{"id":24392,"date":"2020-08-20T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24392"},"modified":"2020-08-13T08:09:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:09:29","slug":"on-this-day-aug-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/20\/on-this-day-aug-20\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Aug 20"},"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>34<\/strong> posts previously published on August 20th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/08\/20\/weekly-ish-notes-august-11-august-19-2025-worldcon-edition\/\">Weekly(-ish) Notes: August 11\u2013August 19, 2025: Worldcon Edition<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A week (and a bit) in the life of\u2026. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past week or so. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/08\/20\/weekly-ish-notes-august-11-august-19-2025-worldcon-edition\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/20\/year-50-day-110\/\">Year 50 Day 110<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A World Cup loss, an astrophysics lecture, and a lot of music. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/20\/year-50-day-110\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/20\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-strange-days\/\">&#x1f3a5; Strange Days<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Almost 30 years later, and this still packs a hell of a punch, and is still amazingly topical for the present day. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/20\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-strange-days\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/20\/%f0%9f%93%9a-equal-rites-by-terry-pratchett\/\">&#x1f4da; Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Something of a mid-80's take on feminism in fantasy literature. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/20\/%f0%9f%93%9a-equal-rites-by-terry-pratchett\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/08\/20\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-journey-2-the-mysterious-island\/\">&#x1f3a5; Journey 2: The Mysterious Island<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Equally as inconsequentially entertaining as the first. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/08\/20\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-journey-2-the-mysterious-island\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/08\/20\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth\/\">&#x1f3a5; Journey to the Center of the Earth<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Inoffensively and forgettably entertaining. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/08\/20\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/08\/20\/repairing-my-music-library-after-apple-music-library-sync-destroyed-the-metadata\/\">Repairing my Music library after Apple Music Library Sync destroyed the metadata<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Trying to write a post about my music, the application Music, the service Apple Music, and Apple the company, and make it all coherent, is _not_ an easy thing to do. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/08\/20\/repairing-my-music-library-after-apple-music-library-sync-destroyed-the-metadata\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/20\/on-this-day-aug-20\/\">On This Day: Aug 20<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from August 20 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/20\/on-this-day-aug-20\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/08\/20\/12436\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Running away to the mountains for a few days for part one of our summer vacation! Will be either entirely disconnected or nearly so for the duration. Make sure nothing important happens for the next few days, okay? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/08\/20\/12436\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/08\/20\/12434\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">\u201cAuthor NK Jemisin has scooped her third Hugo award for best science-fiction novel and, in doing so, has become the standard-bearer for a sea change in the genre\u2019s diversity, as women \u2013 especially women of colour \u2013 swept the boards at last night\u2019s ceremony.\u201d Excellent. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/08\/20\/12434\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/08\/20\/21328\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book thirty-eight of 2017: Waypoint Kangaroo, by Curtis C. Chen &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; (Endeavor Award finalist) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/08\/20\/21328\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/20\/20170\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Time to vote! (233\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/20\/20170\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/20\/18845\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">He is Groot! #Sasquan <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/20\/18845\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/20\/18848\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Malibu rum and Sprite at 3:20pm. Afternoon booze means it&#8217;s officially vacation (just in case it wasn&#8217;t official yet), right? #Sasquan <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/20\/18848\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/20\/18851\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">norwescon usually has more and better swag; #Sasquan has better swag bags. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/20\/18851\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/20\/18854\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Before: end of the quarter too busy to care. After: improvements have been made! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/20\/18854\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/20\/18217\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I like my laugh lines. :) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/20\/18217\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/08\/20\/delicious-august-19th-2\/\">Links for August 19th through August 20th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between August 19th and August 20th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/08\/20\/delicious-august-19th-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/08\/20\/welcome-homenow-start-packing\/\">Welcome Home&#8230;Now Start Packing<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We're home. Generally speaking, this is a good thing: the wedding was wonderful, the experience at the resort was good, the camping was incredible, and even traveling home was surprisingly pleasant. The actual arrival home has been one of the most traumatic we've yet experienced, however. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/08\/20\/welcome-homenow-start-packing\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/08\/20\/summers-ending\/\">Summer&#8217;s Ending&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Scarecrows and sunflowers smile as summer slides into fall... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/08\/20\/summers-ending\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/20\/google-talk\/\">Google Talk<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Jesus Christ died for our sins. BY his blood we shall be Free from defects in material and workmanship. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/20\/google-talk\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/20\/its-only-a-matter-of-time\/\">It&#8217;s only a matter of time<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Citing an unstable political climate, proven stockpiles of chemical and nuclear weapons, a rigidly government-controlled media, and the need to confront emerging threats in a timely fashion, President George W. Bush announced today that the United States has launched a full-scale invasion of the United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/20\/its-only-a-matter-of-time\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/20\/lets-do-the-time-warp-again\/\">Let&#8217;s do the time warp again\u2026<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I would so love living in a building when after riding the elevator to the 4th floor, you got off and asked, not where you were, but when you were. Unfortunately, I'm afraid it's nothing more than an amusing typo. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/20\/lets-do-the-time-warp-again\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/stwjotfiu\/\">ST:WJOTFIU<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Continuing in the spirit of my recent Star Trek posts, Iki proposes a new title for 'Enterprise': ST:WJOTFIU (or 'Star Trek: We're Just Out There Fucking It Up'). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/stwjotfiu\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/since-when\/\">Since when?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The powerful truck bomb that ripped through the United Nations' headquarters in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing the top U.N. official in Iraq and at least 19 others, was the most brazen act of terrorism in the country since the U.S. invasion in March. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/since-when\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/texas-pledge\/\">Texas pledge<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Honor the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one and indivisible. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/texas-pledge\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/compassion\/\">Compassion<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It looks suspiciously like Bush's definition of 'compassion' is hanging out with minorities, as it's something conspicuously absent in the rest of his photo album. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/compassion\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/activision-sues-viacomover-bad-star-trek\/\">ActiVision sues Viacom&#8230;over bad Star Trek<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Activision, Inc....today announced that it has filed a breach of contract suit against Viacom. ...through its actions and inactions, Viacom has let the once proud Star Trek franchise stagnate and decay. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/activision-sues-viacomover-bad-star-trek\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/counter-googling\/\">Counter-Googling<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&hellip;instead of consumers Googling you before they buy your services, you should Google THEM, and instantly get more personal information than you'd ever be able to capture with traditional 1:1 in an entire life-time. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/counter-googling\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/i-think\/\">I think&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I think, therefore I mac. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/i-think\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/a-little-stressed\/\">A little stressed?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The package must be received&hellip;no later than 11am on Friday&hellip;. Please call me&hellip;once the package is on its way? Otherwise I will lose my job. I shit you not. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/a-little-stressed\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/good-things-bush-has-done\/\">Good things Bush has done<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Believe it or not, I do have one thing that I can completely seriously thank Bush and his administration for. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/good-things-bush-has-done\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/dean-in-seattle-this-sunday\/\">Dean in Seattle this Sunday<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As part of his campaign's use of the Internet, Dean has solicited commitments from supporters to attend each of his rallies, and so far more than 2,250 people have signed up to attend the Seattle rally, Means said. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/dean-in-seattle-this-sunday\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/giant-gerbils\/\">Giant Gerbils<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'm trying to decide what amuses me more &mdash; this Netscape News story about an infestation of giant gerbils in China, or the fact that the article mentions the fact that Britain has a National Gerbil Society. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/giant-gerbils\/\">&#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 20<\/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-24392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24392","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=24392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}