{"id":24382,"date":"2020-08-16T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24382"},"modified":"2020-08-13T08:08:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:08:05","slug":"on-this-day-aug-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/16\/on-this-day-aug-16\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Aug 16"},"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>14<\/strong> posts previously published on August 16th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/16\/year-50-day-106\/\">Year 50 Day 106<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Hello New York City! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/16\/year-50-day-106\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/16\/24434\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; thirty-one of 2020: The Children of Hamlin by Carmen Carter &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; #startrek #tos Decent for early TNG, though more than a bit on-the-nose with the Pied Piper connections (children abducted from a place called Hamlin by aliens whose language is music). &#x1f596; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/16\/24434\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/16\/difficult-listening-hour-2020-08-15\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 2020.08.15<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Week twenty-five of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/16\/difficult-listening-hour-2020-08-15\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/16\/on-this-day-aug-16\/\">On This Day: Aug 16<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from August 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/16\/on-this-day-aug-16\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/08\/16\/me-1-apple-support-0-so-far\/\">Me: 1, Apple Support: 0 (So far\u2026)<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've had that account name for close to two decades now, and it would be kind of a shame to lose it. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/08\/16\/me-1-apple-support-0-so-far\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/08\/16\/12429\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">First Facebook cuts off posts from external sources, and now Twitter&#8217;s crippled any third-party clients. Even after years of talk of how social media is adversely affecting our culture, I didn&#8217;t really expect the platforms themselves to be so invested in driving users away. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/08\/16\/12429\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/08\/16\/21306\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book thirty-seven of 2017: The Soldiers of Fear (Invasion! Book Two), by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/08\/16\/21306\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/16\/20158\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">What was conceived as a &#8220;flopped on the bed&#8221; shot turned into a &#8220;oh wow this made my forehead look gigantic&#8221; shot. Amusement overrode vanity, and here we are. (229\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/16\/20158\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/16\/18201\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Giving the bald-and-bearded look a try. I think it&#8217;s working for me. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/16\/18201\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/16\/costco-caskets\/\">Costco Caskets?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is just silly: in case you're looking to save a few bucks while shopping for the latest death in the family, you can now pick up coffins at Costco. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/16\/costco-caskets\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/16\/m-night-shyamalans-the-village\/\">M. Night Shyamalan&#8217;s The Village<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Village is by far my favorite of Shyamalan's films. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/16\/m-night-shyamalans-the-village\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/16\/whoever-winswe-lose\/\">Whoever Wins\u2026We Lose<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">No, I haven't seen it yet, but it appears that as much as I was hoping this wouldn't happen, it has: Alien vs. Predator is a dud. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/16\/whoever-winswe-lose\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/16\/oh-go-ahead-and-point-its-okay\/\">Oh, go ahead and point, it&#039;s okay<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As I walked out, I noticed a couple girls out of the corner of my eye, one of whom was doing a fairly obvious 'oh-there-he-is-look-wait-don't-make-it-obvious' motion to her friend. Being used to this, and rather amused that I'd caught her, I turned around with a grin and told them, 'Oh, go ahead and point, it's okay.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/16\/oh-go-ahead-and-point-its-okay\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/16\/discovering-deep-space-nine\/\">Discovering Deep Space Nine<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">At this rate, DS9 may just end up supplanting Next Gen as my favorite Star Trek series. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/16\/discovering-deep-space-nine\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from August 16<\/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-24382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24382","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=24382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}