{"id":24538,"date":"2020-09-30T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24538"},"modified":"2020-09-17T09:12:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:12:20","slug":"on-this-day-sep-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/30\/on-this-day-sep-30\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Sep 30"},"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>29<\/strong> posts previously published on September 30th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/09\/30\/%f0%9f%93%9a-agents-of-influence-by-dayton-ward\/\">Agents of Influence by Dayton Ward<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: An enjoyable fifth-year TOS adventure. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/09\/30\/%f0%9f%93%9a-agents-of-influence-by-dayton-ward\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/30\/year-50-day-151\/\">Year 50 Day 151<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Some days are just kind of cranky. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/30\/year-50-day-151\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/09\/30\/25471\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 35\/2021: Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/09\/30\/25471\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/30\/24582\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; thirty-nine of 2020: Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; 1969 Hugo Best Novel While it was good, it was so tough right now to read a cynical dystopian novel about overpopulation, eugenics, and colonialism, featuring endemic racism and sexism, that it was a real slog. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/30\/24582\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/30\/on-this-day-sep-30\/\">On This Day: Sep 30<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/30\/on-this-day-sep-30\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/09\/30\/ken-burns-country-music\/\">Ken Burns&#8217; &#8220;Country Music&#8221;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Prairie and I just finished the Ken Burns Country Music documentary, and really enjoyed it. If you have any interest in American culture and music, even if this isn\u2019t a style you generally pay much attention to, the film is well worth the time it takes to watch. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/09\/30\/ken-burns-country-music\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/09\/30\/20338\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Painting detailing on a prop for a Halloween costume. I don&#8217;t really know what I&#8217;m doing, but experimenting is sure fun! (274\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/09\/30\/20338\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/09\/30\/18968\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">No more noisy jangly keychain for me. Going Swiss Army knife style with the #KeySmart instead. @keysmart <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/09\/30\/18968\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2010<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/09\/30\/21st-century-television-part-two\/\">21st Century Television (Part Two)<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As promised, here's a bit more information on the geeky details of how I've set up our cable-free TV system. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/09\/30\/21st-century-television-part-two\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/09\/30\/21st-century-television-part-one\/\">21st Century Television (Part One)<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Cable and broadcast TV are no more for us. Instead, we have our personal DVD library, DVDs we order from Netflix, the entire Netflix on-demand library, and, for the current-run TV shows we want to keep up with, I simply download them and toss them into the Roksbox library for us to watch commerical-free at our leisure. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/09\/30\/21st-century-television-part-one\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/09\/30\/use-your-twitter-stream-for-mac-os-xs-rss-visualizer-screensaver\/\">Use your Twitter stream for Mac OS X&#8217;s RSS Visualizer screensaver<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A simple tip on setting up Mac OS X's RSS Visualizer screensaver to display your Twitter update stream. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/09\/30\/use-your-twitter-stream-for-mac-os-xs-rss-visualizer-screensaver\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/09\/30\/delicious-september-29th-2\/\">Links for September 29th through September 30th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between September 29th and September 30th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/09\/30\/delicious-september-29th-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/30\/sarah-six-pack\/\">Sarah Six-Pack<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I was curious as to whether Palin might be any more coherent when she was a little more in her element and \"among friends,\" so to speak, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all -- at least, not from where I stand. A few bits stood out to me... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/30\/sarah-six-pack\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/30\/delicious-september-29th\/\">Links for September 29th through September 30th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between September 29th and September 30th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/30\/delicious-september-29th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/federal-marriage-amendment-rejected\/\">Federal Marriage Amendment rejected<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Excellent news: the proposed Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage has been shot down. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/federal-marriage-amendment-rejected\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/where-it-all-began\/\">Where it all began&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">In case there was any curiosity where my tendency for innuendo-laced humor, flirting, and the occasional blatantly sexual comment come from, I present you with the following evidence&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/where-it-all-began\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/once-more-with-feeling\/\">Once More, With Feeling<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Season four of Buffy had what is so far my all-time favorite episode &mdash; 'Hush' &mdash; but last night I watched what's now a very close second: 'Once More, With Feeling'. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/once-more-with-feeling\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/first-presidential-debate\/\">First Presidential &#8216;debate&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">(The following are my hastily-scribbled thoughts while watching tonight's presidential debate &mdash; unpolished, written on the fly. Be warned. [grin]) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/first-presidential-debate\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/wsjs-farnaz-fassihi-on-life-in-iraq\/\">WSJ&#8217;s Farnaz Fassihi on life in Iraq<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recently, a letter from Wall Street Journal reporter Farnaz Fassihi started getting passed around the 'net, detailing just what day-to-day life in Iraq is like at the moment. That letter has now been confirmed as genuine. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/wsjs-farnaz-fassihi-on-life-in-iraq\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/future-past-tense-past-future\/\">Future past tense? Past future?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">There's sure a <em>lot<\/em> of past tense in this article about the presidential debates &mdash; which don't happen for another five hours or so. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/future-past-tense-past-future\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/debate-rules\/\">Debate rules<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">You'll be happy to know that the podiums are lucite, clear. So there won't be anybody scratching their balls during this debate. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/debate-rules\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/debates-on-the-web\/\">Debates on the web?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Does anyone know if tonight's Kerry-Bush debate is going to be webcast anywhere? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/debates-on-the-web\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/sounds-good\/\">Sounds good&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/30\/sounds-good\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/30\/saving-embedded-quicktime-movies-on-os-x\/\">Saving embedded Quicktime movies on OS X<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">ditto -rsrcFork \/tmp\/501\/Temporary Items\/QT* ~\/Movies\/$1.mov <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/30\/saving-embedded-quicktime-movies-on-os-x\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/30\/collective-nouns\/\">Collective nouns<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A giggle of girls. A scrape of skaters. A mope of goths. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/30\/collective-nouns\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/30\/trying-to-get-caught-up\/\">Trying to get caught up<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">So far, I've found two (and only two) downsides to the new computer. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/30\/trying-to-get-caught-up\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/30\/hey-parrotheads\/\">Hey Parrotheads!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Jimmy Buffett has released two of his upcoming live albums exclusively on Apple's iTunes Music Store nearly a month before the CDs will hit store shelves. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/30\/hey-parrotheads\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/30\/laughter-is-good\/\">Laughter is good<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than perhaps you think for. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/30\/laughter-is-good\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/30\/oooh-hes-cute\/\">Oooh &#8211; he&#8217;s cute!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Marco the Magnificent Magician isn't going to swoop down on you, black cape a-flappin', tap you on the dick with his magic wand, and -- *poof!* presto, homo! -- you're a homosexual! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/30\/oooh-hes-cute\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 30<\/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-24538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538","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=24538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}