{"id":23519,"date":"2020-02-28T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23519"},"modified":"2020-01-25T10:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T18:59:50","slug":"on-this-day-feb-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/on-this-day-feb-28\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Feb 28"},"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.<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>30<\/strong> posts previously published on February 28th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/28\/year-50-day-302\/\">Year 50 Day 302<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Every office should have a T-rex somewhere in it. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/28\/year-50-day-302\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/28\/my-new-osborne-1\/\">My New Osborne 1<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Though our full-size Osbornes were disposed of years ago, I'm ridiculously pleased to have this lil' guy on my desk now. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/28\/my-new-osborne-1\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/02\/28\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-high-country-by-john-jackson-miller\/\">&#x1f4da; The High Country by John Jackson Miller<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A fun, light romp of an adventure, rather perfect for the first Strange New Worlds book. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/02\/28\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-high-country-by-john-jackson-miller\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/02\/28\/difficult-listening-hour-2021-02-27\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 2021.02.27<\/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\/02\/28\/difficult-listening-hour-2021-02-27\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/02\/28\/25231\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 11\/2011: Dance on Saturday by Elwin Cotman &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; #PKDickAward nominee 4\/6 A really strong collection of short stories and one novella. I really enjoyed the way these slipped between the real and the fantastic, and between mundanity and surreal horror and humor. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/02\/28\/25231\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/23715\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Body Shop is adopting &#8220;open hiring&#8221;: No interviews, no background checks, no drug tests. When there is a job available, just answer three yes-or-no questions and the job is yours. It\u2019s a new philosophy called \u201copen hiring\u201d\u2014and it works. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/23715\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/23713\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Bookshop: A centralized shopping website for independent bookstores. Start here instead of at Amazon! Discovered through this Forbes article. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/23713\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/23710\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This moment from Deadline\u2019s Picard podcast made me laugh: in a discussion of how the various Trek governments mapped to real-world governments, Jonathan Frakes ends with, \u201cAnd now we have a Pakled as a President.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/23710\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/ranking-the-democratic-candidates-on-black-issues\/\">Ranking the Democratic Candidates on Black Issues<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">There you have it. Elizabeth Warren\u2019s 'black agenda' is the blackest of them all. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/ranking-the-democratic-candidates-on-black-issues\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/23705\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A &#8220;live laugh love&#8221;-style sign, but using text from the Long-Time Nuclear Waste Warning Messages. I love this. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/23705\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/on-this-day-feb-28\/\">On This Day: Feb 28<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 28 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/28\/on-this-day-feb-28\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/28\/13248\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f596; #StarTrekDiscovery S02E07: Yay! No more Spock-teasing! Space squid are fun, and Tilly gets flustered around causality violations. Glad Pike at least mentioned Ash killing Culber. Still really unsure about Section 31, all the Spock stuff, and now time travel, but holding on. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/28\/13248\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/28\/13246\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, now I know who to blame for my dreary fashion sense: Beau Brummell (well, and discovering the goth community in my youth\u2026.). I break out of the drab-ness occasionally (my Pride kilt from Verillas, for example), but\u2026yeah. Maybe I could do more. Need to ruminate on this. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/28\/13246\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/02\/28\/19323\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Weekends should be longer than two days. (59\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/02\/28\/19323\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/02\/28\/17463\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Once again, frozen yogurt for dessert before heading out to a show. :) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/02\/28\/17463\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/02\/28\/dollhouse-2\/\">Dollhouse<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As evidenced by my recent tweet, I've now given Joss two chances to win me over to Dollhouse, and he's 0 for 2. It just doesn't work for me, and there's a number of smaller reasons that add up to one big fail. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/02\/28\/dollhouse-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/02\/28\/eek-a-mouse\/\">Eek! A Mouse!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Silly little video made during a boring day at work. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/02\/28\/eek-a-mouse\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/28\/the-root-of-the-problem\/\">The root of the problem&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It\u2019s nothing really, but the grammatically preferable version of this phrase is 'for whom I\u2019m supposed to root,' which is the most hilarious collection of words I\u2019ve encountered since 'Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ben Affleck.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/28\/the-root-of-the-problem\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/28\/numbers\/\">Numbers<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I don't get it: why is the latest Enterprise the NCC-4 8 15 16 23 42? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/28\/numbers\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/28\/tuesday-ten-in-my-pants\/\">Tuesday Ten (In My Pants)<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A variation on the 'ten random tracks' music meme, adding in the fortune-cookie game of adding '...in my pants' to the end of the fortune...or in this case, song title. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/28\/tuesday-ten-in-my-pants\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/28\/im-629-slut\/\">I&#8217;m 6.29% Slut<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Just a cute little bit of web silliness: using the Slut-o-Meter to compute your promiscuity according to Google. According to the Slut-o-meter, I'm 6.29% slut. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/28\/im-629-slut\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/28\/keeping-new-readers\/\">Keeping New Readers<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Problogger has a short series of posts with tips on how to keep readers who have stumbled across your site via a search engine hit or some other method. Interesting stuff, though nothing groundbreaking, and as it turns out, I do most of what he recommends already. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/28\/keeping-new-readers\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/28\/xbox2-g5and-virtual-pc\/\">XBox2, G5&#8230;and Virtual PC?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Musings on Microsoft, XBoxes, and PowerPC Processors. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/28\/xbox2-g5and-virtual-pc\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/28\/search-improvements\/\">Search improvements<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">While MovableType does include its own search function, I've chosen not to use it for djwudi.com because I have a number of pages that live outside of my weblog, which MT would not be able to search. However, I'd run into a bit of a problem with the search engine I am using, and I think I've finally got it solved. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/28\/search-improvements\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/28\/where-were-you\/\">Where were you?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I found an interesting discussion today, and thought it was well worth cribbing to use here on my site. One of the members of the HTF started a thread asking where people were and what they remember about significant dates in history. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/28\/where-were-you\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/28\/they-fight-crime\/\">They fight crime!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">He's a hate-fuelled misogynist stage actor from the Mississippi delta. She's a transdimensional red-headed nun who hides her beauty behind a pair of thick-framed spectacles. They fight crime! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/28\/they-fight-crime\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/28\/moving-soon\/\">Moving soon<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I talked to Melvin last night, and got the go-ahead to move into the new apartment, probably starting next week sometime, so that I can be in by the 15th. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/28\/moving-soon\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/02\/28\/shake-rattle-and-roll-2\/\">Shake, rattle and roll<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I just found out when I got to work that Seattle got quite a bit of a shaker yesterday -- current estimates put the quake that just hit them at 6.8. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/02\/28\/shake-rattle-and-roll-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/02\/28\/radio-and-future-gigs\/\">Radio &#8211; and future gigs?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My personal moment of triumph was when one person called to tell Nick  to quit playing a compilation CD, at which point Nick let him know that it was actually me mixing live. I guess my mixes were going pretty smoothly! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/02\/28\/radio-and-future-gigs\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/02\/28\/back-online-2\/\">Back online<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sorry 'bout the recent downtime over the past couple of days...problems with the cable modem. 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