{"id":16489,"date":"2020-01-23T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=16489"},"modified":"2020-01-06T08:36:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:36:45","slug":"on-this-day-jan-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/23\/on-this-day-jan-23\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jan 23"},"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 23\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>22<\/strong> posts previously published on January 23rd<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/23\/year-50-day-266\/\">Year 50 Day 266<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Kicking back in the optometrist's waiting area. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/23\/year-50-day-266\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/01\/23\/%f0%9f%93%9a-speaker-for-the-dead-by-orson-scott-card\/\">&#x1f4da; Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Another book that makes me wish Card wasn't so problematic, so I wouldn't feel kind of guilty about enjoying his books. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/01\/23\/%f0%9f%93%9a-speaker-for-the-dead-by-orson-scott-card\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/23\/star-trek-picard-s01e01-remembrance\/\">Star Trek: Picard S01E01 Remembrance<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As wonderful as it is to see Jean-Luc on screen again, and as gorgeous as the episode was, I do have some slight reservations. But this is just episode one, and they had a lot of groundwork to get in place. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the start. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/23\/star-trek-picard-s01e01-remembrance\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/23\/on-this-day-jan-23\/\">On This Day: Jan 23<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 23 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/23\/on-this-day-jan-23\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/23\/linkdump-for-january-11th-through-january-23rd\/\">Linkdump for January 11th through January 23rd<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between January 11th and January 23rd. \u2022 A meteor hit the moon during the lunar eclipse. Here&rsquo;s what we know. \u2022\u00a0DuckDuckGo Taps Apple Maps to Power Private Search Results \u2022 To save the sound of a Stradivarius, a whole city must keep quiet \u2022\u00a0An Idea for Electoral College Reform That Both Parties Might Actually Like \u2022\u00a0he oral history of the Hampsterdance: The twisted true story of one of the world's first memes <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/23\/linkdump-for-january-11th-through-january-23rd\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/01\/23\/21522\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A full set of 2018 #pkdickaward nominees to read before the award ceremony at #nwc41. Better get started! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/01\/23\/21522\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/23\/19178\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book four of 2016: Nexus, by Ramez Naam. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; #rameznaam #PKDickAward pre-nominee. (23\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/23\/19178\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/23\/17280\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I wore my dinosaur socks today. Raaaaawwrrrrr!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/23\/17280\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/23\/17283\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Ahhh, the SeaTac DoubleTree &#8211; our home away from home! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/23\/17283\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/23\/drama-and-disappointment\/\">Drama and Disappointment<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As I mentioned Xebeth and her situation a few times on this site, I've gotten a few inquiries as to her current situation, as it's been a while since I've mentioned her. This is why. She's not dying -- but, I'm sad to say, it appears that she's not well, either. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/23\/drama-and-disappointment\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/23\/attention-tomato-scouts\/\">Attention Tomato Scouts!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Not only is Jason gracing us with a free song every week (starting this week), but the old, mostly broken, overrun-by-spam guestbook has been replaced with a new, not at all broken forum. And there was much rejoicing. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/23\/attention-tomato-scouts\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/23\/note-contains-nudity\/\">Note: Contains Nudity<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is one of the funniest things I've seen today: Netflix' summary for a movie titled 'Sexmission'... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/23\/note-contains-nudity\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/23\/stop\/\">Stop!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Windows Error Message Generator allowed me to recreate (to the best of my ability) the single funniest and most exasperating error messages I've ever seen on a Windows machine. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/23\/stop\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/read-this\/\">Read this.<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Any attempt at an introduction or pullquote wouldn't do this justice, so just go read it. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/read-this\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/most-blogged-books-of-2003\/\">Most-blogged books of 2003<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Another list post, this time, All Consuming's list of the most-blogged books of 2003. As before, books in bold and prefaced with &raquo; I've read. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/most-blogged-books-of-2003\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/the-real-state-of-the-union\/\">The real State of the Union<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I found this link purporting to be a remix of this year's State of the Union address (much like one from last year), but given the content of the snippets used, I think that it's just another take on last year's speech. It's still bizarre and often laugh-out-loud funny, though. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/the-real-state-of-the-union\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/aol-presidential-match\/\">AOL Presidential Match<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Lane pointed out the AOL presidential selector today, so I wandered over to take a look. It's quite similar to the Presidential Candidate Selector that I pointed out last July, though the results were a bit different (of course, the possible candidates are different now, and there has been more time for all of them to fine-tune their policies and messages). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/aol-presidential-match\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/itms-rss-feeds\/\">iTMS RSS feeds<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">For any of you RSS\/Newsreader junkies out there: you can now create customized RSS feeds from the iTunes Music Store. New releases, just added, top sellers, just the categories and information you want. Quite nifty. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/itms-rss-feeds\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/lizette-album-available\/\">Lizette&#038; album available<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've mentioned the band Lizette&amp; before. When I got up this morning, I found a comment from their drummer, Alex, letting me know that their album is (finally) now available for order through their website! I've been waiting for this one for a while. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/lizette-album-available\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/plot-vs-monster-of-the-week\/\">Plot vs. Monster of the Week<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The more I watch of Buffy, I'm starting to notice one definite similarity between my enjoyment of that show and my enjoyment of the X-Files. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/plot-vs-monster-of-the-week\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/23\/if-it-feels-good-do-it\/\">If it feels good, do it.<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I am committed to defeating, not only the good work of charities, but the values that will bring lasting peace. And we have a great opportunity during this time of war to lead the world towards suicide, and murder. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/23\/if-it-feels-good-do-it\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>1997<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1997\/01\/23\/from-usenet-12397-0000-2\/\">[From Usenet: 1.23.97 0000]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I am curious as to how well it presents the principles of taoism. What I read I liked, and have kept with me since then, and I'm becoming more interested in exploring this further. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1997\/01\/23\/from-usenet-12397-0000-2\/\">&#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 23<\/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-16489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16489","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=16489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}