{"id":24285,"date":"2020-07-19T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24285"},"modified":"2020-07-13T15:11:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:11:27","slug":"on-this-day-jul-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/07\/19\/on-this-day-jul-19\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jul 19"},"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 July 19th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/19\/home-habitat-range-niche-territory-by-martha-wells\/\">Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 40\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: I really liked the look at how Mensah is dealing with the trauma and PTSD of her experiences. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/19\/home-habitat-range-niche-territory-by-martha-wells\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/19\/the-murderbot-diaries-vol-2-by-martha-wells\/\">The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 2 by Martha Wells<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 39\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Even as a neurotypical person, it\u2019s all too easy to identify with Murderbot\u2019s confusion and irritation with human behavior. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/19\/the-murderbot-diaries-vol-2-by-martha-wells\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/19\/year-50-day-78\/\">Year 50 Day 78<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A power outage means a late start to the workday. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/19\/year-50-day-78\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/07\/19\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-snow-queen-by-joan-d-vinge\/\">&#x1f4da; The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Science fiction that somehow reads like fantasy. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/07\/19\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-snow-queen-by-joan-d-vinge\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/07\/19\/difficult-listening-hour-2020-07-18\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 2020.07.18<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Week twenty-one of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/07\/19\/difficult-listening-hour-2020-07-18\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/07\/19\/on-this-day-jul-19\/\">On This Day: Jul 19<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from July 19 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/07\/19\/on-this-day-jul-19\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/07\/19\/21258\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Forgot to post this earlier, but the sunset as we were leaving the park was really pretty. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/07\/19\/21258\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/19\/20011\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Not long ago, it was a torrential downpour. Now it&#8217;s sunny and quite nice. Insert fickle weather joke here. (201\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/19\/20011\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/19\/20014\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Forgot my photo yesterday. As penance, a silly Snapchat filter. (200\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/19\/20014\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/07\/19\/18078\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Out at the Merc! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/07\/19\/18078\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/07\/19\/18051\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Something unpleasant has happened to the fountain. Ick. :p <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/07\/19\/18051\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/07\/19\/18054\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#8220;It&#8217;s &#8216;meat&#8217; flavor!&#8221; &#8220;What kind of meat?&#8221; &#8220;Um\u2026&#8221; &#8220;Steak? Hamburger? Sausage?&#8221; &#8220;\u2026meat. Just meat. That&#8217;s all you need to know.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/07\/19\/18054\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2011<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/07\/19\/your-daily-dose-of-awkward\/\">Your Daily Dose of Awkward<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">February 28th and August 8th look like _especially_ good days to me. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/07\/19\/your-daily-dose-of-awkward\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/07\/19\/dance-off-2007-is-coming\/\">Dance Off 2007 is Coming!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This year's Dance Off is coming soon -- just two weeks away! This year it'll be held at the Crocodile on August 2nd at 8pm, and it'd be a good idea to buy your tickets now, as last year's show sold out. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/07\/19\/dance-off-2007-is-coming\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/19\/oh-snap-its-getting-kind-of-hectic-up-in-this-piece\/\">Oh, snap! It&#8217;s getting kind of hectic up in this piece.<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">At this point, according to observers, both statesmen decided\u2014by seemingly unspoken mutual consent\u2014to abandon the gutter patois of the common carnival worker and to resort instead to an eminently more quotable (but, to those not versed in the vagaries of hip-hop idiom, more confusing) exchange of viewpoints. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/19\/oh-snap-its-getting-kind-of-hectic-up-in-this-piece\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/19\/theres-no-such-thing-as-too-much-music\/\">There&#8217;s no such thing as too much music<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My one major accomplishment of the weekend was finally completing a project that I've had going on for months now: importing every CD I own into iTunes. Quite a task, when after years of being a complete music junkie (compounded by a few years of DJing), I've built up a CD collection of 1,142 albums! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/19\/theres-no-such-thing-as-too-much-music\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/19\/up-up-and-at-em\/\">Up, up and at &#8217;em<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Guess it's about time I should poke my head up around these parts again, huh? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/19\/up-up-and-at-em\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/19\/gay-men-get-all-the-chicks\/\">Gay men get all the chicks<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A strip club's a strip club -- bored girls get onstage, get naked, and wiggle. I'd be more entertained if any of the girls could actually dance decently, or do an actual strip tease (rather than one song 'clothed' and one song naked). However...that just doesn't seem to be the case. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/19\/gay-men-get-all-the-chicks\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/19\/blast-dab-fraggin-pakaloomer\/\">Blast dab fraggin&#8217; pakaloomer<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Be creative with your curse words. Dropping a simple F-bomb is a cliche and, frankly, it is beneath you. If you're going to swear, do it with style. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/19\/blast-dab-fraggin-pakaloomer\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/19\/more-scary-govt-agencies\/\">More scary gov&#8217;t agencies<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The DARPA Information Awareness Office (IAO) will imagine, develop, apply, integrate, demonstrate and transition information technologies, components and prototype, closed-loop, information systems that will counter asymmetric threats by achieving total information awareness useful for preemption; national security warning; and national security decision making. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/19\/more-scary-govt-agencies\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/19\/advice-to-ashley\/\">Advice to Ashley<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">your whole life you're going to be pursued and eventually conquered and dominated by a variety of well-meaning men, take this opportunity to turn the tables and you be the one who does the corruption. and trust me when i tell you that you've got all the tools. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/19\/advice-to-ashley\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/07\/19\/family-blondes-and-jargon\/\">Family, blondes, and jargon<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Jargon File is a compendium of slang and jargon from the hacker community that has been an ongoing project since roughly 1981 -- a full 20 years now! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/07\/19\/family-blondes-and-jargon\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>1998<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1998\/07\/19\/from-usenet-71998-2300\/\">[From Usenet: 7.19.98 2300]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Hmmm... 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