Abulsme.com: April 2013

Curmudgeon’s Corner: The Big However

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam talks about:

Facebook Home
Gun Control
North Korea

Recorded on 12 Apr 2013

Length this week – 1:07:20


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@abulsme tweets from 2013-04-11 (UTC)

RT @BYUfan: @abulsme Mr. Bean demonstrates a very efficient way to paint a room white. http://t.co/Bnbgk0W8d5 (Please forward to Ivan.) 00:44:26
.@BYUfan Sent to Ivan. :-) in reply to BYUfan 00:44:40
MT @BYUfan: .@abulsme Example of successful web company that has stayed true to itself, its customers, mission: Craigslist. (RIP newspapers) 00:45:36
Reading – BITCOIN TRADER: Don't Worry About Crash, This Chart Shows We Should Have Seen It Coming (Joe Weisenthal) http://t.co/zZc6ESvlzo 01:27:50
Reading – The Obama Administration Has Been Lying About Overseas Drone Strikes (Brendan Kiley) http://t.co/1olgTgk7y9 01:36:14
MT @Atrios: in trading does "technical analysis" mean anything more than drawing random squiggles on charts and divining meaning from them? 01:49:51
Reading – Obama’s drone war kills вЂothers,’ not just al Qaida leaders (Jonathan S. Landay) http://t.co/ksaMK3xtum 03:46:42
RT @ericspiegelman: I just found the best Internet. http://t.co/lxAoLVhnb7 03:47:51
Reading – Fiscal frauds (Greg Sargent) http://t.co/7npbu92PBs 03:51:47
#Team2Spaces RT @joshtpm: Who's with me? One Million Strong for 2 Spaces after a Period! 04:23:34
Reading – Researchers discover brain scan signature that can determine when people feel pain (Bryan Bishop) http://t.co/uaFMObpTPp 04:27:56
MT @BenjySarlin GOP:"Chained CPI! Chained CPI!" Obama:"OK, here." GOP:"Save Social Security! Save Social Security!вЂќ http://t.co/TLSNlRCxEP 04:53:10
Reading – CNN, John Kerry falsely try to tie Iran to North Korea Nuclear Crisis (Juan Cole) http://t.co/Fqg4LVhGOC 05:03:07
RT @Grg: Dear hardware makers: Stop working on features that auto-pause video based on if I'm looking. No one in the world wants that. 05:30:21
Reading – The World Of Kuo (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/q7pVx9F4wW 13:17:29
Reading – Mercy And David Kuo’s Gift (Rod Dreher) http://t.co/qqsKxBq35e 13:24:10
.@Grg @BYUfan Needless to say, the people who want this are advertisers. in reply to abulsme 17:01:44
Reading – NASA Explains Their New Asteroid Retrieval Mission (Nancy Atkinson) http://t.co/jfsRD0ruv1 17:45:36
Reading – Why the United States Can’t Divorce Marriage (Scott Shackford) http://t.co/gBjP1wHgmb 17:56:03
Reading – Daily Kos announces complete set of 2012 presidential results by congressional district (jeffmd, Daily Kos) http://t.co/Te6GvI770C 18:02:23
RT @BYUfan: .@abulsme @Grg Phone: "Look at me when I'm talking to you!" Me: "STFU bitch!" 18:05:37
RT @LarrySabato: MT @jkhandell:2008 parallels shouldn't be overstated: Edwards & Obama hyped on national radar since '04. 18:36:24
Reading – Where did we come from? Prehistoric fossils may rewrite human evolution (Amar Toor) http://t.co/kJawzy011O 18:40:25
Reading – IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant (Declan McCullagh) http://t.co/pWezBmB9dt 18:44:56
Reading – Broken (Justin Boyd) http://t.co/MDKDjFFGlu 18:46:55
Reading – Oregon May Be 1st with Automatic Voter Registration (Ryan Holeywell) http://t.co/7iNNQJ9D90 20:04:39
Reading – In a Secret Drone War, Immoral Kill Deals Will Always Tempt Us (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/DydAKgypki 23:04:14
Reading – GOP off to a bad start for 2016 (David Frum) http://t.co/EGqcvvAUUO 23:20:17

@abulsme tweets from 2013-04-10 (UTC)

Reading – You Can’t Stop Universal From Removing Your YouTube Videos (Chase Hoffberger) http://t.co/fW4xjni35l 19:28:00
Reading – Firefox May Drop Support for Tags, Finally (Alexis Madrigal) http://t.co/PBq54ws04J 19:30:38
Reading – S. Korea, US on Alert for Possible N. Korea Missile Launch (Steve Herman) http://t.co/uqdQFdLetb 19:37:37
Reading – GOP leaders: By all means, cut Social Security, but don’t tax the rich (Greg Sargent) http://t.co/2boJgpQHkV 19:41:00
Reading – Why the Mantis Shrimp is my new favorite animal (The Oatmeal) http://t.co/N7fhmdGy2z 19:55:17
Reading – A big, big step forward on gun control (Greg Sargent) http://t.co/tbFpCGR7GQ 20:09:40

@abulsme tweets from 2013-04-09 (UTC)

RT @jayspec: At this point, there have been more episodes of Castle referencing Firefly than then there were actual episodes of Firefly. 13:11:35
Reading – Most People Work In Services Everywhere (Matthew Yglesias) http://t.co/x8PlHDCWpg 15:28:44

@abulsme tweets from 2013-04-08 (UTC)

Reading – The Secret Origin Of How I Became A Liberal (Oliver Willis) http://t.co/x4C2jaoZXm 01:16:54
Reading – How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on http://t.co/eDwVElWhBJвЂ”without Apple’s OK (Nate Anderson) http://t.co/rFEkWuoffJ 06:54:39
RT @BreakingNews: Margaret Thatcher died this morning following a stroke according to her spokesman Lord Bell – @pressassoc 13:47:06
Reading – It’s Not 1979 Anymore (Matthew Yglesias) http://t.co/VI1Ts6yf6N 18:53:20

@abulsme tweets from 2013-04-07 (UTC)

Watching the Nova about the Antikythera mechanism with Alex. He is paying attention! 02:43:10
Well, it lasted maybe 10 minutes. He’s off to play trains now. Annoyed I am still watching my show. :-) 02:45:48
He came back with food. Now watching Nova again. :-) 03:30:50
Reading – 15 Mid-Century Modern Dream Homes that will Kill Your Children (Clare, projectophile) http://t.co/O82y79sTqL 19:29:17

@abulsme tweets from 2013-04-06 (UTC)

Reading – Facebook dares Google to take control of Android with Home (Nathaniel Mott) http://t.co/ePvuSVO8F6 02:26:28
Reading – I Think Obama Is Bluffing (Michael Tomasky) http://t.co/Y3wKf4OTET 02:56:23
RT @MileHighBecky: A bad jobs report. It’s almost like Obama was right that sequestration cuts are terrible policy and bad for the economy. 03:55:50
Reading – A $5 app isn't expensive (Lex Friedman) http://t.co/I1gN2q5WXC 04:01:58
RT @AriFleischer: With jobs numbers like this, there's no chance the President will be re-elected in 2016. 04:04:22
RT @geoffreyvs: Heitkamp's announced support for gay marriage makes it 50 of 55 in the Dem caucus. 04:12:01
Reading – Unemployment and the Sequester (Michael Tomasky) http://t.co/8Ib515GEDc 04:16:54
MT @geoffreyvs: Nelson, Heitkamp, now Donnelly come out today in favor of SSM. None of them will run again til 2018 so hakuna matata. 04:19:38
Reading – Sen. Nelson: NASA To Lasso Asteroid, Bring It Closer (AP) http://t.co/THVXuW5XnC 05:08:04
Reading – If N. Korea is the Threat, Why is all the War Talk about a Weak Iran? (Juan Cole) http://t.co/ulM8R7WAvv 05:33:06
Reading – US Army’s last tanks depart from Germany (John VanDiver) http://t.co/IeFFwfDukw 17:42:48
Reading – TechCrunch Founder Arrington’s History Of Abuse Allegations Includes An Assault Investigation (Adrian Chen) http://t.co/y5YMBysH8S 17:51:57
Reading – Pic From Mars Altered to Look More Like Home (Phil Plait) http://t.co/xX29Mxg7fk 18:40:09
Reading – Revealing Historical Photos Show US White House (WebUrbanist) http://t.co/wJAKDRayLz 19:25:47
Reading – French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article (Christophe Henner) http://t.co/KncclE0qXJ 19:43:37
Reading – What the President’s Google page tells us about the network (Michio Hasai) http://t.co/LkjhPM3CZm 19:55:56
Taxes just e-filed. Nice size refund coming. Better than having to write a big check! 22:34:27
Reading – Apple’s crusade against third party app promotion continues as it pulls AppGratis (Jon Jordan) http://t.co/NjKVjZNNet 23:38:28

@abulsme tweets from 2013-04-05 (UTC)

Reading – вЂThere’s No Turning Back’: My Interview With a Hunted American Jihadist (Spencer Ackerman) http://t.co/7FgyYqYzcV 02:40:57
Reading – Apple Close to Striking Deal with Record Labels for iRadio (Juli Clover) http://t.co/XcrHWDRlJh 02:50:50
MT @rebliv: FUCK. I married younger. MT @ezraklein People who marry young happier, those who marry later earn more http://t.co/lXCndY3Yhe 02:54:00
RT @davidfrum: The Hillary juggernaut. Why she is unstoppable. http://t.co/av8l87QwS4 Whoops – story is from 2006. 03:27:23
Reading – Io’s Volcanoes are in the Wrong Place (Nancy Atkinson) http://t.co/qdU4ZkN51I 03:32:27
RT @abumamerican: Special thanks to @attackerman for honest reporting, and then to the new followers that his piece produced. 03:35:46
Reading – Who’s Going To Buy The Facebook Phone?" (Dan Frommer) http://t.co/cMAj26Jn0t 03:40:45
Reading – Roger Ebert Wins the Cartoon Caption Contest (Robert Mankoff) http://t.co/7dmqYJWj5w 04:12:35
Reading – The Map of Death (Jeffrey Lewis) http://t.co/9MR9Z2to1m 07:15:08
RT @mattyglesias: Sure was nice of Google to design this OS for Samsung, Amazon, and now Facebook to profit from. 14:06:50
Reading – 46 Reasons My Three Year Old Might be Freaking Out (Jason Good) http://t.co/54YXRdDcD9 19:42:36
Reading – New вЂњHockey StickвЂќ but same tired old denial (Ken Perrott) http://t.co/L8ZawFfjEj 20:41:01
Reading – Three iconic graphs showing the climate fix we’re in. (Peter Gleick) http://t.co/QjP3QntP6P 20:49:20
Reading – The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system (Daniel Terdiman) http://t.co/mnkhupgLjH 21:16:23
Reading – Democrats and Republicans differ on conspiracy theory beliefs (PPP) http://t.co/VOMIJyqFwN 22:10:14
Reading – Letter from Sandy Hook Mom (Carrie Lendroth Battaglia) http://t.co/JqehmvVRFc 23:13:52
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Six Chickens

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about:

April Fools / Viral Stuff
Chickens / North Korea
Gay Marriage at SCOTUS
Holiday Greetings / Google Cool

Recorded on 1 Apr 2013

Length this week – 1:20:11


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@abulsme tweets from 2013-04-04 (UTC)

RT @BreakingNews: Film critic Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer – @Suntimes http://t.co/4yi6670XBM 19:39:53
Reading – A Leave of Presence (Roger Ebert) http://t.co/V81C53Ozlo 19:44:23
RT @KenJennings: The balcony is closed. 19:45:29
Reading – The Soul of a New (Facebook) Machine [Alexis C. Madrigal] http://t.co/EfqJIC2tZ8 20:20:28

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