{"id":16491,"date":"2020-01-24T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=16491"},"modified":"2020-04-30T08:23:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:23:15","slug":"on-this-day-jan-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/on-this-day-jan-24\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jan 24"},"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 24\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>32<\/strong> posts previously published on January 24th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/24\/year-50-day-267\/\">Year 50 Day 267<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Yes, it's a cheesy touristy t-shirt, but\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/24\/year-50-day-267\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/24\/my-first-mac\/\">My First Mac<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh, lots of people on Mastodon are posting their #MyFirstMac stories. Of course this is something I'm going to join in on! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/24\/my-first-mac\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/24\/difficult-listening-hour-2021-01-23\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 2021.01.23<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants, let's-see-what-happens mixing. You never know what might fall into one of these! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/24\/difficult-listening-hour-2021-01-23\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/23462\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well\u2026If you&#8217;re going to steal, steal from the best, right? Or, in the words of Oscar Wilde: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/23462\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/23459\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Samsung Galaxy Fold review: The future is an ugly disappointment: &#8220;Should you buy a Galaxy Fold? NO! God no. Are you crazy? The sky-high price, durability issues, nascent form factor, and new screen technology should rule the phone out for just about everyone.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/23459\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/23457\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Star Trek: Picard: Why Trekkies are the greatest fans of all: &#8220;So much sci-fi and fantasy is ugly and dystopian; Star Trek places great faith in humanity. As the film and TV academic Gerry Canavan has observed, &#8216;The idea of Star Trek is that the future might be good; we might be good; we might ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/23457\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/23457\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/dlh-2020-01-23\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 2020.01.23<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I've started doing (hopefully) regular Twitch broadcasts on Thursday nights. These are the results. Anything goes. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/dlh-2020-01-23\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/on-this-day-jan-24\/\">On This Day: Jan 24<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/on-this-day-jan-24\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/24\/13099\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Star Trek: Discovery S02E02: &#x1f44d; I really liked the extrapolation of Clarke\u2019s Third Law; it was new to me, but WikiPedia says that particular variation is also known as Shermer\u2019s Last Law. Michael assuring Pike she wouldn\u2019t make him laugh was the best line of the episode. &#x1f596; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/24\/13099\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/24\/13097\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book seven of 2019: The Way to the Stars, by Una McCormack. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; &#x1f4da; &#x1f596; 16-year-old Tilly must deal with an overbearing mother, boarding school ups and downs, and choosing between what\u2019s expected of her and what actually interests her. A fun, light Trek YA novel. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/24\/13097\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/01\/24\/21519\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book five of 2018: Freeware, by Rudy Rucker. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/01\/24\/21519\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/24\/20898\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book ten of 2017: Were-, edited by Patricia Bray and Joshua Palmatier. &#x1f31f;&#x1f31f;&#x1f31f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/24\/20898\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/24\/20901\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Prairie and I printed out a small stack of #womensmarch postcards to start sending to our representatives. Taking action doesn&#8217;t stop once the rally is done. This is a start. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/24\/20901\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/24\/20904\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My #PKDickAward books are in! I&#8217;ve got until April 14 to get through this stack. No problem! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/24\/20904\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/24\/19205\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sunday is apparently feeling sepia-ish. An uneventful day today. (24\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/24\/19205\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/24\/18622\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A different and more honest shot of the great Ellensburg whirlpool I posed earlier. Not nearly as impressive when you can tell it&#8217;s just an overloaded culvert! ;) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/24\/18622\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/24\/18625\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">So&#8230;Ellensburg. About the giant whirlpool that&#8217;s about to suck us all down into a watery vortex of doom&#8230;. It&#8217;s of some concern. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/24\/18625\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/24\/18628\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#8220;You&#8217;ll never catch me, copper!&#8221; #lego <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/24\/18628\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/24\/17301\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Today&#8217;s socks: Space Invaders! It&#8217;s harder to find fun socks for guys, but we&#8217;ve found a few for me here and there. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/24\/17301\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/24\/17304\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Our room has a view of the swimming pool&#8230;and I-5. ;) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/24\/17304\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/24\/17277\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Good morning! About half an hour to boarding. Still too early to be up and at &#8217;em, but less grumpy now that we&#8217;ve found breakfast. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/24\/17277\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2011<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/01\/24\/last-den-of-sin\/\">Last Den of Sin<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Here are a few shots from Friday night. Everything was shot without flash -- I had my flash with me, but never got around to putting it on the camera. I haven't been able to go completely flash-free at the club in _years_...no matter how I pushed my D70s, it just couldn't quite handle the low light of a goth club. The D7000, though, doesn't even pause. This is fun. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/01\/24\/last-den-of-sin\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/24\/happy-25th-birthday-macintosh\/\">Happy 25th Birthday Macintosh!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Twenty-five years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the original Macintosh: 'The computer for the rest of us.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/24\/happy-25th-birthday-macintosh\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/24\/pimp-my-a95\/\">Pimp my A95<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">In the end, much amusement was had, and my little A95 went through a lot of quite silly experiments. This is the kind of stuff that happens on a slow day in a camera shop. Can't say that I'm complaining. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/24\/pimp-my-a95\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/24\/weird\/\">Weird<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">'I' before 'E', except after 'C'. And unless the word is 'weird'. Why is that? I constantly get it wrong, and it drives me up the wall. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/24\/weird\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/24\/happy-birthday-macintosh\/\">Happy Birthday Macintosh!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'm a bit late to the party on this one, unfortunately, but the Macintosh turned 21 years old today. Even better, there's one heck of a birthday present to the Mac community out on the 'net now: the long-lost video of the original introduction of the Mac by Steve Jobs. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/24\/happy-birthday-macintosh\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/24\/orkut\/\">Orkut<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Much of the buzz this past week that I utterly and completely ignored has been about Orkut, Google's entry into the social networking trend. I've never been too hot about these things &mdash; they seem kind of silly, reducing friendships and acquaintances to the level of Pokemon characters (collect the whole set!). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/24\/orkut\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/24\/happy-b-day-mac\/\">Happy B-day Mac<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">On this day in 1984, the first Mac went on sale. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/24\/happy-b-day-mac\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/24\/over-my-head\/\">Over my head<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'm having a hell of a time getting Image::Magick (a command-line set of Unix tools for manipulating graphics) installed and working on my system so that MovableType can see it. Been banging my head against this for most of the last two days, without much success so far. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/24\/over-my-head\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/24\/enterprise-dear-doctor\/\">Enterprise: Dear Doctor<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Never having watched Quantum Leap very often, I'm not overly familiar with Scott Bakula's acting, and this was one of the first times I really thought I got to see more than a variation of the 'excited kid out playing in the universe' that Archer has been so far (something I chalk up a bit more to the writers than to Bakula's performances as yet). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/24\/enterprise-dear-doctor\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/24\/flaming-down-broadway\/\">Flaming down Broadway<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I hadn't known this before, never having seen the Torch relay before, but it's not done with one runner from start to finish through each town. Rather, they have multiple runners, each one carrying a torch for a short distance, at the end of which the flame is passed on to the next runner with their own torch for the next leg. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/24\/flaming-down-broadway\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/24\/karl-got-fat-erphat-um\/\">Karl got fat! Er&#8230;phat? 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