{"id":24063,"date":"2020-05-17T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24063"},"modified":"2020-05-15T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:45:04","slug":"on-this-day-may-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/17\/on-this-day-may-17\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: May 17"},"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>24<\/strong> posts previously published on May 17th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/17\/year-50-day-15\/\">Year 50 Day 15<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My wife is now mocking me for posting nudie pictures online. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/17\/year-50-day-15\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/17\/24103\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; twenty-three of 2020: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; 1968 Hugo Best Novel A neat blending of western SF sensibilities with the Indian pantheon of gods; enjoyed this one more than I expected given that I didn\u2019t much like Zelazny\u2019s prior Hugo winner. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/17\/24103\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/17\/plague-puzzle-four\/\">Plague Puzzle Four<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Monday Friday Saturday Sunday Tuesday Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/17\/plague-puzzle-four\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/17\/on-this-day-may-17\/\">On This Day: May 17<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from May 17 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/17\/on-this-day-may-17\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/17\/12208\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">\u201cA Republican lawmaker on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee said Thursday that rocks from the White Cliffs of Dover and the California coastline, as well as silt from rivers tumbling into the ocean, are contributing to high sea levels globally.\u201d No. No, no, no. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/17\/12208\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/17\/21829\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Mystery fruit flavor! We\u2019re thinking it\u2019ll probably be durian. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/17\/21829\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/17\/12204\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometimes people use 'respect' to mean 'treating someone like a person' and sometimes they use 'respect' to mean 'treating someone like an authority' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/17\/12204\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/05\/17\/first-full-star-trek-discovery-trailer\/\">First Full Star Trek: Discovery Trailer<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">First thoughts (copied from a Facebook post, with minor edits): I'm looking forward to seeing more! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/05\/17\/first-full-star-trek-discovery-trailer\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/05\/17\/linkdump-for-april-27th-through-may-17th\/\">Linkdump for April 27th through May 17th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between April 27th and May 17th. \u2022\u00a0The Case of the Stolen Source Code \u2022\u00a0JSON Feed: Announcing JSON Feed \u2022\u00a0Let's discuss the Linguistic &amp; Pragmatic use of the [\"N-word\"] \u2022\u00a0The neural network writes the episode list for next season&rsquo;s Dr. Who \u2022\u00a0What we really need is an adaptation of the original 1740 The Beauty and the Beast <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/05\/17\/linkdump-for-april-27th-through-may-17th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/05\/17\/19623\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Staying out of the way while glass workers replace a large window on the second floor of our house. There&#8217;s no window in our window right now! (138\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/05\/17\/19623\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/05\/17\/17791\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Waiting for Prairie to pick me up after the final #nwc37 meeting. On to #nwc38! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/05\/17\/17791\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/05\/17\/17764\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The second of two particularly nice roses from the #nwc37 post-con onions and roses boards. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/05\/17\/17764\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/05\/17\/17767\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">One of two particularly nice roses from the #nwc37 post-con onions and roses boards. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/05\/17\/17767\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/05\/17\/the-most-foul-cruel-and-bad-tempered-rodent-you-ever-set-eyes-on\/\">The most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Suddenly, for no apparent reason......President [Carter] volunteered the information that while fishing in a pond on his farm he had sighted a large animal swimming toward him. Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a rabbit. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/05\/17\/the-most-foul-cruel-and-bad-tempered-rodent-you-ever-set-eyes-on\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/17\/6000-pictures\/\">6,000+ Pictures<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Ducklings! Cute widdle fuzzy ducklings looking at their fuzzy widdle tummies! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/17\/6000-pictures\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/17\/drip-drip-drip\/\">Drip Drip Drip<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Water dripping off a chain downspout at NSCC. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/17\/drip-drip-drip\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/05\/17\/adsense-for-feeds\/\">AdSense for Feeds<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Looks like the inevitable intrusion of advertising into RSS feeds just gained a major player, as Google's Adsense for Feeds program has just been announced. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/05\/17\/adsense-for-feeds\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/17\/surf-like-its-1994\/\">Surf like it&#8217;s 1994!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This may be the last CSS-related post for a while &mdash; though I'm considering a writeup of how I implemented the stylesheet switcher into my TypePad setup, so there may be more yet to come. We'll see. In the meantime&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/17\/surf-like-its-1994\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/17\/shades-of-gattaca\/\">Shades of Gattaca<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">More and more, I think that in the coming years, the movie Gattaca may be seen as far more prescient than it was recognized as at the time it came out. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/17\/shades-of-gattaca\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/17\/nick-berg-conspiracy\/\">Nick Berg conspiracy?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Those of you who've read this site for a while may know that I have something of a fascination for conspiracy theories. Sometimes they interest me because they're so patently ludicrous, sometimes because they're convincing enough to be nearly frightenting, and sometimes they end up somewhere in between. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/17\/nick-berg-conspiracy\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/17\/powell-on-meet-the-press\/\">Powell on Meet the Press<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Here's something you don't see in today's political arena very often these days. Colin Powell was on Meet the Press Sunday night, when one of his staffers attempted to cut off the interview in the midst of one of Tim Russert's questions. Powell was not pleased, going so far as to rebuke the staffer on-air, and had the camera brought back in order to finish the interview. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/17\/powell-on-meet-the-press\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/17\/manly-pink-2\/\">Manly Pink #2<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">There's now a second pink-toned stylesheet available for your viewing pleasure, courtesy of Shari Hes (who actually sent it to me last week, but it needed a few slight tweaks to get it to behave under Internet Explorer). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/17\/manly-pink-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/17\/good-dean-article\/\">Good Dean article<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Tough Guy, Howard Dean is the ultimate muscular Democrat. He's not afraid to take on George W. Bush, and in the process Dean is reminding Dems what it feels like to have a spine. But can he win? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/17\/good-dean-article\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/17\/star-wars-attack-of-the-clones\/\">Star Wars: Attack of the Clones<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">One word: overkill. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/17\/star-wars-attack-of-the-clones\/\">&#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 17<\/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-24063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063","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=24063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}