{"id":23511,"date":"2020-02-24T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23511"},"modified":"2020-01-25T10:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T18:58:58","slug":"on-this-day-feb-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/24\/on-this-day-feb-24\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Feb 24"},"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>31<\/strong> posts previously published on February 24th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/24\/year-50-day-298\/\">Year 50 Day 298<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Prepping my music library for DJing the Thursday night dance at Norwescon. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/24\/year-50-day-298\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/02\/24\/from-historys-shadow-by-dayton-ward\/\">&#x1f4da; From History\u2019s Shadow by Dayton Ward<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A clever attempt at tying together virtually all of the 'travel back in time to 20th century Earth' episodes into a single adventure. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/02\/24\/from-historys-shadow-by-dayton-ward\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/02\/24\/2022-pkd-award-thoughts-%f0%9f%93%9a\/\">2022 PKD Award Thoughts &#x1f4da;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Another strong slate, and I'm looking forward to seeing who wins this year! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/02\/24\/2022-pkd-award-thoughts-%f0%9f%93%9a\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/02\/24\/25224\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 10\/2021: Road Out of Winter by Alison Stine &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; #PKDickAward nominee 3\/6 Another apocalyptic trudge through wastelands (Appalachia during the long winter of an ecological collapse), finding other travelers, &amp; trying to avoid predatory groups. Well written; not my thing. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/02\/24\/25224\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/02\/24\/25221\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">New glasses! Similar to the old pair, just half frames instead of frameless. They\u2019ll do just fine. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/02\/24\/25221\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/24\/on-this-day-feb-24\/\">On This Day: Feb 24<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/24\/on-this-day-feb-24\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/24\/13231\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen any of Billy Porter\u2019s work, don\u2019t really know who he is, but that is one hell of an outfit, and I really like what he has to say about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/24\/13231\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/24\/13228\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book nineteen of 2019: Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; &#x1f4da; Though I\u2019m a big fan of Asimov\u2019s short fiction, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d actually read this series, and I\u2019m happy to see that (for the most part) Asimov\u2019s writing doesn\u2019t suffer as much as other works from this era do. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/24\/13228\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/02\/24\/21568\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Out to enjoy a chilly, drizzly, Seattle winter day at the zoo! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/02\/24\/21568\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/02\/24\/19305\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Really liking these sunny and 50\u00b0 afternoons. Spring&#8217;s closer! (55\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/02\/24\/19305\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/02\/24\/without-women-the-story-doesnt-even-begin\/\">Without women, the story doesn\u2019t even begin<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">But what the story really says, this story men made up to hold women down, is that women have the power to change the world. Women have the power to throw the world into chaos and they do it because the world as it is isn\u2019t good enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/02\/24\/without-women-the-story-doesnt-even-begin\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/02\/24\/18637\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Yesterday&#8217;s calendar page. This is about the only sports poll I could have an opinion on. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/02\/24\/18637\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/02\/24\/17444\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Playing with filters; I think I made an album cover. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/02\/24\/17444\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/02\/24\/delicious-february-23rd\/\">Links for February 23rd through February 24th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between February 23rd and February 24th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0Safari 4 Hidden Preferences \u2022\u00a0And the Circle Is Complete \u2022\u00a0UserFriendly comic plagiarized multiple punchlines from Metafilter comments \u2022 Last.fm &ndash; the Blog &middot; &quot;Techcrunch Are Full of Shit&quot; \u2022 Roger Ebert: The Oscars are Outsourced <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/02\/24\/delicious-february-23rd\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/24\/its-academic-really\/\">It&#8217;s Academic, Really&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The sea squirt has a very simple brain which is used only to find a suitable spot to root itself for life. Once it's settled into a spot, it no longer needs the brain, so it eats it. This has been compared by at least one Researcher to a professor receiving tenure at a university. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/24\/its-academic-really\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/24\/schrodingers-mac\/\">Schrodinger&#8217;s Mac<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is the kind of geeky science stuff that I love: quantum computers that give results when they're turned off. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/24\/schrodingers-mac\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/24\/quote-of-the-day\/\">Quote of the Day<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">15,000 atheists in London rioted after a blank sheet of paper was found on a cartoonist's desk. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/24\/quote-of-the-day\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/24\/you-ashcroft\/\">You Ashcroft!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, it turns out that some airline passengers watching the Oscar-nominated film 'Sideways' on foreign flights are, in fact, hearing 'Ashcroft' as a substitute for a certain seven-letter epithet commonly used to denote a human orifice. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/24\/you-ashcroft\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/24\/yeah-im-clueless-about-these-things\/\">Yeah, I&#8217;m clueless about these things&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Now, in theory, it's supposed to be possible for me to go out onto the 'net somewhere to find digitized copies of tv shows that I could download and then watch on my computer. How in the world would I go about this? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/24\/yeah-im-clueless-about-these-things\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/24\/battlestar-galactica-episode-1\/\">Battlestar Galactica Episode 1<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is incredibly cool: The Sci-Fi Channel has posted the first episode of Battlestar Galactica season one on their website, free, uncut, and without commercials. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/24\/battlestar-galactica-episode-1\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/24\/may-7th-is-no-pants-day\/\">May 7th is No Pants Day<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I don't think I'll be able to get away with it at work, but afterwards&hellip; :-D <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/24\/may-7th-is-no-pants-day\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/catching-up-part-four-political-bits\/\">Catching up, part four: political bits<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Yeah, well, I had to jump back into this side of things eventually. On the bright side, much as this stuff might worry and\/or scare me, at least I'm paying attention to it now, which I wasn't for far too many years. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/catching-up-part-four-political-bits\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/catching-up-part-three\/\">Catching up, part three<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Again, in no particular order, bits and pieces from my 'technology' grouping in NetNewsWire&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/catching-up-part-three\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/catching-up-part-two\/\">Catching up, part two<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This time, the focus is on Macintosh goodies. All you PC-using heathens can read on in wistful fantasyland, or just find something else to do &mdash; like reinstall Windows again. ;) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/catching-up-part-two\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/playing-catchup\/\">Playing catchup<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'm skimming over a lot of stuff in my newsreader (<em>758<\/em> new items after being out of touch for a week!), but in no particular order, here's some of the stuff that caught my eye&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/playing-catchup\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/need-some-free-shoes\/\">Need some free shoes?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Enough soggy Nike basketball shoes to outfit every high school team in the state are drifting through the Pacific Ocean toward Alaska after spilling from a container ship off Northern California. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/need-some-free-shoes\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/hes-got-a-point\/\">He&#039;s got a point<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">If anyone in [My Fair Lady] was gay, it had to be Higgins and Pickering -- you're telling me two single men in their late fifties who live together and enjoy speaking properly and dressing Audrey Hepburn in fabulous outfits aren't? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/hes-got-a-point\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/back-online\/\">Back online<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We're back! Sorry about the downtime. In the end, I have to admit that it all boils down to one simple thing &mdash; money matters aren't my strong point. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/24\/back-online\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/24\/infocom-presents-tetris\/\">Infocom presents Tetris<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">You are looking at the shaft. A large red block, four units by one unit, is above your head, dropping slowly. It has its long edge horizontally aligned. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/24\/infocom-presents-tetris\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/24\/a-splash-of-color\/\">A splash of color<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A bit of visual design tweaking on the website, which, of course, messes something else up. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/24\/a-splash-of-color\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/24\/lots-of-moves-and-casey-turns-30\/\">Lots of moves, and Casey turns 30<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I don't think I remember quite all of it, but I think it was crumb cake and white cake crumbled into pieces and mixed with pudding, put into a litterbox, with a litter scooper for a cutting\/serving tool, and complete with Tootsie Rolls melted and formed into the right shapes to serve as kitty poop! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/24\/lots-of-moves-and-casey-turns-30\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 24<\/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-23511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23511","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=23511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}