{"id":24856,"date":"2020-11-27T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24856"},"modified":"2020-11-17T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T23:36:22","slug":"on-this-day-nov-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/27\/on-this-day-nov-27\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Nov 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I 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 27th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/11\/27\/year-50-day-209\/\">Year 50 Day 209<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The joys of remote work: on the one hand, on the other hand, and on the gripping hand. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/11\/27\/year-50-day-209\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/27\/25529\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Vinegar: YouTube5 was a Safari extension back when Flash was still a thing and hated by everyone. It replaced the YouTube player (written in Flash) with an HTML &lt;video&gt; tag. And now the YouTube player situation has gotten bad enough that we need another extension to fix it. That\u2019s where Vinegar comes in. Vinegar also ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/27\/25529\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/27\/25529\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/27\/25527\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Figured out how to create an iOS shortcut that grabs a webpage URL, title, and any selected text from Safari, formats it into a Markdown link and block quote, and then sends it to Ulysses as a new post to be published to my blog. Pretty happy with the result! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/27\/25527\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/27\/25525\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">With No Time To Die, or even wash his hands, James Bond&#8217;s travel hygiene fails: From his questionable sexual behavior to his unsafe eating habits to his risk-taking with regard to insect- and animal-borne diseases, it&#8217;s remarkable that the famous fictional secret agent has repeatedly lived another day. In a new paper, published in the ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/27\/25525\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/27\/25525\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/27\/24932\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Once the initial breakthrough was made, time-travel was actually fairly simple\u2026as long as you were going backwards. After all, that had all already happened. But going forwards was a much larger dilemma due to the difficulty in targeting any one of the infinite possible futures. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/27\/24932\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/27\/on-this-day-nov-27\/\">On This Day: Nov 27<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 27 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/11\/27\/on-this-day-nov-27\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/27\/14195\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Merely being rich wasn&#8217;t enough. Even being the richest person wasn&#8217;t enough. But finally, he had amassed all the wealth there was; all else was poverty. And as Bezos looked over the wastelands from atop the Amazon citadel, he still yearned for more. Microblogvember: rich <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/27\/14195\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/27\/amazons-ring-considering-facial-recognition\/\">Amazon&#8217;s Ring Considering Facial Recognition<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">While the basic home security idea isn't bad, the implementation, especially when combined with the (existing or just discussed) partnerships with law enforcement, giving them unfettered access to the video captured by the cameras, is really, really disturbing. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/27\/amazons-ring-considering-facial-recognition\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/27\/13920\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">No Love for White Gloves, or: the Cotton Menace: \u201cRare books, unlike many museum objects, are still used today in the same way that they would have been when they were new centuries ago \u2013 they\u2019re held and opened, and their pages are turned. It would make sense that these historical objects should be handled ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/27\/13920\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/27\/13920\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/27\/20637\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book fifty-two of 2016: Battlestations!, by Diane Carey. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; (332\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/27\/20637\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/27\/zoom\/\">Zoom<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Cosmic View, Cosmic Zoom, Powers of Ten, and the Simpsons. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/27\/zoom\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/27\/schedule-what-schedule\/\">Schedule? What Schedule?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Two more days without posting. It's official -- trying to enforce a daily posting routine just didn't work for me this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/27\/schedule-what-schedule\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/27\/rainier-and-the-flood\/\">Rainier and the Flood<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Looks like the scenery is going to be a little bit different next time Prairie and I are able to head down to Mt. Rainier for a weekend getaway. The heavy rains and flooding of the past weeks have hit Rainier National Park _hard_, including quite a few of the areas that we went through this summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/27\/rainier-and-the-flood\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/27\/best-bad-review-of-the-zune\/\">Best Bad Review of the Zune<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Zune is a complete, humiliating failure...it almost becomes _important_ that you encourage people not to buy one. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/27\/best-bad-review-of-the-zune\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/27\/snowy-evening\/\">Snowy Evening<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A small selection of photos from an evening walk last night, after Seattle got an unusually heavy snowfall. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/27\/snowy-evening\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/11\/27\/harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire\/\">Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Prairie and I just got back from (finally) seeing the latest Harry Potter movie. In brief, I think this is my favorite of the series so far. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/11\/27\/harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/11\/27\/post-thanksgiving-wrapup\/\">Post-Thanksgiving Wrapup<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Heh...I guess after three days, I should really move my 'happy Thanksgiving' post down the page a touch, eh? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/11\/27\/post-thanksgiving-wrapup\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/27\/2004-photography-calendar\/\">2004 Photography Calendar<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've just selected twelve photographs from my collection, and added a new item to my CafePress shop: a 2004 Wall Calendar featuring those photographs. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/27\/2004-photography-calendar\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/27\/alices-restaurant-by-arlo-guthrie\/\">Alice&#039;s Restaurant, by Arlo Guthrie<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/27\/alices-restaurant-by-arlo-guthrie\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-4\/\">Happy Thanksgiving!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">And don't forget to eat that turkey&hellip;before it eats you! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-4\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/27\/battlefield-nuke-okd-by-bush\/\">Battlefield nuke ok&#039;d by Bush<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">If Bush has his way, in a few years our ground troops could be carrying 'small scale', 'low-yield' nuclear rockets. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/27\/battlefield-nuke-okd-by-bush\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-3\/\">Happy Thanksgiving!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Have a good Thanksgiving &mdash; more when I get back! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-3\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/27\/paying-bills-is-such-fun\/\">Paying bills is such fun<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">So that was about it...home by 10:30 or so, in bed about midnight. Not the most exciting stuff in the world, I suppose, but that's the way my life goes. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/27\/paying-bills-is-such-fun\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2000<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2000\/11\/27\/vacation-time-2\/\">Vacation time<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Vacation time! Off to Florida, Indiana, and Seattle -- back to Anchorage on Dec. 14th. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2000\/11\/27\/vacation-time-2\/\">&#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 27<\/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-24856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856","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=24856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}