{"id":24947,"date":"2020-12-03T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24947"},"modified":"2020-12-01T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T17:45:45","slug":"on-this-day-dec-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/03\/on-this-day-dec-3\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Dec 3"},"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>23<\/strong> posts previously published on December 3rd<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/03\/year-50-day-215\/\">Year 50 Day 215<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Leave the snow outside where it belongs! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/03\/year-50-day-215\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/03\/searching-for-a-postalicious-replacement\/\">Searching for a Postalicious replacement<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Hey Wordpress plugin people: Does anyone know of a working and supported plugin that does what Postalicious used to? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/03\/searching-for-a-postalicious-replacement\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/03\/%f0%9f%93%9a-sins-of-commission-by-susan-wright\/\">&#x1f4da; Sins of Commission by Susan Wright<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This one is quite forgettable. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/03\/%f0%9f%93%9a-sins-of-commission-by-susan-wright\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/03\/25556\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 50\/2021: Chains of Command by Bill McCay and Eloise Flood &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; &#x1f596;&#x1f3fb; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/03\/25556\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/03\/24980\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; forty-nine of 2020: Clash of the Titans by Alan Dean Foster &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; Foster does his usual solidly enjoyable adaptation work. And I\u2019m pretty sure that this movie was responsible for the majority of my knowledge of Greek mythology for much of my youth (and beyond\u2026). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/03\/24980\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/03\/24977\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Stop that nonsense at once, or you won\u2019t be allowed to make any more planets. \u2014 Squire Trelane\u2019s father, ST:TOS \u201cThe Squire of Gothos\u201d &#x1f596; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/03\/24977\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/03\/24975\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Just found out my trusty first-generation Retina 5K iMac (late 2014) is now on Apple&#8217;s \u2018vintage products&#8217; list. I&#8217;ll happily upgrade as soon as they announce an Apple Silicon replacement! But current rumors don&#8217;t have that until late &#8217;21 or early &#8217;22. :( Not soon enough! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/03\/24975\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/03\/nice-to-meet-you-elliot\/\">Nice to meet you, Elliot<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'll happily spend a little time being mildly confused if it means that cultural progress is being made. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/03\/nice-to-meet-you-elliot\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/03\/on-this-day-dec-3\/\">On This Day: Dec 3<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/03\/on-this-day-dec-3\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/03\/rip-d-c-fontana\/\">RIP D.C. Fontana<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sad news \u2014\u00a0D.C. Fontana, one of the pillars of Star Trek, has died. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/03\/rip-d-c-fontana\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/03\/hopepunk\/\">Hopepunk<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Go forth. Be angry. Be optimistic. Be hopepunk. Make this world a better place, whether it likes it or not. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/03\/hopepunk\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/12\/03\/22010\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book fifty-two of 2018: Dinosaur Summer, by Greg Bear. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; And that makes my goal of fifty-two books for the year, with almost a full month to go! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/12\/03\/22010\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/03\/20676\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book fifty-three of 2016: Miss Peregrine&#8217;s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; (338\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/03\/20676\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/12\/03\/19079\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Oh, @cardsagainsthumanity. Don&#8217;t ever change. Unless it&#8217;s for the better, of course. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/12\/03\/19079\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/12\/03\/now-is-the-time\/\">Now is the time<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">@ShaunKing: 'LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find out. NOW. RIGHT NOW' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/12\/03\/now-is-the-time\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2010<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/12\/03\/that-100-book-list-thats-not-actually-from-the-bbc\/\">That 100 Book List (That&#8217;s Not Actually From the BBC)<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The list has nothing to do with the BBC -- the closest the BBC gets is The Big Read, a 2003 list of Britain's 100 most popular books as determined by BBC viewer nominations -- and actually appears to be taken from a 2007 article in _The Guardian_, reporting on the results of a poll of 2,000 people by the World Book Day website. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/12\/03\/that-100-book-list-thats-not-actually-from-the-bbc\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/03\/librarything\/\">LibraryThing<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Neat new web toy I just found: LibraryThing -- catalog and tag your book collection. I just spent some time putting in a few shelves worth of my library.... Neat! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/03\/librarything\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/03\/ecto-2\/\">ecto 2<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">So ecto 2 is updated, and one of the nifty new features is Amazon integration. It's pretty slick&hellip;I do have one concern about the link format, though. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/03\/ecto-2\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/03\/pros-and-cons-of-newsreaders\/\">Pros and cons of newsreaders<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">So &mdash; as a personal favor to me &mdash; would all of you nice people who keep me informed about the world, thinking about current events, and considering new ideas on how to tweak my website, kindly pipe down for a day or two so I can get caught up? You should be able to start babbling as normal round about Thursday, I think. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/03\/pros-and-cons-of-newsreaders\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/03\/recommended-reading\/\">Recommended reading?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This could be interesting &mdash; Mark Pilgrim has set up a Recommended Reading script that analyses your web page, and then suggests other sites that you might find worth reading. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/03\/recommended-reading\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/03\/everything-old-is-new-again-2\/\">Everything old is new again<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">So, over the past few weeks, it's been announced that Henry Kissinger is heading up the 9\/11 inquiry, and John Poindexter is the new head of the Total Information Awareness office. And we're supposed to accept these announcements as good decisions? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/03\/everything-old-is-new-again-2\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/03\/im-not-surprised\/\">I&#8217;m not surprised<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/03\/im-not-surprised\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/03\/yay-pigface\/\">Yay Pigface!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Pigface is going to be in Seattle at the Experience Music Project as part of their Preaching to the Perverted tour! 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