{"id":16477,"date":"2020-01-17T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=16477"},"modified":"2020-01-06T08:35:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:35:34","slug":"on-this-day-jan-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/17\/on-this-day-jan-17\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jan 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<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 17\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>28<\/strong> posts previously published on January 17th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/17\/year-50-day-260\/\">Year 50 Day 260<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A two-hour late start and then working from home today. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/17\/year-50-day-260\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/17\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-museum-of-human-history-by-rebekah-bergman\/\">&#x1f4da; The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The third of this year\u2019s Philip K. Dick Award nominees. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/17\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-museum-of-human-history-by-rebekah-bergman\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/17\/25139\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 3\/2021: Ringworld by Larry Niven &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; 1971 Hugo Best Novel This was one of my formative SF books of childhood, and for the most part, still holds up well, especially in the sheer mind-boggling nature of the Ringworld itself and the true alien-ness of the puppeteers. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/17\/25139\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/17\/23414\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Goop\u2019s Netflix series: It\u2019s so much worse than I expected and I can\u2019t unsee it: &#8220;Disclaimer: This review contains detailed information about the Netflix series the goop lab with Gwyneth Paltrow. If you plan to watch the show (please, don&#8217;t) and do not wish to know details in advance, this is not the review for ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/17\/23414\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/17\/23414\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/17\/23412\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">YouTube RSS: &#8220;1. First I find a YouTube channel I want to watch. 2. View its source code in my browser 3. Search for &#8216;channelid&#8217; 4. And append the Channel ID to the end of this URL https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/feeds\/videos.xml?channel_id=&#8220; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/17\/23412\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/17\/on-this-day-jan-17\/\">On This Day: Jan 17<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 17 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/17\/on-this-day-jan-17\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/17\/23409\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I&#8217;ll admit, I never was much for Thomas the Tank Engine\u2026but I think I&#8217;m all sorts of interested in the reboot. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/17\/23409\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/17\/they-should-have-sent-a-poet\/\">They Should Have Sent A Poet\u2026<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Every macOS wallpaper from Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah to macOS 10.15 Catalina combined <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/17\/they-should-have-sent-a-poet\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/17\/13069\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book five of 2019: The Once and Future King, by T.H. White. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; 1939 Retro Hugo Best Novel\u00a0&#x1f4da; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/17\/13069\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/01\/17\/21531\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book four of 2018: Wetware, by Rudy Rucker. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/01\/17\/21531\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/17\/19169\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book three of 2016: Seveneves by #nealstephenson. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; (17\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/17\/19169\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/17\/17247\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Friday night of a three day weekend! Hope all of you enjoy yours. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/17\/17247\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/17\/17250\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Really foggy morning today, the campus just seems to disappear. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/17\/17250\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2011<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/01\/17\/moving-to-ellensburg-part-iii\/\">Moving to Ellensburg, Part III<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The moral of the story? If you're looking for rental properties in Ellensburg, _stay away_ from Ellensburg Property Management, LLC. Andrew at Hatlestad Investment Group, LLC, however? Originally, we thought he was good. No longer recommended. See update at the end of this post and comments from others. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/01\/17\/moving-to-ellensburg-part-iii\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/01\/17\/moving-to-ellensburg-part-ii\/\">Moving to Ellensburg, Part II<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Okay. So at the end of Part I of this little adventure, I'd left off with ominous words about how moving in to the new apartment did not go smoothly. That's actually something of an understatement! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/01\/17\/moving-to-ellensburg-part-ii\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/01\/17\/moving-to-ellensburg-part-i\/\">Moving to Ellensburg, Part I<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Bet'cha you never expected _those_ words to come from me, did'ja? But you did, and this is the point where I can finally publicly ramble on about what I haven't been allowed to talk about until now. Here's the deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/01\/17\/moving-to-ellensburg-part-i\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2010<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/17\/delicious-january-13th\/\">Links for January 13th through January 17th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between January 13th and January 17th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022 U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on Petition-Signers&rsquo; Rights \u2022 Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets \u2022\u00a0Here's to Planet Earth! Doomsday Clock Moved Back 1 Minute \u2022\u00a0Pat Robertson Cites Haiti&rsquo;s Earthquake as What Happens When You &lsquo;Swear a Pact to the Devil&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/17\/delicious-january-13th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/17\/disaffected\/\">Disaffected!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Disaffected! - a videogame parody of the Kinko\u2019s copy store, a source of frustration from its patrons. Disaffected! puts the player in the role employees forced to service customers under the particular incompetences common to a Kinko\u2019s store. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/17\/disaffected\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/17\/technorati-tags\/\">Technorati Tags<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Change of plans as far as my keywords\/tags project goes. Thanks to George's TechoratiTags plugin, I'm now listing tags in the metadata for each post, just underneath the title. The tags are drawn from the keywords for each entry, and clicking on any one of them will take you to that tag's Technorati search page. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/17\/technorati-tags\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/17\/god-save-the-queen\/\">God Save the Queen<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">According to Alabama's ABC affiliate, rap legend and actress Queen Latifah, well&hellip;just isn't looking herself lately. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/17\/god-save-the-queen\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/17\/thats-up-to-us-as-voters\/\">That&#8217;s up to us as voters<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Something tells me Maj. Haugen won't be casting his vote for Pres. Bush come November. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/17\/thats-up-to-us-as-voters\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/17\/more-colorcode-tweaking\/\">More color\/code tweaking<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've also managed to get the hide\/show smileys function when leaving comments working, thanks to a new Scriptygoddess script (that I even helped debug &mdash; go me!), and I think (though feel free to correct me on this) that I've got the 'Remember Me' function when leaving comments fixed too. Just so all five (actually, I might be up to eight!) of my regular visitors won't have to keep entering their information into the form. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/17\/more-colorcode-tweaking\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/17\/tia-getting-the-smackdown\/\">TIA getting the smackdown<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've mentioned the Total Information Awareness program a couple times here, usually in a context of horror and bemused amazement at a program so tailor-made for conspiracy theorists. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/17\/tia-getting-the-smackdown\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/17\/suckers\/\">Suckers<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">How absolutely mindblowingly perfect is this? A French yacht taking place in a round-the-world sailing race was attacked by a giant squid. The perfect part? The trophy they're going for is the Jules Verne around-the-world sailing trophy. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/17\/suckers\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/17\/sound-familiar\/\">Sound familiar?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Excellent op-ed piece over at Slate right now: Fool me twice &mdash; the press swallows a story. Be sure to read all the way through, of course. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/17\/sound-familiar\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/17\/enterprise-silent-enemy\/\">Enterprise: Silent Enemy<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It's just starting to seem like their desire to be the first explorers from space is getting in the way of their better judgement -- almost like they're afraid that if they do go back to earth, they won't be allowed to go play anymore. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/17\/enterprise-silent-enemy\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/01\/17\/lock-stock-and-logans-garden-stomper\/\">Lock, Stock and Logan&#8217;s Garden Stomper<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">First off, just finished watching Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, which I borrowed from a co-worker. Absolutely hilarious little crime drama. 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