{"id":24844,"date":"2020-11-21T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24844"},"modified":"2020-11-17T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T23:34:12","slug":"on-this-day-nov-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/21\/on-this-day-nov-21\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Nov 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 November 21st<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/11\/21\/year-50-day-203\/\">Year 50 Day 203<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I haven\u2019t gotten stuck in one of the elevators yet\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/11\/21\/year-50-day-203\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/11\/21\/goodbye-twitter\/\">Goodbye Twitter<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'd been debating it for a while, but as of tonight, I'm stepping away from Twitter. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/11\/21\/goodbye-twitter\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/21\/25504\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 46\/2021: A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods edited by Jennifer Brozek &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/21\/25504\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/21\/24905\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">All he wanted was to never have to deal with another winter in his life. Living in temperate climates wasn&#8217;t enough, because he might have to travel, or be invited somewhere. He wanted to make sure winter simply didn&#8217;t exist. Ever. Anywhere. And so he built his machine. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/21\/24905\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/21\/on-this-day-nov-21\/\">On This Day: Nov 21<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 21 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/21\/on-this-day-nov-21\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/21\/13632\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Five Senators Join the Fight to Learn Just How Bad Ring Really Is: \u201c\u2026if police want to request footage from a person\u2019s front door in reference to a car break-in on that street, there is no need for police to verify that footage would be helpful to solving that incident, or whether the footage would ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/21\/13632\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/21\/13632\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/21\/13621\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Every scan they had run on the canister since they&#8217;d unearthed it had shown it to be hollow. It was only after they cracked the seal that they understood that hollow and empty were two very different things. Microblogvember: hollow <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/21\/13621\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/11\/21\/21412\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">First time playing with the portrait mode selfie camera. Not too shabby. Might have been better if I wasn\u2019t so scruffy. Really need to shave. #iphonex <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/11\/21\/21412\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/11\/21\/21415\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Oooh&#8230;new toy! #iphonex <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/11\/21\/21415\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/21\/20634\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The events immediately preceding the taking of this photo need not be publicly disclosed. (326\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/21\/20634\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/21\/in-regards-to-our-companys-new-phone-plan\/\">In Regards to Our Company\u2019s New Phone Plan<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">'Now, some of you are complaining that you don\u2019t feel safe working with a phone that could randomly explode on any given day.\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/21\/in-regards-to-our-companys-new-phone-plan\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/21\/word-of-the-day-kakistocracy\/\">Word of the Day: Kakistocracy<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Kakistocracy:\u00a0Government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/21\/word-of-the-day-kakistocracy\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/21\/not-alt-right-just-neo-nazi\/\">Not alt-right, just neo-Nazi<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I\u2019m far from the only person to be noting this, but I\u2019m continually annoyed by the willingness of people to accept the term \u2018alt-right\u2019 rather than just calling these people out for what they are: neo-Nazis. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/21\/not-alt-right-just-neo-nazi\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/11\/21\/19070\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">You can tell it&#8217;s a theater night, because we&#8217;re getting FroYo when it&#8217;s 33\u00b0 outside! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/11\/21\/19070\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/11\/21\/18517\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Off to find lunch, stopped outside the Moscone Event Center. Probably the closest I&#8217;ll ever be to an Apple keynote. ;) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/11\/21\/18517\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/11\/21\/no-more-mercury-for-me\/\">No More Mercury for Me<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As a former smoker, I never wanted to be one of \u201cthose\u201d self-righteous ex-smokers. However, sometimes, even the most high-minded of us can give into temptation\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/11\/21\/no-more-mercury-for-me\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/11\/21\/to-blu-or-not-to-blu\/\">To Blu or Not To Blu?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">With the jump to an HDTV comes the jump to HD programming. Day-to-day entertainment will come courtesy of Comcast -- we're already getting our cable through them, so we'll just upgrade that to the minimum possible digital\/HD package. For movies, though, we're doing a bit of back-and-forth. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/11\/21\/to-blu-or-not-to-blu\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/11\/21\/delicious-november-20th\/\">Links for November 20th through November 21st<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between November 20th and November 21st, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/11\/21\/delicious-november-20th\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/21\/meh\/\">Meh<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Happy Night Before Thanksgiving. I'm sure it's a holiday _somewhere_. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/21\/meh\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/21\/storm-season\/\">Storm Season<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Wow -- in the past few minutes, there have been three thunderclaps loud enough to rattle the windows, and now we've got hail pelting down like crazy, plus the wind and rain that you can expect for a storm like this. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/21\/storm-season\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/21\/teen-repellent\/\">Teen Repellent<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Here's a site that has a selection of a few different ultrasonic ring tones at various frequencies, from 8 kHz up to 22.4 kHz, so you can test your own hearing abilities and see if you'd be able to hear (or be annoyed by) the tones. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/21\/teen-repellent\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/11\/21\/folksonomy-tag-support-added\/\">Folksonomy tag support added<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">One of the things I've wanted to add to my site for quite a while now has finally been added: tagging, along the lines of del.icio.us or Flickr. Admittedly, I still have a ways to go in getting all my old entries correctly tagged, but that will come with time. For now, they're showing up in a few places. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/11\/21\/folksonomy-tag-support-added\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/21\/a-10-acre-tombstone\/\">A 10-acre tombstone<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An amazing and sad story in today's Seattle Times looks at the construction on the Hood Canal bridge, which has run into snags after uncovering what's possibly one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the Seattle area. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/21\/a-10-acre-tombstone\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/21\/twas-the-night-before-thanksgiving\/\">&#8216;Twas the night before &#8211; Thanksgiving?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Most of the past couple days have been distinguished by battles with my PC. Apparently it figured out that I'm about to gut it and give it a full transfusion -- and the fool thing is pissed at me. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/21\/twas-the-night-before-thanksgiving\/\">&#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 21<\/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-24844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24844","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=24844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}