{"id":24969,"date":"2020-12-14T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24969"},"modified":"2020-12-01T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T17:48:28","slug":"on-this-day-dec-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/14\/on-this-day-dec-14\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Dec 14"},"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>32<\/strong> posts previously published on December 14th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/12\/14\/weekly-notes-december-8-14\/\">Weekly Notes: December 8\u201314, 2025<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A week in the life of\u2026. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past week. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/12\/14\/weekly-notes-december-8-14\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/14\/year-50-day-226\/\">Year 50 Day 226<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A little bit of Norwescon advertising at work. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/14\/year-50-day-226\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/14\/25616\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/14\/25616\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/14\/preparing-for-my-new-office\/\">Preparing for My New Office<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/14\/preparing-for-my-new-office\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/14\/25574\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Micropedia of Microaggressions &#8211; the first encyclopedia of microaggressions.: The Micropedia aims to collect everyday microaggressions and highlight their harmful impact through source-based definitions and real-world examples. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/14\/25574\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/14\/25000\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">AI Weirdness \u2022 2020 headlines: &#8220;Midway through 2020, people started suggesting that I train a neural net on 2020 headlines, and I was skeptical that there would be enough weird ones to make a decent project. Then 2020 continued to be 2020.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/14\/25000\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/14\/24998\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#8216;Plaguecore&#8217; and the Rise of Tumblr&#8217;s Dress-Up Culture: &#8220;Young people are weathering the pandemic by posting photos of themselves in 17th-century plague-doctor outfits.&#8221; Discussed here (with lots of links to Tumblr posts): plaguecore, cottagecore, and dark academia. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/14\/24998\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/14\/on-this-day-dec-14\/\">On This Day: Dec 14<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 14 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/14\/on-this-day-dec-14\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/14\/17110\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Meeting\u2019s done, time for the Norwescon holiday party! For which, of course, I brought out my most seasonally appropriate suit coat. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/14\/17110\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/14\/17107\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Gathering the troops for this month\u2019s Norwescon planning meeting. Just four months to go until this year\u2019s con! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/14\/17107\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/12\/14\/18556\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Christmas cookies! #nomnomnom <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/12\/14\/18556\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2013<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17135\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Stuffed full of tasty tasty Ethiopian food. #QueenofSheba <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17135\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17138\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Me: &#8220;Don&#8217;t jump, Santa!&#8221; Prairie: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you care about the snowman?&#8221; #morbidxmasjokes <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17138\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17142\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The chase is on&#8230; #looff #carousel <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17142\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17145\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Carousel! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17145\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17148\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Love the ice patterns on the rocks. Taken from the SkyRide tram. #spokanefalls <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17148\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17151\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Spokane falls are gorgeous! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17151\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17154\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Debating playing with Instagram again. Took this on Friday back in Eburg. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/12\/14\/17154\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/14\/sleepy-turtle\/\">Sleepy Turtle<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">One of my favorite shots from this summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/14\/sleepy-turtle\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/12\/14\/stormpocalypse-06\/\">Stormpocalypse &#8217;06<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Looks like the strongest storm in 13 years is going to be hitting Seattle tonight. Yesterday hit hard enough to knock out power at our apartment for a few hours in the morning, with other outages reported across town. Tonight, though, is predicted to make yesterday look positively balmy. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/12\/14\/stormpocalypse-06\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/14\/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe\/\">The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">So. Very. Good. Some small quibbles here and there, to be sure, but on the whole a marvelously successful job of translating the book to the screen. Hurrah! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/14\/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/14\/itms-affiliation-is-a-pain-in-the-butt\/\">iTMS Affiliation is a pain in the butt<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">While I love the idea of iTMS affiliation -- and if I got more traffic, it might even bring me more than a few pennies here and there -- I've got to agree with Scot Hacker that the whole shebang is really a pain to deal with. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/14\/itms-affiliation-is-a-pain-in-the-butt\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/14\/poseidon\/\">Poseidon<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">In my version of the movie, the survivors of the capsized ship would make it to the surface, find a life raft, and make it to shore only to discover that the wave had been generated by a huge meteor or asteroid crashing into the ocean not far from their ship. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/14\/poseidon\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/14\/my-favorite-random-facts-about\/\">My favorite random facts about&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Vin Diesel allows to live. Superman owns a pair of Chuck Norris pajamas. The last man who made eye contact with Mr. T was Ray Charles. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/14\/my-favorite-random-facts-about\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/14\/found-slides-from-1979\/\">Found slides from 1979<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Most of what I find is general office and printing stuff, some of which I can use for my job, some of which I can't. Yesterday, however, I found an old box of slides. I can't be sure when they were taken, but the date stamp on the slides from when they were developed is April of 1979. Most of the slides were horribly overexposed and unuseable, but seven of them were good. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/14\/found-slides-from-1979\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/14\/lotrtyebee-update\/\">LotR:TYEBEE update<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A reminder e-mail with directions and details has been sent out to those of you who expressed interest in attending my little Lord of the Rings: Till Your Eyes Bleed Extended Edition deal on Saturday. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/14\/lotrtyebee-update\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/14\/css-geek-humor\/\">CSS geek humor<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Last week, CSS guru Eric Meyer and his wife Kat had their first child, Carolyn, which resulted in a large number of congratulatory posts using css-ish puns. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/14\/css-geek-humor\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/14\/profile-of-a-spammer\/\">Profile of a Spammer<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Ever wonder about the people responsible for cramming your inboxes full of offers that you neither want or need? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/14\/profile-of-a-spammer\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/14\/us-political-regions\/\">US Political Regions<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Commonwealth Magazine, unsatisfied with the standard blue (Democrat) vs. Red (Republican) political reporting of elections past, has proposed an interesting division of the country into ten seperate political regions. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/14\/us-political-regions\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/14\/emperor-norton\/\">Emperor Norton<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">You are Joshua Abraham Norton, first and only Emperor of the United States of America! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/14\/emperor-norton\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/14\/security-mac-os-x-vs-windows\/\">Security: Mac OS X vs. Windows<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Last week, a minor firestorm erupted when PC Magazine columnist Lance Ulanoff wrote a ridiculously inflammatory article gleefully declaring that, 'the Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/14\/security-mac-os-x-vs-windows\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/14\/saddam-captured-what-now\/\">Saddam captured &#8211; what now?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Of course, me being me, I have to wonder where things are going to go from here. 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