{"id":24406,"date":"2020-08-27T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24406"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:09:49","slug":"on-this-day-aug-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/27\/on-this-day-aug-27\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Aug 27"},"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>24<\/strong> posts previously published on August 27th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/27\/year-50-day-117\/\">Year 50 Day 117<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Tower of London, the Jack the Ripper Museum, and Mary Poppins. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/27\/year-50-day-117\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/27\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-mary-poppins\/\">&#x1f3a5; Mary Poppins<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Especially fun to watch in our hotel room with a view of Tower Bridge after spending a couple days wandering around London. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/27\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-mary-poppins\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/27\/on-this-day-aug-27\/\">On This Day: Aug 27<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from August 27 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/27\/on-this-day-aug-27\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/08\/27\/21364\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book forty of 2017: Time\u2019s Enemy (Invasion! book three), by L. A. Graf. &#x1f31f;&#x1f31f;&#x1f31f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/08\/27\/21364\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/27\/20176\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book thirty-eight of 2016: Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/27\/20176\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/27\/20179\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">And as my actual picture of the day, we took a nice walk by the river after breakfast to get the day going on a good note. (240\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/27\/20179\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/27\/20182\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Forgot yesterday&#8217;s photo, so here&#8217;s my stupid Snapchat filter as penance. I&#8217;m grumpy! (239\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/27\/20182\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18301\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">(From earlier today.) &#8220;\u2026we have wormsign the likes of which even God has never seen.&#8221; Okay, it&#8217;s an ice worm (which my iPhone wanted to autocorrect to &#8220;a nice worm&#8221;), not Shai Hulud, but Batman couldn&#8217;t let an obvious Dune reference go to waste. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18301\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18304\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">(From earlier today.) &#8220;Do you see all that ice?! Mr. Freeze must be behind this dastardly deed. I&#8217;m sure of it!&#8221; Glaciers seem to be only vaguely understood by Batman. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18304\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18307\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">(From earlier today.) Batman&#8217;s cover is blown, as he&#8217;s spotted by the only other passengers on our Portage Glacier cruise. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18307\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18279\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">(From earlier today.) &#8220;The Batboat looks a little less impressive than I remember.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18279\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18282\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">(From this morning.) Road trip! &#8220;To the Batmobile! Or\u2026closest rental equivalent.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18282\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18285\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">About to head back down from the top of Alyeska and head off to our next adventure! #vacation <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18285\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18288\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">From earlier today (Portage doesn&#8217;t have cell service), at Portage Glacier. #vacation <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18288\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18291\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Lunch at the top of Alyeska. Good thing Batman isn&#8217;t scared of heights! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/27\/18291\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/08\/27\/delicious-august-25th\/\">Links for August 25th through August 27th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between August 25th and August 27th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/08\/27\/delicious-august-25th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/08\/27\/congratulations-p-and-h\/\">Congratulations, P and H!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've still got a ways to go on the rest of the vacation pictures, but I finished the set for Peter and Hope's wedding this morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/08\/27\/congratulations-p-and-h\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/08\/27\/battle-in-seattle\/\">Battle in Seattle<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Set in 1999, during the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, an eclectic group of demonstrators, including environmental activists, doctors, anarchists, attorneys, eco-terrorists and just plain folks, brings the city to a state of near-chaos, and chases the WTO straight out of town. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/08\/27\/battle-in-seattle\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/27\/happy-anniversary-3\/\">Happy Anniversary!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">What with still being neck-deep in moving I'm a day late on this, but -- yesterday was my parents' 38th anniversary. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/27\/happy-anniversary-3\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/27\/former-lt-gov-ben-barnes-on-george-w-bush\/\">Former Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes on George W. Bush<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&hellip;for the Republicans to jump on John Kerry and say that he's not a patriot, after he went to Vietnam and was shot at and fought for our freedom and came back here and protested against the war - 'he's a flip flopper.' Let me tell you, John Kerry is 100 times a better patriot than George Bush or Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/27\/former-lt-gov-ben-barnes-on-george-w-bush\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/27\/jeffrey-zeldman-redesigning-applecom\/\">Jeffrey Zeldman redesigning Apple.com<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Apple Computer has contracted Mr Douglas Bowman of Stopdesign and Mr Jeffrey Zeldman of Happy Cog Studios to collaborate on a makeover of the company\u2019s well-known site. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/27\/jeffrey-zeldman-redesigning-applecom\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/27\/interview-me-ii-from-phil\/\">Interview Me II: From Phil<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The second of a few interviews with me, this one with questions courtesy of Phil. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/27\/interview-me-ii-from-phil\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/27\/interview-me-i-from-kirsten\/\">Interview Me I: From Kirsten<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The first of a few interviews with me, this one with questions courtesy of Kirsten. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/27\/interview-me-i-from-kirsten\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/08\/27\/just-planning-things-out\/\">Just planning things out<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This may or may not be of interest to the world at large...just planning things out for the eventual reconstruction of djwudi.com. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/08\/27\/just-planning-things-out\/\">&#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 27<\/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-24406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406","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=24406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}