{"id":24362,"date":"2020-08-06T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24362"},"modified":"2020-08-13T08:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:02:35","slug":"on-this-day-aug-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/06\/on-this-day-aug-6\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Aug 6"},"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>15<\/strong> posts previously published on August 6th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/06\/year-50-day-96\/\">Year 50 Day 96<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A day at the Norwescon Volunteer Appreciation Picnic. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/06\/year-50-day-96\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/06\/on-this-day-aug-6\/\">On This Day: Aug 6<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from August 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/06\/on-this-day-aug-6\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/08\/06\/13450\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book forty-four of 2019: The Enterprise War, by John Jackson Miller. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; Filling in the blanks of Pike\u2019s Enterprise up to the start of season two of ST: DIS. Not a bad romp, and helps to flesh out some of the secondary characters we see in Pike\u2019s crew. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/08\/06\/13450\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/08\/06\/21279\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book thirty-six of 2017: First Strike (Invasion! Book One), by Diane Carey. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/08\/06\/21279\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/06\/20107\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Turns out this was a laze around the house, watch Olympics, and do as little as possible kind of day. (219\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/06\/20107\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/06\/18156\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A caricature self portrait. I was messing around with the #rollworld #tinyplanet app and started laughing when I got this. Showed Prairie, who got the giggles and said that this should be today&#8217;s photo. So it is. :) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/06\/18156\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/08\/06\/delicious-july-31st\/\">Links for July 31st through August 6th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between July 31st and August 6th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0Trading Places: The demographic inversion of the American city \u2022\u00a0The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products \u2022\u00a0Canada bus passenger stabs, decapitates seat mate \u2022\u00a0EW Previews Star Trek Comic Con Posters - With First Cast Photos \u2022\u00a0Ballantine Books to Publish Book Inspired by the Webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/08\/06\/delicious-july-31st\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/08\/06\/im-going-to-avoid-the-viaduct\/\">I&#8217;m going to avoid the viaduct&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The central portion of the Alaskan Way Viaduct was ranked on the same scale. Its score: Nine percent. And if that doesn\u2019t make you want to stay away from the viaduct until they tear the damn thing down, perhaps knowing that the National Bridge Inventory considers it \u201cbasically intolerable\u201d will. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/08\/06\/im-going-to-avoid-the-viaduct\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/08\/06\/back-from-vegas\/\">Back from Vegas<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We're back! It was a wonderful trip -- three days having a _lot_ of fun bouncing around Vegas with Xebeth. I'll get more ramblings up eventually...for the moment, though, it's just good to be back home. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/08\/06\/back-from-vegas\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/06\/its-not-all-bad-really\/\">It&#8217;s not all bad, really!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Last month, I mentioned that I'd been in contact with a magazine reporter who was working on a story about weblogs and some of the potential pitfalls that can come about when recording your life online for the world to see. It appears that Anil has also been contacted by a reporter working on a similar story, and he ended up having some of the same reservations that I did. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/06\/its-not-all-bad-really\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/06\/condolences\/\">Condolences<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Over the course of the past few days, Jessica Wilkinson, a regular member at the Vogue, went missing. Yesterday, her family officially filed a missing persons report with the police, and word started spreading around the various Seattle communities. Last night, the police contacted her family to let them know that she had passed away in her apartment. Nothing else is known at this point. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/06\/condolences\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/06\/destinations-2\/\">Destinations<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Not much in the way of posting tonight. Instead, I concentrated on converting the 'Destinations' section of my sidebar so that all items now have comment and TrackBack ability, and there are archives for items that have scrolled off the page. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/06\/destinations-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/06\/58-years-ago-today\/\">58 years ago today<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">August 6th marks the 58th anniversary of the A-bomb being dropped on Hiroshima. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/06\/58-years-ago-today\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/06\/its-a-rainbow-banner-year\/\">It&#039;s a (rainbow) banner year<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'm sure we've still got a long way to go before someone's sexuality matters as little in how we view them as does&hellip;oh, well, so we've got a long way to go no matter what. 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