{"id":24611,"date":"2020-10-13T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24611"},"modified":"2020-10-01T07:57:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:57:35","slug":"on-this-day-oct-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/13\/on-this-day-oct-13\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Oct 13"},"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>21<\/strong> posts previously published on October 13th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/10\/13\/ring-of-fire-by-david-mack\/\">Ring of Fire by David Mack<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 55\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Not a bad adventure, though there were some aspects that didn't work for me. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/10\/13\/ring-of-fire-by-david-mack\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/10\/13\/year-50-day-164\/\">Year 50 Day 164<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Happy Spooky Friday the 13th to all who celebrate! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/10\/13\/year-50-day-164\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/13\/on-this-day-oct-13\/\">On This Day: Oct 13<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 13 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/13\/on-this-day-oct-13\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/10\/13\/20415\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book forty-five of 2016: Spock Must Die!, by James Blish. The very first #StarTrek novel that wasn&#8217;t a broadcast episode novelization. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/10\/13\/20415\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/10\/13\/20418\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We get to have a classic Universal horror movie monster marathon this Halloween! (Amazon had this on sale for $40 a couple days ago.) Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Phantom of the Opera, and Creature From the Black Lagoon! (286\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/10\/13\/20418\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/10\/13\/18481\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Time to head home! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/10\/13\/18481\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/10\/13\/18484\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Dollar store skull plus chocolate eyeball candy equals silly seasonal desk friend! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/10\/13\/18484\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/13\/delicious-october-11th\/\">Links for October 11th through October 13th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between October 11th and October 13th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/13\/delicious-october-11th\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/10\/13\/on-the-internet-no-one-has-to-know-youre-insane\/\">On the Internet, No One Has to Know You&#8217;re Insane<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">While the details of the deception are in many ways quite different, the mental disturbance and the emotional rape described in this LA Weekly article are far, far, _far_ too painfully familiar to me. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/10\/13\/on-the-internet-no-one-has-to-know-youre-insane\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/13\/the-rhythm-of-life\/\">The Rhythm of Life<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My strongest memory of a trip to England revolves around a single song. Our show-stopper piece that year was a song called 'The Rhythm of Life' -- fun lyrics, an upbeat tempo, and a gorgeous arrangement that made every part fun to sing had quickly made it a favorite, and we'd all become quite fond of ending our concerts with this number. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/13\/the-rhythm-of-life\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/13\/shots-of-gigs-music-theatre\/\">Shots of Gig&#8217;s Music Theatre<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Continuing in my little bout of nostalgia for my days running around at Gig's, tonight I get to present a set of shots from the club, taken roughly between 1997 and 1998 or so. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/13\/shots-of-gigs-music-theatre\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/13\/presidential-debate-3\/\">Presidential Debate #3<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Almost time for tonight's Presidential debate, the last of this election season's round. Will Bush actually look like a President? Or, more likely, will we get to see him stumble and fall yet again? As before, I'll be watching on C-SPAN, and will update this post with my usual random babbling after the debate's done with. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/13\/presidential-debate-3\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/13\/kill-switchclick\/\">Kill Switch&#8230;Click<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Y'know what I'd like to see in tonight's debate? I'd love it if the moderator had a 'kill switch' for the candidate's microphones, so if Bush tried to railroad a statement through, the moderator could just turn him off. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/13\/kill-switchclick\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/13\/registered-to-vote-are-you-sure\/\">Registered to vote? Are you sure?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/13\/registered-to-vote-are-you-sure\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/13\/on-smoke-alarms\/\">On smoke alarms<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">For some reason, I was pondering smoke alarms this morning, trying to figure out why they need batteries. Why not just wire them directly into the house electrical current? No more having to put up with obnoxious beeping when the batteries get low, no more worries about a dead smoke alarm causing someone's death in a house fire because they couldn't get out in time. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/13\/on-smoke-alarms\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/not-a-good-evening\/\">Not a good evening<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">End result &mdash; it's past my bedtime, I'm tired, more than a little frustrated, and ready to go to bed. Hopefully things will look better when I get back to poking around tomorrow evening. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/not-a-good-evening\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/not-even-subtle\/\">Not even subtle<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This AP photo of President Bush has me alternating between disgust and slack-jawed amazement, and I'm not sure whether to pass on kudos to the photographer or have them drawn and quartered. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/not-even-subtle\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/rebecca-ecce-tantae-clunes-isti-sunt\/\">Rebecca, ecce! tantae clunes isti sunt!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">mehercle! Rebecca, ecce! tantae clunes isti sunt! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/rebecca-ecce-tantae-clunes-isti-sunt\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/welcome-to-america-now-go-home\/\">Welcome to America &#8212; now go home.<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">But when Hughes' fiancee, a German national, tried to visit him on a six-month tourist visa Monday, she was detained in Atlanta, handcuffed, jailed--even stripped of her diamond engagement ring. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/welcome-to-america-now-go-home\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/apologies\/\">Apologies<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&hellip;please exuse my formality- I am drunk and you are a stranger. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/apologies\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/apple-poised-for-big-music-push\/\">Apple poised for big music push<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">More and more, Apple is making a huge push into the music industry &mdash; and if the rumor mills are right, this week just may be their biggest foray yet. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/apple-poised-for-big-music-push\/\">&#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 13<\/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-24611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24611","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=24611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}