{"id":23935,"date":"2020-04-27T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23935"},"modified":"2020-04-20T08:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:42:28","slug":"on-this-day-apr-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/27\/on-this-day-apr-27\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Apr 27"},"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>27<\/strong> posts previously published on April 27th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/04\/27\/weekly-notes-april-21-27-2025\/\">Weekly Notes: April 21-27, 2025<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A week in the life of\u2026. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past week. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/04\/27\/weekly-notes-april-21-27-2025\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/04\/27\/%f0%9f%93%9a-star-trek-iii-short-stories-by-william-rotsler\/\">Star Trek III Short Stories by William Rotsler<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: As with the other Rotsler Trek books I\u2019ve found, not really worth searching out unless you\u2019re a collector. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/04\/27\/%f0%9f%93%9a-star-trek-iii-short-stories-by-william-rotsler\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/04\/27\/year-50-day-360-2\/\">Year 50 Day 361<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Less than $20 for a shopping bag of books is a pretty good deal! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/04\/27\/year-50-day-360-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/27\/on-this-day-apr-27\/\">On This Day: Apr 27<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from April 27 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/04\/27\/on-this-day-apr-27\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/04\/27\/12125\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Nice: Seattle officials file motion to vacate marijuana convictions. Since it\u2019s legal, and as pot convictions disproportionately affect minorities, this is an excellent step. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/04\/27\/12125\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/04\/27\/19548\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Just me, hanging out off the coast of my private island. \u2026or standing in front of the screensaver on our \uf8ffTV. I don&#8217;t know where this place is, but I want to go to there. (I also kind of want a way to get the \uf8ffTV screensavers on my computer. They&#8217;re gorgeous.) (118\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/04\/27\/19548\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/04\/27\/17700\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Took this earlier today. The reason isn&#8217;t valid anymore, but I&#8217;m sticking with this shot anyway. Nyeah-nyeah, so there. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/04\/27\/17700\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2010<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/04\/27\/imagine-if\/\">Imagine if&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Let\u2019s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called 'Imagine.' The way it\u2019s played is simple: we\u2019ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we\u2019ll conjure - the ones who are driving the action - we\u2019ll envision black folks or other people of color instead. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/04\/27\/imagine-if\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/04\/27\/delicious-april-23rd\/\">Links for April 23rd through April 27th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between April 23rd and April 27th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0Gallery: Flickr Users Make Accidental Maps \u2022\u00a0Skin Deep Usability \u2022\u00a0Locks of Love Helps Disadvantaged Children Suffering From Medical Hair Loss \u2022\u00a0Get Great Gadgets. and Keep Them. - Last Year's Model \u2022\u00a0I Can Read Movies <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/04\/27\/delicious-april-23rd\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/04\/27\/introducing-my-photoblog\/\">Introducing my Photoblog<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As anyone who's been paying any amount of attention to my ramblings for long knows, I occasionally pick up a camera, snap off a few shots, and hope that I've got something worth showing off. I've finally decided to move forward on a project that's been rattling around in the back of my head for a while, and I'm going to see if I might actually be able to sell the occasional print. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/04\/27\/introducing-my-photoblog\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/04\/27\/edward-scissorhands\/\">Edward Scissorhands<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">When I posted about the discount on tickets to tonight's performance of _Edward Scissorhands_, I left out one small detail of the '_very_ kind offer' -- namely, that Prairie and I were offered (and accepted) tickets to see the show last night! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/04\/27\/edward-scissorhands\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/27\/out-for-the-weekend\/\">Out for the Weekend<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Prairie has an educators' conference of some sort down in Corvallis this weekend, so we're going to be gone for the next few days. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/27\/out-for-the-weekend\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/27\/winnie-the-pooh-and-syphilis-too\/\">Winnie the Pooh and Syphilis Too<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">'Some things shouldn't be shared,' she explained. 'The Winnie the Pooh theme is one. It's a lot like syphilis.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/27\/winnie-the-pooh-and-syphilis-too\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/27\/a-bit-of-a-pickle\/\">A bit of a pickle&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">...it was decided that, since these little tasty snacks are not only obviously phallic, but also can apparently be used as currency for the barter of sexual favors, Xebeth was going to start a new anti-pickle group. Parents Against Pickles. PAP. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/27\/a-bit-of-a-pickle\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/27\/state-of-the-computer\/\">State of the Computer<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, the computer lives -- though we're definitely dealing with a near-total case of amnesia. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/27\/state-of-the-computer\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/27\/serenity\/\">Serenity<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Okay, okay, okay already. When no less than four people on my reading list mention the trailer for Serenity and I've barely started going through my feeds for the day, I figure I should probably check it out. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/27\/serenity\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/27\/there-is-hope\/\">There is hope&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I refused to read any further than the first two sentences, but towards the end of his latest post, Kevin Smith has this to say about Revenge of the Sith... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/27\/there-is-hope\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/27\/rethinking\/\">Rethinking<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that\u2019s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/27\/rethinking\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/itunes-45-major-itunes-music-store-update\/\">iTunes 4.5: Major iTunes Music Store update!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The iTunes website hasn't been updated yet (as of 0:17 4\/28\/04), so I can't download it yet, but if you open up iTunes and go to the iTunes Music Store, you'll see a badge for iTunes 4.5. Update at 0:29: The iTunes website has been updated with iTunes 4.5. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/itunes-45-major-itunes-music-store-update\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/whoops\/\">Whoops!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Hopefully he gets back in his car without having to pay a cabbie to break in. In the meantime, my pizza has appeared, and it's dinnertime for me. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/whoops\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/toyota-volta\/\">Toyota Volta<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Italian design. Environmentally sound gas\/electric hybrid. 408 horsepower. 0-62mph in 4.03 seconds, top speed of 155mph. Carbon-fibre chassis. Racing suspension. 31.7 miles per gallon. And it's only a show prototype, not likely to be built. Such a shame. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/toyota-volta\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/nightline-on-friday\/\">Nightline on Friday<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Now I want to tell you about this Friday&#8217;s [Nightline] broadcast. We&#8217;re going to do something different, something that we think is important. Friday night, we will show you the pictures, and Ted will read the names, of the men and women from the armed forces who have been killed in combat in Iraq. That&#8217;s it. That will be the whole broadcast. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/nightline-on-friday\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/well-thats-one-solution\/\">Well, that&#8217;s one solution<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I love whatever algorithms Google uses for their AdSense program. Much of the time they're dead-on, but every so often, you get some wonderfully bizarre and hilarious combinations. For instance, upon reloading my page after adding my last post, I got the following set&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/well-thats-one-solution\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/watch-what-you-blog\/\">Watch what you blog!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It was bound to happen &mdash; and realistically, it probably has been happening, just now we're getting news stories about it &mdash; US intelligence agencies are starting to keep an eye out on weblogs. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/watch-what-you-blog\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/well-it-was-convenient\/\">Well, it was convenient\u2026<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Okay, so on the scale of stupid things Bush has done, this may not be right at the top, but it's still a rather sad look at how little respect the man can have for other people when he'll use someone else's shirt to clean his glasses while their back is turned. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/well-it-was-convenient\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/27\/ran-away-for-a-bit\/\">Ran away for a bit<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Had a very pleasant weekend visiting Prairie's friend Beth in Vancouver, WA, and Prairie's mom in Woodland. It rained a lot Saturday, but Sunday was an absolutely gorgeous early summer day, and I got a few decent pictures &mdash; one of which is the newest entry to W&uuml;diVisions. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/27\/ran-away-for-a-bit\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/04\/27\/thats-a-big-purse\/\">That&#8217;s a big purse<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My purse looks so much like the garbage can I keep throwing trash in it! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/04\/27\/thats-a-big-purse\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from April 27<\/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-23935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23935","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=23935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}