{"id":24083,"date":"2020-05-27T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24083"},"modified":"2020-05-15T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:47:32","slug":"on-this-day-may-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/27\/on-this-day-may-27\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: May 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>20<\/strong> posts previously published on May 27th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/27\/year-50-day-25\/\">Year 50 Day 25<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Happy 24th birthday to The Mercury! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/27\/year-50-day-25\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/27\/24121\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; twenty-six of 2020: Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; A smart aleck demon and its long-suffering keeper, quirky locals in a tourist town, and a touch of Lovecraft on the California coast. Entertaining and amusing, if not \u201claugh out loud\u201d funny. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/27\/24121\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/27\/on-this-day-may-27\/\">On This Day: May 27<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from May 27 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/27\/on-this-day-may-27\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/05\/27\/13396\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Status check: I&#8217;m now 20% of the way through my project of reading (or re-reading, for those I&#8217;ve read before) every Hugo Best Novel award-winning book. &#x1f4da; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/05\/27\/13396\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/05\/27\/13394\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book thirty-five of 2019: Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; 1960 Hugo Best Novel Finally, a Heinlein Hugo winner I enjoyed! He still has issues with women\u2019s roles, and I\u2019m not on board with all the political philosophy, but it\u2019s still a good read. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/05\/27\/13394\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/27\/12243\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">\u201cThe Deep Note, the distinctive synthesized crescendo that is THX\u2019s audio trademark, is one of the most iconic sounds in all of film. For the effects firm\u2019s 35th anniversary, they\u2019ve now shared the sheet music behind the sound.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/27\/12243\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/05\/27\/21172\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Seeing one of Prairie&#8217;s tutors get married today! #travlinn #adventureisoutthere <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/05\/27\/21172\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/05\/27\/19653\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Out goth clubbing at the Mercury! (148\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/05\/27\/19653\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/27\/18754\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">When homeworking, it&#8217;s nice to have enough screen space to have four documents and the assignment web page all visible at once. 27&#8243; iMac + 20&#8243; second monitor is a nice combination. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/05\/27\/18754\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/05\/27\/17812\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Apparently I was taking an arty black and white shot when the Enterprise started to beam me up. Or something like that. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/05\/27\/17812\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/05\/27\/the-mist\/\">The Mist<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Short review: for the first 120 minutes or so, while we had some quibbles with the decisions made, it's a remarkably faithful adaptation of the original story, and we were really enjoying it. Unfortunately, the last five minutes of the film _completely_ ruined it for us. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/05\/27\/the-mist\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/27\/beware-the-ick\/\">Beware the Ick<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">No Folklife for me this weekend; instead, I spent all my free time in bed, battling the Plague. Meh. Not _nearly_ as much fun. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/27\/beware-the-ick\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/27\/life-in-fallujah-today\/\">Life in Fallujah today<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is the democracy and freedom that our soldiers are dying for&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/27\/life-in-fallujah-today\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/27\/how-to-make-friends-by-telephone\/\">How to make friends by telephone<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Many people are linking to this 1940's era booklet on the then-newish telephone system and commenting on how amusing it is. As for me, after flipping through the pages, I'm struck by how much more bearable many phone conversations these days would be if people would keep these pointers in mind. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/27\/how-to-make-friends-by-telephone\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/27\/gores-speech-at-nyu\/\">Gore&#8217;s speech at NYU<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Excellent speech given by Al Gore at New York University yesterday (it's a shame that this Al Gore wasn't the Al Gore campaigning against Bush in 2000). This is a long one, but it is really worth watching, or reading, in its entirety. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/27\/gores-speech-at-nyu\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/apple-updates-itunes-web-explodes\/\">Apple updates iTunes, web explodes<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Today, as I took the odd moment here and there to keep an eye on happenings in the web world, I was somewhat startled to watch Apple provoke absolutely ridiculous amounts of st&uuml;rm und drang with an update to iTunes. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/apple-updates-itunes-web-explodes\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/the-matrix-runs-windows\/\">The Matrix runs Windows<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I can't believe that nobody has done a 'Which OS does the Matrix run on?'. It's obviously Windows though. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/the-matrix-runs-windows\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/bad-erotica-contest\/\">Bad Erotica Contest<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">She had never known a man like Julio before. When he came and boldly sat next to her, the musky scent of his manliness turned her from tigress to gentle kitten. She belonged to him before his supple buttocks pressed aggressively against the tattered faux-leather covering of the barstool. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/bad-erotica-contest\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/book-recommendation-cheaper-by-the-dozen\/\">Book recommendation: Cheaper By the Dozen<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This post on BoingBoing reminded me of a book I haven't read in years, but that I _loved_ when I was a kid, and can highly recommend: Cheaper by the Dozen. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/book-recommendation-cheaper-by-the-dozen\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/from-the-ashes-of-auschwitz\/\">From the ashes of Auschwitz<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">THE US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death row and execution chamber. 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