{"id":24255,"date":"2020-07-15T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24255"},"modified":"2020-07-06T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T17:14:13","slug":"on-this-day-jul-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/07\/15\/on-this-day-jul-15\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jul 15"},"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>31<\/strong> posts previously published on July 15th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/15\/compulsory-by-martha-wells\/\">Compulsory by Martha Wells<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 37\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Just a tiny little glimpse into Murderbot's past. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/15\/compulsory-by-martha-wells\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/15\/year-50-day-74\/\">Year 50 Day 74<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Wandering around Capitol Hill as I wait for the Mercury to open its doors. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/15\/year-50-day-74\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/07\/15\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness\/\">&#x1f3a5; Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An above-average entry in the MCU canon. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/07\/15\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/07\/15\/on-this-day-jul-15\/\">On This Day: Jul 15<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from July 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/07\/15\/on-this-day-jul-15\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/07\/15\/21893\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book twenty-eight of 2018: Stories From the Twilight Zone, by Rod Serling. &#x1f31f;&#x1f31f;&#x1f31f;&#x1f31f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/07\/15\/21893\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/07\/15\/12347\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">How Vertigo foreshadowed \u2018catfishing\u2019, AI and #MeToo: \u201cSixty years since it was released, Vertigo resonates powerfully in the age of the internet, virtual reality and artificial intelligence.\u201d Just watched Vertigo again two nights ago, and this article is spot on. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/07\/15\/12347\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/15\/20023\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Apparently it&#8217;s #nationalicecreamday &#8211; so we&#8217;re celebrating! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/15\/20023\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/15\/19996\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, this is odd. Got back from lunch to find my building without power. Guess I&#8217;ll just sit here in the dark for a while. How very goth. ;) (197\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/15\/19996\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/15\/19999\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Chucks of the day (45\/45): grey high tops with red, blue, and white graffiti tag style &#8220;Converse&#8221; wrapped around the heel and onto the side. And this wraps up this project (for now, at least) &#8211; after 45 pairs, I&#8217;ve made it through my Converse collection. Not too shabby! #chucks #converse <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/15\/19999\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/07\/15\/18035\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Ever caption I try to come up with for this one sounds like I&#8217;m depressed. I just liked the effect I came up with. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/07\/15\/18035\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2010<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/07\/15\/delicious-july-14th-4\/\">Links for July 14th through July 15th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between July 14th and July 15th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0Colonoscopy: It&rsquo;s Time to Check Your Colons \u2022\u00a0How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made \u2022\u00a0What, if Anything, Is Big Bird? \u2022\u00a0&ldquo;Fleeting Expletive&rdquo; Ban Lifted <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/07\/15\/delicious-july-14th-4\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/07\/15\/a-goodbye\/\">A Goodbye<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Renda Horn brought a lot of joy into this world, both through her many years of music and work with the choir and just by the simple virtue of being herself. My heartfelt condolences go out to her family, many friends, and the many, many kids and parents whose lives she touched. She'll be missed. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/07\/15\/a-goodbye\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/07\/15\/back-to-the-80s\/\">Back To the &#8217;80s!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Chances are you're either going to love me or hate me for posting this. Personally, I think this is great -- my tolerance for cheezy pop is really high -- but there will be no hard feelings if you blame me for wanting to brillo pad your brain clean after watching this. :) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/07\/15\/back-to-the-80s\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/07\/15\/delicious-july-14th-3\/\">Links for July 14th through July 15th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between July 14th and July 15th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0Why America Is Flunking Science \u2022\u00a0Psychotic Letters From Men: Customer Disservice \u2022\u00a0How to Scan a Cat and Other Subjects \u2022\u00a0Pinboard - Antisocial Bookmarking \u2022\u00a0Spectacular Dream Yachts to Set Sail <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/07\/15\/delicious-july-14th-3\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/15\/everything-old-is-new-again\/\">Everything old is new again<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A random comment on a Flickr photo led me to do some digging, and after reading a summary of Seattle transportation efforts, all of a sudden it's no surprise that we've seen such ridiculous controversy over our  light rail and monorail plans. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/15\/everything-old-is-new-again\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/15\/phrase-origins\/\">Phrase Origins<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Mom forwarded this to me today. I can't personally vouch for the accuracy of everything in here, but it all sounds pretty reasonable to me, and there's some fun tidbits in here. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/15\/phrase-origins\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/15\/twelve-hours-to-go\/\">Twelve hours to go&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">...or a bit more than twelve hours, actually, for Prairie and me. Since we pre-ordered our copies (yup -- one for each of us) through Amazon, they'll show up sometime tomorrow. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/15\/twelve-hours-to-go\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/15\/mac-os-x-panther-hacks\/\">Mac OS X Panther Hacks<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I just wanted to toss out a quick congratulations to Phil, who with the release of O'Reilly's Mac OS X Panther Hacks, is now officially a published (co-)author! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/15\/mac-os-x-panther-hacks\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/15\/in-the-not-very-distant-future\/\">In the not very distant future&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">One sunny day in 2005 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Ave, where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the US Marine standing guard and said, 'I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/15\/in-the-not-very-distant-future\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/15\/im-almost-an-uncle\/\">I&#8217;m (almost) an uncle!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Emily started labor last night, and so Kevin just called to let me know that he's flying back to Mississippi to be there for the birth of his baby! Apparently things are still early in the process &mdash; the hospital sent Em home last night after she went in &mdash; so chances are good that Kev will be able to be there for the birth. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/15\/im-almost-an-uncle\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/tablet-pcs\/\">Tablet PCs<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I just had someone ask me what I thought about TabletPCs. Honestly, I haven't given a whole lot of thought to them. I have, though, been a fairly regular reader of Robert Scoble's for a while now, and he's big into the TabletPC thing, so I just pointed them to his site. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/tablet-pcs\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/thats-it-im-moving\/\">That&#039;s it, I&#039;m moving<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The pseudo-porn attractions of hot pants and bared midriffs are simply grotesque compared to the unostentatious (but hardly demure) eroticism of the kimono. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/thats-it-im-moving\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/pings\/\">Pings?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Why is it that when using a desktop blogging client (I've noticed this behavior in three so far: UserSpace, Kung-Log, and NetNewsWire), pings don't seem to be sent when a post is published? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/pings\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/too-much-going-on\/\">Too much going on&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, it looks like the US is finally starting to wake up to the fact that the Bush administration hasn't exactly been entirely truthful with the American Public. About damn time. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/too-much-going-on\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/move-you-momos\/\">Move, you momos<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">So why do <em>none of you<\/em> move enough to let me by? It doesn't do any good for me to move to one side or the other, I'm still faced with a wall of corporate momos that I can't get past. Would it kill you to leave a little space for people walking the other direction? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/move-you-momos\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/news-to-nobody\/\">News to nobody<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Something I just discovered, thanks to a comment at Etherfarm. If you're running Windows XP, on-screen text legibility can be drastically improved by switching on ClearType. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/news-to-nobody\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/random-is-fun\/\">Random is fun<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">There's something wonderfully surreal about listening to my iPod on the way to work, and going directly from Coolio's 'Ugly Bitches' to 'American Wake (the Nova Scotia Set)' off of Bill Whelan's 'Riverdance' soundtrack. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/random-is-fun\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/about-that-homework\/\">About that homework<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Marilyn Monroe's 'My Heart Belongs to Daddy' reminded me strongly of a Bj&ouml;rk song, but I couldn't think of which one. I've tracked it down &mdash; have a listen, and compare and contrast. I'm quite curious as to whether Bj&ouml;rk may have had this in mind when she recorded 'It's Oh So Quiet'. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/about-that-homework\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/15\/more-on-tips\/\">More on TIPS<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Facism is a term thrown about too freely, and I don't believe we're at a point that its use is justified -- but an oppressive and intrusive government, however you want to label it, does not ride into town wearing the uniforms and waving the flags of recognizable evil. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/15\/more-on-tips\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/15\/wanna-join-the-secret-police\/\">Wanna join the secret police?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">...the Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/15\/wanna-join-the-secret-police\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/15\/it-just-works\/\">It just works<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'd been with Microsoft for so long, who are complacent and hoard their customers, that I'd forgotten what it's like to use an operating system built by people who want it to cooperate with the rest of the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/15\/it-just-works\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from July 15<\/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-24255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24255","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=24255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}