Abulsme.com: March 2014

2011 Cinema

Just like I did for books, I’m giving up on individual posts for movies I go to and such. Instead, going for annual summaries, and seeing if I can catch up that way. Probably not, but hey, you never know. The “Cinema” category is movies I actually saw the old fashioned way, going to a theater with popcorn and all that. Movies we watch at home are treated completely differently…

Anyway, 2011 was not a big movie year for us. As with the books, I backtrack and cover a second time a couple movies I made individual posts on earlier. But here we go:

2011-01-17: The King’s Speech – Movie about King George VI and his speech therapy to overcome stuttering. This movie obviously won a bunch of awards, and I liked it too. Highly recommended.
2011-01-23: Tron: Legacy – Well, I’m a geek. Tron was an important movie when I was younger. Couldn’t miss the sequel could I? It was a light fluffy movie without too much substance, but it was fun. Worth a look if you remember the original Tron fondly.
2011-04-17: Hop – A completely forgettable Easter bunny movie. But Alex liked it. Well, enough to keep quiet during the movie. Unlike movies he REALLY likes, he never really talked about it again.
2011-05-28: Water for Elephants – A movie about circus people in the great depression. I saw it with my mom. I enjoyed it. It pulled the appropriate emotional strings. Worth seeing.
2011-07-03: Cars 2 – This one broke my heart. I really liked the original Cars. It was a love letter to the disappearing American small town, to Route 66, and friendship, and all sorts of nice things. It was sweet. It was sappy. I liked it a lot. And watched it many many times with Alex. Usually not all the way from start to finish, but in bits and pieces. But I liked it. Cars 2 spit on everything that made the original Cars good. It was a spy movie! It was just a bunch of action packed set pieces to build video games around. There were tons of new characters whose only purpose was to sell toys. I guess it was an adequate action adventure movie with talking cars (I mean, what do you expect), but it had no SOUL. The first one left me with a warm fuzzy happy feeling after watching it. The second one left me cold. Of course, Alex liked it as much or more than the original, and we ended up with a bunch of toys, so I guess that is what matters, right?
2011-11-26: The Muppets – It was silly. It was fun. There were songs. There were Muppets. I liked it. The first time since Jim Henson died that I’ve watched anything with Muppets in it that really felt like it captured the original spirit of the Muppets. This one was Muppets done right. If you like Muppets, see it. :-)

And that was it for 2011. Six movies. Two of which were “serious” sorts of movies. Guess that isn’t horrible.

@abulsme tweets from 2014-03-21 (UTC)

Reading – How to Take the New SAT (Walt Hickey) http://t.co/nrjnkHvqtf 00:35:31
Reading – Local Anchor Changes Her Story Yet Again About White House Press Secretary (Tom Kludt) http://t.co/aYRqvwQw8b 01:09:02
If you ever watch one of those press conferences, you know there is no need to ask for Q’s in advance. They are all completely predictable. 01:10:01
Reading – Obama Gambles Iran Nuke Talks to Punish Putin (Rogin/Lake) http://t.co/nS97uq8SPp 01:32:20
Reading – Investigators locate video footage of fatal helicopter crash (AP/KOMO) http://t.co/vYAJH8mBut 01:44:25
RT @evacide: In Turkey, folks are painting IP’s of non-Turkish DNS servers onto the posters of the governing party. http://t.co/IoU9vJEPR3 01:47:31
Shame, that. RT @imbou: I’m out! https://t.co/nilBZuP8df 01:48:02
MT @snocounty: It’s the 1st day of spring, but *also* extraterrestrial abduction day. Bear that in mind as you get ready to head home todayвЂ¦ 02:02:20
Pretty much finishes ruling out Northern Arc. RT @WCARN_NEWS: China Confirms #MH370 Did Not Enter China http://t.co/5Dg3XTtVvC 02:07:34
!!? Such jokers. RT @WSJD: Mt. Gox found 200,000 missing bitcoins in an old wallet the company no longer uses. http://t.co/zwrwdVCtMP 02:09:47
Reading – Thanks For Being So Cool About Everything (Vladimir Putin) http://t.co/Pawg877Nsg (The Onion obviously) 02:15:23
My fitbit #Fitstats for 3/20/2014: 5,360 steps and 4 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 06:02:24
[Abulpost] Congressional Velocity (March 2014 Update) http://t.co/8mWnR0F6ba 07:31:37
Reading – вЂZero Dark Thirty’ leak investigators now target of leak probe (Landay/Taylor) http://t.co/652O0PVHk1 15:05:01
Reading – Crimea Proves that Great Power Rivalry Never Left Us (Paul D. Miller)
http://t.co/9KZ7N5JvnI 15:10:47
Watching – Billy Joel and Jimmy Fallon Form 2-Man Doo-Wop Group Using iPad App (Tonight Show) http://t.co/LCXu0QgcBX 15:18:25
Reading – Where Letters Come From (Jason Novak) http://t.co/sfeDbQJnLJ 15:24:24
Reading – Just 6 People Left In Buffett’s Billion-Dollar Bracket Challenge. Here Are Their Picks. (Matt Rudnitsky) http://t.co/OT8k9LOMMK 21:39:31

Congressional Velocity (March 2014 Update)

This is the latest update for the series of posts I have been doing on how the current congress compares to the last two in law making velocity. The last post was in December. Depending on your views on such things, enacting more laws may be better, or enacting fewer laws may be better. In any case, the 113th congress is continuing to succeed at enacting fewer laws than either of the two previous congresses. As of the last law currently listed at my source at Congress Summary, which was a reauthorization of the National Integrated Drought Information System signed into law by Obama on March 6th, the 113th has passed and Obama has enacted 86 laws. At a comparable time in the cycle, the 112th had enacted 97 and the 111th has enacted 148.

Here are the charts:

[Edit 16:23 UTC to fix a capitalization issue.]

@abulsme tweets from 2014-03-20 (UTC)

TL. RT @ScottNY71: @abulsme tl;dr 00:19:54
Makes me sad. MT @dana1981: First Climate Article On 538 Uses вЂDeeply Misleading’ Data http://t.co/b8raCNmNW3 via @climateprogress 00:21:50
My fitbit #Fitstats for 3/19/2014: 9,364 steps and 6.9 km traveled. http://t.co/0ZdhbuD77B 01:02:56
Reading – Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem (Yiren Lu) http://t.co/fR2eq6QU4N 03:29:17
Reading – MH370: two possible objects may have been found in Australian search zone (Paul Farrell) http://t.co/0IBDvbsio6 03:37:51
Watching the Australian press conference. Just inserted a вЂњhey, events move fastвЂќ note into CC seg on MH370 Ivan and I did yesterday. :-) 04:35:22
Posting the podcast a few days after we record it sometimes makes us sound silly where there are fast moving events. Oh well. 04:36:43
But hey, that’s what happens with something done in spare time for fun. Too big a block of time to record and post in same day. Usually. 04:37:34
Of course, this latest lead may or may not turn out to be it, & will take even longer to figure out what happened, even if it is the plane. 04:38:34
RT @STForeignDesk: We do not want to draw too much from the latest information. This is the best lead we have: Australia #MH370 04:42:28
RT @cctvnews: Australian Maritime Authority: The objects identified may be very difficult to locate and may not be linked to #MH370. 04:43:40
MT @KFINEWS: #MH370 Australia offcl: "It is probably the best lead we have right now. But we need to … find them, see them, assess them." 04:44:18
MT @MichaelSkolnik: Australian Maritime Safety Auth: The satellite imagery "is credible enough to divert the research to this area." #MH370 04:44:50
MT @WilliamsJon: Crew on @USNavy P-8 spotter tell @WrightUps "significant radar returns" coming from site possible #MH370 objects spotted. 04:47:39
RT @KevinInABQ: THIS JUST IN: there's a lot of s**t in the ocean. 04:50:29
Ha! -> Snowden is using his new robotic presence 2 explore many unexpected places. Like my apartment. (David Riordan) http://t.co/PtJRz1w6Rj 05:20:34
Much better chart of arcs plus travel time MT @kiwidaveg: #MH370? via @_AntiAlias_ based on NTSB tracks http://t.co/CYzNXDtrm0 05:44:47
That last map shows the location of the possible debris EXACTLY where it would be expected given the southern arc and normal flight speed. 05:48:57
Of course, that map does include a note that the specific zones are symbolic only and not accurate. :-/. 05:51:27
Have another early morning tomorrow. Should be asleep. Of course am staying up to see if they ID #MH370. Also paused finishing up CC edit. 06:12:14
Another good map MT @santawee3640: RT"@yoware: #MH370 http://t.co/GnvXuLoqJF" 06:18:41
MT @FollowMMA: Just got off phone with a friend in the US Gov who tells me the conclusions drawn from the sat are that it is from a plane… 06:25:26
RT @FollowMMA: …however they are awaiting hands on proof before disseminating even that info. #MH370 06:25:44
MT @FollowMMA: "There are com sat images that are being witheld that more clearly show the debris but we need to be 100% positive."#mh370 06:26:23
RT @FollowMMA: Seems the US gov isnt sure its the #MH370 flight but they are sure its part of a plane. 06:26:31
RT @FollowMMA: "The wreckage appears to be part of a fuselage." Visibilty is hindered but Navy P-8 has found it on radar as well. #MH370 06:26:38
BTW, no idea reliability of that last person I retweeted. So take with appropriate pile of salt. 06:36:26
MT @_AntiAlias_: In coming wks pple will comp #mh370 search to AF447, but actually closer to USS Scorpion #BayesianProbability NTSB R smart 06:49:52
Ref USS Scorpion (Wikipedia) http://t.co/H6UTuuFRiU 06:50:55
RT @FollowMMA: Austraila has defered to the US on satellite photo release. Most likely next two hours via press conference. 06:52:09
RT @NewsTalk2UE: Images of large object possibly related to missing flight #MH370 courtesy of AMSA http://t.co/LyzYZ3jUPH 06:56:56
RT @FollowMMA: The general consesus is this is flight #MH370 . The hold up seems to be what the next steps taken will/would be. 07:01:20
MT @FollowMMA: "2 more images (comm satellite pics) are about to be declassified and shared now that they have been deemed credible." #MH370 07:20:35
RT @cswilliams85: вЂњ@KayBurley: #MH370 objects located off Coast of Perth http://t.co/zKLeroxwI8вЂќ@jolikewoah 07:21:24
Reading – As the Australians Announce Their (Possible) MH 370 Finding [James Fallows] http://t.co/erD1V7dPPW 07:26:06
RT @GlennFarley: Getting word of Navy P8 aircraft detecting large debris field. MH370. This may be it folks. 07:28:53
Since I’m up anyway, finishing cooking this week’s CC. New episode out shortly. 07:36:28
Reading – US tech giants knew of NSA data collection, agency's top lawyer insists (Spencer Ackerman) http://t.co/gphlhHCoYY 07:46:48
:-/ RT @WCARN_NEWS: #MH370 UPDATE: US 7th Fleet spokes: Radar hits seen by US P-8 not believed linked to objects identified by Aust @ABC 07:57:26
RT @passantino: NBC: Navy ship reports crew onboard P-8 has not seen anything that suggests MH370 debris in the water http://t.co/1fSjlA93CB 07:59:52
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: It was just… no. http://t.co/OaivQ0dCiK 08:07:34
RT @qz: Just how remote is the location where the Australians may have found #MH370 debris? http://t.co/Dtmcvbnhu3 http://t.co/M0hV0Bg4s2 08:09:32
Podcast is out. I have to be up in about 4 hours. Thinking I may need to call it quits and get some shuteyeвЂ¦ 08:11:17
Reading – Malaysia officials waited days to release crucial satellite data, report claims (Fox News) http://t.co/rALVQ344MJ 08:13:58
MT @FollowMMA: Comm sat pics should be released within the hour by Australia. It shows a cleaner hi-res pic just below the water. #MH370 08:24:13
RT @FollowMMA: Us Intelligence plane on scene and descending to get more accurate visual – confirms debris. #MH370" 08:32:11
Reading – A Belated Welcome to DataLab (Chalabi/Silver) http://t.co/6RANKpKKyg 13:22:58
Too little sleep to be safe to drive + no critical meetings + parent/teacher conf later = switch to WFH + Go back to sleep for a bit 13:29:55
Reading – Yes, electrons are perfectly round — and that's a problem (George Dvorsky) http://t.co/nPo76RHMjm 16:39:40
Reading – Malicious Tor Browser Persists in iOS App Store for Months Despite Protests (Kelly Hodgkins) http://t.co/aIUmfQo0Q7 16:41:56
I gather from twitter that moments ago we officially passed into Spring here in the Northern hemisphere. Woo! Right? Woo? 16:58:13
Reading – Seattle police re-investigate Kurt Cobain death (Casey McNerthney) http://t.co/zjt2yizdet 17:30:48

Curmudgeon’s Corner: It was just… no.

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

Random Stuff / Billion Dollar Bracket
Missing Malaysia Flight MH370
Missing Malaysia Flight MH370 Continued
Ukraine

Recorded on 19 Mar 2014

Length this week – 1:23:04


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@abulsme tweets from 2014-03-19 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 3/18/2014: 5,790 steps and 4.3 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 01:01:39
Know NOTHING about reliability of this source -> Reading – Boeing Source: Missing Plane in Pakistan (Lignet) http://t.co/umZzoASX3E 04:31:42
Reading – Another Bush run for the White House? Jeb may be up for it (DeBenedetti/Cowan) http://t.co/CfYkYbTim6 04:53:48
Reading – Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning (Lee/Soltani) http://t.co/kS0gLEqeCR 05:10:26
Reading – Ukraine and Nonproliferation (Daniel Larison) http://t.co/VmdI7P08LZ 05:14:40
Reading – A вЂњStartlingly Simple TheoryвЂќ About the Missing Airliner is Sweeping the Internet. It’s Wrong. (Jeff Wise) http://t.co/4RdCdJAEbs 05:20:53
Reading – Differenze Linguistiche (Brad, Know Your Meme) http://t.co/Ccnnao54Qv 06:02:13
Reading – California earthquakes or why Jimmy Kimmel is horrible for homeland security (Arnold Bogis) http://t.co/ETAFgTSBnc 06:06:36
Reading – Google Tipped to Consolidate Comms By Killing Google Voice, Rolling Features Into Hangouts (@drizzled) http://t.co/b0O5Ee0yW2 06:11:23
Reading – Maldives police probe reports of MH370 sighting (AFP) http://t.co/gzMDXILvAR 06:25:20
Reading – Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire (Charlie Stross) http://t.co/QZwuxOys98 13:03:53
Reading – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Why the focus on southern Indian Ocean? (Hepher/Ananthalakshmi) http://t.co/2ySpYCi8FA 13:09:16
RT @owillis: Shorter Snowden files: The NSA does what it was designed to. This is very shocking for some reason. 13:11:56
Nothing is more discouraging to me than the days I have to get up at 5 AM and do a 90 minute commute for an 8 AM meeting. Bleh. 15:02:37
I should add that it does not reduce the discouragement when you are 7 minutes late to said meeting. I am SO not a morning person… 16:17:09
Reading – Crimean Tatars Will Have to Vacate Land (RIA Novosti) http://t.co/cY123Yao5A 16:44:50
Reading – Is Twitter Phasing Out Hashtags And At-Replies (Charlie Warzel) http://t.co/Gong8NtgSo 16:53:42
Reading – Yes, Flappy Bird Will Return To The App Store (@drizzled) http://t.co/7t0tCm7TG8 17:33:36
RT @BreakingNews: Ukrainian official says government making plan to pull troops from Crimea as Russia takes control – @AP 17:40:52
I only read the tweet. MT @TheFix: 6 in 10 Amer have read nothing beyond news headlines in the past week. Good times. http://t.co/ONQTWpyIpM 17:54:27
Parody obviously -> President Vladimir Putin Tops 2016 Republican Poll (Codewit World News) http://t.co/PlIhIkKsVG 20:05:21
Ouch. MT @SamWangPhD: .@538 I am starting to think "foxes" are those who consider true & untrue arguments equally. I'll stick with hedgehog 21:10:27
Just got news from the vet. The growth that was removed from Roscoe was benign. Whew! 21:31:35

@abulsme tweets from 2014-03-18 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 3/17/2014: 9,097 steps and 6.7 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 01:02:51
MT @pourmecoffee: OK all the so-called Ukraine experts & so-called aviation experts just switch places. I want 2 see if it sounds different. 02:28:03
Another theory -> MH370 A different point of view. Pulau Langkawi 13,000 runway. (Chris Goodfellow) https://t.co/QMEwTIWrXJ 02:33:01
Reading – Malaysia 370, Day 10: One Fanciful Hypothesis, and Another That Begins to Make Sense (James Fallows) http://t.co/FZMY91uXs6 03:40:30
Reading – Witness the joy of the man who predicted today's Big Bang discovery as he hears the news (Jesus Diaz) http://t.co/xwzcUSCPvN 03:47:57
Reading – Lost Jet’s Path Seen as Altered via Computer (Wald/Schmidt) http://t.co/vqzk5hImDX 04:15:00
Reading – First hints of waves on Titan’s seas (Alexandra Witze) http://t.co/sR1P2ih0XJ 04:17:51
Reading – Don’t Take Warren Buffett’s Bracket Challenge (David Sarno) http://t.co/75MwAArTgE 04:36:38
RT @imbou: @abulsme i dont buy these at all because they don’t explain the transponder and acars shutdownsвЂ¦ 06:37:29
.@imbou Did you read through the comments? He includes update that does deal with those. in reply to imbou 06:38:36
MT @imbou: @abulsme having been in an inflight emerg on a 777 the 1st pilots do is dump fuel, since the plane so long it kills Palau theory 06:39:26
RT @imbou: @abulsme I tried to find the comments and couldn’t see them in the link, but he isn’t a pilotвЂ¦ 14:40:48
.@imbou Dude, there are 300+ comments on that, with all kinds of discussion and back and forth, right under the main articleвЂ¦ in reply to imbou 14:42:27
MT @imbou: @abulsme have been cases of wide body fires, Swissair MD11 & a South African 747 – both were able to make radio contact, call bs 14:43:30
Reading – Sergeant Friday Was Not A Fox (Paul Krugman) http://t.co/cIB9J6fxeh 14:45:58
RT @NWScanning: 400 Broad St, Seattle: unconfirmed report of helocopter into Space Needle. So far, 2 cars fully involved. 14:48:33
MT @wsdot_traffic: Sounds like helicopter crashed near the Seattle Center, causing this huge cloud of black smoke. http://t.co/JaoiPQeJl1 14:48:41
RT @wsdot_traffic: So obviously, try to stay away from the Seattle Center area if you can. Give those aid crews room to work. 14:50:14
RT @NWScanning: Seattle: based on photo from @KIRO7Seattle, looks like incident is near the Space Needle but not involving it. 14:50:22
RT @KellyKOMO4: We heard the helicopter crash right outside our newsroom. At least 2 cars involved @komonews http://t.co/eS6R0T5CBS 14:52:59
KIRO confirming it was KOMO’s helicopter. 14:54:12
MT @KellyKOMO4: Flames now out, told by witness one person on fire when crawled out of a car. 1 responders working on http://t.co/s5T8gWQbXb 14:57:50
RT @NWScanning: Seattle: very sad, @KING5Seattle saying it was their and Komo’s helocopter. 14:58:19
RT @KING5Seattle: The helicopter was used in a joint partnership between KING and KOMO. 15:00:02
RT @SeattleFire: Medics transporting an approx 37 yo male to HMC in critical condition self extricated from car http://t.co/Xuy5iOBWiv 15:21:18
RT @SeattleFire: 2 DOAs at helicopter crash scene near space needle. http://t.co/kzIDz22nS4 15:21:26
Headdesk -> NSA surveillance program reaches вЂinto the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls (Gellman/Soltani) http://t.co/kS7gLMFjRc 16:18:50
.@imbou BTW, Goodfellow is a pilot: вЂњCanadian Class-1 instrument rated pilot for muli-engine planesвЂќ in reply to imbou 16:26:06
Reading – High Alert Until MH370 is Found (Mark L. Berry) http://t.co/pUUqtjd5ZA 16:36:45
Reading – Chick-fil-A CEO Will Not Be Talking About Gay Marriage Again (Tom Kludt) http://t.co/TXWP84hgLe 16:39:40
RT @petersuderman: Always give your crazy secret phone-call collection program a wizard logo. Always. 16:43:12
Reading – Google Introduces a Smart Watch (Brian X. Chen) http://t.co/00izJNYVx7 16:44:51
Reading – Ukraine-Russia Enter 'Military Stage' of Conflict, Claims PM (Breitbart London) http://t.co/bdcj5BStKx 16:47:31
RT @SeattleFire: Helicopter crash update : Pickup driver located by police and he is uninjured. All patients located. 16:58:23
Reading – Gellman's Latest Breaking News: The NSA Is Spying on Foreign Countries (Charles Johnson) http://t.co/Q8422DDlco 17:44:56
UhвЂ¦ That WAS the author. RT @imbou: @abulsme but the author of the article wasn’t and I am not sifting through 300 comments 17:58:44
.@imbou Comments included things specifically addressing some of the things you mentioned, that’s why I mentioned. in reply to imbou 18:00:21
Wired link with exp info: http://t.co/GbyKeM874t RT @imbou: @abulsme I saw his bio at the bottom it didn't mention any aviation experience 18:02:45
.@imbou TBC I am not specifically endorsing this or any other theory I have linked to. Just saying he addressed your concerns about comms. 18:05:01
MT @imbou: @abulsme I could go on forever why this scenario based on plane’s history & aviation history of fires in wide bodies is nonsense. 18:06:11
MT @imbou: @abulsme The worst passenger aviation fires, were Saudia 1980, Swissair in 98, and Soutafrican in 1987, in all of them the pilots 18:16:00
MT @imbou: @abulsme were able to send out distress signals. Scenario he describes is plausible but about as likely as me winning the billion 18:17:14
MT @imbou: @abulsme dollar bracket. 777 has been one of safest planes ever built, what he describes seems like a pilot that doesn’t want to 18:19:10
RT @imbou: @abulsme believe is on of his brethren would do a deliberate act, just like the Egyptians refused to accept the egyptair suicide. 18:19:20
MT @joshuafoust: I can think of 15 separatist movements in Russia & I know there are more. Do they all get referendum now, just like Crimea? 18:20:09
Hey @imbou, Henry Blodget likes that theory. So what is wrong with you?? :-) http://t.co/DgByMlRD7v 18:24:57
MT @7im: ? about fire hypoth: why an autopilot #mh370 w/ disabled crew didn’t cont due west; instead veering N or S aft airport overshoot 18:47:46
RT @bobatkiro7: The news chopper that crashed in Seattle this morning was previously flown by WBZ in Boston. 18:52:19
Until found, prudent. MT @BYUfan: This is a chilling, must read MT @abulsme: High Alert Until MH370 is Found (Berry) http://t.co/5t7fqjl6bm 18:56:41
MT @imbou: facts get in the way, I know it sucks… I got a pilot in an emergency and instead of grabbing the stick and turning around, he 19:04:18
MT @imbou: he starts inputting way points, and makes a gradual turn and doesn't start dumping fuel in a loaded to the nines 777, yeah right 19:04:30
MT @imbou: That DC8 he’s referring to, the DC8 was not equipped with fire suppression equipment in the front landing gear the 777 and all 20:03:21
MT @imbou: modern aircraft have that. The nose gear on fire? Seriously? that is where the least weight on the plane is regardless of air 20:03:34
Reading – Further Thoughts on Hedgehogs and Foxes (Paul Krugman) http://t.co/icAUsPHO6o 20:25:29
From the work version of me :-) -> What do I do if my registration emails themselves have high bounce rates? http://t.co/0XZRLlqyt8 20:50:38
Reading – We Have a 1 in 6,001,225,228 Chance of Winning Buffett’s Billion (Nate Silver) http://t.co/PGDYi7vU3U 20:53:36
Reading – Nate Silver’s 538 is up and running (Tyler Cowen) http://t.co/nKhlHjEDTK 20:56:05
Reading – MYSTIC: The NSA's Telephone Call Collection Program (Bruce Schneier) https://t.co/SOFKsByqga 21:48:08
Reading – Nate Silver Interview : The New FiveThirtyEight (Joe Coscarelli) http://t.co/q9cP6ICMpI 22:58:39
RT @imbou: @abulsme And oh by the way those pilots were able to contact air traffic control in that DC8 and attempted to return. 23:32:27

@abulsme tweets from 2014-03-17 (UTC)

Reading – Why Ted Cruz is the real-life Frank Underwood (Damon Linker) http://t.co/2aqIdQUe3G 00:04:44
Reading – The Baseless Rush to Blame the Pilots of Flight 370 (Clive Irving) http://t.co/tbH9hNh0TN 00:30:23
Reading – US Cites Security More to Censor, Deny Records (Bridis/Gillum) http://t.co/J0iIxycQ3j 00:51:45
My fitbit #Fitstats for 3/16/2014: 5,095 steps and 3.8 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 01:01:53
Reading – Just a regular guy (digby, Hullabaloo) http://t.co/NsJ8Q5WtQw 01:26:52
Reading – One Man's True Experience With the Naked Web (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/QWZdRp9EHZ 01:48:14
Reading – Goodnight Clock (Miss Cellania, Neatorama) http://t.co/rKkBVZIAc5 01:55:53
So, northern route, below radar. Wow. -> MH370 flew as low as 1,500m to avoid detection (Malaysian Insider) http://t.co/qPMTmNPGxK 04:01:21
MT @ScottNY71: @abulsme Amazing how much they know bout path plane took, how low it flew, how long it flew & yet how little they really know 04:20:34
MT @OliverBullough: Given massive support for joining Russia, Crimean ref could have been honest and they'd have still won. So, why rig it? 04:49:18
Watching – Top 10: Shocking Doctor Who Cameos (TARDISArchives) https://t.co/2oVWyWMQ8A 06:03:53
BTW, checked out the new Cosmos via Xfinity, but it was ad-ridden, so bought it at Amazon instead. Watching Ep 1 now. :-) 06:48:32
Finished adding 1992 elec data to my poll stuff. Bkgnd info. http://t.co/noJzBcBcTz Next up when I get a chance, national summary trends. 07:15:04
Even watching with no commercials, the gaps where the commercials go are noticeable and annoying. #Cosmos 07:16:47
I finished rewatching the original Cosmos before starting new one. This one is OK, but the old one is still in a different league. #Cosmos 07:24:02
Carl Sagan forever. #Cosmos 07:24:34
Of course, I haven’t even finished the first episode yet, so perhaps I should withhold judgement. #Cosmos 07:25:22
Some of the episodes of the old one certainly aged better than others. And I’ll certainly keep watching the new one. #Cosmos 07:26:34
Liking the tribute to Sagan in the new Cosmos though. #Cosmos 07:29:34
:-/ MT @BreakingNews: Crimean parliament passes independence resolution following referendum, applies to join Russia – Interfax, @Reuters 09:33:45
Watching -> RT @BBCBreaking: Live now: News briefing on missing #Malaysia Airlines #MH370 flight http://t.co/sDHK2kLD1w 09:36:19
Reading – America's 'virgin births'? One in 200 mothers 'became pregnant without having sex' (Rob Williams) http://t.co/Fr8AU7eQpk 14:05:06
Reading – If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology (Cory Doctorow) http://t.co/SHyEoymjTl 14:20:26
Bad #Cosmos! Bad! Reading – Cartoons and Fables вЂ“ How Cosmos Got the Story of Bruno Wrong (Tim O’Neill) http://t.co/KnGqbAWc6y 14:45:50
Speculation, but still -> Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)? [Keith Ledgerwood] http://t.co/qyFwRHItHX 18:22:38
Reading – Cosmic inflation: вЂSpectacular’ discovery hailed (@bbcamos) http://t.co/v9nQ5osKLt 18:43:16
MT @imbou: @abulsme This better than lot of other theories I have seen bantered around. Doesn’t make sense for plane to just fly to water. 19:02:17
.@imbou Solves, or at least mitigates, the вЂњwouldn’t one if these countries notice?вЂќ issue I mentioned a few days ago. in reply to imbou 19:04:31
Reading – The Morning After: Crimea Awakens to Hangovers and Confusion (Oliver Bullough) http://t.co/qeJtmdJd8W 19:30:34
Reading – It’s time to start taking Rand Paul seriously (Chris Cillizza) http://t.co/TMgZEcy4hN 19:45:23
Oops. MT @dangillmor: New вЂњNewsweekвЂќ may be in legal hot water over its bitcoin story, if this letter is any hint: https://t.co/urQDbkzWFL 19:48:17
Welcome back!! I will be an avid reader! -> What the Fox Knows (@NateSilver538) http://t.co/34NNaDkqmw 20:15:05
I often think my dream job would be some form of data journalism like @FiveThirtyEight. Alas my career went a different direction years agoвЂ¦ 20:24:42
Closest I get to @FiveThirtyEight stuff is of course my amateur spare time election stuff: http://t.co/fKzjjT06CT Just wish I could do more! 20:30:05
See Wirecutter: http://t.co/lZ78mtD36l RT @AlexJamesFitz: What's the best wireless mouse out there these days? 21:16:36
Favorite site for вЂњWhat is the best XвЂќ questions. :-) RT @AlexJamesFitz: @abulsme Merci! 21:19:07
MT @ChadwickMatlin: .@fivethirtyeight’s launch Easter Egg: All features were timestamped at 5:38 a.m. 21:49:02
Reading – Putin's excuse for a referendum is wrong: Crimea isn't Kosovo вЂ“ at all (Daniel W Drezner) http://t.co/sLYOqYn3Ov 23:39:27
Reading – Another Explanation for Crimea Referendum Landslide (Carl Bialik) http://t.co/4bGJIhPoV1 23:57:51

@abulsme tweets from 2014-03-16 (UTC)

Went up to the Stevens ski area with Alex & Grandma Ruth to find snow. Alex played with his trains in the snow. No skiing. This time. :-) 00:15:06
My fitbit #Fitstats for 3/15/2014: 3,828 steps and 2.8 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 01:01:53
Went all the way across to Leavenworth, WA. Stopping for a snack and potty break, then heading home. :-) 01:04:24
MT @philizzo: Just told daughter the вЂњblack & white & read all overвЂќ newspaper joke. Didn’t get it. Newspapers in color & no one reads them. 01:31:21
Reading – If MH370 crashed in southern Indian Ocean it wouldn’t be seen or heard (Jane Wardell) http://t.co/3xJhkHFlUv 05:13:04
Reading – вЂThose in the cockpit’ behind missing flight? (Starr/Carter/Clancy) http://t.co/HwV6waCSdf 05:48:31
Caught up on entering 2016 state level presidential polls again. Added 49 polls so far in March covering PA, FL, KS, IA, VA, NY, NJ, AZ, NC. 09:57:11
To be clear, of those 49, only 30 were released in March. The other 19 were released earlier, but I found them & entered them in March. 10:00:36
Also to clarify, 49 is counting each candidate pairing as a separate poll, even though groups of pairing are almost always done together. 10:04:52
Reading – After Crimea, Putin Is Going to Take Eastern Ukraine (@juliaioffe) http://t.co/Kf9hYcHujS 17:06:48
Reading – The problem with modern polling, in one chart (Reid Wilson) http://t.co/0EKkV73oWr 17:11:36
Reading – In Malaysia Air Probe and Elsewhere, Pilot Suicide is a Subject Too Horrifying to Utter Loudly (Nick Perry) http://t.co/817EVOB3Co 17:22:06
Reading – You’re Looking at It Wrong вЂ” Why the Web Demands Vertical Screens (Jason Abbruzzese) http://t.co/MVaJ6hlhYr 17:33:45
Reading – What happens at Netflix when House of Cards goes live (Queena Kim) http://t.co/JeJm0JielS 17:51:00
Reading – What else was missing about Malaysia flight MH370 (CSM Editors) http://t.co/O0Lu408y3Q 17:54:00
Reading – вЂњNobody Knows AnythingвЂќ (@20committee) http://t.co/L3HzyzrJAy 17:59:19
Reading – Russia’s Special Ops Invasion of Ukraine Has Begun (Lake/Nemtsova) http://t.co/m6KlTikW93 19:00:27
Reading – Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit (@alex/@alexia) http://t.co/JesmIuHySY 19:09:39
Reading – Missing Malaysian flight: Air traffic control heard from pilot after systems shut down (Jim Gomez) http://t.co/K0WmRjyyh3 19:21:51
Reading – Rumors Flying Nearly as Fast as Their Subject: Have Gravitational Waves Been Detected? (Shannon Hall) http://t.co/iexQ13MT1z 19:27:42
Reading – Crimea exit poll: About 93% back Russia union (BBC) http://t.co/rl8RJNuMyG 20:08:08
Reading – Studio gives Kickstarter Veronica Mars movie backers substandard, DRM-crippled rewards (Cory Doctorow) http://t.co/Xcpnyt0iwY 20:21:35

@abulsme tweets from 2014-03-15 (UTC)

Reading – Sharp Changes in Altitude and Course After Jet Lost Contact (Forsythe/Schmidt) http://t.co/fMjKG5J972 00:36:39
Reading – The Hounding Of A Young Gay Writer (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/hcBCsSMY2A 00:44:47
MT @natsecHeather: This IS a BFD MT @AmbFeinstein VP 2 go 2 #Poland & #Baltics next week after #Crimea ref. Biden’s 2d trip 2 #Poland as VP. 02:27:51
Reading – Illiberalizing Russia (The Dish) http://t.co/sKbGyVMwEq 03:46:42
Reading – Lost Malaysian airliner may have run out of fuel over Indian Ocean (Koswanage/Hosenball) http://t.co/4VcS6OfPXR 03:51:32
Reading – Navy SEALs 'took turns dumping HUNDREDS of bullets' into Osama bin Laden's body (Daily Mail) http://t.co/FZcCRyjhSG 04:26:05
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: Not Recording from a Boat http://t.co/EIRbe95GHs 05:25:23
For those listening to CC, the original version of 4th segment was shorter, better, and didn’t sound awful. But a dead batt killed it. :-( 06:06:26
MT @BlogsofWar: RT @STForeignDesk Based on new data, location of last comm was at possibly at border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan #MH370 06:33:47
Last contact was over land? Near Turkmenistan? How the hell does it get THERE without setting off alarms along the way?? #MH370 06:41:00
Makes much more sense -> MT @TheBaseLeg: @BlogsofWar I’m thinking he meant last air corridor it was sighted on ended at the Kazakh borderвЂ¦ 06:50:16
What’s this about air corridors? Why would hijacked plane limit itself 2 defined corridors? Wouldn’t it want to actively avoid them? #MH370 06:53:28
RT @NajibRazak: However, based on this new data, the aviation authorities of Malaysia and their international counterparts have … – Admin 06:54:59
RT @NajibRazak: …determined that the plane’s last communication with the satellite was in one of two possible corridors: -Admin 06:55:03
MT @NajibRazak: … a north corridor stretching approximately from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand, or a … 06:55:34
RT @NajibRazak: …southern corridor stretching approximately from Indonesia to the southern Indian ocean. – Admin 06:55:42
Ah, so corridors not in terms of normal navigational corridors, but in terms of regions the plane might have been based on available data. 06:56:45
Those are big corridors. But surely the locations far inland would be ruled out because it would be detected on the way, right? #MH370 06:58:06
I mean, to actually get to Turkmenistan you would almost have to fly over India, Pakistan & Afghanistan. Someone would notice, right? #MH370 07:00:53
MT @BlogsofWar: I really wish I hadn't listened to the Malaysian PM – Somehow he actually found a way to introduce more WTFness into this. 07:01:26
RT @rly2345: @abulsme – not if one flew over the himalayas, but then the military should have…. 07:03:58
.@rly2345 Then Bangladesh, Nepal, India or China, Pakistan & more. Seems any route with significant overland component should be detected. in reply to rly2345 07:07:50
RT @TerraHall: #MH370 is thought to have gone in one of these two directions. http://t.co/bMhHaaRlrj 07:08:25
RT @7im: I'm trying to imagine who other than a state actor/ state intelligence service has the sophistication to pull this off 07:27:50
MT @nycsouthpaw: @chrisgeidner I like state actor getting team on plane, using alt changes 2 knock out passengers, & flying to a secret base 07:29:26
This stuff gets crazier every day. Directions for speculation are obvious. Some very scary. Will try to refrain. It is difficult tho. #MH370 07:33:21
MT @chicoharlan: Thailand–> Kazakhstan/Turkmenistan border "corridor" includes 8-10 countries, inc Burma, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan. 07:53:51
This map of "corridors" makes more sense -> Flight 370: Missing airliner apparently flew to Central Asia (Jeff Wise) http://t.co/RsxTBVwCYm 16:19:14
Even with clarified вЂњcorridorsвЂќ still seems amazing if the plane was going the land route and managed to go undetected. #MH370 16:21:36
:-/ RT @jaketapper: #URGENT: Russian troops enter strip outside Crimea. 17:00:46
RT @mitchellreports: Big symbolic blow to Putin: China abandons Russia and abstains at UN vote on Crimea leaves Russia alone on veto today 17:03:47
Important to remember the gov in Kiev isn’t all pure & noble either -> Ukraine’s threat from within (Robert English) http://t.co/SujvPZjxzq 17:27:26
RT @vishal1mehra: Missing #MH370 did not pass over Indian airspace: Kolkata ATC. http://t.co/kcnUJNjbWE #AVGeek cc @NickKristof 17:40:13
Reading – Missing Malaysian flight did not pass over Indian airspace (Subhro Niyogi) http://t.co/101b3fRM3H 17:43:19
Reading – In Texas, it’s totally legal to murder a black kid if he’s sleeping with your daughter (@DavidOAtkins) http://t.co/bI6oeG0E0J 17:45:27
Reading – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Runways in Range (WNYC) http://t.co/8v66myTGeH 17:55:38
:-( MT @DmitriTrenin: Ugly scenes & deadly incidents in Donetsk and Kharkov: the situation in E Ukraine is slipping out of control. #ukraine 18:14:23
RT @ksieff: Senior Afghan official on whether #MH370 flew over Afghanistan: вЂњWe do not have a radar. Go and ask the Americans.вЂќ 18:18:16
[Abulpost] Pics from Feb 2014 http://t.co/DS43B5xoCp 18:39:44
Missing puzzle piece? -> Uighur separatists’ claim over missing flight MH370 may be re-examined (Paul Toohey) http://t.co/W2dOsbNuZj 18:46:42
MT @PJBWells: 25 heavily armed soldiers just entered journalist hotel simferopol #crimea Aggressive, pistol drawn. http://t.co/ludKDB3Fu0 18:54:35
Live tweeting takeover of hotel -> RT @shustry: 6th floor of hotel Moskva right now http://t.co/gKQhN4VxPP 18:56:28
Always moment of confusion when I see @DavidCornDC tweets because his avatar pic looks vaguely like @MittRomney. 18:59:19
MT @shustry: Gunmen have released me from 6th floor after patting me down for guns. Now in lobby, no one armed down here #Crimea #simferopol 19:00:14
RT @IFLScience: Quote by Phil Plait, via Not an Exact Science Show http://t.co/n6HBp655hg 19:03:49
MT @shustry: Police spokes in lobby: вЂњThis is planned training operation. Had one last month. Nothing to do with referendum.вЂќ #crimea #lies 19:04:37
RT @TheStalwart: Plane question. After the plane was taken off course, what's a scenario that would have caused an ocean crash? 19:14:43
.@TheStalwart Out of fuel if miscalculated and still over ocean. Passenger rebellion like Flight 93. Intentional ditching. in reply to TheStalwart 19:16:13
One note, вЂњcorridorsвЂќ are possible position at time of last satellite ping, right? No reason couldn’t make more turns after. #MH370 19:29:58
Also, if corridors are poss last pos based on just sat ping, should be able to narrow a lot based on airspeed since last known loc. #MH370 19:31:46
MT @LeighTurnerFCO: How #Scottish ref shows #Crimea ref is farcical & will be ignored by intl community #Ukraine http://t.co/o8IzeceNzm 19:33:40

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