{"id":24211,"date":"2020-06-30T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24211"},"modified":"2020-07-06T09:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:58:53","slug":"on-this-day-jun-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/06\/30\/on-this-day-jun-30\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jun 30"},"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>19<\/strong> posts previously published on June 30th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/06\/30\/pyramids-by-terry-pratchett\/\">Pyramids by Terry Pratchett<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 34\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: This one didn't grab me as much as others in the series have so far. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/06\/30\/pyramids-by-terry-pratchett\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/06\/30\/year-50-day-59\/\">Year 50 Day 59<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Friday morning at the Point Defiance Zoo. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/06\/30\/year-50-day-59\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/06\/30\/on-this-day-jun-30\/\">On This Day: Jun 30<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/06\/30\/on-this-day-jun-30\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/06\/30\/19891\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Time to go home! (182\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/06\/30\/19891\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/06\/30\/19894\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Chucks of the day (30\/?): black low tops with red lining, stitching, and sidewall stripe. #chucks #converse <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/06\/30\/19894\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/06\/30\/17978\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Hanging out on the President&#8217;s lawn and chatting with parents of incoming freshman about the Law and Justice program. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/06\/30\/17978\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2010<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/06\/30\/the-blue-box\/\">The Blue Box<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">When Kevin and I were younger, and too small to work dad's record player, we had our own: the classic Fisher-Price phonograph. To go with this, Dad gave us a small blue box (well, blue, white, and green, but I've always thought of it as blue) with a bunch of old 45s that he and his brother Doug had collected when they were younger. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/06\/30\/the-blue-box\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/06\/30\/30-years-of-airplane\/\">30 Years of Airplane<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Possibly one of the funniest films ever made, Airplane!, just turned 30. While I'd read that Airplane! was based on Zero Hour!, I'd never realized just how closely the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team had hewed to the original. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/06\/30\/30-years-of-airplane\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/06\/30\/delicious-june-26th-2\/\">Links for June 26th through June 30th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between June 26th and June 30th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0LANL Scientist Makes Radio Waves Travel Faster Than Light \u2022\u00a0Picasa Web Albums - Pride 09 \u2022\u00a0Fake Photojournalism Wins \u2022\u00a0Giving Up My iPod for a Walkman \u2022\u00a0&quot;A Barkeeper Entering the Kingdom of Heaven&quot;: Did Mark Twain Really Hate Jane Austen? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/06\/30\/delicious-june-26th-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/06\/30\/minibreak-olympic-national-park\/\">MiniBreak: Olympic National Park<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A couple of weekends ago, Prairie and I took our first minibreak in a _long_ time, heading out with her dad to the Olympic National Park. We camped out at the Sol Duc Campground, soaked in the Sol Duc Hot Springs, hiked around the campground area, and drove out to the coast to hike along Rialto Beach. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/06\/30\/minibreak-olympic-national-park\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/06\/30\/delicious-june-27th\/\">Links for June 27th through June 30th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between June 27th and June 30th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0Top 10 Strangest Anti-Terrorism Patents \u2022 The best God joke ever - and it's mine! \u2022\u00a0Metafilter looks at 'Christiane F', or 'Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo' \u2022\u00a0Presbyterian assembly votes to drop gay clergy ban \u2022\u00a0The Presurfer: Oops! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/06\/30\/delicious-june-27th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/06\/30\/pride-2008\/\">Pride 2008<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Pride yesterday was a lot of fun. Every other year I've gone, I've shot from the sidelines, doing my best to get an overview of the entire parade and all the different groups. This year, I decided to try something different. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/06\/30\/pride-2008\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/06\/30\/mika_brzezinski\/\">I\u2019m not doing this story.<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I wish more newscasters would do something like this. Kudos for Mika Brzezinski, and it's a pity she has to work with shmoes like the two guys who just won't let this drop and keep pushing it in her face. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/06\/30\/mika_brzezinski\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/30\/daring-fireball-on-dashboard-and-konfabulator\/\">Daring Fireball on Dashboard and Konfabulator<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I haven't poked my head into the Dashboard versus Konfabulator brouhaha for two reasons: firstly, I'm not a user of Konfabulator; and secondly, the whole thing seemed patently ridiculous to me. However, John Gruber has done a masterful job of explaining why this is really a non-issue. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/30\/daring-fireball-on-dashboard-and-konfabulator\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/30\/tech-support-porn\/\">Tech Support Porn<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The job market just keeps getting wierder. Consider this Portland Craigslist job posting, for instance&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/30\/tech-support-porn\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/dollars-dont-equal-votes\/\">Dollars don&#039;t equal votes<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Don't ever be discouraged by dollars. Dollars don't equal votes. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/dollars-dont-equal-votes\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/geeks-and-gay-queens\/\">Geeks and gay queens<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Geeks are irritating [people], doesn't make them bad. They are kinda like gay queens, complete with self-love and temper tantrums, except with a fetish for finickiness rather than young boys. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/geeks-and-gay-queens\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/1602\/\">1602<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sir Nicholas Fury is head of the Queen's Intelligence, Dr Stephen Strange is her court physician (and magician), the Inquisition is torturing 'witchbreed', many of whom have taken sanctuary in England under the wing of Carlos Javier, and now a mysterious treasure -- which may be a weapon of some kind -- is being sent from Jerusalem to England by the last of the Templars. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/1602\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/watching-the-bat\/\">Watching the bat<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I have to admit, this is really amazing &mdash; the Howard Dean campaign is posting the results of their fundrasing in near-realtime, with updates every half hour, as this is the last day for fundrasing for this quarter. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/watching-the-bat\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 30<\/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-24211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211","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=24211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}