{"id":16464,"date":"2020-01-10T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=16464"},"modified":"2020-01-06T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:34:34","slug":"on-this-day-jan-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/10\/on-this-day-jan-10\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jan 10"},"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 10\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>34<\/strong> posts previously published on January 10th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/10\/pkd-day\/\">PKD Day<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This year's nominees for the Philip K. Dick award were announced today, and I already have my copies! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/10\/pkd-day\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/10\/facebook-alternatives-an-incomplete-list\/\">Facebook alternatives (an incomplete list)<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">With a lot of people talking about leaving Facebook and other Meta properties, but also often expressing frustration with the most popular other options not having the same functionality, I started thinking about what could be done, where, and how. Here are my initial thoughts. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/10\/facebook-alternatives-an-incomplete-list\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/10\/year-50-day-253\/\">Year 50 Day 253<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Anybody up for a spot of golf? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/10\/year-50-day-253\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/10\/25125\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An Ursula K. Le Guin Short Story Inspired The Big Mystery For \u2018Star Trek: Discovery\u2019 Season 3 \u2013 TrekMovie.com: &#8216;The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas&#8217; is one of Ursula K. Le Guin\u2019s most famous stories and often used in classrooms discussing ethics in literature. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/10\/25125\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/10\/difficult-listening-hour-2021-01-09\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 2021.01.09<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants, let's-see-what-happens mixing. This week ended up being (nearly) all '80s alternative. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/10\/difficult-listening-hour-2021-01-09\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/10\/23346\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The One Remaining Use of the Word \u201cMacintosh\u201d: &#8220;Some weeks ago, I was struck by the thought that Apple had almost entirely managed to scrub its corporate communications of the word &#8216;Macintosh.&#8217; It\u2019s not surprising, of course, but I was curious if the company had slipped up anywhere.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/10\/23346\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/10\/on-this-day-jan-10\/\">On This Day: Jan 10<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/10\/on-this-day-jan-10\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/10\/otc-contraceptives-now-covered-by-insurance-in-washington\/\">OTC Contraceptives Now Covered By Insurance in Washington<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As of January 1, 2019, all Washingtonians with state-regulated insurance can now pick up over-the-counter contraceptives for free at their in-network pharmacies, according to the Office of the Insurance Commissioner. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/10\/otc-contraceptives-now-covered-by-insurance-in-washington\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/10\/12777\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">21st century blogging problems: When a prominent blogger tweets a link to an old blog post of mine about Pixar&#8217;s lack of diversity in their characters that is showing raw Markdown instead of rendered HTML (now fixed, of course). How embarrassing! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/10\/12777\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/10\/20838\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">When we got home yesterday, there was a good four or five inches of snow on the driveway, but we were too tired to deal with it. Then it snowed more today, so we had at least six inches to shovel after work. It sucked, but we did it! Can we be done with winter ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/10\/20838\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/10\/20838\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/10\/19139\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Approaching the end of season six of Voyager. Trying to decide what I think about the introduction of the Borg Babies to the show. (10\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/10\/19139\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/10\/18610\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I haven&#8217;t worn a watch in decades. Got an inexpensive one to start getting used to it again before the Apple Watch is released. Just in case, y&#8217;know. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/10\/18610\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/10\/17244\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Almost the weekend! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/10\/17244\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2013<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/10\/this-far-no-further\/\">This Far, No Further<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I don't mind disagreeing with people, I don't mind people disagreeing with me, and in the right circumstances, calm, rational discussions of disagreements can be quite good. However, the line has to be drawn somewhere, and I've now found two places where I'm quite comfortable drawing that line. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/10\/this-far-no-further\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/10\/give-it-a-crablouse\/\">Give It A Crablouse<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Here's the second of my contributions to mashup culture: Give It A Crablouse (Lord of Acid vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/10\/give-it-a-crablouse\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/10\/mt-ranier-closed\/\">Mt. Ranier Closed<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Good thing we weren't planning on going camping anytime soon... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/10\/mt-ranier-closed\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/10\/itunes-ministore\/\">iTunes MiniStore<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Apparently, one of the changes made to iTunes was **more advertising**! _Yay!_ I was just lamenting the fact that I didn't see enough ads while deciding which song to play next, and here Apple's gone and taken care of that for me. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/10\/itunes-ministore\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/10\/apple-intel-ad-music-moby\/\">Apple Intel Ad Music: Moby<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The music in Apple's clever Intel processor ad sounded _really_ familiar, and after running it around in my head for a bit, I figured it out. It's Moby's 'God Moving Over the Face of the Waters', which I have on the soundtrack to Heat. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/10\/apple-intel-ad-music-moby\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/10\/seablogs-overrun-by-trackback-spam\/\">SeaBlogs Overrun by TrackBack Spam<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is just sad -- sixteen of the twenty-five displayed TrackBack pings to Seablogs are TrackBack spam. Is anyone paying attention to moderating the site? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/10\/seablogs-overrun-by-trackback-spam\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/10\/seattle-pillow-fight\/\">Seattle Pillow Fight<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">So here's the deal... **SEATTLE PILLOW FIGHT** is going to be a Guinness World Record breaking event held right here in Seattle **THIS SPRING IN 2006**! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/10\/seattle-pillow-fight\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/10\/macworld-06-dawn-of-the-intelmac\/\">Macworld &#8217;06: Dawn of the i(ntel)Mac<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Big news of the day, of course, is Steve Jobs' keynote address at Macworld 2006. I'm not exactly up-to-the-minute on this, but I just got home from school and I'm watching the video stream of the keynote now. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/10\/macworld-06-dawn-of-the-intelmac\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/10\/bloggers-rights-and-blogophobia\/\">Bloggers&#8217; Rights and Blogophobia<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">With the news of another weblogger losing his job because of posts on his weblog the issues of what webloggers can and cannot expect to be able to post on their weblogs has started bubbling 'round the blogosphere again. Now there's a proposed Bloggers' Bill of Rights &mdash; but how useful is it? And which companies should really be singled out? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/10\/bloggers-rights-and-blogophobia\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/10\/dominant-intelligence\/\">Dominant Intelligence<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/10\/dominant-intelligence\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/10\/the-phantom-in-15-minutes\/\">The Phantom in 15 Minutes<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">While she's not posting much at the moment due to work on a book, Cleolinda Jones has graced us with another Movies in 15 Minutes parody: The Phantom of the Opera. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/10\/the-phantom-in-15-minutes\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/10\/occams-razor\/\">Occam&#8217;s Razor<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An investigation has begun after a couple found pornographic pictures on a new digital camera they had bought. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/10\/occams-razor\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/10\/im-too-sexy-for-my-blog\/\">I&#8217;m too sexy for my blog<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">New tagline for the blog went up today. Inspiration should be blatantly obvious. ;) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/10\/im-too-sexy-for-my-blog\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/10\/fish-heads-fish-heads-roly-poly-fish-heads\/\">Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">There's a (mostly) amusing article in the Seattle PI today about the 'War of the Fish' &mdash; that is, the 'Jesus Fish' and the many variations plastered over cars all over the place. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/10\/fish-heads-fish-heads-roly-poly-fish-heads\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/10\/free-association-job-possibilities-and-haiku\/\">Free association, job possibilities, and haiku<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">If I'd been kidnapped by alien space pirates and forced to endure hours upon hours of back to back Hardy Boys television episodes overdubbed in Tagalog in a devious attempt to brainwash me and force me to assassinate Sonny Bono with nothing but a Ronco Turnip Twaddler, three jars of Nutella hazelnut spread, and a 5-inch length of dental floss -- that would be worth writing about. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/10\/free-association-job-possibilities-and-haiku\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>1995<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1995\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11095-0448\/\">[From Usenet: 1.10.95 0448]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I do suppose, while not being necessarily one of the 'big names' (with a gun? sorry...seemingly obligatory lyrics reference) on a.m.nin, I might as well pitch in... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1995\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11095-0448\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>1994<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1994\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11094-0643\/\">[From Usenet: 1.10.94 0643]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is hardly official, but as far as I know... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1994\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11094-0643\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1994\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11094-0610\/\">[From Usenet 1.10.94 0610]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Was curious as to whether anyone knew of an ftp site with .gifs of the cover art to any or all of KMFDM's albums...I love Brute's artwork, and would love to get my hands on some. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1994\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11094-0610\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1994\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11094-0552\/\">[From Usenet: 1.10.94 0552]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Really?  Bizarre...up here in Anchorage, it actually is fairly 'easy to find,' as both locations of Mammoth Music (the local 'alternative' music store) regularly have at least one copy on the shelves, and I even see it fairly regularly at Camelot... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1994\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11094-0552\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1994\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11094-0539-2\/\">[From Usenet: 1.10.94 0539]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">You might want to try... ftp.uwp.edu\/pub\/music\/pictures I've gotten some fun stuffs from there...but if anyone else has some good places to go, please clue me in also...  <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1994\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11094-0539-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1994\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11094-0539\/\">[From Usenet 1.10.94 0539]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">First off, I'm insanely jealous whenever someone casually starts off a post about BlackHappy with 'some friends of mine....' `<grin>` Anway... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1994\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11094-0539\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}