{"id":23689,"date":"2020-03-12T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23689"},"modified":"2020-02-27T09:38:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T17:38:04","slug":"on-this-day-mar-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/03\/12\/on-this-day-mar-12\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Mar 12"},"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>22<\/strong> posts previously published on March 12th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/03\/12\/year-50-day-315\/\">Year 50 Day 315<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The weather today kept alternating between cold, windy, and rainy, and cold, windy, and sunny. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/03\/12\/year-50-day-315\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/03\/12\/23760\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Interesting side effect in Thailand: Coronavirus means drop in international tourism means fewer tourists feeding the monkeys means monkey troupes are hungry and overrunning the city. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/03\/12\/23760\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/03\/12\/on-this-day-mar-12\/\">On This Day: Mar 12<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/03\/12\/on-this-day-mar-12\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/03\/12\/21008\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Left Prairie behind in Vancouver (intentionally; she&#8217;s spending the week with her mom) and am on the way back to the Burg. Toby the #tinydinosaur and I decided to stop off at Burgerville for lunch. :) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/03\/12\/21008\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/03\/12\/19370\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Out for a date night movie (Hail, Caesar!) with Prairie! (72\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/03\/12\/19370\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/03\/12\/19373\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Hey @cajunsblues: I landed a great lineup of fluff at Goodwill today. Thought you&#8217;d appreciate it. ;) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/03\/12\/19373\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/03\/12\/17508\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We&#8217;ve hit that wonderful\/annoying point in the year where coats are necessary in the morning, but not in the afternoon. :) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/03\/12\/17508\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/03\/12\/seattleites\/\">Seattleites<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Trudeau tweaks locals. Also amusing (to my mind): the somewhat confused reactions of many locals in the Seattle LiveJournal group that I found this in. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/03\/12\/seattleites\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/12\/trek-in-the-2100s\/\">Trek in the 2100&#8217;s?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">According to the article, the new Trek film will be a prequel movie not directly associated with any of the existing shows, story lines -- or casts. This got me thinking about the timeline of the Trek universe. What do we have in the established Trek universe in the 2100s that might factor in to the new movie? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/12\/trek-in-the-2100s\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/12\/safe-abortion-in-jeapordy\/\">Safe abortion in jeapordy<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Meg reminds us that in the midst of all the brouhaha in Iraq and Korea, things are still downright scary here at home. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/12\/safe-abortion-in-jeapordy\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/12\/do-you-blog-why\/\">Do you blog? Why?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">None of these three ways can come close to providing as accurate a depiction of the blogging population &mdash; who we all really are, why we blog, and how we're using our blogs &mdash; as a survey. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/12\/do-you-blog-why\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/12\/new-job-position\/\">New job position!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've got a new position at work! My first full day was yesterday &mdash; I hadn't written about it yet, both because it all happened fairly quickly, and because I don't like to jinx things too much before they happen. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/12\/new-job-position\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/12\/absolut-hacker\/\">Absolut Hacker<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've always loved the Absolut ads, and this new ad by Petr Stanicek makes me laugh a lot. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/12\/absolut-hacker\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/i-got-into-as-the-apple-turns\/\">I got into As The Apple Turns!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Hey &mdash; I'm famous! Or...something like that. See, I stumbled across a link earlier today that I thought might be of interest to my favorite Apple-flavored soap opera, As the Apple Turns -- and they used it for one of their stories today! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/i-got-into-as-the-apple-turns\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/2-hours-in-the-life-of-a-puter-geek\/\">2 hours in the life of a &#8216;puter geek<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Ever wondered just what 'geeking out' entails? Some nights it's diving into whatever the geek's code of choice is (HTML and CSS for me), other nights it's more hardware based. Well, tonight I had a problem with my primary work Mac, and kept a log of what I was doing as I went along. Feel free to take a look if you'd like&hellip;. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/2-hours-in-the-life-of-a-puter-geek\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/propaganda\/\">Propaganda<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Propaganda, anyone? On the one hand, on a conceptual\/artistic level, I like most of what I see. However, on a more intellectual level, it's just frightening. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/propaganda\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/teleportation\/\">Teleportation<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Beam me up...Ray? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/teleportation\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/buckets-of-what\/\">Buckets of what?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Times I wish I had a 'completely bizarre' category. I can understand being peeved if I had a music video being shot outside my apartment at 4am. But did Britney Spears really deserve to have buckets of urine thrown at her? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/buckets-of-what\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/working-for-da-man\/\">Working for da man<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I vow never again to work for someone else's riches. I am independent being, free to grow rich or die poor using my mind and the thousand bucks I've got in the bank. I refuse to be a slave to the shirt-and-tie drones of Ford or any other Fortune 500 company, now and forever. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/working-for-da-man\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/geek-code\/\">Geek code<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">GAT d+ s:-- a- C++ U*++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ N+ o K w--- O---- M++ V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5 X++ R-- tv-- b++ DI++ D+ G e h r+ y* <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/geek-code\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/tattoos\/\">Tattoos<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Is the reason I get pulled around by men when my tattoos are visible because they are shocked into defensive aggression by someone obviously not trying to meet their standards of attractiveness? After all, women are supposed to dress for men not for themselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/tattoos\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/aqua-m-and-ms\/\">Aqua M and M&#8217;s!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">M&amp;M's are going to be adding a new color to the mix &mdash; and you can vote for your favorite here! 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