Abulsme.com: Friday, September 26th, 2014

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Nuke the Penguins Again

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about:
* Bad Commute
* Bombing Syria
* Money in Politics
* Climate Change / Apple Woes

Recorded on 25 Sep 2014

Length this week – 1:11:53


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Electoral College poll updates from 2014-09-25 (UTC)

19:08:37 Poll Added: Roanoke in VA from 2014-09-13 to 2014-09-19 – Clinton 47% to Christie 37% http://t.co/8M0GgF0Rew
19:08:43 Clinton vs Christie state category change: VA has moved from Weak Clinton to Strong Clinton http://t.co/8M0GgF0Rew
19:10:47 Poll Added: Roanoke in VA from 2014-09-13 to 2014-09-19 – Clinton 51% to Paul 35% http://t.co/GYdXzIVjF0
19:10:54 Clinton vs Paul state category change: VA has moved from Strong Clinton to Solid Clinton http://t.co/GYdXzIVjF0
19:13:06 Poll Added: Roanoke in VA from 2014-09-13 to 2014-09-19 – Clinton 50% to Ryan 37% http://t.co/jQGtvqAoRT
19:13:13 Clinton vs Ryan state category change: VA has moved from Strong Clinton to Solid Clinton http://t.co/jQGtvqAoRT
19:36:01 Christie best case vs Clinton has changed: Clinton 280 to Christie 258 -> Clinton 293 to Christie 245 http://t.co/9eMXyFkvmb
19:41:09 Clinton vs Paul tipping point change: Clinton by 8.8 in VA -> Clinton by 9 in OR http://t.co/wq50iVTO1E
19:46:29 Actually, bug there I will fix shortly. Clinton vs Paul tipping point did change, but new is Clinton by 8.8 in OH. http://t.co/dl9VpqkAWD in reply to ElecCollPolls
22:59:54 Tipping point bug fixed. (It had to do with the edge case where I use 6 polls when 5 poll avg is on a category boundary.)

@abulsme tweets from 2014-09-25 (UTC)

00:00:36 Reading – Apple and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Chris Taylor) http://t.co/Gz8Igbx9Sj
00:02:24 Reading – Making it cheaper and easier to trade stocks is a terrible idea (@mattyglesias) http://t.co/tbOYrwfOpF
00:06:37 Reading – New Results from Planck: It Doesn’t Look Good For BICEP2 (Brian Koberlein) http://t.co/TmvwK5NElo
00:29:57 Reading – Video: John Crawford didn't seem to aim toy gun at anyone before police shot at him (@DLind) http://t.co/ciVq6Ztr0o
00:54:32 Retweeted @joshrogin 2014-09-24 20:30:31 Rouhani on his call with Obama: вЂњPresident Obama was of the opinion that we can cooperate and collaborate in various fields.вЂќ
00:55:22 Retweeted @ArianeTabatabai 2014-09-24 20:31:01 Rouhani on cooperation w/ US: lets finish what we started (nuclear) and then we can discuss other areas of cooperation. Obama agreed
01:44:53 Reading – The Clinton team is following reporters to the bathroom. Here’s why that matters. (@TheFix) http://t.co/7MIsodGlRK
01:51:26 An Amber alert just went off. Alex asked what it was. I explained. Alex immediately wanted to go outside to help look for the missing kid.
02:01:41 Retweeted @KING5Seattle 01:18:02 #AMBERALERT suspect vehicle is black 2000 Lexus GS400, plates: ARJ7450. Suspect: Ryan Hall. Child: Don Hall, age 2. http://t.co/r5c2HKupsP
02:14:50 Alex and I are walking the dog and looking out on the Amber Alert. Alex checks every car that drives by, but no black Lexus yet. :-)
02:32:08 Reading – Nine out of 10 parents move child out of booster seat too soon, study finds (@shaverk) http://t.co/OuRNSNXKLJ
04:06:00 Retweeted @F_WRLCK 03:15:21 @abulsme I guess, but the CDC reports fewer than 500 deaths of children 10-14 due to motor accident per year. in reply to abulsme
05:45:32 Retweeted @trevortimm 2014-09-23 14:52:02 A reminder that the US government's definition of "imminent" can mean a lot of things, including "not imminent" http://t.co/40BiXw0tqN
06:38:39 Reading from February – The most interesting tidbits from the Clinton document dump (Aaron Blake) http://t.co/BOs5E0oG2u
14:58:36 Reading – Chart: Humanity is conquering death (German Lopez) http://t.co/X5yTDQ4aNO
15:05:07 Reading – Eric Holder To Step Down As Attorney General (Carrie Johnson) http://t.co/g1SCxUyTMV
15:20:41 Reading – Maybe You Should Hold Off On Buying That iPhone 6 Plus (Timorhy Stenovec) http://t.co/61tC0kLH7X
19:04:12 My iPhone has been spontaneously rebooting. It finally offered iOS8 today. It spontaneously rebooted during install. Phone now borked. Nice.
21:01:01 Added some new 2016 poll results for VA from @RoanokeCollege to my electoral college poll database. As usual see @ElecCollPolls for details.
21:52:08 Oh, phone happy again after tethered recovery restore from iTunes. Still redownloading content from iCloud backup. But on iOS 8 and happy.

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