Abulsme.com: May 2014

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-14 (UTC)

Reading – Russia to Deny US Access to International Space Station over Ukraine Sanctions (Frances Martel) http://t.co/T1ypX47Blf 00:48:50
Reading – What Does Mike Huckabee Think of Gay Marriage in Arkansas? (Paul Constant) http://t.co/jfFQUeHX80 00:56:25
Reading – Surprising No One, McCain Wants U.S. Military Action in Nigeria (Daniel Larison) http://t.co/mybVvO47Ni 01:05:05
Yup. -> Reading – If ISPs Are Going to Charge for Bandwidth, Why Not Charge End Users? (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/Rkewg88jei 01:10:37
Reading – Rand Paul Is Strong on Voter ID Laws Unless You Ask His Opinion on Voter ID Laws (Paul constant) http://t.co/ThsMqJC5qi 01:16:22
reading – Karl Rove's Todd Akin Moment (Tony Lee) http://t.co/Up0KviN8dG 01:22:58
Reading – Amazon natives' new site will offer home project 'Prestimates' (Rachel Lerman) http://t.co/OAIQidr2BH 01:59:06
Reading – Former Clinton Press Secretary: вЂWilling to take some bet’ Hillary Clinton may not run (Tony Lee) http://t.co/GrCVxYfxLe 02:16:31
Reading – European court orders Google to erase history (John Hayward) http://t.co/HGjwbO5Ejz 02:28:38
Reading – The Know Nothing Party (@sullydish) http://t.co/YVDTHllVeS 02:45:02
Reading – Man vs Motor (The Oatmeal) http://t.co/WYkQ4nMexl 03:11:48
Reading – Where the 2016 GOP contenders stand on climate change (Paul Waldman)
http://t.co/hO2V2UhQjD 03:19:20
Reading – Tuesday Is Your Last Day to Watch Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s вЂSpace Oddity’ YouTube Video (Daniel Bean) https://t.co/0ZUyyzNjq1 03:55:19
Yup. -> Reading – In Defense Of Global Warming Futility (Rod Dreher) http://t.co/dhWeRLSptM 05:15:44
Reading – No Place to Hide: A Conservative Critique of a Radical NSA (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/o3yw4QRlYX 12:50:12
Reading – What’s Rove’s Game? (@sullydish) http://t.co/tLNU93cTJ0 17:23:27
Just a little test 22:20:18
Reading – Why Jill Abramson Was Fired (Ken Auletta) http://t.co/0MwrKcow4z 22:31:26

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-13 (UTC)

RT @CBCAlerts: MM&A railway, 3 people charged in #LacMegantic disaster. Accused of causing the death of 47 people by criminal negligence. 00:45:44
Reading – FCC Net Neutrality Plan in Chaos (@samgustin) http://t.co/Uw5beSTUhX 04:40:16
Automated raw trend data update. Made the state trend update smarter. Fixed dynamic default 4 state graph timeframe. http://t.co/oEpFPIlJnD 08:59:24
Alex has a fever, so staying home from work tomorrow to take care of him. But still probably time to call it quits for the night. :-) 09:00:03
Next up, trying to actually make graphs out of some of those raw national trend numbers. Woo! 09:08:55
Yes. Got mail. Not PCOing again. Will email later with thoughts. RT @BYUfan: @abulsme Did you get my email? Are you willing to be PCO again? 18:27:10
Reading – What it's like to own a Tesla Model S (The Oatmeal) http://t.co/kXhxHNoKok 21:29:16

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-12 (UTC)

Reading – How the 2016 Election Was Rigged More Than 200 Years Ago (Jonathan Chait) http://t.co/tx1qkUZg0z 01:18:41
Reading – Should modern web browsers show the URL or just the site name? (Rene Ritchie) http://t.co/eyVCXj88HH 01:27:44
Reading – Why Rand Paul Can't Stop, Won't Stop Talking About Hillary Clinton (Dylan Scott) http://t.co/30DMJS7GNL 13:50:42
Reading – how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers (@ggreenwald) http://t.co/l4FBQWJFbm 16:20:24
Reading – Don't Trust Those Early Polls (Jonathan Bernstein) http://t.co/6JvAGT20gA 18:04:50
Watching – Ylvis – Massachusetts (Explicit Lyrics) [TVNorge] https://t.co/kZGhZWQFfs 20:08:24
Reading – Keith Crisco Dead: Clay Aiken's Dem Opponent Found Dead Days After Primary (Samantha Lachman) http://t.co/nFpsH8EzEL 23:25:09
Reading – US 'in aerial search' for Nigeria schoolgirls (AlJazeera) http://t.co/ereAJCiT7t 23:50:09

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-11 (UTC)

Reading – Cantor faces tea party fury in his back yard (Jenna Portnoy) http://t.co/LsT7eJq0z0 00:16:52
Reading – 'Miraculous' escape as aircraft plummets out of sky in Blue Mountains (AAP) http://t.co/5a1SGlHIWB 01:31:48
Reading – Abusing Relativity (Paul Krugman) http://t.co/MKp3nLecqf 01:51:46
Reading – Why the FCC Is Ditching Net Neutrality (Josh Harkinson) http://t.co/T67Fzl8dws 04:05:51
Reading – Chart of the Week: How metro areas drive the U.S. economy (Drew DeSilver) http://t.co/lrTsPbGY3y 06:56:58
Reading – Rand Paul sounds off on voter ID: Will it help the GOP with black voters? (Brad Knickerbocker) http://t.co/x4UNslQ4r4 07:49:20
Reading – 2016 GE: Hillary Clinton vs. GOP Field, Part IV (@bonncaruso) http://t.co/FDKQEb7Lnf 15:56:18
Reading – Fairness vs. Freedom: Is Politics Going Back to the 1970s? (Nate Silver) http://t.co/uH0IlQUnlf 16:02:32
Watching – How to deliver a package when you are the size of a planet (Alfred Image Works) http://t.co/6nQRsPZrOL 18:31:18
Reading – The difference between working and stay-at-home moms, in 4 charts (Danielle Kurtzleben) http://t.co/qbjhNzqbvt 19:38:12
Reading – Obama admin approves $20 billion for new presidential helicopters (@awrhawkins) http://t.co/MFPc0RFL3b 19:41:08
Reading – Is Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Case against Iran Collapsing? (Juan Cole) http://t.co/E2GAOr5WPz 20:23:39
Reading – Why marijuana shops are forced to run like lemonade stands (German Lopez) http://t.co/visMHnnA1b 20:39:50
Reading – Only known chimp war reveals how societies splinter (Colin Barras) http://t.co/XVakNQIXUd 21:06:05
Reading – How Google money is helping turn the political right against strong copyrights (@binarybits) http://t.co/35SMBn1TW1 21:17:53
No prob! RT @bonncaruso: Many thanks to @abulsme for the help cleaning up my polling excel files!! The man is brilliant with this stuff. :) 21:26:09
Reading – Nigeria Police Move Against #bringbackourgirls Protesters in Abuja (Premium Times) http://t.co/AjUJHdJAvx 21:47:43

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-10 (UTC)

Alex saw a rainbow and spontaneously broke into song… What a Wonderful World. Sang the whole song. Made my day. Thanks Alex! 02:16:56
I will let YOU have that particular fun. :-) RT @BYUfan: @abulsme that would be so much fun! 02:49:02
Reading – I've got a little list (@intelwire) http://t.co/2G05SRcC0i 03:21:04
Let it go Bruce! Let it go! RT @BYUfan: The movie tonight is Frozen. It seems like I'm the last person in the world to see it. 03:24:35
Reading – U.S. Officers Kill Armed Civilians in Yemen Capital (Eric Schmitt) http://t.co/OTK7gC1aJw 04:07:45
Breitbart mentions my dad -> Hillary Clinton Protested Designation of Boko Haram as Terrorist Group (Warner Huston) http://t.co/fDiLmZcKbu 05:34:28
Made one correction and added five polls I had missed thanks to data from @bonncaruso. Thanks! http://t.co/qTS8nbucG3 06:08:35
Reading – How to make a simple electronic musical instrument (@Frauenfelder) http://t.co/UZrCCx00Ub 06:40:17
Another bug fix thanks to @bonncaruso. When I flipped left/right recently, I missed flipping category totals. Fixed. http://t.co/qTS8nbucG3 12:39:03
Reading – Still Paying for the Civil War (Michael M. Phillips) http://t.co/In5kBr3vwJ 13:48:49
No graphs yet. But I now have (very inefficient) historical trends calculations working in raw form: http://t.co/6rEmW1j0If 20:48:19
Next up, automatic recalculation (currently I manual trigger that), then actual graphs, then I’ll probably need to tackle efficiency. 20:49:53
The current way I am calculating is horribly inefficient. I have it set as a back end process so won’t trigger on web views, but still bad. 20:50:37
It recomputes all candidate combos, even if there are no new relevant polls, and recomputes all the historical stuff, even if not changed. 20:51:30
Also reexamines all polls and recalculates all the state averages for each data point, even though I have that some of that info elsewhere. 20:53:40
Takes over 30 minutes to calculate everything, even with limited poll data. Will get much worse in 2016. So I will have to make it smarter. 20:54:55
There are plenty of things I can think of to make it smarter & faster. But I wanted to get something quick&dirty done first, optimize later. 20:56:26
But wow is it doing a lot of repetitive calculations that it would be better off only doing once and then using the stored resultsвЂ¦ 20:57:05
Anyway, I spent about 6 or 7 hours on this today. I’ve got some garage cleaning work calling my name now. More poll stuff some other time. 20:58:56

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-09 (UTC)

MT @gerrycanavan: in time loop, reset your TARDIS RT @kiplet CNN has show called Crossfire talking about Lewinsky WHAT THE HELL YEAR IS IT 00:14:03
Just realized I had accidentally ordered a completely different item than I intended for my wife for Mother’s day. After it shipped. Oops. 01:28:34
I ordered the correct thing, and it will arrive in time. But I’ll have to return the other stuff. I hate returning stuff. Sigh. 01:29:15
Also just can’t believe I made the mistake. Had the thing I wanted all lined up, then somehow got turned around and got something else. 01:30:00
For the record, the names of the items are similar and I’d been looking at both. Ended up clicking on the wrong one and didn’t notice. Bleh. 01:31:07
Should also mention I wasted a one time special offer thing on the one I'm going to return. Couldn't reuse it on the 2nd order. :-/ 01:35:19
Reading – Apple’s Beats Deal Is All About Bringing Music Mogul Jimmy Iovine Onboard (Peter Lauria) http://t.co/ov7cyX0mm5 04:42:34
Reading (from 2011) – Headphones With Swagger (and Lots of Bass) [Andrew J. Martin] http://t.co/CDxXEYjqoD 04:56:22
I like the straight lines -> Why weird congressional districts can be good congressional districts (John Sides) http://t.co/LiBLuCw5s1 04:59:47
Reading – Edward Snowden had a point, and Westminster might have to concede it (Nick Hopkins) http://t.co/Arm0BuXHj0 12:58:46
Reading – So Many Jihadists Are Flocking to Libya, It's Becoming вЂScumbag Woodstock’ (Eli Lake) http://t.co/IXWEQPcD4b 13:03:37
Reading – Why the Official Explanation of MH370’s Demise Doesn’t Hold Up (Ari N. Schulman) http://t.co/RwfJQ86JJG 13:51:11
Reading – GOP Rep. Waves Joint At Hearing, Says Staff Rolled It (Sahil Kapur) http://t.co/AmglP5LLu3 16:09:22
No. Just no. MT @pickover: 5 mini-roundabouts around 6th central, anti-clockwise roundabout. Swindon, UK. http://t.co/9UQoOnKdfu 16:36:14
Reading – Nigeria Had Advance Warning of Schoolgirls’ Kidnapping (Nico Hines) http://t.co/VNByi8TIEJ 16:39:10
Reading – Boko Haram and the Lord’s Resistance Army: Hunted Children & the Problem of Fundamentalism in Africa (Cole) http://t.co/2vqh6VvQtU 16:52:18
Reading – Dr. Dre Appears to Confirm Apple-Beats Deal in Facebook Video (Nick Summers) http://t.co/9b7U5cFgD3 17:28:48
Reading – Why Beats Music matters: Streaming music services are the future (@BodyofBreen) http://t.co/y0H4zqPTxp 17:36:07
Reading – South Korea’s Leader and Media Face Scrutiny Over Ferry Disaster (Choe Sang-Hun) http://t.co/MYAihANcGo 19:35:18
Reading – ECB: capital flight from Russia has hit $220bn (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard) http://t.co/RDbZCN1Ves 19:41:37
Reading – FAA: U.S. Airliner Nearly Collided With Drone in March (Jack Nicas) http://t.co/yNf6A6AXXK 19:46:12
Reading – Now That’s Rich (Paul Krugman) http://t.co/brDo1HhAs6 19:55:04
Reading – Is a drive to impeach Barack Obama on its way? (Paul Waldman) http://t.co/IwfKBWOlKo 20:10:24
Reading – On net neutrality, the FCC’s chairman increasingly stands alone (@b_fung) http://t.co/IDK5aOtT3f 20:17:08
Reading – Portuguese-speaking Africa Is English the only option? (Catarina Chagas) http://t.co/5F2TZFfC3A 20:57:03
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: Like a 2400 Baud Modem http://t.co/DXOfAOv83a 23:20:24

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Like a 2400 Baud Modem

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

Ivan in Nebraska / Wrong Gift
Nigerian Kidnapping
Net Neutrality
Election 2014
Monica Lewinsky

Recorded on 9 May 2014

Length this week – 1:22:02


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@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-08 (UTC)

Reading – Why Republicans Have a 55 Percent Chance of Retaking the Senate (Katz/Cox) http://t.co/ouQkoDiS7N 00:13:41
Reading – Huge coalition led by Amazon, Microsoft and others take a stand against FCC on net neutrality (T.C. Sottek) http://t.co/9mMKTxolEj 00:18:55
Reading – Obama Administration Proves Why the Public Needs Someone to Leak the CIA Torture Report (Trevor Timm) https://t.co/88dRJD2cCE 00:24:44
Reading – Iran Just Changed Its Mind on Banning WhatsApp (@JM_Beck) https://t.co/2uek7jhwPp 00:34:12
Reading – Does Light Experience Time? (Fraser Cain) http://t.co/V1fn2aYS5t 00:38:48
OK. Watching the video now too. :-) RT @fcain: @abulsme You should watch the video instead. :-) https://t.co/RqXOhJC1yy 01:55:48
Reading – The Way the NSA Uses Section 702 is Deeply Troubling. Here’s Why. (Nadia Kayyali) https://t.co/YUBMuvTiez 02:14:16
Reading – House Committee Votes Unanimously to Rein In the NSA (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/dYEfqksL1I 03:50:07
Reading – Midterm Election Turnout Isn’t So Different From Presidential Year Turnout (Harry Enten) http://t.co/PAeQFiX13d 13:08:52
Reading – Insurance Execs Shut Down GOP's Latest Search For Bad Obamacare News (Dylan Scott) http://t.co/sZYF9DiaEl 13:56:58
Reading – Pope Francis is throwing nuns under the bus for sharing his own beliefs (Sadhbh Walshe) http://t.co/L1b0B9CugM 14:05:30
Reading – Why Rand Paul Won the North Carolina Primary, by Losing (@daveweigel) http://t.co/XbYutmxiFr 14:19:02
Reading – U.S. Internet providers allow 'permanent congestion' and want cash to clear it up (@onejarednewman) http://t.co/UjgLONf3ni 14:22:44
Reading – The Number Of Old Americans Is Going To Explode (Andy Kiersz) http://t.co/4B1AIeg79d 14:26:56
Reading – Why Apple’s claim that it can’t intercept iMessages is largely semantics (Ashkan Soltani) http://t.co/x0Mb4QK4Gx 14:34:28
Reading – What is Alibaba and why is it about to become the biggest IPO in years? (@mattyglesias) http://t.co/SBPazr6iYo 14:56:22
Reading – Loyal Dog Protects Missing Boy By Refusing To Leave His Side (Sara Gates) http://t.co/HZ0ntUkwpG 14:59:45
Reading – The five stages of GOP scandal-mongering: A reader’s guide (Paul Waldman) http://t.co/V0MRO5tvpW 16:18:46
Reading – The Big Reason Republicans Should Hope Jeb Bush Runs (Nate Cohn) http://t.co/dz7Hxu18kL 16:22:30
Work me speaks again: http://t.co/M3DcMSbw4C 17:05:44
Reading – This is what America would look like without gerrymandering (@awprokop ) http://t.co/Tjfy1pawGE 18:59:59
Reading – What The World Was Like The Year The Lewinsky Scandal Broke (Dorsey Shaw) http://t.co/50RYD40Xen 19:06:16
Reading – The net neutrality backlash is heating up вЂ” here's what you need to know (Timothy B. Lee) http://t.co/v7JdeDdIFT 20:37:13
Reading – So Out of Bounds (@joshtpm) http://t.co/Qo9hJllABl 21:36:58
Reading – Titles (John Gruber) http://t.co/hourZzdbas 21:39:24
Reading – Uber and Google are just getting started (Sarah Silbert) http://t.co/WrFCbqhHeX 23:38:52
Reading – Republicans Drink Their Own Kool-Aid, End Up Looking Like Idiots (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/wpNgKuamm1 23:39:34
Reading – Apple in Talks to Buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 Billion (Seth Fiegerman) http://t.co/2prUsHFgoU 23:49:08

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-07 (UTC)

Reading – A BuzzFeed Parody Made Real: Was Monica Lewinsky Really That Bad For Bill Clinton? (Harry Enten) http://t.co/D7Kw5aZ2AP 02:10:48
This -> Letting Go Of Global Hegemony, Ctd (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/1JzpzHnK7g 04:46:23
Reading – My favorite app was bought by Facebook. So I deleted it. (Caitlin Dewey) http://t.co/2qNND8HJtZ 04:55:45
Reading (from January) – 'Jellyfish' flying machine keeps upright (Anna Salleh) http://t.co/T7ZoodxbTP 12:55:09
Reading – This Lawyer Enabled the Extrajudicial Killing of an American (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/DveXoexQRg 13:10:50
Reading – The GOP establishment won big last night вЂ” and so did incumbents (Taegan Goddard) http://t.co/lDOcW50iRc 13:54:42
Reading – Why I say that iOS vs. Android no longer matters (@lukewestaway) http://t.co/EbPO0fhW7W 14:00:05
Reading – Israeli Pres. Peres: Netanyahu blocked 2011 Peace Deal with Palestinians (AFP) http://t.co/kyKm13lya6 14:19:51
Reading – There’s no GOP establishment/Tea Party divide, and there never has been (Paul Waldman) http://t.co/3DWhVYFibY 19:17:03
Reading – Monica Lewinsky does Hillary Clinton a big favor (Ruth Marcus) http://t.co/wJWcTqCJlA 19:21:18

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-06 (UTC)

Reading – Tradition! Today’s legislative prayer decision in Plain English (Amy Howe) http://t.co/3IVVuUYUKc 03:28:41
Reading – Replacing the PC (Marco Arment) http://t.co/lWdBXfdOWZ 03:36:47
Reading and watching – How To Interview A Politician (Sullivan/Robinson) http://t.co/JYoPJwulgq 16:26:49

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