{"id":24840,"date":"2020-11-19T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24840"},"modified":"2020-11-17T15:33:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T23:33:45","slug":"on-this-day-nov-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/on-this-day-nov-19\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Nov 19"},"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>28<\/strong> posts previously published on November 19th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/11\/19\/year-50-day-201\/\">Year 50 Day 201<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Here\u2019s a fuller view of the wall of my home office that often appears behind me in photos. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/11\/19\/year-50-day-201\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/11\/19\/%f0%9f%93%9a-clarkesworld-issue-206-edited-by-neil-clarke\/\">&#x1f4da; Clarkesworld Issue 206 edited by Neil Clarke<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Standout stories by James Van Pelt and Louise Hughes. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/11\/19\/%f0%9f%93%9a-clarkesworld-issue-206-edited-by-neil-clarke\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/11\/19\/travel-and-co2\/\">Travel and CO2<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I tracked CO2 levels as I traveled from Denver to Seattle. Airlines may say their planes have good ventilation, but my monitor sure wasn\u2019t impressed. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/11\/19\/travel-and-co2\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/11\/19\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-the-man-who-killed-don-quixote\/\">&#x1f3a5; The Man Who Killed Don Quixote<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Gilliam's tendency to slip in and out of reality at any given point always engages well with me. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/11\/19\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-the-man-who-killed-don-quixote\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/24879\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f596; Discovery S03E06: A rather \u201cmeh\u201d A plot (a bit much on Georgiou\u2019s snark; the Running Man homage amused me but was too violent for my wife), but all the B plot bits on the Disco (geeking out over the upgrades, Tilly vs. Grudge, Stamets and Adira) were much more interesting. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/24879\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/24877\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">He looked over the valley in amazement. Instead of wooded slopes on either side of the small river, there was a town that looked as if had been there for decades, with ships docked at a pier, and though it didn&#8217;t seem possible, small, winged people flitting between buildings. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/24877\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/24901\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">He had long since lost faith in his ability to reliably predict what was and what wasn\u2019t possible. Mystical creatures surrounded him, magic was not just real but apparently limitless, and most amazing of all, he&#8217;d been fed a dish of Brussels sprouts that was actually quite tasty. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/24901\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/24875\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Most common passwords of 2020: The list details how many times a password has been exposed, used, and how much time it would take to crack it. If you&#8217;re using any of these for your passwords, change them. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/24875\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/24873\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Facing collapse, the famed Arecibo Observatory will be demolished: While teams will try to salvage some parts of the observatory, the decommission will bring an end to the popular 57-year-old telescope, which has been featured in numerous films and television shows. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/24873\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/halfway-between-the-truth-and-the-lie\/\">Halfway Between the Truth and the Lie<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">'If half of us believe the earth is flat, we do not make peace by settling on it being halfway between round and flat.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/halfway-between-the-truth-and-the-lie\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/on-this-day-nov-19\/\">On This Day: Nov 19<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 19 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/19\/on-this-day-nov-19\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/19\/13589\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The ship drifted in space, sensors active, waiting for the radiation surge to abate so the crew could be revived. But the stasis pods weren\u2019t shielded against this type of radiation, and what emerged would be very different from what had gone in. Microblogvember: abate <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/19\/13589\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/11\/19\/21992\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book forty-eight of 2018: IKS Gorkon Book One: A Good Day to Die, by Keith R. A. DeCandido. &#x1f31f;&#x1f31f;&#x1f31f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/11\/19\/21992\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/11\/19\/12632\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? This is a really clever way to analyze this question. Nice presentation, too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/11\/19\/12632\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/11\/19\/the-era-may-have-a-chance-of-finally-being-ratified\/\">The ERA May Have A Chance of Finally Being Ratified<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Good luck to Virginia, to the ERA, and to all the women in the country who could benefit from the ERA finally being ratified! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/11\/19\/the-era-may-have-a-chance-of-finally-being-ratified\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/11\/19\/21418\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Took this last week, forgot to post until now. Streaming video glitches amuse me. I knew #startrekdiscovery was switching things up, but I didn\u2019t expect a #madamesecretary crossover! ;) #startrek #discovery #dis #disco &#x1f596; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/11\/19\/21418\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/11\/19\/21421\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book forty-six of 2017: Silence Fallen, by Patricia Briggs. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/11\/19\/21421\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/19\/putting-my-money-where-my-mouth-is\/\">Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I\u2019ve just set up small recurring monthly donations to Planned Parenthood, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the ACLU. Have you added donations to your routine? If so, who are you donating to? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/19\/putting-my-money-where-my-mouth-is\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/19\/20613\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It&#8217;s a bit earlier than we&#8217;d normally do it, but with the daylight savings switch and the election falling in the same week, we decided we needed some Christmas to push back against the literal and metaphorical dark times we&#8217;re living in. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/19\/20613\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/19\/20616\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book forty-eight of 2016: The Tears of the Singers, by Melinda Snodgrass. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; #startrek #tos <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/19\/20616\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/19\/20619\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book forty-seven of 2016: Penny Dreadfuls, compiled by Stefan Dziemianowicz. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; (324\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/19\/20619\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2010<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/11\/19\/not-really-a-surprise\/\">Not Really a Surprise<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It is no accident that women have been complaining...for nearly 10 years now.... What was different? Suddenly an able-bodied white man is the one who was complaining. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/11\/19\/not-really-a-surprise\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/11\/19\/delicious-november-12th-2\/\">Links for November 12th through November 19th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between November 12th and November 19th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/11\/19\/delicious-november-12th-2\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/19\/true-enough\/\">True Enough<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My coworker Rachel watched as our poster printer produced three posters, all wintertime shots taken in the late 1800's or early 1900's. 'Y'know,' she said, 'all the people in those shots are probably dead. That's kind of depressing.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/19\/true-enough\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/19\/new-reads\/\">New Reads<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Thanks to tdavid's creation of an easy-to-import OPML file of Wednesday's Meetup attendees, I've just added a good number of local webloggers to my daily reads. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/19\/new-reads\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/19\/me-as-a-south-park-character\/\">Me as a South Park character<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Just a little mid-morning amusement: me as a South Park character, thanks to the South Park Character Creator. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/19\/me-as-a-south-park-character\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/19\/back-from-the-meetup\/\">Back from the Meetup<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Just got back a bit ago from this month's Seattle weblogger Meetup. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/19\/back-from-the-meetup\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/19\/junet-and-caro-shrooms-and-small-worlds\/\">Junet and Caro, &#8216;shrooms, and small worlds<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'd bounce off and online from time to time during the day, and ended up getting in a conversation with Candice, a girl from the Seattle chatroom. 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