{"id":16481,"date":"2020-01-19T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=16481"},"modified":"2020-01-06T08:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:35:42","slug":"on-this-day-jan-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/19\/on-this-day-jan-19\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jan 19"},"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 19\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>26<\/strong> posts previously published on January 19th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/19\/wallace-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl\/\">Wallace &#038; Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f3a5;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: You really can't go wrong with W&G, particularly when there's an evil mastermind penguin in the mix. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/19\/wallace-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/19\/year-50-day-262\/\">Year 50 Day 262<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We actually managed to make it home when there was still light in the sky. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/19\/year-50-day-262\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/01\/19\/unlocking-the-magic-edited-by-vivian-caethe\/\">&#x1f4da; Unlocking the Magic edited by Vivian Caethe<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Definitely some dark moments, but overall, a thread of hope runs through all of the stories. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/01\/19\/unlocking-the-magic-edited-by-vivian-caethe\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/19\/25156\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I now have a never ending, ever morphing, randomly generated mishmash of Wellerman, the COVID rewrite, and the Star Trek filk version on loop in my head. Thanks, Internet. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/19\/25156\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/19\/president-boring\/\">President Boring<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">He's going to be _so_ much better than what we've had and what we would have had if that continued. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/19\/president-boring\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/19\/23419\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This Twitter thread of someone watching The Princess Bride for the first time is wonderful. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/19\/23419\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/19\/on-this-day-jan-19\/\">On This Day: Jan 19<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 19 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/19\/on-this-day-jan-19\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/19\/13085\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">For the third year running, we hit the Seattle Women\u2019s March today. A small selection of photos is on my Flickr account (because something choked my blog when I tried to send them here\u2026I\u2019ll look into that some other time). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/19\/13085\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/19\/20892\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">At the #ghostlightproject vigil put on by the CWU Theatre department students. #ghostlight #bealight #iamalight <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/19\/20892\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/19\/19190\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">And here we go again. I&#8217;m so done with this. I should move back to Alaska to get away from all this snow! ;) #noishouldnt (19\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/19\/19190\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/19\/19163\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We had an unexpected visitor in our backyard this morning. Neat to see, but hoping it doesn&#8217;t become a regular (apparently they&#8217;re not good for birds or gardens). #kitty #notakitty #raccoon <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/19\/19163\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/19\/17265\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Almost forgot to take my picture today. Good thing this moose was here to remind me. Someone&#8217;s gotta keep me on track! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/19\/17265\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2010<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/19\/delicious-january-18th\/\">Links for January 18th through January 19th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between January 18th and January 19th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0H. G. Wells on 'Metropolis' (1927) \u2022 Offline Book &quot;Lending&quot; Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion \u2022\u00a0AirTran 297 - Anatomy of an Urban Legend \u2022 Dear God, please confirm what I already believe \u2022 Insanely Vulgar 'Better Off Ted' Outtakes (NSFW Video) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/19\/delicious-january-18th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/19\/top-100-sci-fifantasy-novels-of-all-time\/\">Top 100 Sci-Fi\/Fantasy Novels of All Time<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Obviously, a list like this one is subject to a _lot_ of debate due to everyone's personal taste. Still, it's not a bad list of works. Herewith, in true blog-meme style, the list, with those that I've read in **bold**. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/01\/19\/top-100-sci-fifantasy-novels-of-all-time\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/19\/george-w-bushs-last-day-in-office\/\">George W. Bush&#8217;s Last Day in Office!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The legacy of President George W. Bush in a 9:20 summary by Keith Olbermann. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/19\/george-w-bushs-last-day-in-office\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/19\/not-with-my-300-million-you-dont\/\">Not with my $300 million, you don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">You want $300 million of _my_ tax dollars? Put the money towards something -- or _anything_ -- that would actually benefit _everyone_, not just those who get their rocks off by watching _other_ people play a game. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/19\/not-with-my-300-million-you-dont\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/19\/beastie-boys-are-the-new-bon-jovi\/\">Beastie Boys are the new Bon Jovi<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The camera-toting fans took those instructions to heart. They shot the band, they shot the fans, they shot their fellow camera operators. Four even took their cameras along on their bathroom breaks. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/19\/beastie-boys-are-the-new-bon-jovi\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/19\/french-headmaster-dooced\/\">French Headmaster Dooced<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The headmaster of a technical school in Lozere, France, has been dismissed after discovery of his anonymously-written weblog, which was deemed obscene and pornographic. Apparently he was discovered when he posted his photo in a recent entry. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/19\/french-headmaster-dooced\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/19\/all-request-saturday\/\">All Request Saturday<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Something about me you'd like to know? Something you'd like me to ramble on about? Pick a topic, any topic, and drop it in the comments. Come Saturday, I'll go through what (if anything) is there and start babbling. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/19\/all-request-saturday\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/19\/prior-art-for-nofollow-blocking\/\">Prior art for &#8216;nofollow&#8217; blocking<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Most of the time I see block-level 'nofollow' mentioned, credit has gone to Brad Choate's post from Feb. 2002. However, the idea itself dates as far back as Jan. 2001 in Zoltan Milosevic's Fluid Dynamics Search Engine. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/19\/prior-art-for-nofollow-blocking\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/19\/battling-the-spammers\/\">Battling the spammers<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">After a comment spam attack brings my server to its knees, I rename the comment and trackback scripts only to have the attacks begin again as soon as the files are rebuilt and the spamming scripts target the new script location. This sucks a lot, and I'm really not sure where to go from here outside of disabling comments entirely on the affected sites. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/19\/battling-the-spammers\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/19\/dialogue-while-watching-a-movie\/\">Dialogue while watching a movie<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">You sure you don't want any cookie? I've got a tasty little bite here, you wouldn't even have to chew it! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/19\/dialogue-while-watching-a-movie\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/19\/local-excitement-dumb-criminals\/\">Local excitement, dumb criminals<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">More than 200 guests were trapped in a Bellevue hotel for 4 1\/2 hours yesterday morning as FBI agents negotiated with bank robbery suspects barricaded inside. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/19\/local-excitement-dumb-criminals\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/19\/evolution\/\">Evolution<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It's kind of a slow Saturday today, so Candice and I rented a couple movies to kill the day with. She's working on homework while I watch the flicks, and the first one I checked out was <b>Evolution<\/b>. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/19\/evolution\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/01\/19\/a-dark-day-for-buttrock\/\">A dark day for buttrock<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, just found out that Metallica's bassist has quit the band. I'm just kind of curious how long it'll take before we start hearing news stories about the majority of the Mat-Su valley slitting their wrists in dispair.... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/01\/19\/a-dark-day-for-buttrock\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>1999<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1999\/01\/19\/from-usenet-11999-0000\/\">[From Usenet: 1.19.99 0000]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Incidentally, she just provided the voice for one of the supporting characters in the animated film 'Prince of Egypt' - I figured it was her when I heard her sing, then checked the credits to be sure.  <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1999\/01\/19\/from-usenet-11999-0000\/\">&#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 19<\/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-16481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481","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=16481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}