{"id":23919,"date":"2020-04-19T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23919"},"modified":"2020-04-20T08:40:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:40:33","slug":"on-this-day-apr-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/19\/on-this-day-apr-19\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Apr 19"},"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>21<\/strong> posts previously published on April 19th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/04\/19\/year-50-day-353\/\">Year 50 Day 353<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Gave a presentation\/workshop on basic document accessibility to the college's tutors today. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/04\/19\/year-50-day-353\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/04\/19\/im-training-ai-chat-bots-non-consensually\/\">I&#8217;m Training AI Chat Bots (Non-Consensually)<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometimes scraping the open web is a good thing, for projects like the Internet Archive. Sometimes it's unwittingly helping to train our new AI overlords. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/04\/19\/im-training-ai-chat-bots-non-consensually\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/19\/difficult-listening-hour-2020-04-18\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 2020.04.18<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Week ten of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/19\/difficult-listening-hour-2020-04-18\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/19\/on-this-day-apr-19\/\">On This Day: Apr 19<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from April 19 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/19\/on-this-day-apr-19\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/04\/19\/12078\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">With Labyrinth getting mentioned a lot due to the upcoming theatrical event, I think it&#8217;s worth linking to this excellent fan theory about the story&#8217;s background. \u201c\u2026of course she&#8217;s Sarah. They were all Sarah.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/04\/19\/12078\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/04\/19\/12076\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I don&#8217;t knit, but I know I have knitters among my friends, and I think this would entertain them: SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network. &#8220;This possibly marks one of the few times in history when a computer generated code to be executed by humans.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/04\/19\/12076\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/04\/19\/linkdump-for-april-16th-through-april-19th\/\">Linkdump for April 16th through April 19th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between April 16th and April 19th. \u2022\u00a0The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black \u2022\u00a0Volunteers, Professionals, and Who Gets to Have Fun at Cons \u2022\u00a0Time to Fix the Missing Stair \u2022\u00a0seriously, the guy has a point \u2022\u00a0Westboro Wannabes Picket Norwescon <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/04\/19\/linkdump-for-april-16th-through-april-19th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/04\/19\/19508\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We hit at least 85\u00b0 today, and I still was good and exercised tonight. No energy left to do much except sit and stare at things. (110\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/04\/19\/19508\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/04\/19\/17664\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Up early again, and ready for day three of #nwc37! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/04\/19\/17664\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2011<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/04\/19\/new-research\/\">New Research<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Admittedly, this is just a bit of a fluff piece on a slow news day. But really. Since when is research almost two years old new? It may well be the most _current_ research on the subject, but new? That seems a bit of an overstatement. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/04\/19\/new-research\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2010<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/04\/19\/delicious-april-14th\/\">Links for April 14th through April 19th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between April 14th and April 19th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0The Alot Is Better Than You at Everything \u2022\u00a0The 120 Minutes Archive - Playlists, Videos, and Interviews From MTV&rsquo;S Classic Alternative Music Series \u2022\u00a0Christ, It Works for Everything \u2022\u00a0How Apple Designed the iPad Out in the Open \u2022\u00a0NOVA | The Pluto Files | Hate Mail From Third Graders <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/04\/19\/delicious-april-14th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/04\/19\/the-queens-own-english-base-knave-dost-thou-speak-it\/\">The Queen&#8217;s own English, base knave, dost thou speak it?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A bit of pseudo-Shakespearean silliness, originally by ceruleanst...: <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/04\/19\/the-queens-own-english-base-knave-dost-thou-speak-it\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/19\/dandelion\/\">Dandelion<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A dandelion and morning dew. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/19\/dandelion\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/19\/50-best-book-to-film-adaptations\/\">50 Best Book-to-Film Adaptations<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Working from the Guardian's list of the 50 best book-to-film adaptations, I'm tagging each line with a B if I've read the book, and an M if I've seen the movie. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/19\/50-best-book-to-film-adaptations\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/19\/me-and-my-shadow-the-story-of-jason-mewes\/\">Me and My Shadow: The story of Jason Mewes<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've been watching the pieces of this show up bit by bit, and since the last section went live today, here's a list of links to all the pieces so I can read straight through, beginning to end. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/19\/me-and-my-shadow-the-story-of-jason-mewes\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/19\/back-in-1973\/\">Back in 1973&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Movie Timeline is the history of everything, taken from one simple premise: that everything you see in the movies is true - the real mixes with the fictitious, so long as it's reported in a movie somewhere... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/19\/back-in-1973\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/19\/pope-benedict-xvi\/\">Pope Benedict XVI<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've been browsing articles about the new Pope off and on all day...have to say, I'm a bit disappointed. They seem to have picked the most staunchly conservative of the candidates. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/19\/pope-benedict-xvi\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/19\/garage-sale-dvds\/\">Garage Sale: DVDs<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Okay, here's part two of my online garage sale: the majority of my DVD collection is going up for grabs. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/19\/garage-sale-dvds\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/19\/garage-sale-electronics\/\">Garage Sale: Electronics<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Okay, so here's what's up for grabs. I'll keep this current for, oh, two weeks or so to see what I can get rid of this way, then hit the pawn shops with whatever's left over. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/19\/garage-sale-electronics\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/19\/gay-history\/\">Gay history<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The World History of Male Love is a fascinating look at male homosexuality through the ages and all over the world, looking at artwork, literature, regional history, and much more. Fascinating stuff. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/19\/gay-history\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/04\/19\/i-wasnt-really-down\/\">I wasn&#8217;t really down&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Occasionally, however, my IP will change -- which is what happened today. 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