{"id":24354,"date":"2020-08-02T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24354"},"modified":"2020-08-13T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:01:09","slug":"on-this-day-aug-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/02\/on-this-day-aug-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Aug 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<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 August 2nd<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/08\/02\/%f0%9f%93%9a-smut-peddler-x-ten-years-of-impeccable-pornoglyphics-edited-by-andrea-purcell\/\">Smut Peddler X: Ten Years of Impeccable Pornoglyphics edited by Andrea Purcell<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: A very enjoyable collection of fun, inclusive, explicit sexytimes. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/08\/02\/%f0%9f%93%9a-smut-peddler-x-ten-years-of-impeccable-pornoglyphics-edited-by-andrea-purcell\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/02\/goth-visigoth\/\">Goth | Visigoth<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Updating an old meme with this gorgeous high-viz corset! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/02\/goth-visigoth\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/02\/year-50-day-92\/\">Year 50 Day 92<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Time for dessert! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/02\/year-50-day-92\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/02\/difficult-listening-hour-2020-08-01\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 2020.08.01<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Week twenty-three of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/02\/difficult-listening-hour-2020-08-01\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/02\/24331\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My nieces\u2019 grandparents (on their dad\u2019s side) found an old park bench for their family, and my nieces decorated it. I think this is wonderful, and am sharing with permission from their mom. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/02\/24331\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/02\/on-this-day-aug-2\/\">On This Day: Aug 2<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from August 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/02\/on-this-day-aug-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/08\/02\/12398\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Do you like the color purple? Turns out you can thank rancid mollusc butt mucus! \u201cThis is a colour that pretends to transcend the vulgar vagaries of this world, all the while remaining mired in its muck.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/08\/02\/12398\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/02\/20089\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Used #Pixelmator to combine two #Prisma effects (Heisenberg and Mosaic). On a miniature computer I carry in my pocket and only semi-accurately call a &#8220;phone&#8221; (as that&#8217;s one of its least used functions). Even with all the crap in the world today, living in the future is cool. (215\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/02\/20089\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/02\/20092\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We voted! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/02\/20092\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/02\/20095\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">For one brief, odd moment, I was sure there was some sort of robotic snake on the road outside our house. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/02\/20095\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/02\/18147\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An afternoon visiting The circus planet. #RollWorld Image @RollWorldApp, #TinyPlanet #PhotoSphere #StereoGraphic <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/02\/18147\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/02\/18150\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">At the circus! Yesterday we noticed that the Wenatchee Youth Circus was in town for the weekend, so here we are, watching them prep for the show! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/02\/18150\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/08\/02\/vegas-vacation\/\">Vegas Vacation<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It's vacation time -- a full five days off from work. Tomorrow morning, at some horrendous hour, Prairie's sister is driving us to the airport where we'll board a plane to fly down to Las Vegas for three days with Xebeth! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/08\/02\/vegas-vacation\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/02\/meme-propagation-test\/\">Meme Propagation Test<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This posting is a community experiment started by Minding the Planet to see how a meme represented by a blog posting spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/02\/meme-propagation-test\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/02\/seeing-cheney-requires-signing-loyalty-oath\/\">Seeing Cheney requires signing &#8216;loyalty oath&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Kirsten sent this my way earlier today, and then I ran across it again on Len's site, and both times it just made my skin crawl: Obtaining Cheney Rally Ticket Requires Signing Bush Endorsement. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/02\/seeing-cheney-requires-signing-loyalty-oath\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/02\/itunes-and-jazz-more-about-metadata\/\">iTunes and Jazz: More about Metadata<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Regular readers of this mess I call a website will occasionally have seen me rant about metadata, especially where the iTunes Music Store is concerned. In short, it's woefully incomplete, and at times, flat-out inaccurate. It was quite heartening for me to run across Jazz in 2500?, a jazz-lovers look at the disservice done to music when only the least possible information is preserved when purchasing music online. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/02\/itunes-and-jazz-more-about-metadata\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/02\/ballard-locks-photo-workshop\/\">Ballard Locks Photo Workshop<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">So yesterday was the big photo gathering at the Locks. Prairie and I picked up her sister Hope and then headed out, eventually getting there about an hour into the event. As I'd never been to the Locks before, I wasn't entirely sure where to go at first, so we just started following the paths and wandering around. It wasn't long before we stumbled across a fairly large group with a higher-than-average ratio of cameras&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/02\/ballard-locks-photo-workshop\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/02\/overpriced-oh-come-on\/\">Overpriced? Oh, come on.<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Why in the world, then, would I want to pay $15\/month (not counting any discounts I get for being a TypePad beta tester) to sign up with TypePad? Quite a few reasons, actually. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/02\/overpriced-oh-come-on\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/08\/02\/best-webcam-ever\/\">Best. Webcam. 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