{"id":24965,"date":"2020-12-12T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24965"},"modified":"2020-12-01T09:48:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T17:48:03","slug":"on-this-day-dec-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/12\/on-this-day-dec-12\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Dec 12"},"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>18<\/strong> posts previously published on December 12th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/12\/year-50-day-224\/\">Year 50 Day 224<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've been feeling a little spacey today.... ;) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/12\/year-50-day-224\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/12\/apple-music-grumbling\/\">Apple Music Grumbling<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">That's both 'the Apple Music service' and 'using Apple devices to listen to music', to be clear. Apple changed something with iOS 17 and made Apple Music less useful for me, and I'm ranting about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/12\/apple-music-grumbling\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/12\/on-this-day-dec-12\/\">On This Day: Dec 12<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/12\/on-this-day-dec-12\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/12\/16828\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Newest Short Treks Offer a Bright Hope for Star Trek&#8217;s Animated Future: &#8220;These two tales, on their own, may not be the grandest Star Trek stories ever told\u2014but they don\u2019t have to be. They prove there is space for Star Trek, on the precipice on an unprecedented level of saturation, to tell tales which ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/12\/16828\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/12\/16828\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/12\/16825\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Trying an experiment which I hope I won&#8217;t end up regretting: Re-enabling comments on blog posts on my site (but leaving them set to auto-close after two weeks). Don&#8217;t know how often they&#8217;ll get used, or whether it\u2019ll just be spammers and trolls, but it&#8217;s worth an attempt. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/12\/16825\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/12\/16777\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Short Treks E09: \u201cThe Girl Who Made the Stars\u201d: A sweet fable told to a young Michael Burnham (with an adorable tardigrade stuffie) by her dad. Gorgeous animation\u2014and the being the girl in the story meets sure looks like it came right out of The Abyss! Maybe a crossover? &#x1f609; &#x1f596; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/12\/16777\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/12\/16775\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Short Treks E08: \u201cEphriam and Dot\u201d: Extremely cute, and definitely a love letter to TOS Trek\u2014though perhaps so much so that more casual or newer watchers might be confused by some of the images that flash by. It worked for me, though. Plus, the narrator is Kirk Thatcher! &#x1f596; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/12\/16775\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/12\/continuing-my-instagram-lurker-status\/\">Continuing my Instagram Lurker Status<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">After (almost) a year away, I toyed with resuming uploading to Instagram. But in the end, nope \u2014\u00a0I'll lurk, but I won't contribute. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/12\/continuing-my-instagram-lurker-status\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/12\/12\/12660\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book fifty-four of 2018: Star Trek: Klingon Empire: A Burning House, by Keith R. A. DeCandido. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/12\/12\/12660\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/12\/12\/21454\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Day three! #cah #cardsagainsthumanity <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/12\/12\/21454\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/12\/20697\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">We picked this one up a while ago, but decided to save building it until there was a day crappy enough to warrant a #Lego sanitation truck and portapotty. Guess how my day was. (At least the Lego set is really cute.) #&#x1f4a9; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/12\/20697\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/12\/12\/19076\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Thank you Pike Place Market for supplying the fixings for breakfast in bed! Various croissants, a couple donuts, and fresh dates and Turkish figs for Prairie. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/12\/12\/19076\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/12\/pet-dreams\/\">Pet Dreams<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">These people need to get together with these people so that Prairie and I can get a hypoallergenic glow in the dark kitten. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/12\/pet-dreams\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/12\/new-styles\/\">New Styles<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've done very little posting or reading over the weekend, and I'm up way too late tonight (tomorrow morning is really going to suck), but it's all for a good cause as there are now two new stylesheets available in the switcher over to the right. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/12\/new-styles\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/12\/im-a-dork\/\">I&#039;m a dork<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It's a phone. Nothing else. No call waiting, no caller ID, no voice mail, no fancy goodies of any sort. Just a phone. If someone calls when I'm home, I pick it up and answer it. If they call when I'm out, then they'll just have to call back later. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/12\/im-a-dork\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/12\/ooga-chaka-ooga-chaka\/\">Ooga-chaka! Ooga-chaka!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Presented for your amusement: one of the most bizarre, funny, and somewhat disturbing music videos I've ever seen. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/12\/ooga-chaka-ooga-chaka\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/12\/resume-of-george-w-bush\/\">Resume of George W. Bush<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/12\/resume-of-george-w-bush\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/12\/its-astounding-time-is-fleeting\/\">It&#8217;s astounding, time is fleeting\u2026<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Ego-searching old newsgroup posts. Apparently all I used to talk about was nine inch nails. Go figure. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/12\/its-astounding-time-is-fleeting\/\">&#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 12<\/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-24965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24965","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=24965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}