{"id":16452,"date":"2020-01-04T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=16452"},"modified":"2020-01-06T08:34:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:34:39","slug":"on-this-day-jan-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/04\/on-this-day-jan-4\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jan 4"},"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 4\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>34<\/strong> posts previously published on January 4th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/04\/uncanny-magazine-issue-62-edited-by-lynne-m-thomas-michael-damian-thomas-and-michi-trota\/\">Uncanny Magazine Issue 62 edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Monte Lin, and Betsy Aoki<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Favorites by Scott Lynch and J.R. Dawson. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/04\/uncanny-magazine-issue-62-edited-by-lynne-m-thomas-michael-damian-thomas-and-michi-trota\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/04\/year-50-day-247\/\">Year 50 Day 247<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I look like a Starfleet Academy PeeChee folder. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/04\/year-50-day-247\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/01\/04\/museum-of-flight\/\">Museum of Flight<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Went out to the Museum of Flight and took a few shots with my DSLR for the first time in something over three years. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/01\/04\/museum-of-flight\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/04\/dj-wudi-in-2020\/\">DJ W\u00fcdi in 2020<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A roundup of my year bringing DJ W\u00fcdi out of retirement. Thanks for listening! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/04\/dj-wudi-in-2020\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/04\/difficult-listening-hour-2021-01-02-happy-new-year\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 2021.01.02: Happy New Year!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Basically, I just did a search for 'new' in my music collection and then winged it from there. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/04\/difficult-listening-hour-2021-01-02-happy-new-year\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/04\/23264\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Out for a night of goth clubbing at The Mercury. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/04\/23264\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/04\/on-this-day-jan-4\/\">On This Day: Jan 4<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/04\/on-this-day-jan-4\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/04\/20808\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This much winter is a new thing for the #tinydinosaur (not so new for me, though). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/04\/20808\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/04\/20811\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The #tinydinosaur thought that Batman V Superman was spectacular\u2026ly stupid. Wonder Woman really was the only worthwhile part. Is there a bootleg 10-minute WW edit somewhere out there? #batman #superman #wonderwoman #batmanvsuperman <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/04\/20811\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/04\/20814\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Traveling can be stressful, so the #tinydinosaur recommends the occasional ice cream break. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/04\/20814\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/04\/20817\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">People watching with the #tinydinosaur at SeaTac airport. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/04\/20817\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/04\/20787\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book two of 2016: Windows on a Lost World, by V. E. Mitchell. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; #startrek #tos <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/04\/20787\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/04\/19130\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Can we just be done with this already? (Answer: no. More snow predicted.) (4\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/04\/19130\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/04\/18586\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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&#8217;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. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/04\/18586\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/04\/17211\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A nice walk by the Yakima river on a brisk winter&#8217;s morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/04\/17211\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2013<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/04\/mission-accomplished\/\">Mission Accomplished<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/04\/mission-accomplished\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2011<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/01\/04\/moving-hell-part-ii\/\">Moving Hell, Part II<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The following is a list of issues we have discovered with the property over the past 36 hours. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/01\/04\/moving-hell-part-ii\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/01\/04\/adventures-in-moving-hell\/\">Adventures in Moving Hell<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Once again: Wish us luck! We need it! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/01\/04\/adventures-in-moving-hell\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2010<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/04\/school-schedule-winter-quarter-2010\/\">School Schedule, Winter Quarter 2010<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/04\/school-schedule-winter-quarter-2010\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/04\/delicious-december-16th-2\/\">Links for December 16th through January 4th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between December 16th and January 4th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0Why Is JJ Abrams Obsessed With Alice in Wonderland? \u2022\u00a0Population of the Dead \u2022 The Weekly World News on Google Books \u2022 This Dumb Decade: The 87 Lamest Moments in Tech, 2000-2009 \u2022 20 Greatest SF Movies of the Past Decade <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/04\/delicious-december-16th-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/04\/christmas-in-alaska-2\/\">Christmas in Alaska<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It took a few days, but the photos from our trip up to Anchorage to visit my parents are finally up. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/04\/christmas-in-alaska-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/04\/the-future-is-not-what-it-used-to-be\/\">The Future is Not What It Used to Be<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/04\/the-future-is-not-what-it-used-to-be\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/04\/platos-a-putz\/\">Plato&#8217;s a Putz<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/04\/platos-a-putz\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/04\/quick-review-the-lion-in-winter\/\">Quick Review: The Lion in Winter<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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 &mdash; what a wonderful, deliciously wicked film! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/04\/quick-review-the-lion-in-winter\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/04\/my-best-photos-of-2004\/\">My best photos of 2004<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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?). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/04\/my-best-photos-of-2004\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/04\/can-corporations-lie\/\">Can corporations lie?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/04\/can-corporations-lie\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/04\/i-wish\/\">I wish&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/04\/i-wish\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/04\/rick-sent-me-this-quote\/\">Rick sent me this quote<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/04\/rick-sent-me-this-quote\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/04\/the-new-album-from-mc-escher-please-escher-dont-hurt-em-featuring-the-hit-single-you-cant-draw-this\/\">The new album from M.C. Escher, &#8216;Please Escher Don&#8217;t Hurt &#8216;Em,&#8217; featuring the hit single, &#8216;You Can&#8217;t Draw This!&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/04\/the-new-album-from-mc-escher-please-escher-dont-hurt-em-featuring-the-hit-single-you-cant-draw-this\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/04\/twitch\/\">Twitch<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is how my friends drink coffee. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/04\/twitch\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/04\/now-thats-a-big-gun\/\">Now that&#8217;s a big gun<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Maglev technology, basically a big railgun, powering craft from the ground into space. Does my little sci-fi geek heart proud. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/04\/now-thats-a-big-gun\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/04\/chads-birthday\/\">Chad&#8217;s birthday<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/04\/chads-birthday\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/04\/four-oh-four\/\">Four Oh Four<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/04\/four-oh-four\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/01\/04\/i-am-jacks-sense-of-apathy\/\">I am Jack&#8217;s sense of apathy.<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is your life. Doesn't get any better than this. 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