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

Of course, as soon as Alex left for school…

…the true owner of the bed took over.

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I was working from home today and went looking for Roscoe when I realized that even though he usually stays with me when I stay home, I hadn’t seen him in a couple hours. Found him fast asleep in Alex’s bed. He woke up and started looking guilty when I got close in order to take the picture.

Guess who slept the night in his OWN bed?

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I think this may well be the first time since he was in a crib. Usually he sleeps with us. Even if we put him in his bed, he generally wakes up and joins us partway through the night. Last night he fell asleep on the couch, I put him in his own bed, and he was still there sound asleep when it was time to wake him for school in the morning.

I kinda missed him though. There is only so long little boys will cuddle with their daddies, and I’m in no hurry what so ever to have those days end. :-)

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

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Special Paper

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

  • The Beep / Self-Driving Car Followup
  • Lifelogging Hardware
  • Bergdahl / Seattle Minimum Wage

Recorded on 3 Jun 2014

Length this week – 1:07:29

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

@abulsme tweets from 2014-06-03 (UTC)

First Saturn

Screen Shot 2014-06-03 at 07.51.21997

Follow up to Jupiter from January. I stacked 7 pictures out of 25 I took from 6:24 to 6:31 UTC today. (I rejected the rest before stacking for being too blurry.) 1/60 shutter, f/6.5, ISO 1600.

I think I might be able to do a little better with some effort. This was just my first attempt. Maybe I’ll try again the next time there is a clear night and Saturn is out.

Of course, probably can’t do THAT much better with just the equipment I have. This is just from a camera, no telescope involved.

But hey, RINGS!

To @imbou, @byufan, and all the other beep haters…

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Achievement unlocked, battery changed.

@abulsme tweets from 2014-06-02 (UTC)

  • Poll Added: PPP in OR from 2014-05-22 to 2014-05-27 – Clinton 52% to Cruz 37% http://t.co/F2UHCRR26U 00:11:25
  • Poll Added: PPP in OR from 2014-05-22 to 2014-05-27 – Clinton 51% to Huckabee 39% http://t.co/HFpErnI3BQ 00:11:33
  • Reading – Hillary Clinton and the trouble with inevitability (Joan Vennochi) http://t.co/mDloFRywk2 01:34:45
  • Reading – WWDC 2014 Prelude (John Gruber) http://t.co/oqCKldHgY3 04:34:56
  • Reading – Dear GOP: The US has negotiated with Terrorists and Amnestied Them all through History (Juan Cole) http://t.co/mat4bOmBtf 09:29:36
  • Signed up -> Reading – An Important Message for Our Core Readers (@joshtpm) http://t.co/4hFp94bEQ3 09:41:36
  • Subscriber since Day 1 -> Reading – New Dish, New Media Update (@sullydish) http://t.co/SsFU868m2B 09:51:08
  • Reading – King Juan Carlos of Spain to Abdicate Throne (Minder/Cowell) http://t.co/J2bA8zfic7 09:53:53
  • Reading – The Trick That Makes Google's Self-Driving Cars Work (Alexis C. Madrigal) http://t.co/WYMxMbGrn7 10:06:13
  • Reading – Pirate Bay co-founder Peter "brokep" Sunde arrested in Sweden (Cory Doctorow) http://t.co/IuysdIn2Zk 10:17:45
  • Reading – June 2 is the most important day of Obama's second term (@mattyglesias) http://t.co/JEJ2TywGYW 10:24:08
  • Finished up a document for work around 2 AM. But my email quota was full, so I couldn’t send it. 90 minutes cleaning out mail so far. :-/ 10:27:44
  • Reading – The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot Coming to DVD/BD (PCJ) http://t.co/g1ryfExeT7 10:29:44
  • Finally got my docs out just a few minutes ago. Time for bed. Just about 3 hours until I have to be up. Bleh. :-/ 10:53:54
  • Up late doing work for work, plus limited sleep, plus dial in numbers available for all meetings today = Work from home, skip commute. 15:14:02
  • Also, WWDC live stream! Except I will be on work phone calls for a significant chunk of it, so won’t enable to watch the whole thing live. 15:18:26
  • Reading – We Lost Soldiers in the Hunt for Bergdahl, a Guy Who Walked Off in the Dead of Night – (Nathan Bethea) http://t.co/31cfmaUR6r 16:16:46
  • Reading – What you need to know about the 'right to be forgotten' on Google (@m4tt) http://t.co/NWTGsBNWQ9 16:33:24
  • Been on conference calls for the last hour of the WWDC live stream, but had it on mute in the background. Looks like many cool things… 18:06:11
  • Family Sharing will SO get used by my family… shared purchases will be killer! No more multiple purchases! Hmmm… same credit card tho. 18:14:44
  • A big theme here is full integration between all Apple devices. Very cool if it all works smoothly. 18:19:38
  • Hey Siri! 18:22:26
  • Nest wasn’t on that home automation slide. Wonder why? :-) 18:36:52
  • Not a real programmer, although obviously I play around a bit with simple stuff. Swift makes me want to try it out. 18:54:29
  • It seems like what they announced for both OS X and iOS is a lot more extensive than people expected. Good stuff. 18:56:58
  • RT @marcoarment: They didn’t need new hardware today, and they knew it. 18:57:43
  • Nice. I’ll have to go back and watch the first hour that I missed sometime. But probably not right now. Back to work… 18:59:12
  • Looks like this happened. RT @minardanna: UNANIMOUS PASSAGE OF THE $15 WAGE LAW IN SEATTLE. 22:43:39
  • Reading – Everything You Need to Know From WWDC 2014 (Mashable) http://t.co/y0iSH0GrDE 23:16:46
  • Reading – Narrative Clip Review (@BYUfan) http://t.co/xTm4L383V9 23:23:07
  • Watching – Net Neutrality (Jon Oliver) https://t.co/qMeHDyDccA 23:37:27