{"id":24601,"date":"2020-10-08T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24601"},"modified":"2020-10-01T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:56:35","slug":"on-this-day-oct-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/08\/on-this-day-oct-8\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Oct 8"},"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>23<\/strong> posts previously published on October 8th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/10\/08\/ranking-the-star-trek-films-again\/\">Ranking the Star Trek Films (Again)<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An update to my last attempt at doing this back in 2009. I originally posted this to Mastodon back in April after watching Star Trek: Section 31, and after realizing I hadn't cross-posted it here, am doing that now. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/10\/08\/ranking-the-star-trek-films-again\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/10\/08\/year-50-day-159\/\">Year 50 Day 159<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Improvements have been made. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/10\/08\/year-50-day-159\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/08\/24631\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; forty-one of 2020: A Rock and a Hard Place by Peter David &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; #startrek #tng &#x1f596; Riker\u2019s sent off on a B-plot, so a troublesome first officer is temporarily assigned to the Enterprise in the hopes that Picard can corral this loose cannon. He\u2019s an ass, but is he unstable? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/08\/24631\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/08\/on-this-day-oct-8\/\">On This Day: Oct 8<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/08\/on-this-day-oct-8\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/10\/08\/12565\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x231a;&#xfe0f; day! New Series 4 Apple Watch (on the right), along with an original \u201cSeries 0\u201d watch on the left. Wearing both was just for the photo, the older model is going to a new home. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/10\/08\/12565\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/10\/08\/12562\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Oh, wow \u2014\u00a0well, that&#8217;s it for Google+, folks. It was probably only a matter of time, but going out on a customer-data exposing bug is a bad way to go. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/10\/08\/12562\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/10\/08\/20392\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Prairie&#8217;s mom pulled out this big weird book that looked like Google Maps, but was on paper and didn&#8217;t change, or scroll, or have traffic updates, or anything! ;) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/10\/08\/20392\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/10\/08\/20395\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Of course, being an uncle isn&#8217;t always about sitting and reading storybooks. Sometimes we make excellent jungle gyms. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/10\/08\/20395\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/10\/08\/20398\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Being a good uncle and reading a storybook to my niblings at a birthday party for two of them. (281\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/10\/08\/20398\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/10\/08\/18490\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I&#8217;m highly suspicious about&#8230;something. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/10\/08\/18490\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/08\/delicious-october-8th\/\">Links for October 8th from 06:39 to 13:58<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between 06:39 and 13:58, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/08\/delicious-october-8th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/08\/an-ode-to-the-short-story\/\">An Ode to the Short Story<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Following up, in a way, to a quote from Stephen King that I posted a couple weeks ago, comes this essay by Steven Millhauser, The Ambition of the Short Story. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/08\/an-ode-to-the-short-story\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/08\/that-one\/\">That One<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This goes beyond refusing to look at Obama in the first debate. With this slightly dehumanizing phrase, McCain may have just played into the emerging narrative of Obama-hate that has been sprouting at McCain-Palin rallies. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/08\/that-one\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/10\/08\/not-in-our-stars-but-in-ourselves\/\">Not in our stars, but in ourselves.<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Every time I hear this monologue, it strikes me just how topical it is. How easy it would be to replace the references to Sen. McCarthy with references to President Bush and have it read just as accurately. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/10\/08\/not-in-our-stars-but-in-ourselves\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/08\/presidential-debate-2\/\">Presidential Debate #2<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Presidential debate starts in about ten minutes. As before, I'll be watching it on C-SPAN's internet feed. Rambling, incoherent, stream of consciousness commentary to be posted once the debate is over with. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/08\/presidential-debate-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/08\/the-global-test\/\">The Global Test<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The President isn't passing this test. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/08\/the-global-test\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/08\/it-mustve-been-the-full-moon\/\">It must&#039;ve been the full moon<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A small but important project came through. Had to be finished tonight, as they were needed for a meeting with BillG and SteveB tomorrow morning. Which, of course, meant that Murphy's Law kicked in &mdash; with a vengeance. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/08\/it-mustve-been-the-full-moon\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/08\/ichat-faxes\/\">iChat faxes?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A minor but amusing goof on Apple's site right now: in the Top New Panther Features sidebar on many of the pages, iChat's one-line summary is 'Send and receive faxes.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/08\/ichat-faxes\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/08\/panther-announced\/\">Panther Announced<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Mac OS X 10.3, a.k.a. Panther, has finally had its official release date announced &mdash; October 24th, just a little over two weeks from now. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/08\/panther-announced\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/08\/animatrix\/\">Animatrix<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">What is the Animatrix? Well, okay, so my first answer would probably involve something along the lines of Betty Page making a cameo in a Roger Rabbit cartoon. But that'd be wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/08\/animatrix\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/08\/if-the-shoe-fits\/\">If the shoe fits&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Khatami said the U.S. possesses the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, weapons 'that, when first developed, were used immediately to kill half a million innocent civilians just months after acquiring them. No nation that has committed nuclear genocide can be entrusted with weapons of mass destruction.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/08\/if-the-shoe-fits\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/10\/08\/necrophilia\/\">Necrophilia?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Having sex with a Goth does not count as necrophilia! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/10\/08\/necrophilia\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/10\/08\/ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes\/\">Ch ch ch ch ch changes<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">After considering it for a few days, I finally figured I'd give it a shot this morning, and for the first time in about 8 years or so, I'm clean shaven. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/10\/08\/ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 8<\/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-24601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601","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=24601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}