{"id":24004,"date":"2020-05-07T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24004"},"modified":"2020-04-30T08:25:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:25:42","slug":"on-this-day-may-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/07\/on-this-day-may-7\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: May 7"},"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>23<\/strong> posts previously published on May 7th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/05\/07\/%f0%9f%93%9a-uncanny-magazine-issue-58-edited-by-lynne-m-thomas-michael-damian-thomas-and-monte-lin\/\">Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, and Monte Lin<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Favorites this month were by Sarah Rees Brennan, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Rati Mehrotra, and K.S. Walker. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/05\/07\/%f0%9f%93%9a-uncanny-magazine-issue-58-edited-by-lynne-m-thomas-michael-damian-thomas-and-monte-lin\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/07\/year-50-day-5\/\">Year 50 Day 5<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Going out last night means a tired day today. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/07\/year-50-day-5\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/05\/07\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-godzilla-king-of-the-monsters\/\">&#x1f3a5; Godzilla: King of the Monsters<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Watching giant monsters fight shouldn\u2019t be this boring. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/05\/07\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-godzilla-king-of-the-monsters\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/07\/on-this-day-may-7\/\">On This Day: May 7<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from May 7 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/07\/on-this-day-may-7\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/07\/linkdump-for-may-3rd-through-may-7th\/\">Linkdump for May 3rd through May 7th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between May 3rd and May 7th. \u2022 Connecticut OKs Bill Pledging Electoral Votes To National Popular-Vote Winner \u2022\u00a0The original iMac: 20 years since Apple changed its fate \u2022\u00a0One space between each sentence, they said.&emsp;Science just proved them wrong. \u2022\u00a0&lsquo;Who Gets to Be Sexy?&rsquo; \u2022\u00a0Swedish Meatballs Are Turkish? &lsquo;My Whole Life Has Been a Lie&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/07\/linkdump-for-may-3rd-through-may-7th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/05\/07\/21142\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book twenty-eight of 2017: Visitor, by C. J. Cherryh. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/05\/07\/21142\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/05\/07\/19575\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Birthday weekend date night number two: an unexpectedly underwhelming dinner, on which we bailed before dessert came in favor of our traditional pre-theater frozen yogurt, to be followed by seeing CWU&#8217;s production of the Mary Poppins stage musical. Mmmm, yogurt! (128\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/05\/07\/19575\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18706\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Behold! I have infinite (ever smaller) watches! Just Apple Watches all the way down. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18706\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18709\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Okay &#8211; being able to use my watch as a remote for my iPhone&#8217;s camera (it even displays what the phone is seeing on the watch screen) is really cool. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18709\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18712\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Up and running! I&#8217;ll play with it more after lunch. :) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18712\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18715\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Working through the setup process. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18715\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18718\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, so far so good. It&#8217;s comfortable, at least. Now to turn it on&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18718\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18691\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, now, isn&#8217;t that pretty? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18691\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18694\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Inside the box is&#8230;another box! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18694\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18697\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My &#8220;big&#8221; birthday present is here! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/07\/18697\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/05\/07\/17743\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Doing my nightly workout on the elliptical. A little bit every day! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/05\/07\/17743\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/05\/07\/delicious-may-6th\/\">Links for May 6th through May 7th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between May 6th and May 7th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/05\/07\/delicious-may-6th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/05\/07\/birthday-presents-2\/\">Birthday Presents!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A couple of birthday presents showed up in the mail today. Cool! Thanks to Phil for Mark Twain's Roughing It and to Fernando for the sci-fi anthology The Starry Rift! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/05\/07\/birthday-presents-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/07\/camera-vision\/\">Camera Vision<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Camera vision is like that, you stop thinking about the shot and just take it. And as it was once said to me, I now say say it to you. You have Camera vision. And it shows. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/07\/camera-vision\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/05\/07\/5-7-5\/\">5 \/ 7 \/ 5<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Five, seven, and five: \/ syllables and today's date. \/ Post on Haiku Day! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/05\/07\/5-7-5\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/07\/the-worm-within\/\">The Worm Within<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">You discover that you're the host of a sixteen foot tapeworm one day when half of it comes out. What do you do? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/07\/the-worm-within\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/07\/darwin-has-left-the-building\/\">Darwin Has Left the Building<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">At this point, I amend, but stand by, my original premise that through medical science and societal standards, we as a race have removed ourselves from the premise of Natural Selection. It is no longer the most fit &mdash; those with the best combination of all desirable traits, including, but not limited to, intelligence &mdash; who are more likely to propagate. Rather, it is those that either best fit a societal norm that is far below what it should be (in my not-so-humble opinion), or those that simply continue to have children, no matter how ill-advised it may be to do so. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/07\/darwin-has-left-the-building\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/07\/sumo-wrestlers-and-rattlesnakes\/\">Sumo wrestlers and rattlesnakes<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion &mdash; the mountain of verbiage it must deploy to explain away these fourteen short words of constitutional text &mdash; refutes its thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting on it &mdash; and is just as likely to succeed. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/07\/sumo-wrestlers-and-rattlesnakes\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from May 7<\/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-24004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24004","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=24004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}