Abulsme.com: April 2014

@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-06 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 4/05/2014: 5,551 steps and 4.1 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 01:02:39
Reading – There's Nothing Sinister or Unique about USAID's Cuba Program (JosГ© R. CГЎrdenas) http://t.co/USNYpxNHSk 01:34:49
Reading – Florida House Cand Defends His вЂHobby Activities’, Sends Out This Picture Of Himself In Costume (Walker) http://t.co/Uts2oz1Ihw 20:25:03
Reading – Don’t hit fast-forward. Opening title sequences are a vital part of TV’s best shows. (Jen Chaney) http://t.co/cQSwTcFyKm 20:42:45

@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-05 (UTC)

RT @jasondavies: United States of Voronoi; your closest capital determines your state: https://t.co/3AgMcBPfww http://t.co/Zl61uTzdyp 00:44:40
.@jasondavies When I was in HS I had proj to do that 4 world capitols with great circle calcs & giant rolls of graph paper. Never finished. in reply to jasondavies 00:47:30
And there it is! MT @jasondavies: World Capitals Voronoi; closest capital dets territory: https://t.co/L5014VioUB http://t.co/8fYMlvMvUl 00:48:46
.@jasondavies my teqn back then was for each cap start with midp to closest cap, then follow GC until vertex, then switch to next border. in reply to jasondavies 00:57:49
.@jasondavies Repeat until back where started, then for each capitol. Used Cdore 64 to do the math, plotted border points by hand on paper. in reply to jasondavies 01:00:17
My fitbit #Fitstats for 4/04/2014: 2,346 steps and 1.7 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 01:02:03
.@jasondavies Used a nautical book from the library to get lat/lon of coastal points to draw the continents in order to make an actual map. in reply to jasondavies 01:02:52
.@jasondavies Very slow and manual, but lots of fun for a geeky teenager who liked math and maps. I spent many many hours on it. in reply to jasondavies 01:04:42
.@jasondavies 25+ years later, pretty sure the unfinished maps still in my garage, along with probably unreadable floppies with my code. :-) in reply to jasondavies 01:06:11
.@jasondavies Thanks for reminding me of that fun project! I imagine doing it with modern technology is very different! :-) in reply to jasondavies 01:10:18
Reading – Even the Healthy Locked Out of 2014 Policies Now (Connie Cass) http://t.co/EryyU6hJ0D 01:40:22
Reading – Brendan Eich And Hillary Clinton (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/642pXYjXuF 01:50:11
They aren’t??? RT @Atrios: when i was a teenager i thought pints of ice cream were single serving sizes 02:04:15
Reading – Dissents Of The Day (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/oK9TSuRGgh 02:17:23
New oven and microwave ordered this evening. Finally replacing the ones that have only been partially working for the last couple months. 04:55:50
Reading – Honey Maid Tells Homophobes to Take a Hike in Best Response Ad Ever (Rebecca Rose) http://t.co/FgvxZyAxHX 09:30:39
Reading – The вЂњCuban TwitterвЂќ Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket (Glenn Greenwald) https://t.co/yBybZo7cEt 09:37:55
Reading – Court: Improper for Judiciary to Decide If Killing US Citizens with Drones Violates Due Process (Gosztola) http://t.co/XZnQSLYMME 09:51:48
Reading – Samsung claims a graphene breakthough вЂ” which may be huge for future wearables (Devindra Hardawar) http://t.co/XsVGfzfdH0 18:28:58
Reading – Leak the CIA report: it’s the only way to know the whole truth about torture (Trevor Timm) http://t.co/VO5JaOVCNS 18:49:50
Reading – Just a Reminder: The Campaign for Prop 8 Was Unprecedentedly Cruel (Mark Joseph Stern) http://t.co/ETTbgJxZY9 19:01:29
A well thought out вЂњmiddle groundвЂќ on this -> Reading – A Few Thoughts on Brendan Eich (Josh Marshall) http://t.co/5Nef5i0tZy 19:28:06
Reading – Leading Men Age, But Their Love Interests Don’t (Kyle Buchanan) http://t.co/CaIDIhkqcB 23:12:12

@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-04 (UTC)

Reading – Dog found alive in debris field 12 days after Oso slide (Susan Wyatt) http://t.co/7ZSgdyiTrI 00:07:19
My fitbit #Fitstats for 4/03/2014: 684 steps and 0.5 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 02:01:57
Watching – David Letterman Announces His Retirement (Late Show) http://t.co/EcO4gryZtd 03:59:06
Reading – The Hounding Of A Heretic (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/OmXVZPi8dW 04:20:07
MT @kurteichenwald: reading news about the unreleased Senate report on CIA torture. All of it so far was in my book, 500 Days. Just sayin. 04:22:19
Reading (from January) – There She Blew! Volcanic Evidence Of The World's First Map (Nell Greenfieldboyce) http://t.co/pG0g0qajEn 14:54:50
Reading – If Brendan Eich Isn’t SafeвЂ¦ (Rod Dreher) http://t.co/YRmix0bKAV 15:00:00
Reading – Dag HammarskjГ¶ld’s plane may have been shot down, ambassador warned (Julian Borger) http://t.co/ystkcsMEW1 15:21:40
Wasn’t feeling great yest so went to bed early. WFH today. Woke up naturally, no alarm or kid on my head. Got ready 4 day unrushed. Nice! 15:40:06
Still don’t feel great though. Running at maybe 80%. Oh well, can’t have everything. :-) 15:43:30
Reading – The Hounding Of A Heretic, Ctd (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/TeDjtINeJ1 15:47:28
Reading – The CIA & the вЂCult of Intel’ Will Manage to Keep Vast Majority of Senate Torture Report Secret (Gosztola) http://t.co/JFKXnIjWDs 15:56:32
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: Killed the Website http://t.co/V9RO6SMn1y 21:10:29

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Killed the Website

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

Tesla in New Jersey
The Plane / Chile Earthquake
Obamacare
Campaign Finance

Recorded on 3 Apr 2014

Length this week – 1:10:33


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@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-03 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 4/02/2014: 9,934 steps and 7.3 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 01:01:56
Reading – The Inmarsat-3F1 Doppler Data Do Not Exclude a Northerly Flight Path for MH370 (Duncan Steel) http://t.co/m20HzY2Sph 01:51:38
Reading – There Have Been 53 Earthquakes of Magnitude 4.5 or Higher in Chile This Week (Alexis C. Madrigal) http://t.co/fyOimlRJi3 04:38:43
Reading – The White House Doesn’t Expect Obamacare To Get Popular Anytime Soon (Tom Kludt) http://t.co/qbrX6EULxF 04:45:32
Reading – Reality Check (The Dish) http://t.co/zXimT6bSwT 05:17:51
Reading – MH370 Reverse Engineered Ping Data (Reddit) http://t.co/uMkjqTx73k 06:34:13
Watching – Putin & Sarah Palin Phone Call (Tonight Show) http://t.co/oLjP1fgMVJ 06:47:23
Oh FFS -> US Secretly Created вЂCuban Twitter’ to Stir Unrest (Butler/Gillum/Arce) http://t.co/RQoOTgsuk6 07:38:08
Reading (from January) – The Open-Office Trap (Maria Konnikova) http://t.co/HaSB8RXOBS 13:00:11
Reading – A promising infographic about motorcycle helmets (Kaiser Fung) http://t.co/CExmdVTKqY 13:04:08
Reading – Is Yahoo вЂњtoo big to encryptвЂќ? (Nathaniel Mott) http://t.co/wb7AXCLPGa 13:08:58
Reading – The вЂњCuban TwitterвЂќ Fiasco (@jay_ulfelder) http://t.co/kvG6DhJbSs 13:40:14
Reading – No, but in all seriousness… (Alistair Dove) http://t.co/LqiW7fdonQ 16:09:50
Reading – Reefer Sanity Watch (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/VLinkNK5Oq 16:18:08
Reading – US outrage at Iran’s pick of вЂhostage-taker’ envoy (BBC) http://t.co/cKqr4oQwuY 20:45:04
Reading – White, right-wing terrorist bustedвЂ¦and hardly a peep (Cory Doctorow) http://t.co/2dZTVHYQkK 21:00:27
Reading – Jeb Bush Is Not the Answer For What Ails the GOP (Daniel Larison) http://t.co/aayCrf6uZP 21:03:33
MT @brendanloy: The arc of the moral univ bends toward justice. It should be possible to speed up the process without being dicks about it. 21:06:55

@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-02 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 4/01/2014: 7,996 steps and 5.9 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 01:01:32
Reading (from January) – How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet (Steven Levy) http://t.co/7vV6b6JYts 16:25:05
Reading – How Sleep Deprivation Drives The High Failure Rates of Tech Startups (Michael Thomsen) http://t.co/T21ko3UdMv 17:55:51
Reading – Why the Trix Rabbit Looks Down on You (Chalabi/McCann) http://t.co/zKq8iS0oOI 20:11:20
Reading – NASA Halts Work With Russia’s Space Agency вЂ” Except on the ISS (Amanda Wills) http://t.co/5RkTQ2h4kF 20:21:37
RT @newsking2k1: The Indian Ocean is 28 million square miles. A Boeing 777 is roughly 20,000 square feet. No conspiracy theory is needed. 20:26:31
Reading – So You Think You’re Smarter Than A CIA Agent (Alix Spiegel) http://t.co/1yW9KB9G0w 20:31:15
Reading – New Jersey Bans Tesla to Ensure Buying a Car Will Always Suck (Marcus Wohlson) http://t.co/3olaTHXkmO 20:51:20
Reading – Announcing The Wil Wheaton Project (Wil Wheaton) http://t.co/NMIuo87sPV 23:28:57

@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-01 (UTC)

Reading – Political backlash against Mozilla's new CEO continues as OkCupid suggests browser alts (Richard Lawler) http://t.co/Twxxvsk8hk 00:21:09
My fitbit #Fitstats for 3/31/2014: 12,298 steps and 9.1 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 01:01:34
Reading – CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says (Miller/Goldman/Nakashima) http://t.co/6kh3T1I9cF 01:27:16
MT @kgosztola: вЂњHarsh techniquesвЂќ вЂњbrutal interrogationsвЂќ вЂњbrutal measuresвЂќ вЂњmethodsвЂ¦labeled tortureвЂќ вЂњdetainee abuseвЂќ It’s Torture, WaPo 01:28:33
Reading – Mark All as Read (Brent Simmons) http://t.co/BCCY0RUM5G 03:43:17
Reading (from January) – US drone attacks in Yemen protect no one but Al Qaeda (@almuslimi) http://t.co/zq9PrrpMzN 14:59:28
Reading – Apple Buys iFixit, and Other 2014 April Fools' Jokes (Kelly Hodgkins) http://t.co/BRqVYcFqPp 15:01:57
Reading – Dynasty Isn’t Just for Monarchies Anymore (Larry J. Sabato) http://t.co/L8dKCeC6UF 15:24:20
Reading – Roundup: All of Google’s jokes for April Fools’ Day 2014 (Emil Protalinski) http://t.co/M90i2mr30i 15:31:34
Reading – The best tech April Fools’ Day jokes of 2014 (Jon Russell) http://t.co/lEx0oM7mYQ 15:33:36

@abulsme tweets from 2014-03-31 (UTC)

Reading – How climate change will affect where you live (Michael Slezak) http://t.co/KkDe0OlLux 00:25:15
Reading – Major Climate Report Describes A Changing World, Striving to Adapt (Eli Kintisch) http://t.co/hQxWVl7mQy 00:32:37
Reading – World must adapt to unknown climate future, says IPCC (Michael Slezak) http://t.co/2x2bd28NHK 00:40:21
My fitbit #Fitstats for 3/30/2014: 11,517 steps and 8.5 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 01:02:07
RT @7im: zomg вЂњ@OfficialBedale: don’t take a panorama picture whilst your dog walks past http://t.co/7lK1gFvP3kвЂќ 04:03:04
Reading (from January) – Forget Mega-Corporations, Here’s The Mega-Network (@klintron) http://t.co/e0yuOdhilh 13:02:34
Reading – Living with risk: Yes, but don't you love the view? (Eric Holdeman) http://t.co/qIO5fNQfCd 13:06:28
Reading – Were Mt. Gox’s woes caused by incompetence or corruption? (Nathaniel Mott) http://t.co/vTxgFFzasK 13:16:48
Upgrading my work computer to Mavericks. Pacing and twiddling my thumbs while it chugs. It has said 35 minutes to go for 20 minutes now. :-/ 18:28:51
Time left has bounced between 34 and 38 minutes for over 45 minutes now. Woo! Gotta love вЂњtime leftвЂќ estimates. :-/ 19:01:40
For the first time estimated remaining drops under 20 minutes after bouncing between 32 and 43 minutes for two hours. 20:04:46
Also represents the first 10 minute interval where the ETA (current time plus time left) actually got earlier rather than later. 20:06:07
It claims under 10 minutes left. Should I believe? NahвЂ¦ 20:11:15
Less than a вЂњminuteвЂќ. Whatever that means. :-) 20:30:40
вЂњClick restart to restart your computer now.вЂќ Yea! 20:35:22
Of course it still has to do a bunch of work specific things to get set up. I did actually have a couple things I wanted to do today. :-/ 20:45:44
Time for another restartвЂ¦ Getting closer? 21:10:41
Finally logged in. Things still starting up, but maybe I will be able to do stuff shortly. Woo! 21:20:13
Of course, about half of the programs I use have вЂњfirst runвЂќ things they want to do now, often quite time consuming. Bleh. 21:42:17

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