{"id":23847,"date":"2020-04-05T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23847"},"modified":"2020-04-02T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T18:06:42","slug":"on-this-day-apr-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/05\/on-this-day-apr-5\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Apr 5"},"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>23<\/strong> posts previously published on April 5th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/04\/05\/year-50-day-339\/\">Year 50 Day 339<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Hanging out in the very '70s\/'80s institutional chic of our employee lounge\/breakroom. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/04\/05\/year-50-day-339\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/04\/05\/my-norwescon-exec-story-arc\/\">My Norwescon Exec Story Arc<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As weird as all of this has been over the past couple years, I'm glad my term of service as Secretary is covering the four years that it is. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/04\/05\/my-norwescon-exec-story-arc\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/05\/dlh-2020-04-04\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 2020.04.04<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Week eight of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/05\/dlh-2020-04-04\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/05\/on-this-day-apr-5\/\">On This Day: Apr 5<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from April 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/05\/on-this-day-apr-5\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/05\/plague-puzzle-one\/\">Plague Puzzle One<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Hey, we\u2019ve got all those puzzles&#8230;maybe this is a good time to work on one? There\u2019s the border! This is kinda fun! Hmmmm. So many pieces. Why did we want to do this? A little more progress. A few sections are starting to come together. Suddenly we hit the point of no return&#8230; &#8230;and viol\u00e0! ... <a title=\"Plague Puzzle One\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/05\/plague-puzzle-one\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Plague Puzzle One\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/05\/plague-puzzle-one\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/04\/05\/19463\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Look! It&#8217;s the fourth Star Wars film! (Unless you&#8217;re my wife, for whom there are only three Star Wars films. Much like there are only three Indiana Jones films, only one Highlander film, and only eleven Star Trek films (that&#8217;s not counting STV:TFF or STID, but adding Galaxy Quest)). (96\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/04\/05\/19463\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/04\/05\/18670\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Mmmm! We decided to have Easter breakfast for Easter dinner this year. :) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/04\/05\/18670\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/04\/05\/18673\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Made it home from #nwc38 to find an Easter basket waiting for me! Apparently the Easter Bunny likes me! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/04\/05\/18673\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/04\/05\/17607\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">At the final #nwc37 ConCom meeting before the con &#8211; not even two weeks to go! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/04\/05\/17607\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2013<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/04\/05\/norwescon-36-thors-day-night-dance\/\">Thor&#8217;s Day Night Dance<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This past weekend, I was the DJ for the Thor's Day Night Dance at a local convention. Here's my full DJ set from the night, recorded live as the night went on! The full track is huge, so I've also split the night into four sections of roughly an hour each for easier downloading. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/04\/05\/norwescon-36-thors-day-night-dance\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/04\/05\/penguins-can-fly\/\">Penguins can fly!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">At least, according to the BBC and Monty Python's Terry Jones on April 1st, they can.... Easily the best April Fools bit I've seen in years. Dad's gonna love this one! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/04\/05\/penguins-can-fly\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/04\/05\/long-beach\/\">Long Beach<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Long Beach, WA <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/04\/05\/long-beach\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/05\/calico-autostitch-for-mac-os-x\/\">Calico (AutoStitch for Mac OS X)<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'm not sure when it first appeared, but Kekus Digital has produced a pseudo-port of AutoStitch for Mac OS X (licensing the AutoStitch technology in a Mac OS X package) called Calico. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/05\/calico-autostitch-for-mac-os-x\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/05\/memory-maps\/\">Memory Maps<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As far as memes go, this is one of the best I've seen yet. Jason Kottke took a screenshot of his childhood neighborhood and used Flickr's annotation feature to mark it up with memories of his growing years. This inspired the Memory Maps group -- and I've added four Memory Maps covering my younger years. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/05\/memory-maps\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/05\/living-in-a-theocracy\/\">Living in a Theocracy<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">How in the world can people justify going to war to free people from religious oppression, and at the same time, condone and encourage religious oppression here at home? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/05\/living-in-a-theocracy\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/05\/google-maps-plus-satellite-photos\/\">Google Maps plus Satellite photos<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Wow. Put your address into Google Maps. Zoom all the way in...then click the 'Satellite' link in the top right. Freaky cool. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/05\/google-maps-plus-satellite-photos\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/05\/any-true-scot-would-cringe\/\">Any true Scot would cringe<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I saw a guy walking down the street outside of the club this weekend wearing a Utilikilt 'baggy style.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/05\/any-true-scot-would-cringe\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/05\/goodbye-uncle-bud\/\">Goodbye Uncle Bud<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">'Uncle Bud', my great-uncle, passed away last week. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/05\/goodbye-uncle-bud\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/05\/not-sound-medical-advice\/\">Not sound medical advice<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I really think that going out dancing is one of the best things I can do for myself when getting over a bug. It doesn't sound like the usual cure, but it seems to work for me. I figure it's something along these lines: <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/05\/not-sound-medical-advice\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/05\/attack-of-the-killerlemons\/\">Attack of the Killer&#8230;Lemons?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It's the little things that can make living in Seattle fun. While this didn't happen to me, I got a laugh out of reading about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/05\/attack-of-the-killerlemons\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/05\/terminators-of-endearment\/\">Terminators of Endearment<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is wonderful &mdash; a few people in the rec.arts.sf.written newsgroup have hit upon the idea of a cross between the Terminator sci-fi series and the writings of Jane Austin&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/05\/terminators-of-endearment\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/05\/proud-to-be-an-american\/\">Proud to be an American<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Morans <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/05\/proud-to-be-an-american\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/05\/bush-and-religion\/\">Bush and religion<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Looks like I'm not the only one concerned about the rapidly disappearing divide between church and state under Bush's regime. 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