{"id":24295,"date":"2020-07-24T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24295"},"modified":"2020-07-13T15:12:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:12:40","slug":"on-this-day-jul-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/07\/24\/on-this-day-jul-24\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jul 24"},"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>27<\/strong> posts previously published on July 24th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/24\/year-50-day-83\/\">Year 50 Day 83<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, it was bound to happen eventually. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/24\/year-50-day-83\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/24\/turn-on-the-lights\/\">Turn on the lights!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Apparently my default suspension of disbelief includes being able to see in the dark. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/24\/turn-on-the-lights\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/07\/24\/25440\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 26\/2021: That Which Divides by Dayton Ward &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/07\/24\/25440\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/07\/24\/on-this-day-jul-24\/\">On This Day: Jul 24<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from July 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/07\/24\/on-this-day-jul-24\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/07\/24\/13431\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book thirty-nine of 2019: A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr._ &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; 1961 Hugo Best Novel Not terribly optimistic in its outlook towards humanity\u2019s ability to learn from our mistakes, but an excellent and far-reaching post-apocalyptic tale. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/07\/24\/13431\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/07\/24\/21902\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book thirty of 2018: The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi. &#x1f31f;&#x1f31f;&#x1f31f;&#x1f31f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/07\/24\/21902\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/24\/20050\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A full and fun weekend of gothclubbing at the Merc, Star Trekking at the Cinerama, being a dinosaur at the @norwescon picnic, hoteling, and shopping. Now back home in the &#8216;Burg and feeling a little zonkered. (206\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/24\/20050\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/24\/20053\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Something seems off here\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/07\/24\/20053\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/07\/24\/18821\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Footwear for the day: Superman Chucks. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/07\/24\/18821\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/07\/24\/18081\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">For #throwbackthursday: T-ball as a kid. It quickly became clear that sports weren&#8217;t my thing; I invariably spent my time examining weeds in right field, as that was where I&#8217;d do the least damage during games. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/07\/24\/18081\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/07\/24\/speakeasy-can-kiss-off\/\">Speakeasy can Kiss Off<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">At this point, I can _strongly_ recommend against using Speakeasy for personal broadband service. Perhaps they're still doing well at the business level, but from a customer point of view, they're really not worth it. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/07\/24\/speakeasy-can-kiss-off\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/07\/24\/cannonball\/\">Cannonball<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A seven-shot action photo of a swimmer doing a cannonball into Greenlake here in Seattle. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/07\/24\/cannonball\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/24\/bite-of-seattle-2005\/\">Bite of Seattle 2005<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A small photoset of shots from wandering around Saturday at the Bite of Seattle. Not my usual onslaught of pics this time...I just wasn't as into it on Saturday as I am sometimes. Still managed a few decent shots, though. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/24\/bite-of-seattle-2005\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/buytunes-blows\/\">BuyTunes blows<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Earlier this week BuyTunes popped up attempting to capitalize on the success of the iTunes Music Store by moving the same general idea to the Windows platform. So far, the word is that they suck. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/buytunes-blows\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/bumper-stickers\/\">Bumper stickers!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Bush needs to order new bumperstickers, but needs help with the slogan. Can anyone help? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/bumper-stickers\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/911-report-online\/\">9\/11 report online<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The full congressional inquiry into the events surrounding Sept. 11th, 2001 (well, minus the sections pulled by the White House) is available online. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/911-report-online\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/the-i-dont-vote-party\/\">The &#039;I don&#039;t vote&#039; party<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Mike Walsh's plans to register to vote for the first time in 54 years got me wondering how many other people might finally be moved to register during this election cycle. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/the-i-dont-vote-party\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/i-never-knew-she-was-so-icky\/\">I never knew she was so icky<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">While I've heard a lot about &uuml;ber-conservative Ann Coulter, I'd never bothered to read anything she wrote. From everything I'd read about her, I didn't figure it was worth the time. Now I know I was right, and have no need nor desire to ever read anything from her again. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/i-never-knew-she-was-so-icky\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/enterprise-designer-dies\/\">Enterprise designer dies<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Walter 'Matt' Jefferies, the designer of the original Enterprise NCC-1701, has died. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/enterprise-designer-dies\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/about-noises\/\">About &#039;Noises&#039;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'm tossing albums up there at more or less random intervals (often determined by what I'm listening to at any given point in the day). When I do, though, I'm highlighting three key tracks from the album and adding streaming audio 'PLAY' links to them, in addition to one for the full album. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/about-noises\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/leadership\/\">Leadership<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A leader is best when people barely know he exists; &hellip;when his work is done, his aim fulfilled; they will say, 'We did it ourselves.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/leadership\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/i-wanna-push-da-button-2\/\">I wanna push da button!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Rock on &mdash; there's a couple workmen poking around at the elevator right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/i-wanna-push-da-button-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/darwin-awards\/\">Darwin Awards<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Man, some people scare me with their stupidity. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/darwin-awards\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/24\/church-vs-state\/\">Church vs. State<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Personally, I find it easier to believe in God than to believe that George W. Bush has the best interests of anyone other than himself in mind. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/24\/church-vs-state\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/24\/as-long-as-its-depressing\/\">As long as it&#8217;s depressing<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">One of Depeche Mode's greatest strengths is also their greatest weakness. The band comes up with some of pop music's most inventive lyrics, and at the same time, they always give the impression that they'll arbitrarily sing about anything, as long as it's depressing. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/24\/as-long-as-its-depressing\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/24\/i-was-on-tv-in-alaska\/\">I was on TV &#8211; in Alaska!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It seems that Fox 4's nightly news was doing a story on teen dance clubs, and used some old footage from Gig's. We're guessing it was from the closing night's TchKung! show, as apparently I had mud smeared across my face -- something TchKung! is known for. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/24\/i-was-on-tv-in-alaska\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/07\/24\/is-this-going-to-work\/\">Is this going to work?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'm starting to get really worried as to whether this whole thing is going to work out for me. It seems I may have made a bit of a mistake in moving my departure date up to when I did -- I arrived in Seattle at a time when the job market is pretty nasty, and I'm getting really tired of being unemployed. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/07\/24\/is-this-going-to-work\/\">&#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 24<\/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-24295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295","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=24295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}