{"id":24963,"date":"2020-12-11T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24963"},"modified":"2020-12-01T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T17:47:47","slug":"on-this-day-dec-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/11\/on-this-day-dec-11\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Dec 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<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>20<\/strong> posts previously published on December 11th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/11\/year-50-day-223\/\">Year 50 Day 223<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The longer this \u2018photo-a-day\u2019 project goes on, the more difficult it gets. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/11\/year-50-day-223\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/11\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-a-christmas-story-christmas\/\">&#x1f3a5; A Christmas Story Christmas<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Not a rewatch-every-year classic like the original, but it's sweet and has its moments. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/11\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-a-christmas-story-christmas\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/11\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-bullet-train\/\">&#x1f3a5; Bullet Train<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Thoroughly entertaining action movie goofiness. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/11\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-bullet-train\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/11\/%f0%9f%93%9a-bimbos-of-the-death-sun-by-sharyn-mccrumb\/\">&#x1f4da; Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Re-reading it now, its flaws are a little more apparent, but it\u2019s still mostly enjoyable fluff. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/11\/%f0%9f%93%9a-bimbos-of-the-death-sun-by-sharyn-mccrumb\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/11\/24996\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans: &#8220;Moviemakers have perfected the art of rendering skin and hair\u2014but only for white people.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/11\/24996\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/11\/on-this-day-dec-11\/\">On This Day: Dec 11<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/11\/on-this-day-dec-11\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/11\/16722\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">2019 Mac Pro isn\u2019t the most expensive Mac ever. Not even close.: \u201cThere has been much handwaving over the $5,999 price tag on the 2019 Mac Pro. It\u2019s often been criticized for being Apple\u2019s expensive computer ever. But it\u2019s not. And it\u2019s not even close, if you factor in inflation. Many of the early Macs ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/11\/16722\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/11\/16722\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/11\/16592\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; fifty-nine of 2019: Gods Above, by Peter David. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; A little odd, because I didn\u2019t know beforehand that the New Frontier books were quite so serialized, and I was coming in mid-story. Still an enjoyable follow up to TOS\u2019s \u201cWho Mourns for Adonais?\u201d. &#x1f596; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/11\/16592\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/11\/on-this-day\/\">On This Day<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Looking back on 20 years of blogging <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/11\/on-this-day\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/11\/20700\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book fifty-four of 2016: Hollow City, by Ransom Riggs. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/11\/20700\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/11\/20703\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Piles of presents under the tree! We&#8217;re all Christmassed up and ready to go! (346\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/11\/20703\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/12\/11\/im-concerned-about-i-1351s-effects-on-higher-education\/\">I&#8217;m Concerned About I-1351&#8217;s Effects on Higher Education<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Filed under 'yes, even I can have unpopular opinions': I'm _very_ concerned about where the money to fund I-1351's directives is going to come from. We live in a state where voters refuse to put money into the system, and it's really not even clear that smaller class sizes will make that much of a difference. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/12\/11\/im-concerned-about-i-1351s-effects-on-higher-education\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/12\/11\/delicious-december-8th\/\">Links for December 8th through December 11th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between December 8th and December 11th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/12\/11\/delicious-december-8th\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/11\/expressiveness\/\">Expressiveness<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I think a short passage in a Reuters Photographers blog may have nailed one of the reasons why my interest in sports is limited to football (_real_ football, that is -- most of you know this as 'soccer'). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/11\/expressiveness\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/11\/a-vogue-new-years-eve\/\">A Vogue New Year&#8217;s Eve<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I don't guess that I'll be going -- Prairie and I, over the past few years, have found that New Years Eve out and about is often just a bit too much -- but it's nice to see one of my photos in use on the flyer for Monsignior and Roxy's New Years Eve' bash! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/11\/a-vogue-new-years-eve\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/11\/let-it-snow\/\">Let it snow!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Heh -- cool web toy of the moment (if you have a web cam -- without a cam you can read about it and see the sample images, but the effect just won't quite be the same): Webcam Snowstorm. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/11\/let-it-snow\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/11\/going-going-gone-and-i-did-nothing-wrong\/\">Going Going Gone (And I Did Nothing Wrong)<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Amusing moment of the evening: now that the club is non-smoking, it made the one guy who forgot about the smoking ban really, _really_ obvious as he sat in the corner having a cigarette. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/11\/going-going-gone-and-i-did-nothing-wrong\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/11\/what-you-leave-behind\/\">What you leave behind<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, it's done. Last night I finished the last episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The Dominion War is done. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/11\/what-you-leave-behind\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/11\/interesting-apple-rumors\/\">Interesting Apple rumors<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Some unusually interesting (to me, at least, as both an Apple fan and a music fan) rumors surfacing over at \/. today. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/11\/interesting-apple-rumors\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/11\/message-from-our-sponsor\/\">Message from our sponsor<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Written and performed back in 1992, I was listening to this spoken word piece by Jello Biafra tonight and it struck me how little has changed since it was written. Aside from the reference to Al Haig, this little pice of satire is just as relevant today as it was ten years ago. Kind of funny and sad at the same time, I think. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/11\/message-from-our-sponsor\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 11<\/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-24963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24963","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=24963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}