Abulsme.com: June 2014

@abulsme tweets from 2014-06-21 (UTC)

Important caveat about interpreting that Pew poll -> Reading – No, America’s Not Divided (Matthew Dickinson) http://t.co/ne7wYhvWI1 01:50:12
Reading – Do UberX Drivers Really Take Home $90K A Year On Average? Not Exactly (Dan Kedmey) http://t.co/JgRh6w7nNc 02:20:36
Reading – The Story Behind This Incredible Photo Of A Monkey Using An iPhone (Klassy Goldberg) http://t.co/BhDQpAywFu 05:09:30
Poll Added: Quinnipiac in PA from 2014-05-29 to 2014-06-02 – Clinton 51% to Huckabee 36% http://t.co/dYHLYuhuKx 11:23:05
Messed around with table formatting on my 2016 Electoral College Summary. Not happy yet, but improvement I think. http://t.co/HVSOiLE5hV 20:52:47
OK, also lightened up the max red & blue in the table (& matched it in the map) so that it is easier to read the blue states in the table. 21:42:40
Of course, I was supposed to be working on something completely different in my office. Back to that now. 21:43:19

@abulsme tweets from 2014-06-20 (UTC)

We just can’t come up with these ideas @imbouвЂ¦ http://t.co/qHGD6xMrFL Sells $10 of quarters for $15, mails them out as monthly subscription. 01:43:32
That of course takes me right back to the First CityWide Change BankвЂ¦ https://t.co/C7WBy6XRmT 01:46:53
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: Too Old for This http://t.co/LXHKGNuNEv 02:38:56
finished Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun http://t.co/dlep7zIkMD 16:20:11
Reading – 9 questions about Washboard you were too embarrassed to ask (@mattyglesias) http://t.co/gyVPJP5H7p 19:14:22
Reading – Scott Walker probably didn’t break the law. And that’s the problem (@ezraklein) http://t.co/Uj6RScgC3u 19:19:49
Reading – The Supreme Court doesn't understand software, and that's a problem (@binarybits) http://t.co/3nDH7BX0qa 20:15:37
Reading – Relative volume and value of U.S. currency in circulation by bill denomination (Randy Olson) http://t.co/mnslhhBlN1 20:23:43
Reading – Distraught Father Charged with Murder of Child He Forgot in Car (lskenazy) http://t.co/v8MdvJAPGo 20:48:00
RT @pickover: This is a math joke. http://t.co/eHQk3pzncA 20:52:27

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Too Old for This

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

Ivan’s House
All Nighters / Iraq / ISIS
Benghazi Capture / Cantor Loss / Hillary
Ivan iPad Upgrade
Apple Stuff / Appliances / Redskins

Recorded on 19 Jun 2014

Length this week – 1:29:11


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@abulsme tweets from 2014-06-19 (UTC)

Reading – The Cheney's Permanent War (@natsecHeather) http://t.co/BILYs2yTrO 00:25:33
Heh MT @NoahShachtman: @natsecHeather does to Dick Cheney what Cheney did with the shotgun to his buddy at the ranch. http://t.co/BILYs2yTrO 00:26:06
Reading – Biden Was Right (@ChrisWeigant) http://t.co/MIWeTd82le 01:38:08
Bachmann best case vs Clinton has changed: Clinton 253 to Bachmann 285 -> Clinton 257 to Bachmann 281 http://t.co/NpJvXwx0FZ 06:31:39
Hmmm. Don’t think so. Was no change. Another edge case to fix. RT @abulsme: Bachmann best case vs Clinton has changed 06:43:07
It also didn’t tweet the new Clinton / Bachman poll. Think both problems relate to it being the first poll for the matchup. 06:43:47
Poll Added: PPP in MN from 2014-06-12 to 2014-06-15 – Clinton 52% to Bachmann 35% http://t.co/62dCqjFXSp 06:46:24
Ok, got the new poll to pub even though it was a first. Now to fix the false category change. Or try to anyway. 06:47:05
Poll Added: PPP in MN from 2014-06-12 to 2014-06-15 – Clinton 49% to Bush 39% http://t.co/3YABdtmemj 07:03:42
Poll Added: PPP in MN from 2014-06-12 to 2014-06-15 – Clinton 47% to Christie 37% http://t.co/2HmOtbTbzO 07:06:43
Poll Added: PPP in MN from 2014-06-12 to 2014-06-15 – Clinton 51% to Cruz 35% http://t.co/OwzwPoW2WQ 07:10:51
Poll Added: PPP in MN from 2014-06-12 to 2014-06-15 – Clinton 50% to Huckabee 40% http://t.co/n0MOo2jOA4 07:14:25
Poll Added: PPP in MN from 2014-06-12 to 2014-06-15 – Clinton 49% to Paul 38% http://t.co/3GpdZpqndo 07:16:59
Poll Added: PPP in MN from 2014-06-12 to 2014-06-15 – Clinton 48% to Pawlenty 42% http://t.co/N13Ix02vHd 07:19:12
Biden vs Pawlenty tipping point change: Biden by 1.6 in VA -> Biden by 1.7 in OH http://t.co/QOYFE2NxCu 07:31:36
Biden vs Pawlenty expected case changed: Biden 305 to Pawlenty 233 -> Biden 310 to Pawlenty 228 http://t.co/ocOckcbt7X 07:31:38
Pawlenty best case vs Biden has changed: Biden 251 to Pawlenty 287 -> Biden 257 to Pawlenty 281 http://t.co/rVc87mIhqQ 07:31:39
Bachmann best case vs Clinton has changed: Clinton 253 to Bachmann 285 -> Clinton 257 to Bachmann 281 http://t.co/ZkwHWFwZtJ 07:32:00
Drat. All those best case, expected case, tipping point changes were bogus I think. I thought I’d fixed that. Will have to try againвЂ¦ 07:35:40
Clinton vs Bush tipping point change: Clinton by 7.2 in WI -> Clinton by 7.2 in VA http://t.co/E0WBmc2LzA 07:36:10
The Clinton/Bush tipping point change was real though. Just the Bachmann and Pawlenty ones not. 07:37:12
Clinton vs Pawlenty tipping point change: Clinton by 9.8 in OH -> Clinton by 1.7 in OH http://t.co/ejfRcENyST 07:55:47
Clinton best case vs Pawlenty has changed: Clinton 357 to Pawlenty 181 -> Clinton 342 to Pawlenty 196 http://t.co/qrRPw0Lhbb 07:55:49
Clinton vs Pawlenty expected case changed: Clinton 338 to Pawlenty 200 -> Clinton 310 to Pawlenty 228 http://t.co/xnBWfFXoSG 07:55:54
Pawlenty best case vs Clinton has changed: Clinton 317 to Pawlenty 221 -> Clinton 257 to Pawlenty 281 http://t.co/Ss0v96zG6x 07:55:56
Bleh. A bunch more of them. Made a change. Set it to retry that last update again next hour, to see if it avoids the bogus updates. 07:58:19
Reading – Supreme Court invalidates software patent because it's a software patent (Cory Doctorow) http://t.co/bA1H5wfoyY 16:07:58
BTW, looks like my poll recalc happened successfully last night without generating bogus update tweets. So maybe bug fixed. Yay. 16:22:34
Poll Added: PPP in NC from 2014-06-12 to 2014-06-15 – Clinton 45% to Bush 44% http://t.co/Ok3Rn9nyes 17:05:38
Poll Added: PPP in NC from 2014-06-12 to 2014-06-15 – Clinton 45% to Christie 41% http://t.co/tztWxEFq0u 17:15:36
Poll Added: PPP in NC from 2014-06-12 to 2014-06-15 – Clinton 46% to Huckabee 43% http://t.co/eVARRaBJcb 17:18:05
Poll Added: PPP in NC from 2014-06-12 to 2014-06-15 – Clinton 46% to Paul 43% http://t.co/6hNQtJovRn 17:20:28
Clinton vs Huckabee tipping point change: Clinton by 4.7 in FL -> Clinton by 4.8 in NC http://t.co/SpYQ1GF4LZ 17:40:52
Reading – Peanut butter jar lands raccoon in a jam (Bill Sawchuk) http://t.co/2ZlaEeEEpN 20:51:26
I use the nose. -> Reading – :) or :-)? Some Highly Scientific Data (Megan Garber) http://t.co/Rk3JyrNV5x 21:13:13
Fun times -> If You Love to Watch Presidential Ambitions Go Down In Flames, Today's Your Lucky Day (Paul Constant) http://t.co/1jFxvsaoUM 21:24:35
Alex gets home with @Scatterbrandy & @AmyNotAmy: вЂњDaddy, are you done with your work?вЂќ вЂњNo, not yet.вЂќ вЂњWork takes a long time, doesn’t it?вЂќ 23:55:52

@abulsme tweets from 2014-06-18 (UTC)

Reading – 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing (Annalee Newitz) http://t.co/DoCVCvWb0s 01:02:20
[Abulpost] Website Moved http://t.co/HalKaOW11R 12:09:21
Yo @imbou -> An App That Does Nothing Except Say 'Yo' Raises One. Million. Dollars. (Drew Guarini) http://t.co/tEeHTFJeGg 18:02:09
RT @BYUfan: .@abulsme Boom! We nailed it. Prediction confirmed :-) – Hollywood eyes Bowe Bergdahl's story http://t.co/5mewGI7A8h 18:45:04
RT @imbou: @abulsme We need to get into this crowd funding thing ! 22:12:51
.@imbou How much do you think we could get for an app that does this? We could even add sounds. http://t.co/gw4VeXPhYa in reply to imbou 22:13:29
.@imbou Or, we combine my random trip thing ( http://t.co/pVhyB5LrJe ) with your travel agent skills. in reply to imbou 22:14:31
.@imbou Give us a flat fee, and we roll the dice and drop you off wherever in the world it says. Fun part, we don’t tell you where it is! in reply to imbou 22:15:30
.@imbou My 1st rollвЂ¦ Southern Ecuador! 2nd rollвЂ¦ Ocean, too bad, you drownвЂ¦ 3rd rollвЂ¦Pucallpa, Peru. 4thвЂ¦ Athleague, Ireland! etc. in reply to imbou 22:19:03
.@imbou We might have to work on that drowning bit, but hey, all ideas have kinks to work out. in reply to imbou 22:19:46
Those two ideas have to be worth at least 8 figures, right? RT @imbou: @abulsme I say we do them all! 22:49:27

Website Moved

After a bunch of hours of troubleshooting and hacking at things until they worked overnight, I think I have successfully moved all parts of the Abulsme.com website, including my current blog (2009-Present), the older blog (2003-2009), and tons and tons of static files from my old hosting provider, to the new one I’ve been using to host my wiki and to prototype my 2016 election stuff for the last year or so.

I *think* everything is working, but if anybody finds anything broken, please let me know.

I still have some cleanup to do, but everything should work at this point. I think. I’ve been meaning to consolidate stuff at the new place for a long long time. Finally got to it because I screwed something up on Saturday that required a restore from a backup to fix properly, and I figured if I was going to do that anyway, I should just stop procrastinating and get the move done. Then once I started I was committed.

Of course, I probably should’t have finished it up by pulling an all nighter between Tuesday and Wednesday, given that my alarm just went off and I need to get ready to leave for work now. Oops. I kinda forgot to sleep. I’m getting too old for this stuff. But it seems like overnight ends up being the only time I can get a solid chunk of hours at home to concentrate on personal projects. Sigh!

Anyway… next task is moving my family’s email over to the new host too. Then everything will be consolidated in one place.

But I won’t do that right now. No, it is time to get ready for work. Fun! Think I will take the bus instead of driving though…

@abulsme tweets from 2014-06-17 (UTC)

Reading – Georgia man saves child crawling near highway (Matthew Pearl) http://t.co/M6ZDa53iNp 19:33:22

@abulsme tweets from 2014-06-16 (UTC)

Poll Added: Quinnipiac in PA from 2014-05-29 to 2014-06-02 – Clinton 51% to Paul 37% http://t.co/Dm5u8SdoTC 01:11:20
Sigh. Extra tweet. RT @abulsme: Poll Added: Quinnipiac in PA from 2014-05-29 to 2014-06-02 – Clinton 51% to Paul 37% http://t.co/Dm5u8SdoTC 01:34:04
Reading – Sentences I Did Not Expect to Read Anytime Soon (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/c71wfpX9GG 03:17:36
Reading – Iraq Militants Claim Soldier Massacre (Solomon/Lee/Nabhan) http://t.co/z71E7F3V54 03:35:19
Reading – ‘51%’ Fears Rattle The Bitcoin Community (@alex) http://t.co/anmM86H28x 03:41:21
Reading – This is the most depressing graph in American health care (Adrianna McIntyre) http://t.co/eatLFzqBl7 16:19:15
Reading – No Drama Obama And Iraq (@sullydish) http://t.co/6h5CPTmbsf 17:32:13
Reading – Seattle mayor reaches deal to legalize Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, without driver limits (Bishop/Soper) http://t.co/o5v3CEYZBI 21:48:17
Reading – Iraq’s crisis: Don’t forget the 2003 U.S. invasion (@ishaantharoor) http://t.co/io6FWRy3HD 21:54:01
:-/ Reading – Obama considers special forces to help in Iraq (Jakes/Pace) http://t.co/P7y17GzJGk 21:58:02

@abulsme tweets from 2014-06-15 (UTC)

Reading – 7 reasons the Democratic coalition is more united than ever (@mattyglesias) http://t.co/9qxXEGnjrj 06:05:35
Reading – There’s a Huge Underground Ocean That Could Explain the Origin of Seas (Melissa Hellmann) http://t.co/yyDQlafhmv 06:51:07
Reading – The seven people who need to STFU about Iraq right now (David Ferguson) http://t.co/MEiOeIM1DL 07:09:49
The 2004 elections just rolled off my default dynamic time scale on my 2016 Electoral College charts. Woo! http://t.co/AXk50wnVlQ 07:11:21
Reading – Calling Back a Zombie Ship From the Graveyard of Space (Kenneth Chang) http://t.co/ky1OUcLSi5 07:25:59
Reading – Conservatives Are So Conservative They Think the Congressional GOP Are Moderate Squishes (Michael Tomasky) http://t.co/maHnnw9NpD 07:48:41
Reading – Only Apple (John Gruber) http://t.co/8HkCxxpL7a 08:19:26
Reading – Outstanding Time-Lapse of a Stellar Explosion From Hubble (IFLScience) http://t.co/fPFm1UtMws 12:15:06
RT @usmile1: вЂњ@paulverhoeven: Oh my god. http://t.co/fHokJNujXSвЂќ hah! 12:22:04
MT @ggreenwald: "Collect it All" was pioneered by Alexander in Iraq. NSA owns virtually the entire Iraqi communications network. And yet… 15:30:36
Reading – A Democratic 2016 hopeful campaigns in an unlikely place: Romney’s donor summit (Philip Rucker) http://t.co/P0uLzE3n7G 15:54:08
Reading – Militants Claim Mass Execution of Iraqi Soldiers (Nordland/Rubin) http://t.co/lVDxl13R8T 16:03:08
Reading – U.S. officials scrambled to nab Snowden, hoping he would take a wrong step. He didn’t. (Greg Miller) http://t.co/n1yjzrQN8c 16:29:15
Reading – Idaho GOP convention fiasco leaves state party in disarray (Betsy Z. Russell) http://t.co/Evf0HrNcsM 16:41:55
Depressing -> Reading – Our Cold Civil War Intensifies, Ctd (@sullydish) http://t.co/WqNOJpW1wX 21:53:19

@abulsme tweets from 2014-06-14 (UTC)

Shoulda tweeted earlier, but… Live on my webcam right now: guy replacing cracked windshield on my car! http://t.co/GdS38uOH4A 00:27:36
He's actually already been at it about 30-40 minutes. Old windshield already off. http://t.co/GdS38uOH4A 00:29:27
Reading – Hillary Clinton Warns Against U.S. Intervention In Iraq (Ruby Cramer) http://t.co/MAAuweA6vr 01:27:25
Windshield all done. No more show. 02:20:57
Just switched to a diff audio player for the podcast. Only the last ep, not the old ones. Tell me what you think. http://t.co/WobfETYtQ4 02:33:49
Crap, it did mess up the older podcasts. I thought I’d avoided that. Sigh. Let me see if I can fix. 02:36:47
OK, fixed all the podcast posts back to 2012-04-15 to use the new podcast player. Before that there are different players, but they work. 03:01:51
Of course, I just realized that audio player plugin doesn't have a non-flash fallback, so doesn't work on iOS. Too bad, I liked it. :-/ 03:31:29
Turns out when messing with the audio player screwed up the old posts in a way that limits me from switching to a new player again easily. 04:14:25
Which means I may be restoring from a backup from a little before I started futzing. 04:15:17
But then I figured, if I’m going to do that anyway, maybe it is time to finally move the main part of my site to my new host. 04:15:48
I’ve been putting it off and putting it off. Maybe it is time. So I guess I will beginвЂ¦ Gulp. 04:16:20
Of course, starting to move my stuff has temporarily broken my poll analysis and some other things that were already on the new server. Joy. 06:10:51
Reading – Why The Spectacular Success of ISIS Will Be Its Eventual Undoing (John Little) http://t.co/ouIqTqnYjD 06:24:45
My files are still moving between servers, but I fixed the poll site. http://t.co/uKPQnh7foV Woo? 07:47:44
Reading – Two Arab countries fall apart (The Economist) http://t.co/ELTB6DnzHB 18:02:35

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