{"id":25014,"date":"2020-12-19T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=25014"},"modified":"2020-12-18T08:18:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:18:14","slug":"on-this-day-dec-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/19\/on-this-day-dec-19\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Dec 19"},"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 19th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/19\/year-50-day-231\/\">Year 50 Day 231<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Pre-holiday-break week work shirt number one. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/19\/year-50-day-231\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/19\/on-this-day-dec-19\/\">On This Day: Dec 19<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 19 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/19\/on-this-day-dec-19\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/19\/an-old-music-meme-revisited\/\">An Old Music Meme Revisited<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Some silly pointless statistics on my iTunes music library <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/19\/an-old-music-meme-revisited\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/12\/19\/22025\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book fifty-seven of 2018: Night of Masks, by Andre Norton. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/12\/19\/22025\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/12\/19\/21448\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book forty-eight of 2017: Wilders, by Brenda Cooper. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/12\/19\/21448\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/12\/19\/21451\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Day four! #cah #cardsagainsthumanity <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/12\/19\/21451\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/12\/19\/linkdump-for-november-12th-through-december-19th\/\">Linkdump for November 12th through December 19th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between November 12th and December 19th. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/12\/19\/linkdump-for-november-12th-through-december-19th\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/19\/20727\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Bonus picture: I am also now a card-carrying member of the #EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/19\/20727\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/19\/20730\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I was greeted at the door with an after work cocktail (pumpkin spice rum eggnog) and bread about to come out of the oven. Prairie enjoys playing 1950s housewife when she&#8217;s off work (as long as she gets to choose which parts of the 1950s to emulate). (354\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/19\/20730\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/12\/19\/my-movie-rating-system\/\">My Movie Rating System<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">For no particular reason that I can come up with, I was thinking over how I rate movies, and attempting to quantify the basic reasoning for each star of a five-star rating system. I think I've pretty much nailed it down. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/12\/19\/my-movie-rating-system\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2007<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/19\/an-early-christmas\/\">An Early Christmas<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As I briefly hinted at earlier today, Christmas came a little early for us this year. Prairie has all of the details over on Domesticism, but in her own words... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/19\/an-early-christmas\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/19\/ive-got-the-blues\/\">I&#8217;ve got the blues&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've been wanting to move away from the stock template included with Movable Type 3.2 for some time now, but just haven't been able to find the time and energy to tackle the project. Today I actually managed to find both at once, and here's the result. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/19\/ive-got-the-blues\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/19\/meanwhile-back-in-anchorage\/\">Meanwhile, back in Anchorage&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I'm torn as to which got a bigger grin -- the snowman itself, or the Mystery of the Missing Corncob Pipe. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/19\/meanwhile-back-in-anchorage\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/19\/stupid-practical-jokes\/\">Stupid Practical Jokes<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This reminded me of a couple stories I was told by a teacher I knew in high school. The man had a somewhat odd sense of humor and a fondness for pranks, which landed him in trouble from time to time -- and to be honest, I'm somewhat surprised he never got himself fired. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/19\/stupid-practical-jokes\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/19\/i-knew-it\/\">I knew it!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Dark Lord has the One Ring! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/19\/i-knew-it\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/19\/options\/\">Options<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Scripting languages have more options than bisexuals&hellip;. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/19\/options\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/19\/the-two-towers\/\">The Two Towers<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">While&hellip;LotR:TTT admittedly cannot stand entirely on its own as a single entity (and I would hate to be someone in the unenviable position of attempting to watch LotR:TTT without having first watched LotR:FotR), as the second chapter in an epic saga, it is far and away an absolutely incredible achievement. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/19\/the-two-towers\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/19\/own-yourself\/\">Own yourself<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Own your name. Buy the domain name, get yourself linked to, and put up a page. Make it a blank page, if you want. Fill it with disinformation or gibberish. Or, just reveal the parts of your life that you feel represent you most effectively on the web. But if you care about your privacy, and you care about your identity, take the steps to control it now. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/19\/own-yourself\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/19\/argh\/\">Argh&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Well, I was experimenting a bit with the layout of the site, and managed to more or less hose things fairly well. I'll try to get them straightened out as soon as I can, but not sure when that'll be. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/19\/argh\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2000<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2000\/12\/19\/from-usenet-121900-0228\/\">[From Usenet: 12.19.00 0228]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Just a quick note that I'm working on starting a new website tracking local Anchorage musicians, who's playing where, things like that. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2000\/12\/19\/from-usenet-121900-0228\/\">&#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 19<\/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-25014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25014","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=25014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}