{"id":24402,"date":"2020-08-25T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24402"},"modified":"2020-08-13T08:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:10:51","slug":"on-this-day-aug-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/25\/on-this-day-aug-25\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Aug 25"},"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>28<\/strong> posts previously published on August 25th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/25\/year-50-day-115\/\">Year 50 Day 115<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We're (finally) off the boat and in London! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/25\/year-50-day-115\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/25\/on-this-day-aug-25\/\">On This Day: Aug 25<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from August 25 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/25\/on-this-day-aug-25\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/25\/20185\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Got a great present from Prairie today! We got to see this at last year&#8217;s #Worldcon (Sasquan), and thought it was great (in the &#8220;really cheesy B movie&#8221; sense of the word). She remembered it after seeing me talking about the #hugoawards, and ordered us a copy. Yay #Australiens! (238\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/25\/20185\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18902\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Outside the Canadian Parliament, waiting for a free guided tour and listening to Queen Victoria (not as demised as rumored, apparently) tell us about the history of the area. #latergram <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18902\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18905\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We crossed the border into a foreign country and consumed substances illegal in the United States! #latergram #kindereggs <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18905\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18908\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Photo bombed by a woolly mammoth! #latergram <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18908\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18911\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Photo bombed by Queen Victoria! #latergram <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18911\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18914\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This morning, just off the ferry and on Canadian soil. &#8220;So we&#8217;re Canadians now, right? That&#8217;s how it works?&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221; #latergram <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18914\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18887\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This morning, somewhere between the U.S. and Canada. We&#8217;d just seen a whale off to one side of the ferry! #latergram <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18887\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18890\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">On the ferry to Canada &#8211; off for an international adventure! #heycoho <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/08\/25\/18890\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/25\/18272\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The complimentary newspaper lets Batman get a handle on the local criminal underground. Such as it is. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/25\/18272\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/25\/18275\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Our hotel is in very easy walking distance of the train station &#8211; which will be great for taking the train up to the state fair on Friday! #vacation <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/25\/18275\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/25\/18247\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">At my folks&#8217; place for dinner. I do like seeing real mountains out the windows. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/25\/18247\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/25\/18250\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Batman likes clouds. &#8220;That one looks like a dragon! And that one&#8217;s a fishie! Er&#8230;fish. Got excited. Sorry.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/25\/18250\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/25\/18253\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Tuts out Batman likes crime capers for his in-flight entertainment. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/25\/18253\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/08\/25\/delicious-august-22nd\/\">Links for August 22nd through August 25th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between August 22nd and August 25th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/08\/25\/delicious-august-22nd\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/08\/25\/dance-off-2006\/\">Dance Off 2006<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">On something of a whim, thanks to having an evening when I wasn't working and nothing was planned, Prairie and I decided to head down to an event I'd just stumbled across earlier in the day: Dance Off 2006, an annual competition held in the Seattle area for people who want to prove that they have the heart and soul of a dancer, even though they do not have the training of a dancer. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/08\/25\/dance-off-2006\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/25\/boxes-everywhere\/\">Boxes Everywhere!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Our living room is filled with boxes. Some full, some partially emptied, some waiting to be broken down and taken out to the recycling...but it's still a _lot_ of boxes. Most of mine are still over at my old apartment, too. The end result is going to be nice, but _man_ is moving a pain in the butt. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/25\/boxes-everywhere\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/25\/i-had-an-rtion\/\">I had an *rtion<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">More with me finding humor in places I really probably shouldn't. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/25\/i-had-an-rtion\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/25\/just-keep-calm\/\">Just keep calm<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My, what amazingly calm passengers those planes had. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/25\/just-keep-calm\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/25\/cheney-suddenly-supports-gay-marriage\/\">Cheney suddenly supports gay marriage<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Talk about flip-flopping. Dick Cheney, who until now, despite having an openly lesbian daughter, has steadfastly stuck with the party line on gay marriage, suddenly seems to be a little more open-minded about the issue. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/25\/cheney-suddenly-supports-gay-marriage\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/another-lie\/\">Another lie<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Despite the Bush administration's public assertions, these unmanned aerial vehicles weren't designed to dispense biological or chemical weapons. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/another-lie\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/why-i-hate-george-w-bush\/\">Why I hate George W. Bush<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">When I look at George W. Bush, I don't see a patriot. I see a lying, psychopathic narcissist. And it pains me, it grieves me, it WOUNDS me to realize that this puts me not only in the minority\u2026 but in the 'whacko fringe.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/why-i-hate-george-w-bush\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/sobig-virus-source-found\/\">SoBig virus source found<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Security teams have tracked down the original source for the recent SoBig F virus &mdash; however, the author is still unknown. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/sobig-virus-source-found\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/dark-suckers\/\">Dark Suckers<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">For years, it has been believed that electric bulbs emit light, but recent information has proved otherwise. Electric bulbs don't emit light; they suck dark. Thus, we call these bulbs Dark Suckers. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/dark-suckers\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/disney-goes-goth\/\">Disney goes Goth (also: &#039;Bus Life&#039; fan comments)<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">For the fifth year in a row, Disneyland will be creeping with mobs of black-clad death-rocker types for what organizers officially bill as Bats Day in the Fun Park, but what most people just call Goth Day. (Also: Disney's 'Bus Life' fan comments!) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/disney-goes-goth\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/howard-dean-rally-in-seattle\/\">Howard Dean rally in Seattle<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I was already solidly in Dean's camp before this, but being able to see him in person definitely cemented my position &mdash; here's hoping that his momentum keeps growing, and we can get him not just the Democratic nomination, but the Presidency in 2004. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/howard-dean-rally-in-seattle\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/08\/25\/a-few-more-movies\/\">A few more movies<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I added three more DVD's to the collection over the weekend. The Black Cauldron, The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover, From Dusk 'til Dawn. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/08\/25\/a-few-more-movies\/\">&#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 25<\/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-24402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24402","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=24402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}