{"id":23467,"date":"2020-02-02T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23467"},"modified":"2020-01-25T10:53:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T18:53:33","slug":"on-this-day-feb-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/02\/on-this-day-feb-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Feb 2"},"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.<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>27<\/strong> posts previously published on February 2nd<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/02\/02\/groundhog-day\/\">Groundhog Day<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f3a5;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Always good, every time. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/02\/02\/groundhog-day\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/02\/02\/back-in-action\/\">Back in Action<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f3a5;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Nothing groundbreaking, but makes for a fine bit of afternoon entertainment. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/02\/02\/back-in-action\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/02\/year-50-day-276\/\">Year 50 Day 276<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It's the end of the week! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/02\/year-50-day-276\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/02\/02\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-legacy-of-molly-southbourne-by-tade-thompson\/\">&#x1f4da; The Legacy of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">No review, as this book is a Philip K. Dick Award nominee, and I am the coordinator for the award ceremony at Norwescon. While I have no input into the selection of nominees or judging, I want to be sure to avoid any appearance of influence. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/02\/02\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-legacy-of-molly-southbourne-by-tade-thompson\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/02\/02\/25177\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">All of this year\u2019s Philip K. Dick Award nominees have arrived! Two months to get through them all (plus two more that are predecessors of books in this stack). Will I make it? &#x1f4da; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/02\/02\/25177\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/02\/on-this-day-feb-2\/\">On This Day: Feb 2<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/02\/on-this-day-feb-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/02\/02\/21537\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, what else would we be watching tonight? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/02\/02\/21537\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/02\/02\/20913\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Saw this while walking on the Ganges. Either this bridge (which carries one of the campus steam heating pipes) has a pretty severe leak, or the winter river gods were very happy to see me! &#x1f609;&#x1f602; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/02\/02\/20913\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/02\/02\/20916\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Last week I got brave\/foolish enough to climb down to walk along the frozen Ganges (the irrigation canal that runs through campus). Figured I might as well do it once while I could! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/02\/02\/20916\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/02\/02\/19232\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Some nights you just need to build a cute little #Lego #mixels guy. (33\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/02\/02\/19232\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/02\/02\/17353\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Did a photo a day all January, then missed yesterday. Meh. Ah well, there were some days I did more than one, so my average will still be on point. Meanwhile, this is what happens when I get lazy about shaving for a week. Scruffy! Time to take care of that. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/02\/02\/17353\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/02\/02\/delicious-january-30th\/\">Links for January 30th through February 2nd<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between January 30th and February 2nd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/02\/02\/delicious-january-30th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/02\/throwing-down-the-gauntlet\/\">Throwing down the gauntlet&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Bill Gates: Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/02\/throwing-down-the-gauntlet\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/02\/glterminal\/\">GLTerminal<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Best. Terminal. Evar.: GLTerminal. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/02\/glterminal\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/02\/amazon-prime\/\">Amazon Prime<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I am very excited to announce Amazon Prime, our first ever membership program, which provides 'all-you-can-eat' express shipping. It's simple: for a flat annual membership fee, you get unlimited two-day shipping for free on over a million in-stock items. Members also get overnight shipping for only $3.99 per item -- order as late as 6:30PM ET. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/02\/amazon-prime\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/02\/no-more-combined-feeds\/\">No more combined feeds<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">While I'd been considering this for a little while, Dave's 'Information Aversion' post prompted me to un-splice my Flickr photos from my RSS feeds. Having done that, I've updated my feeds page to list my current available syndication feeds, all broken out to allow readers to subscribe to as much or as little of my drivel as they please. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/02\/no-more-combined-feeds\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/02\/state-of-the-union-2005\/\">State of the Union 2005<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">'Liveblogging' (though I won't actually post this until afterwards) the State of the Union. I'm not sure why, all it's going to do is annoy me. But still... [Speakeasy had sudden network issues midway through the SotU, so I didn't get to see all of it. Lots of grumbles about what I did see, though.] <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/02\/state-of-the-union-2005\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/02\/jumping-the-gun\/\">Jumping the gun?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">All this, and it's just barely into February. That just doesn't seem right. Okay, so I'm not in Alaska anymore, where February tends to be the coldest and most bitter weeks of winter, but isn't it just a bit early for weather like this, even here in Seattle? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/02\/jumping-the-gun\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/happy-blogaversary\/\">Happy Blogaversary!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Congrats to Kirsten on her one-year 'blogaversary', complete with spiffy new site design! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/happy-blogaversary\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/teaching-technical-writing\/\">Teaching? Technical writing?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Every so often, a topic pops up in the TypePad User Group forums that I feel I can add my own particular little brand of insight into, and I'll spend some time doing my best to explain (often in excruciating detail) what's going on. I recently got a very nice comment from Doc in response to one such post. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/teaching-technical-writing\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/only-just-beginning\/\">Only Just Beginning<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">There once was a boy who remembered that his heart did not ever really belong to him. So he tried to give it back to the sky. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/only-just-beginning\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/rss-feeds-updated\/\">RSS feeds updated<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've updated, rearranged, and cleaned up the RSS feeds for Eclecticism. Hopefully I haven't just screwed things up too horribly for those of you who subscribe to one feed or another. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/rss-feeds-updated\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/new-category-design-tweaks\/\">New category, design tweaks<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Following up on my thought process, I've added a 15Minutes archive category that collects all posts related to my experiences with blogging my way out of a job. I've also made some other slight design tweaks. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/new-category-design-tweaks\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/one-more-mention\/\">One more mention<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I need to set up a 'fifteen minutes' category&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/one-more-mention\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/thats-no-pastie\/\">That&#8217;s no pastie!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Ah, well -- my views aren't about to change anyone's mind. Still, I'm constantly frustrated by a culture that glorifies violence and vilifies sexuality (unless it's being used to sell something). Seems pretty backwards. But that's just me. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/thats-no-pastie\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/welcome-katya\/\">Welcome, Katya!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Many congratulations to Casey and Jennifer, who became the proud parents of Katarina Anne Scott on the 19th! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/02\/welcome-katya\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/02\/02\/balls-and-beats\/\">Balls and beats<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I also may have an opportunity to start spinning again...albeit in sort of a cheezy fashion. 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