{"id":16450,"date":"2020-01-03T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=16450"},"modified":"2020-01-06T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:34:34","slug":"on-this-day-jan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/03\/on-this-day-jan-3\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jan 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I&#8217;m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past. Here are my past posts for January 3\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>31<\/strong> posts previously published on January 3rd<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/03\/this-is-a-test-3\/\">This is a test&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">\u2026this is only a test. I think I've found a way to automatically publish blog posts to my Bluesky account. We'll see if this works. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/03\/this-is-a-test-3\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/03\/year-50-day-246\/\">Year 50 Day 246<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Something wicked this way comes. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/03\/year-50-day-246\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/01\/03\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-the-menu\/\">&#x1f3a5; The Menu<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Best watched\u00a0as if you\u2019re going to a fancy new restaurant for the first time: no reviews, no trailers, just enjoy experiencing what the chef has planned for your evening. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/01\/03\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-the-menu\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/01\/03\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-everything-everywhere-all-at-once\/\">&#x1f3a5; Everything Everywhere All At Once<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Confusing, bizarre, hilarious, unexpected, touching, and sweet. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/01\/03\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-everything-everywhere-all-at-once\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/03\/23261\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Welcome to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: \u201cThe 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 ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/03\/23261\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/03\/23261\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/03\/norwescon-43-is-coming-up\/\">Norwescon 43 is Coming Up<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A plug for Norwescon 43, coming up soon! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/03\/norwescon-43-is-coming-up\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/03\/no-more-ads\/\">No More Ads<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">For most of you, this probably wouldn't even be noticeable if I hadn't said anything, because I expect you're either reading through RSS or use an ad blocker. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/03\/no-more-ads\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/03\/on-this-day-jan-3\/\">On This Day: Jan 3<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/03\/on-this-day-jan-3\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/03\/12726\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Looks like I\u2019m just the fifth supporter of The Good News Podcast on Patreon \u2014\u00a0getting in early before the rush! I\u2019ve been enjoying this podcast since it started, so I\u2019m happy to toss them a few bucks a month to keep it going. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/03\/12726\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/03\/20790\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Just saw a cute group of international students playing on the frozen irrigation canal that runs through the #CWU campus. They&#8217;re braver than I am! &#x1f603; #cwupride @cwupride <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/03\/20790\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/03\/19103\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book one of 2016: Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; (3\/366) #chuckpalahniuk <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/03\/19103\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/03\/17214\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Celebrating the car&#8217;s successful resurrection\u2026with booze! :D <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/03\/17214\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/03\/17187\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">One of my stocking stuffers this year was a Newton&#8217;s Cradle desk toy for my work desk. Always liked these things! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/03\/17187\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2013<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/03\/difficult-listening-hour-04\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 04<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The third of my old collection of mix sessions that I'm posting. The keen-eyed might notice that we've jumped straight from DLH02 to DLH04. There is a DLH03, but...well, it wasn't good. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/03\/difficult-listening-hour-04\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2010<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/03\/condition-of-sale\/\">Condition of Sale<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This record is sold upon the express condition that it shall not be copied or duplicated and that the full right of property or possession reverts to the Columbia Phonograph Co. upon violation of this condition. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/03\/condition-of-sale\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/03\/congratulations-royce-and-steph\/\">Congratulations Royce and Steph!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Congratulations and best wishes to Royce and Steph, who are getting married this afternoon...in fact, the ceremony starts in about twenty minutes at the time I write this. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/03\/congratulations-royce-and-steph\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/03\/thomas-jeffersons-koran\/\">Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s Koran<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he'd take his oath of office on the Koran -- especially from Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/03\/thomas-jeffersons-koran\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/03\/first-day-of-school\/\">First Day of School<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, okay, so there wasn't any big yellow school bus for me today. And no, there wasn't a _short_ bus either, smartasses. Still and all, it _was_ my first day in school in fifteen years, so I figured I had to mark the occasion in some form. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/03\/first-day-of-school\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/03\/wishlist-mt-tag-category-plugin\/\">Wishlist: MT &#8216;tag&#8217; category plugin<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">What I want now is a way to use tags in my Movable Type installation rather than categories. Barring some kind soul figuring out how to shoehorn such a thing into MT, though, do any of the current weblogging tools support tag-based categorization? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/03\/wishlist-mt-tag-category-plugin\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/03\/moose-or-mouse\/\">Moose or Mouse?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Moose causes auto accident by climbing inside the driver's pants. Or not. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/03\/moose-or-mouse\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/03\/new-earth-time\/\">New Earth Time<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Rather than having to deal with local time zones and the bother of constantly converting back and forth, NET is an attempt to standardize one global time system. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/03\/new-earth-time\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/03\/congratulations-nasa-spirit-has-landed\/\">Congratulations NASA: Spirit has landed!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It's official: Spirit (the first of two rovers sent to Mars) has landed successfully! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/03\/congratulations-nasa-spirit-has-landed\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/03\/madacy-metadata\/\">Madacy != metadata<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've babbled before about my anal-retentive obsession with metadata when it comes to my music collection. Today, I remembered one of my major frustrations: the Madacy Music Group. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/03\/madacy-metadata\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/03\/netnewswire-display-bug\/\">NetNewsWire display bug<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Has anyone else seen this particular NetNewsWire bug? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/03\/netnewswire-display-bug\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/03\/from-vinyl-to-mp3\/\">From vinyl to .mp3<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The New York Times has a decent overview of how to transfer vinyl recordings to .mp3 (or AAC, or whatever your digital format of choice may be). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/03\/from-vinyl-to-mp3\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/03\/a-tweak-here-a-tweak-there\/\">A tweak here, a tweak there<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Further changes (including some of the ideas that have been tossed at me in the comments to my last post) will appear as I get around to them. In other words, it could be tomorrow, and it could be sometime in 2007. Around here, you just never know. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/03\/a-tweak-here-a-tweak-there\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/03\/everything-old-is-new-again-3\/\">Everything old is new again<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've finally managed to finish up what's been something of an ongoing 'whenever I'm bored' project for the past few months &mdash; re-entering all my old posts (two years worth, approximately 700 or so?) that disappeared when my old webserver died in August. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/03\/everything-old-is-new-again-3\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/03\/tlhingan-hol\/\">tlhIngan Hol<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Did you know that you could Google in Klingon? Completely bizarre. But cool. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/03\/tlhingan-hol\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/03\/wireless-in-the-classroom\/\">Wireless in the classroom<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">In response to this article about the pros and cons of wireless 'net access on campus, Robert Scoble presents a list of suggests as to how teachers can adapt. Rather than panicking and denying all 'net access across the board, why not come up with ways to involve use of the 'net in class? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/03\/wireless-in-the-classroom\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/01\/03\/insomnia\/\">Insomnia<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">And let me dream about making mad love on the heath, tearing off tights with my teeth. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/01\/03\/insomnia\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>1996<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1996\/01\/03\/from-the-archives-1396-0257\/\">[From the archives: 1.3.96 0257]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Okay, changed some things around again. 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