{"id":24526,"date":"2020-09-24T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24526"},"modified":"2020-09-17T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:12:41","slug":"on-this-day-sep-23-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/24\/on-this-day-sep-23-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Sep 24"},"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>25<\/strong> posts previously published on September 24th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/24\/year-50-day-145\/\">Year 50 Day 145<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Great way to spend a rainy fall day. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/24\/year-50-day-145\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/24\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-warriors-apprentice-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold\/\">&#x1f4da; The Warrior&#8217;s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This series continues to surprise and satisfy me. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/24\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-warriors-apprentice-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/24\/a-new-american-manifesto\/\">A New American Manifesto<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We are united in this goal. We can do better than this. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/24\/a-new-american-manifesto\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/24\/on-this-day-sep-23-2\/\">On This Day: Sep 24<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/24\/on-this-day-sep-23-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/09\/24\/20299\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Most of the #StarWars #Lego sets are fun and cute, but don&#8217;t need to come home with me. The little #HanSolo encased in carbonite (plus #BobaFett!) was just too cute to pass up, though. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/09\/24\/20299\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/09\/24\/20302\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Almost two hours, almost six miles. Gorgeous fall morning for a walk. Not a bad start to the weekend at all. (268\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/09\/24\/20302\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/09\/24\/18436\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Time to head home, have dinner&#8230;and do homework! Day one of my grad school career is here! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/09\/24\/18436\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/09\/24\/summer-vacation-09-part-iid-seaworld\/\">Summer Vacation &#8217;09 Part IId: SeaWorld<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Part five of a series of posts about our summer vacation. Seaworld! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/09\/24\/summer-vacation-09-part-iid-seaworld\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/24\/delicious-september-23rd-2\/\">Links for September 23rd through September 24th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between September 23rd and September 24th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/24\/delicious-september-23rd-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/my-parents-were-kiddos-too\/\">My parents were kiddos too!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Now that dad has a scanner that can see slides, he's been going through and adding a lot of old photos to the family photo album. I love seeing these &mdash; it's so fun to go through shots of my folks when they were around my age (or younger &mdash; as in this photo, taken at age 20 at their wedding rehearsal dinner). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/my-parents-were-kiddos-too\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/what-if\/\">What if&#8230;?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">What would America look like if it were in Iraq's current situation? The population of the US is over 11 times that of Iraq, so a lot of statistics would have to be multiplied by that number. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/what-if\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/stupid-humor-president-freezes-tourists-assets\/\">Stupid humor: President Freezes Tourists&#8217; Assets<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Inspired by a throwaway comment on \/., I took a Sept. 24, 2001 Presidential address and replaced every instance of 'terrorism' with 'tourism'.  Just think of it as an answer to the age-old question of, 'If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/stupid-humor-president-freezes-tourists-assets\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/politicizing-warfare\/\">Politicizing Warfare<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Washington Monthly is asking about the fantasyland that George Bush seems to be living in, when waging a war in which the strategy seems to be based not on any real situations, but on election-year political situations. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/politicizing-warfare\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/a-look-at-the-2000-election\/\">A look at the 2000 election<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Many of you will have heard of and read the lengthy October 2004 Vanity Fair article by David Margolick et al. on the 2000 election litigation, with a focus on never-before-reported details about what happened inside the Supreme Court. The piece has received a great deal of attention inside the Court because, as the article details, '[a] surprising number of [law] clerks [from that term] talked to Vanity Fair.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/a-look-at-the-2000-election\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/are-you-better-off\/\">Are you better off?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Ontario Emperor pointed out a series of graphs from Buzzflash highlighting some of the numbers behind how our country is doing. Not that surprising if you've been paying attention, but certainly interesting to see. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/are-you-better-off\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/one-week-in\/\">One week in<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've made it to the end of my first week on 'banking hours', and you know&hellip;I think I just might be able to get used to this. All in all, while the mornings are still a little rough, I think this is definitely going to be a positive change. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/one-week-in\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/good-news\/\">Good news!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">George W. Bush is in the worst political trouble of his presidency, according to a new NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday night. Bush\u2019s approval rating now stands at 49 percent, the lowest point of his tenure. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/good-news\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/credit-where-credit-is-due\/\">Credit where credit is due<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'm fairly obvious about having a strong anti-Microsoft bias. However, I do have to admit (and really don't mind doing so) that the Macintosh team at Microsoft does some truly kick-ass work. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/credit-where-credit-is-due\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/diebolds-voting-machines\/\">Diebold&#039;s voting machines<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">There's a good article on Salon looking at the issues with Diebold's electronic voting machines, which are being used to replace troublesome punch-card voting machines after the 2000 voting debacle. It doesn't look like our votes are any safer under the new system. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/diebolds-voting-machines\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/other-reactions-to-bushs-un-speech\/\">Other reactions to Bush&#039;s UN speech<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Has an American president ever delivered such a bafflingly impertinent speech before the General Assembly as the one George W. Bush gave this morning? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/other-reactions-to-bushs-un-speech\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/inappropriate-sexual-arousal-for-teens\/\">Inappropriate sexual arousal for teens<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Would Ms. Wilde be so kind as to suggest some alternate reading that provides appropriate sexual arousal for young teens? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/inappropriate-sexual-arousal-for-teens\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/24\/a-gun-for-words\/\">A gun for words<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The problem with reading wonderful writing by truly great authors is that my own writing suffers, dramatically, in comparison. Everything I write lately just sits on the page, flat, dejected, and suffering. If there was such a thing as a gun for words, I would shoot each of mine and give them a quick and painfree end. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/24\/a-gun-for-words\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/24\/rearranging-a-bit\/\">Rearranging a bit<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've done a bit of reorganizing to the sidebar, in an effort to group things together a bit more logically, and move sections that are more likely to be used closer to the top (above the 'fold', so to speak). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/24\/rearranging-a-bit\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/24\/405-days\/\">40.5 days<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Over the past few months, I've been working on converting every audio CD I own to .mp3 format on my computer. I just got done tonight -- and the results are kinda frightening, in a very cool sort of way. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/24\/405-days\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/09\/24\/just-a-quick-word-or-two\/\">Just a quick word or two<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Just tossing a quick entry in before I send out the e-mail update to those few people who get it. 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