{"id":24685,"date":"2020-10-23T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24685"},"modified":"2020-10-30T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:47:04","slug":"on-this-day-oct-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/23\/on-this-day-oct-23\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Oct 23"},"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>24<\/strong> posts previously published on October 23rd<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/10\/23\/year-50-day-174\/\">Year 50 Day 174<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Ditching a pile of expired COVID-19 test kits. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/10\/23\/year-50-day-174\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/23\/24654\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">According to Photoshop&#8217;s new neural filters, this is what an elderly me will look like. Other experiments were not nearly as flattering, and occasionally somewhat frightening. AI-based image editing at our fingertips has both fascinating and disturbing results. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/23\/24654\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/23\/on-this-day-oct-23\/\">On This Day: Oct 23<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 23 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/10\/23\/on-this-day-oct-23\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/10\/23\/21976\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book forty-two of 2018: Krull, by Alan Dean Foster. &#x1f31f;&#x1f31f;&#x1f31f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/10\/23\/21976\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/10\/23\/20478\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Five hours of driving later, we&#8217;re home! It was a good weekend, but it&#8217;s good to be back home again. (296\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/10\/23\/20478\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/10\/23\/19001\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">On the carousel in Spokane! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/10\/23\/19001\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/10\/23\/19004\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Prairie&#8217;s footwear choice for today is wonderful. :D <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/10\/23\/19004\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/10\/23\/18502\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An index card pinhole view of the solar #eclipse going on right now! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/10\/23\/18502\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/10\/23\/delicious-october-21st-2\/\">Links for October 21st through October 23rd<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between October 21st and October 23rd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/10\/23\/delicious-october-21st-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/23\/mccain-concedes\/\">McCain Concedes<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">When I saw this bit of news earlier today, I had the same thought that Daily Kos does here: he's throwing in the towel. Since my vote went to Obama, I can't say that I'm disappointed...but how must his campaign staffers, who still have twelve days to go before the election, feel about this? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/23\/mccain-concedes\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/23\/delicious-october-22nd\/\">Links for October 22nd through October 23rd<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between October 22nd and October 23rd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/23\/delicious-october-22nd\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/23\/pushing-daisies-candy-coated-family-friendly\/\">Pushing Daisies: Candy-Coated Family Friendly?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Pushing Daisies is one of our favorite shows on TV right now -- wonderfully quirky, and often feels to me like what might have happened if _Edward Scissorhands_-era Tim Burton had gone into television. The Disney Weblog has been doing weekly wrapups, and something about this week's review got under my skin a little bit. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/23\/pushing-daisies-candy-coated-family-friendly\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/23\/martin-luthers-toilet\/\">Martin Luther&#8217;s Toilet<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An important, if amusing, find in Wittenberg recently: Martin Luther's toilet. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/23\/martin-luthers-toilet\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/new-toy-isight\/\">New toy: iSight<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">So I went and got myself a new toy today &mdash; Apple's iSight webcam. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/new-toy-isight\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/even-microsoft-wants-g5s\/\">Even Microsoft wants G5s<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It looks like somebody over in Microsoft land is getting some new toys... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/even-microsoft-wants-g5s\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/panther-preview-in-nyt\/\">Panther preview in NYT<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">There's a glowing review of Apple's new version of OS X (10.3, or 'Panther') in the New York Times today. A few things in the article jumped out at me. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/panther-preview-in-nyt\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/dr-seusspolitical-cartoonist\/\">Dr. Seuss&#8230;political cartoonist<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'd never heard this before, but it turns out that Dr. Seuss spent a couple years as a political cartoonist &mdash; and there's a website that collects all of his published political cartoons. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/dr-seusspolitical-cartoonist\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/good-riddiance-x-10\/\">Good riddiance X-10<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I spent <em>far<\/em> too many days battling those horrendously ubiquitous pop-up and pop-under ads for the X-10 Webcam not to get a little giggle of glee when I read that X-10 is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/good-riddiance-x-10\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/in-other-words-i-could-easily-tip-either-way\/\">In other words, I could easily tip either way&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'm 49% Evil and 51% Good, according to the Gematriculator. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/in-other-words-i-could-easily-tip-either-way\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/voting-record-for-the-partial-birth-abortion-ban-bill\/\">Voting Record for the &#039;Partial Birth&#039; Abortion Ban bill<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The list of who voted which way in the just passed 'Partial Birth' Abortion Ban bill is available online. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/voting-record-for-the-partial-birth-abortion-ban-bill\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/todays-top-headline\/\">Today&#039;s Top Headline<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Stiff discipline after UK schoolboys' Viagra prank <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/todays-top-headline\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/23\/vote-4\/\">VOTE<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">VOTE <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/23\/vote-4\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/23\/two-towers-protest\/\">Two Towers protest<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This just might be the single stupidest thing I've seen in a very long time. A group of people have put up a website protesting the title of the next Lord of the Rings movie, 'The Two Towers', because, 'The name of this movie will undoubtedly cause a return of the emotions felt on Sept 11th which left so many people in the nation feeling stunned and in a state of shock.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/23\/two-towers-protest\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/23\/why-movies-are-bad\/\">Why movies are bad<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Most movies seem to follow the following formula to success&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/23\/why-movies-are-bad\/\">&#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 23<\/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-24685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24685","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=24685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}