! ➡
    • Twitch This is how my friends drink coffee. ➡
    • Now that’s a big gun Maglev technology, basically a big railgun, powering craft from the ground into space. Does my little sci-fi geek heart proud. ➡
    • Chad’s birthday That whole issue of needing to give the appearance of being able to justify your time no matter how slow it is kind of kills much ability to find some interesting ways to kill time. ➡
    • Four Oh Four By now, most websurfers will have seen the standard '404 Error' webpage that pops up when a requested page doesn't exist. Some 404's are cooler than others -- and THCnet has the coolest I've seen yet. If Royce checks my page anytime soon, he should check it out. ➡
  • 2001
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Welcome to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: “The Mystery Flesh Pit is the name given to a bizarre natural geobiological feature discovered in the permian basin region of west texas in the early 1970s. The pit is characterized as an enormous subterranean organism of indeterminate size and origin embedded deep within the earth, displaying a vast array of highly unusual and often disturbing phenomena within its vast internal anatomy.”