{"id":24510,"date":"2020-09-16T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24510"},"modified":"2020-09-17T09:09:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:09:17","slug":"on-this-day-sep-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/16\/on-this-day-sep-16\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Sep 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>23<\/strong> posts previously published on September 16th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/09\/16\/%f0%9f%93%9a-clarkesworld-magazine-issue-216-edited-by-neil-clarke\/\">Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 216 edited by Neil Clarke<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Marissa Lingen had my favorite story this month. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/09\/16\/%f0%9f%93%9a-clarkesworld-magazine-issue-216-edited-by-neil-clarke\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/16\/year-50-day-137\/\">Year 50 Day 137<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Adventures in lightbulb maintenance. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/16\/year-50-day-137\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/09\/16\/%f0%9f%93%9a-foundations-edge-by-isaac-asimov\/\">&#x1f4da; Foundation&#8217;s Edge by Isaac Asimov<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">He\u2019s still a very good SF writer, but more obviously one of an earlier era. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/09\/16\/%f0%9f%93%9a-foundations-edge-by-isaac-asimov\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/16\/24469\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Barbados will remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state (this is mostly symbolic at this point, as they\u2019ve been independent since 1966). However, this doesn\u2019t mean that the sun will finally set on the British Empire \u2014\u00a0that doesn\u2019t happen until they lose the Pitcairn Islands. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/16\/24469\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/16\/24467\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This year we are compelled to do so. We do not do this lightly. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/16\/24467\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/16\/on-this-day-sep-16\/\">On This Day: Sep 16<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/16\/on-this-day-sep-16\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/09\/16\/21373\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Taking our nieces to the fair today! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/09\/16\/21373\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/09\/16\/20269\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Got a fist bump of solidarity from a fellow kilted gent at lunch today (at Kiku-Chan, the little Japanese place near campus\u2026because where else would you find kilted men in Ellensburg than at a Japanese restaurant?). :) (260\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/09\/16\/20269\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/09\/16\/18427\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I seem to have been slacking on my photo a day project. Gotta get back in the swing of things. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/09\/16\/18427\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/09\/16\/18430\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">First-world problems: my new Apple Extreme router is tall enough that I had to move the gigabit Ethernet switch two spaces higher on the rack in my home&#8217;s networking closet. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/09\/16\/18430\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/09\/16\/pre-makes\/\">Pre-makes<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Three trailers for movies you didn't know were remakes (probably because they weren't really...). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/09\/16\/pre-makes\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/16\/say-cheese\/\">Say Cheese!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Y'know, I probably shouldn't have posted anything about that textbook I popped up in the other day. After months of quiet, as soon as that goes up, the Washington Post includes me in a list of twelve photos that should never have been posted online. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/16\/say-cheese\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/16\/yet-more-tweaks\/\">Yet More Tweaks<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A few more tweaks and oddments. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/16\/yet-more-tweaks\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/16\/has-a-posse\/\">&#8230;has a posse<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">There's more and more posses out there these days. Andre the Giant had the first, Charles Darwin has one, Darth Vader, even Tony Danza...and I _know_ there's more. But there was only one problem. _I_ didn't have a posse. So I had to take care of that. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/16\/has-a-posse\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/16\/jetblue-and-capps-ii\/\">JetBlue and CAPPS II<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I don't know anything about what area of the country they serve, as I've never heard of them before, but it seems like the JetBlue airline is going to be the testbed for the blatantly invasive CAPPS II program. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/16\/jetblue-and-capps-ii\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/16\/pcs-are-voodoo\/\">PCs are Voodoo<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, that was entertaining. In roughly the same way that playing rugby against a team of rabid hyenas is entertaining, but entertaining none the less. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/16\/pcs-are-voodoo\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/16\/notable-me\/\">Notable me<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">And while it's really, really geeky, I love the fact that she complimented me on my source code (hey, like I said, it's really geeky). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/16\/notable-me\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/16\/cauliflower-of-love\/\">Cauliflower of love<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It doesn't get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to charge your ass. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/16\/cauliflower-of-love\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/16\/my-most-humble-apologies\/\">My most humble apologies!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'll be calling tomorrow morning -- if I'm lucky, before he gets up and checks this website...but if not...happy (late) birthday, dad! You'll be hearing from me soon! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/16\/my-most-humble-apologies\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/16\/nobodys-going-to-understand-this-one\/\">Nobody&#8217;s going to understand this one&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">...but every time I see one of the recent tech weblog posts about 'RDF in RSS', I keep thinking that RDF stands for Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/16\/nobodys-going-to-understand-this-one\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/16\/top-25-lines-from-star-wars\/\">Top 25 lines from Star Wars&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">...that are improved by substituting the word 'pants'. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/16\/top-25-lines-from-star-wars\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/16\/lost-in-linguistic-labrynths\/\">Lost in linguistic labrynths<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Pros and cons to having been gifted with an unusually large vocabulary, I suppose. 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