{"id":24488,"date":"2020-09-07T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24488"},"modified":"2020-09-17T09:02:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:02:49","slug":"on-this-day-sep-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/07\/on-this-day-sep-7\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Sep 7"},"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>24<\/strong> posts previously published on September 7th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/09\/07\/weekly-notes-september-1-7-2025\/\">Weekly Notes: September 1\u20137, 2025<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A week in the life of\u2026. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past week. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/09\/07\/weekly-notes-september-1-7-2025\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/07\/year-50-day-128\/\">Year 50 Day 128<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Now I know how goofy I look when I'm doing this. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/07\/year-50-day-128\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/07\/on-this-day-sep-7\/\">On This Day: Sep 7<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 7 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/07\/on-this-day-sep-7\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/09\/07\/13473\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book forty-eight of 2019: How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, by Randall Munroe &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; \u201cSmart people over-thinking things to the point of absurdity\u201d has been many of my favorite conversations with friends, and this is that, in book form. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/09\/07\/13473\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/09\/07\/12483\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">\u201cProposal: If you take any piece of footage of Trump in a White House meeting, and replaced Trump with a penguin, the expressions on the faces of everyone else in the room would still work.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/09\/07\/12483\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/09\/07\/21942\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book thirty-three of 2018: Doctor to the Stars, by Murray Leinster. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/09\/07\/21942\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/09\/07\/the-propaganda-of-resistance\/\">The Propaganda of Resistance<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is NOT the administration falling apart. It\u2019s A+, live action storytelling with a controlled demolition, and it\u2019s actually really dangerous. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/09\/07\/the-propaganda-of-resistance\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/09\/07\/20245\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I&#8217;m not bad, I&#8217;m just drawn that way. (251\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/09\/07\/20245\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/09\/07\/18962\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">And dessert! Apple crisp, right out of the oven, ice cream, and warm drinks (coffee for Prairie, cider for me). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/09\/07\/18962\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/09\/07\/18965\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Dinner time&#8230;pulled pork, baked potatoes, corn, and cucumbers and tomatoes fresh picked from Prairie&#8217;s garden. Eaten on the patio, of course, with a rose also from Prairie&#8217;s garden. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/09\/07\/18965\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/09\/07\/18938\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Cocktails and appetizers on the back patio on a nice late summer afternoon. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/09\/07\/18938\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/09\/07\/18382\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Under the heading of things I probably should be embarrassed about but aren&#8217;t: I was amused enough to actually pick up a dorky souvenir Alaska shirt. :) Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Batmoose! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/09\/07\/18382\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/07\/old-money\/\">Old Money<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">While we were in Woodland with Prairie's dad and grandpa, Prairie took a few minutes to poke around the house and collect some old glassware to bring home. While she was exploring, she found some fun old currency, some of which we recognized, some of which we didn't. I've scanned them in and done a little Wikipedia research, and here's what we came up with. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/07\/old-money\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/07\/olbermann-blasts-bush\/\">Olbermann blasts Bush<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, not so much Bush specifically, as the entire botched crisis management in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/07\/olbermann-blasts-bush\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/07\/white-foragers-report-threat-of-black-looters\/\">White Foragers Report Threat Of Black Looters<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">They're somewhat on-again\/off-again, but when the Onion is on, they're _dead on_. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/07\/white-foragers-report-threat-of-black-looters\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/07\/a-little-ray-of-sunshine\/\">A little ray of sunshine<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">While it's never a _happy_ thing to see one of Seattle's many homeless inhabitants laboring to push a shopping cart filled to overflowing with what few items they've been able to claim for themselves up one of our many hills, I have to admit it's hard not to grin when... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/07\/a-little-ray-of-sunshine\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/07\/personality-bits-and-pieces\/\">Personality bits and pieces<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've often semi-seriously joked that one of the things I'm proudest of in my life is narrowly avoiding becoming the &uuml;ber-sterotypical basement-dwelling pathologically introverted 'geek' by discovering at one point that not only did I actually have a personality, but that it was apparently a rather pleasant one. This ended up putting me in the rather rare position of being a geek who can generally actually cope fairly effectively with the real world. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/07\/personality-bits-and-pieces\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/07\/guantanamo-on-the-hudson\/\">Guantanamo on the Hudson<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A first-hand account of being jailed for protesting (even though she wasn't really protesting, and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time) in New York during the RNC. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/07\/guantanamo-on-the-hudson\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/07\/100-most-challenged-books-1990-2000\/\">100 most challenged books 1990-2000<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The American Library Association's list of the 100 most challenged books of the last decade. Titles in bold I've read. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/07\/100-most-challenged-books-1990-2000\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/07\/define-gay-arnie\/\">Define &#039;gay&#039;, Arnie<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/07\/define-gay-arnie\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/07\/ecstacy-or-meth\/\">Ecstacy or meth?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A greatly publicized study detailing the harmful effects of popular drug Ecstasy has been retracted after the scientist realized that instead of Ecstasy, methamphetamine had been used in the experiments. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/07\/ecstacy-or-meth\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/07\/validation-favelets\/\">Validation favelets<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The ampersand character &mdash; &amp; &mdash; should be coded in valid HTML as <code>&amp;&amp;<\/code>, and failure to do so will result in broken validation. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/07\/validation-favelets\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/07\/you-idiots-cant-drive\/\">You idiots can&#039;t drive<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We expats get to hear a lot about the Second Amendment and its application back home. 'They give guns to everyone?', my friends ask. 'Don't mind it,' I usually reply, 'they do much worse. They give cars to everyone.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/07\/you-idiots-cant-drive\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/09\/07\/funny-or-frightening-both\/\">Funny or frightening? Both?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Amazon.com customers comment on the American Film Institute's top 20 films of the 20th century. 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