{"id":25028,"date":"2020-12-26T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=25028"},"modified":"2020-12-18T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:19:37","slug":"on-this-day-dec-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/26\/on-this-day-dec-26\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Dec 26"},"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>21<\/strong> posts previously published on December 26th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/12\/26\/belle-terre-by-dean-wesley-smith-and-diane-carey\/\">Belle Terre by Dean Wesley Smith and Diane Carey<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da; 64\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: The setup sounds far-fetched, but works to keep the overall tension going. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/12\/26\/belle-terre-by-dean-wesley-smith-and-diane-carey\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/12\/26\/carry-on\/\">Carry-On<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f3a5;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: This really wants to be a modern Die Hard, but can\u2019t pull it off. But the TSA gets their feel-good propaganda! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/12\/26\/carry-on\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/12\/26\/harms-way-by-david-mack\/\">Harm\u2019s Way by David Mack<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: All in all, an uneven Trek adventure, and not one of my favorites. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/12\/26\/harms-way-by-david-mack\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/26\/year-50-day-238\/\">Year 50 Day 238<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">First stop of a few days of family visits is with my father-in-law. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/26\/year-50-day-238\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/26\/%f0%9f%93%9a-uncanny-issue-56-edited-by-lynne-m-thomas-michael-damian-thomas-and-michi-trota\/\">&#x1f4da; Uncanny Issue 56 edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Monte Lin, and Betsy Aoki<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Favorites from Mary Robinette Kowal and Alex Jennings in this issue. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/26\/%f0%9f%93%9a-uncanny-issue-56-edited-by-lynne-m-thomas-michael-damian-thomas-and-michi-trota\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/26\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-elvis\/\">&#x1f3a5; Elvis<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My least favorite of Baz Lurhmann's projects\u2026but even a 'least favorite' Baz Luhrmann is still pretty good. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/26\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-elvis\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/26\/cross-posting-from-wordpress-to-mastodon\/\">Cross-posting from WordPress to Mastodon<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Documenting how I got cross-posting working the way I wanted it to work. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/26\/cross-posting-from-wordpress-to-mastodon\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/26\/%f0%9f%93%9a-killing-blow-by-kevin-ryan\/\">&#x1f4da; Killing Blow by Kevin Ryan<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Not quite as strong as the first book in the trilogy, though still better than average. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/26\/%f0%9f%93%9a-killing-blow-by-kevin-ryan\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/26\/25634\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">_Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Photostory_ by Richard J. Anobile <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/26\/25634\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/26\/25637\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">_Fool_ by Christopher Moore <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/26\/25637\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/26\/on-this-day-dec-26\/\">On This Day: Dec 26<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 26 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/12\/26\/on-this-day-dec-26\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/26\/23143\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">N Carolina couple call 911 on vacuum thought to be intruder: A cute story told in a clever way. It\u2019s really a shame its byline is just the AP, and the actual author isn\u2019t getting their due credit. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/26\/23143\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/12\/26\/22019\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book fifty-nine of 2018: The Magic Goes Away, by Larry Niven. &#x1f31f;&#x1f31f;&#x1f31f; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/12\/26\/22019\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/12\/26\/linkdump-for-december-20th-through-december-26th\/\">Linkdump for December 20th through December 26th<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between December 20th and December 26th. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/12\/26\/linkdump-for-december-20th-through-december-26th\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/26\/20784\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is actually a re-post from earlier this year, when my parents were visiting. This seemed like the right choice for today&#8217;s photo, in memory of my dad, who passed away this morning. (361\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/12\/26\/20784\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/26\/lazy-christmas-day\/\">Lazy Christmas Day<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Christmas Day was wonderful this year. I woke up around 10am to the smell of homemade cinnamon rolls baking in the oven, and spent the rest of the day lazing around the apartment with Prairie. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/26\/lazy-christmas-day\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/26\/interesting-and-disturbing\/\">Interesting and disturbing<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Why should it be that it's perfectly legitimate to support the Labor party or the Conservative party, Republicans or Democrats, this model of economics versus that, Macintosh instead of Windows -- but to have an opinion about how the Universe began, about who created the Universe...no, that's holy? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/26\/interesting-and-disturbing\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/26\/martha-stewarts-pagan-yule\/\">Martha Stewart&#8217;s Pagan Yule<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">December 1: Bury turkey carcass from Thanksgiving under the Holly tree to thank the tree for the six bushels of branches pruned to decorate the halls with. Draw Pentagram in the dirt with silver dust to prevent pet She-Wolf from digging up the bones. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/26\/martha-stewarts-pagan-yule\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/26\/back-in-seattle\/\">Back in Seattle<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The flight home was much better than the flight to Ak, which was a great relief -- though I don't think I'll ever be completely comfortable with flying again. Grrr. Ah, well. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/26\/back-in-seattle\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2000<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2000\/12\/26\/time-travel\/\">Time travel<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">After the family reunion of my dad's side of the family that we had while on vacation, I got to talking with my mom about the genealogical records we had lying around the house. This stuff is just fascinating! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2000\/12\/26\/time-travel\/\">&#x27a1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>1998<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1998\/12\/26\/from-usenet-122698-0000\/\">[From Usenet: 12.26.98 0000]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Need help from someone out there - found somthing in my family's house, trying to figure out if it's worth anything. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1998\/12\/26\/from-usenet-122698-0000\/\">&#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 26<\/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-25028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25028","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=25028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}