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@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-23 (UTC)

  • Reading – Doing the math on Dems and the Iran sanctions bill (Ron Kampeas) http://t.co/zSJrjCGPMJ 00:23:07
  • Reading – Independent review board says NSA phone data program is illegal and should end (Ellen Nakashima) http://t.co/v67mAUDWrG 06:07:47
  • Reading – Mother of boy killed in upstate N.Y. fire: “I’m really proud” (Tyler Doohan) http://t.co/4p7K7ianub 06:13:19
  • Reading – TiVo refutes rumors, says hardware is a 'core business' (Nilay Patel) http://t.co/6cpTJzcsyh 06:23:36
  • Reading – Netflix’s secret weapon in the net neutrality fight (Brian Fung) http://t.co/ThzLMcFIm4 16:30:50
  • Reading – Concerns And The Great Moderation (Atrios, Eschaton) http://t.co/bC0wW99VwG 16:43:06
  • Reading – Let's Get This Over With: Exhausting the Planet Hillary Meme (Reid/Bump) http://t.co/5oS5lG1ouz 16:57:14
  • RT @TaylorLorenz: Edward Snowden is doing a live Q&A today at 3pm http://t.co/JAs77P7qYv #AskSnowden via @tminsberg 17:45:22
  • RT @mlcalderone: Slate's @mattyglesias joining new @ezraklein venture, per memo. 19:36:16
  • Reading – Mike Huckabee Says Women Use Birth Control Because They “Cannot Control Their Libido” (Charles Johnson) http://t.co/qQTjDGhPuI 20:13:28
  • Reading – Bots Now Reportedly Account For 61.5% Of Website Visitors (Frederic Lardinois) http://t.co/tohnMhsJqq 20:16:24
  • Reading – Information Is Cheap (Atrios) http://t.co/aHZoT2JbRz 20:17:57
  • Just completed a 2.07 km walk – Partial afternoon walk. Phone died before done. http://t.co/4JKtrYMcve #RunKeeper 20:46:19
  • RT @GrahamDavidA: Ezra Klein Launches Eight Figure Venture to Consolidate My RSS Feeds 20:49:48
  • A couple hours ago while trying to revert Wikipedia vandalism, I actually put some BACK. I was spanked immediately by another editor. Oops. 22:12:06
  • I felt really embarrassed. I am not a frequent editor but I made my first Wikipedia edit in 2006 and change things whenever I notice issues. 22:14:21
  • Not only did I screw up, but someone noticed and chided me for it before I saw it and fixed it myself. Felt bad. Oh well, all fixed now. 22:15:43
  • Of course it was accidental. The vandal had undone some (but not all) of their own vandalism. I was undoing their changes one by one. 22:17:39
  • So I undid one of their changes where they had removed some of their own vandalism, resulting in putting that vandalism back. Oops. 22:18:10
  • If I had finished undoing all the ones I intended to undo, all would have been good, cause I would have undone everything the vandal did. 22:18:34
  • But half way through, I got a “what are you doing!” note because one of my “undo”’s had actually put BACK some four letter words. Oops. 22:19:23
  • But yeah, all good now. Well, that vandalism is gone. The page itself apparently still sucks: Frederick the Great https://t.co/5LEnondKiN 22:20:43

@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-22 (UTC)

@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-21 (UTC)

Orion Descending

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More playing with the camera. That is Orion setting over our house.

Stars are nice. Click the image for an enbiggened version.

Also, while nowhere near as pretty as the others, I was impressed I could even get the shot below at all:

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That’s Jupiter. And her moons Io, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede.

I know, I know, just blobs of light. But still…

This is a fun camera. :-)

[Edit 8:59 UTC to put the list of Jupiter’s moons in the actual order they appear in the picture from left to right.]

@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-20 (UTC)

@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-19 (UTC)

  • Today: Old fridge partially fixed, moved to garage as semi-reliable spare. New fridge delivered and installed. Which would be good, but… 03:14:37
  • Installers caused a small dent on 1 of the doors. You have to pay attention 2 notice, but of course I do. Really bothers me & upsets me. :-( 03:16:32
  • Installers long gone and Brandy had already signed the “everything is good” papers before I noticed though, so probably nothing to be done. 03:17:34
  • It really is a very small blemish, but of course once noticed, it is all I can see. 03:24:08
  • Nice new wonderful cool fridge: invisible. Tiny barely visible dent: glaring & taunting me. 03:24:50
  • Leading of course to googling dent repair methods & perhaps pricing replacing the dented part. Probably won’t do anything at all of course. 03:27:13
  • Researching fixes is a necessary part of working out the frustration. But it is incredibly frustrating. 03:29:58
  • I’m sure we inevitably would have dented it ourselves before too long. We do have a four year old after all. But, you know, brand new & all. 03:30:59
  • Ok. Rant over. And it really is a tiny blemish… If I didn’t have strong OCD tendencies I wouldn’t even care… But… Grrrr! Sigh. :-( 03:32:33
  • We gave them a really good tip too! (Because it was a major pain getting it in to begin with.). Oh well! 03:34:21
  • (The dent was obviously caused by bumping into the handle of one of the cabinets across from the fridge.) 03:35:47
  • Oh. I said I was done, didn’t I? I guess that means I should actually stop. Very tense about this though. :-( 03:38:41
  • Taking @AmyNotAmy to my work holiday party now. Cool. :-) 05:36:34
  • So many twists and turns! -> Watching – 9:99 (vihartvihart) http://t.co/z15hdb7mJW 08:10:47
  • Reading – The Terrible Consistency of Iran Hawks (Daniel Larison) http://t.co/Z3rmAZdNNe 17:57:16
  • Reading – Ask vs. Ax and the Evolution of the English Language (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/MTvpOlfMiT 18:15:29
  • [Abulpost] New Fridge http://t.co/nJQ7cegWnI 18:46:39
  • As usual, important counter to those of us with opposite view -> The End of the Snowden Operation (John R. Schindler) http://t.co/LHxMI1dxD4 21:24:21

New Fridge

How my wife sees our new fridge:

“Fridgezilla!”

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How I see our new fridge:

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My wife is of course right. But still. Grrrr!!!!

@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-18 (UTC)

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Doing it in the Dark

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

  • Intro and Microphone
  • Christie and his Bridge
  • Iran Sanctions
  • Net Neutrality
  • Google and Nest
  • More Google and Nest
  • 4K TV / Listener Predictions

Recorded on 15 Jan 2014

Length this week – 1:21:!4

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@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-17 (UTC)