{"id":24834,"date":"2020-11-16T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24834"},"modified":"2020-11-17T15:32:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T23:32:58","slug":"on-this-day-nov-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/16\/on-this-day-nov-16\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Nov 16"},"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>18<\/strong> posts previously published on November 16th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/11\/16\/weekly-notes-november-10-16-2025\/\">Weekly Notes: November 10\u201316, 2025<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A week in the life of\u2026. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past week. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/11\/16\/weekly-notes-november-10-16-2025\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/11\/16\/mad-max-2-2\/\">Mad Max 2<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f3a5;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: This is where you can really see the world of the modern Mad Max movies taking shape in Miller's mind. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/11\/16\/mad-max-2-2\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/11\/16\/year-50-day-198\/\">Year 50 Day 198<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is my 'getting off campus later than expected for the third day in a row' face. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/11\/16\/year-50-day-198\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/16\/24825\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The first experiments in directly accessing and manipulating human memory raised more questions than gave answers. No matter what memories were implanted, after awakening all subjects recalled one event that hadn&#8217;t occurred: the appearance of an alien craft over Seattle in 2007. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/16\/24825\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/16\/bookshop-over-amazon\/\">Bookshop over Amazon<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Most of the books we buy are second-hand, but we do occasionally buy\/pre-order new books. We had two on order from Amazon, but I just canceled those orders in favor of ordering them from Bookshop instead. We&#8217;ll pay a little more and wait a couple more days for the books, but we can afford both ... <a title=\"Bookshop over Amazon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/16\/bookshop-over-amazon\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bookshop over Amazon\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/16\/bookshop-over-amazon\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/16\/24820\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Lockdown has affected your memory \u2013 here\u2019s why: &#8220;Many of us have found ourselves in an isolated routine during the pandemic \u2013 and it turns out, that\u2019s not very good for your memories.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/16\/24820\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/16\/on-this-day-nov-16\/\">On This Day: Nov 16<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/16\/on-this-day-nov-16\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/16\/13578\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">One nice thing about the aliens being so selective about who they accepted, even if the reasons were unknown, was that anyone who wasn\u2019t an economically privileged cis straight white male could just get on with their lives. Things improved quickly. Microblogvember: selective <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/16\/13578\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/11\/16\/21964\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book forty-six* of 2018: Deathday, by William C. Dietz. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; * Yes, the last one said 44, but according to Goodreads, this one is 46, so apparently I missed photoposting a book somewhere along the line this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/11\/16\/21964\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/16\/back-already\/\">Back already!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well now, that didn't take long! As you can see, I'm back...mostly. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/16\/back-already\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/11\/16\/lost-s02e07-the-other-48-days\/\">Lost s02e07: The Other 48 Days<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Scribbled notes while watching tonight's episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/11\/16\/lost-s02e07-the-other-48-days\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/16\/jason-webley-halloween-deathday-2004-bootleg\/\">Jason Webley Halloween Deathday 2004 Bootleg<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">laurachandae was kind enough to send me a copy of her recording of Jason Webley's Halloween show, so I've converted it to .mp3 and have posted it on my webserver. It's only the first half of the show (apparently a mic cable got unplugged during intermission), but what there is is pretty good quality, and very listenable. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/16\/jason-webley-halloween-deathday-2004-bootleg\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/16\/world-record-pillow-fight\/\">World record pillow fight!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">766 people showed up at Oregon State on Friday to take part in a jumbo pillow fight in hopes of topping the Guinness Book of Records mark. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/16\/world-record-pillow-fight\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/16\/bombs-assassinations-attacks-place-your-bets\/\">Bombs? Assassinations? Attacks? Place your bets!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Remember the Policy Awareness Market? It was a DARPA-backed plan to establish a 'futures' market wagering on the likelihood of terrorist attacks, assassinations, and the like. Well, guess what? It's back! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/16\/bombs-assassinations-attacks-place-your-bets\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/16\/bush-denied-license-to-kill\/\">Bush denied &#039;license to kill&#039;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">What's more disturbing? The fact that we have an administration with the unmitigated gall to make such requests in the first place? Or the fact that we have a President who is so mistrusted, disliked, and outright hated by so many people that they feel the need for that level of security? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/16\/bush-denied-license-to-kill\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/16\/the-democratic-parties\/\">The Democratic parties<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">According to The New Republic, it's looking more and more like we practically have two feuding Democratic parties now: Clinton's version and Dean's version. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/16\/the-democratic-parties\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/16\/xp-sucks\/\">XP sucks!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is a truely genius piece of work -- someone actually managed to scale up to wherever the sign is and alter it. In other words, this isn't just some joker with Photoshop at work -- this is a real-world hack job. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/16\/xp-sucks\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/16\/enterprise-civilization\/\">Enterprise: Civilization<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Random bit of trivia I stumbled across this past week -- Kim Darby, who played Jenny Myer in Better off Dead had, much earlier in her career, played Miri in the Star Trek Original Series episode 'Miri'. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/16\/enterprise-civilization\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 16<\/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-24834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24834","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=24834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}