{"id":23469,"date":"2020-02-03T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23469"},"modified":"2020-01-25T10:53:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T18:53:50","slug":"on-this-day-feb-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/03\/on-this-day-feb-3\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Feb 3"},"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 3rd<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/02\/03\/norwescon-thursday-dance-sneak-peek\/\">Norwescon Thursday Dance Sneak Peek<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Here's a two-minute silent sneak peek video of my visual setup for the upcoming NWC47 dance. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/02\/03\/norwescon-thursday-dance-sneak-peek\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/03\/year-50-day-277\/\">Year 50 Day 277<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Love this goofball mix of goth, retro, and just plain silly. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/03\/year-50-day-277\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/02\/03\/jelli-m1-mask-unboxing-and-review\/\">Jelli M1 Mask Unboxing and Review<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Reviewing a new transparent and filtered face mask. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/02\/03\/jelli-m1-mask-unboxing-and-review\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/03\/23551\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Old CSS, new CSS: &#8220;I\u2019m here to tell all of you to get off my lawn. Here\u2019s a history of CSS and web design, as I remember it.&#8221; This is a wonderful rundown of how HTML and CSS web design has changed over the years. I still have a few mid-&#8217;90s pages on my site ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/03\/23551\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/03\/23551\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/03\/23549\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">NSW and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north: Added to the list of &#8220;things I didn&#8217;t know about Australia&#8221;: It sits on a particularly fast-moving (~7cm\/yr) tectonic plate, and due to a lack of updates since 1994, the GPS system is currently off by about six feet (but is soon to be fixed). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/03\/23549\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/03\/23547\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Story Time From Space: Astronauts reading STEM-focused children&#8217;s books from the International Space Station to kids on earth! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/03\/23547\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/03\/on-this-day-feb-3\/\">On This Day: Feb 3<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/03\/on-this-day-feb-3\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/03\/13131\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As seen on Capitol Hill in Seattle on Friday Night, not far from the Mercury: the world gets hard to live in with an open spirit. But risk is the spice of life. Be legendary. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/03\/13131\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/03\/13128\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book twelve of 2019: Theory of Bastards, by Audrey Schulman. #PKDickAward nominee. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; &#x1f4da; Neat near-future exploration of interpersonal connections and intimacy, through the lens of research into the sexual habits of bonobo apes. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/03\/13128\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/02\/03\/19226\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Had a &#8220;all these photos look doofy&#8221; evening. This is as good as it gets today. (34\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/02\/03\/19226\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/02\/03\/19229\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Got a nice handwritten thank-you note from a prospective LAJ student that I chatted with. #CWUpride :) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/02\/03\/19229\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/02\/03\/17380\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Survived another Monday! Time to get Prairie and head home. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/02\/03\/17380\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2013<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/02\/03\/difficult-listening-hour-06-110bpm\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 06 (110BPM)<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">After taking last weekend off (but hey, I gave you almost four hours in two mixes last time I updated), here's another new practice mix. Every song in this mix is somewhere between 105 and 115 BPM. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/02\/03\/difficult-listening-hour-06-110bpm\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2010<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/02\/03\/comparisons\/\">Comparisons<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Countries that forbid gays in their military: Cuba, China, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Jamaica, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela, Yemen, the USA. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/02\/03\/comparisons\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/02\/03\/the-140-character-apocalypse\/\">The 140 Character Apocalypse<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Not long after that, things returned to normal. Apparently we managed to avoid the Twitter Zombie Apocalypse. This time. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/02\/03\/the-140-character-apocalypse\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/03\/the-246-second-college-degree\/\">The 24.6 Second College Degree<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Every day, we're spending enough money in Iraq and Afghanistan to pay for _3,503_ four-year public school college degrees. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/03\/the-246-second-college-degree\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/03\/trademark-this-aggies\/\">Trademark this, Aggies!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Someone needs to make t-shirts with the following: &#8730;144th Man <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/03\/trademark-this-aggies\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/03\/gored-for-women\/\">Gored for Women!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Another example of organizations that should check their web site addresses a little more carefully. Today's case in point: The American Heart Association's Go Red for Women site, promoting heart disease awareness. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/03\/gored-for-women\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/03\/me-and-a-gun-and-a-man-on-my-back\/\">Me and a Gun and a Man on my Back<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is without a doubt one of the most powerful things I've come across lately &mdash; an eight-shot series of photographs and poems by selkie decrying abuse. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/03\/me-and-a-gun-and-a-man-on-my-back\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/03\/three-hours-on-one-post\/\">Three hours on one post<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I just spent three hours on a single post -- and I wasn't even writing a new post, but just reading and responding to comments prompted by my rambling grumbles about the State of the Union. I'm going to be so behind in NetNewsWire tomorrow&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/03\/three-hours-on-one-post\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/03\/dan-rathers-replacement\/\">Dan Rather&#8217;s replacement<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Every so often over the past day or so, I've seen headlines like this 'Schieffer is interim replacement for Rather', only my brain would conveniently drop the 'e', turning the name into 'Schiffer'. So for the past day, I've had the vague notion that Dan Rather's replacement would be Claudia Schiffer. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/03\/dan-rathers-replacement\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/03\/bushs-budget\/\">Bush&#8217;s Budget<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The president's budget reveals his priorities, what he truly cares about. It is not a reassuring picture. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/03\/bushs-budget\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/03\/the-ms-mac-bu\/\">The MS Mac BU<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Last Friday, the Seattle P-I ran a nice story on the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft, which included a photo of some of the Mac BU staffers seated in front of racks of Mac computers. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/03\/the-ms-mac-bu\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/03\/geekmuffin\/\">geek*muffin<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Ladies and gentlemen &mdash; please stop by and welcome my good friend Kirsten to the weblogging world. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/03\/geekmuffin\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/03\/desktop-images-from-columbia\/\">Desktop images from Columbia<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">There are some gorgeous images taken by the crew of the Columbia before it broke up on reentry, courtesy of NASA. I've taken two of my favorites and turned them into 1024x768 desktop images, which you can grab here if you like. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/03\/desktop-images-from-columbia\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/03\/creative-commons\/\">Creative Commons<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I took a look at the Creative Commons licences when they first appeared, and considered adopting one of them for my weblog, but in the end, also decided not to. At the bottom of every page on this site, you'll see the standard copyright line, and that's how I intend to keep it. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/03\/creative-commons\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/03\/tired-of-the-renovations\/\">Tired of the &#039;renovations&#039;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Grrrrrr.... 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