Abulsme.com: July 2015

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Until we are Tired

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner Podcast instead of a handful of big topics, Ivan and Sam once again go full show Lightning Round! We talk Election 2016, Sandra Bland, Cecil the Lion, MH370, Movies, Books, Windows 10, Gun Control… and lots more… 26 separate topics this week by our count! One for every letter of the alphabet! So start singing your ABC’s and listen!

Recorded 2015-07-23

Length this week – 1:37:02

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Show Details:

Intro
- Yard Camping
- Kids and Tech
Lightning Round I
- Sanders, O’Malley and Black Lives Matter
- More Trump!
- Thinning the Republican Field
Lightning Round II
- Sandra Bland
- Police Escalations
- Cecil the Lion
- Internet Mobs
- Clinton Emails again
- Huckabee on Ovens
Lightning Round III
- Piece of MH370 found?
- Movie: Thomas and Friends: The Adventure Begins
- Kids and Cars
- Curmudgeon’s Corner Eight Years Old!
- Onstar Hacking
- Tech Earnings
- Windows 10
- Book: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume I
Lightning Round IV
- Cuba Embassy Opens
- We’re on Stitcher!
- Louisiana Shooting and Gun Control
- Jonathan Pollard Parole
- Turkish Air Strikes
- Syria
- Upcoming Republican Debate

@ElecCollPolls tweets from 2015-07-30 (UTC)

03:21:49 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Clinton 48% to Bush 39% http://t.co/Wy8A1CiZwa
03:25:08 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Sanders 42% to Bush 37% http://t.co/99YV1LxNDW
03:28:00 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Clinton 49% to Carson 37% http://t.co/43UJF33tow
03:30:59 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Clinton 49% to Christie 35% http://t.co/oh4oYFCWCF
03:33:27 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Clinton 51% to Cruz 35% http://t.co/SPUyQrvngI
03:36:53 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Clinton 49% to Fiorina 34% http://t.co/4RjDtO1z8p
03:41:06 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Clinton 51% to Huckabee 35% http://t.co/STNbJLXDi0
03:43:32 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Clinton 47% to Paul 37% http://t.co/7IOPlu9tTL
03:45:53 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Clinton 49% to Rubio 37% http://t.co/8uJ6oewPUc
03:48:50 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Sanders 40% to Rubio 34% http://t.co/s3MBtoL7YX
03:53:05 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Clinton 51% to Trump 33% http://t.co/M8ZIIFevhF
03:57:30 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Sanders 48% to Trump 32% http://t.co/FFx6VHbkNt
04:07:48 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Clinton 50% to Walker 39% http://t.co/5Ot1PwsVP2
04:10:41 Poll Added: PPP in IL from 2015-07-20 to 2015-07-21 – Sanders 40% to Walker 36% http://t.co/mQVj9eEkBp

@abulsme tweets from 2015-07-30 (UTC)

02:15:48 Retweeted @stevewerby 00:39:15 Gen X geeks thinks Lynx is dead.
Millennial geeks don't know about Lynx.
Then there's *this* person.
I'm in awe. http://t.co/GQ5v3EyORE
02:29:00 Retweeted @jonathantimar 2015-07-29 05:53:42 Congrats, @Microsoft, on setting a new standard for unhelpful error messages. This will never be topped. #Windows10 http://t.co/A24Ez6tqMn
05:47:14 Retweeted @PollsAndVotes 2015-07-28 11:21:05 Pres16 trial heats. Strikingly little variation in Clinton or GOP support across the GOP field. Tightening a bit. http://t.co/J51aiKDcGR
06:01:41 Added @ppppolls results from Illinois. Details at http://t.co/DURWAhb7mq and @ElecCollPolls. No significant changes, so no blog post.
14:42:53 Retweeted @nxthompson 2015-07-29 02:29:17 So interesting. Diversity across US religions. http://t.co/h1L4J0VWnY http://t.co/ZsbuOSjGhU
14:43:37 Retweeted @SamInteractive 13:28:52 No. That's not what unlimited data means. Unlimited data means I don't get this text if I've used 7Gb this month. http://t.co/Hlxuv98LmK
14:46:55 Retweeted @mmurraypolitics 13:34:42 With the new Quinnipiac poll, guess who is now in the Top 10 from last 5 polls — and guess who is out http://t.co/3Ie7mCLkNz
15:07:26 Retweeted @BunmiLaditan 12:19:33 My 5/yo asked for McDonalds & I said "Maybe tomorrow."
Her response: "YOU'RE JUST GOING TO KEEP SAYING THAT UNTIL WE'RE ALL DEAD!"
15:26:32 Reading – Presidential Polls: How to Follow Them (Brendan Nyhan) http://t.co/VdmORCOMGM
15:30:22 Reading – The Summer of ’82 (Phil Plait) http://t.co/Iy0QeQs6Vu
16:13:41 Listening to Criminal Episode 23: Triassic Park http://t.co/iLssMEJrql
19:25:30 Retweeted @aedwardslevy 19:25:03 Rand Paul, July 2015: 5%
Ron Paul, July 2011: 9%

@abulsme tweets from 2015-07-29 (UTC)

02:10:54 Retweeted @JuddLegum 00:18:22 1. I think the slaughter of this lion is awful, but I'm also kind of weirded out that it's become a big story because he has a name.
02:10:59 Retweeted @JuddLegum 00:19:25 2. Most lions don't have names but they also don't deserve to be slaughtered because a dentist has too much disposable income in reply to JuddLegum
07:25:20 Tonight 4 the 1st time, I have php code processing delegate count data. Long way to go before I have a delegate tracker site, but I startedвЂ¦

@abulsme tweets from 2015-07-28 (UTC)

02:14:42 Reading – Sandra Bland Is Dead Because She Believed in Her Rights as an American (Charles Mudede) http://t.co/aCLdRnEHFO
02:17:19 Reading – Sandra Bland was unlawfully arrested (Frederick Leatherman) http://t.co/iMfyPDqJaN
02:25:13 Reading – It’s Your Fault Email Is Broken (Alex Moore) http://t.co/ZUDf4zJUHe
02:26:58 Reading – Paul Endorses Military Action Against Iran (Daniel Larison) http://t.co/udRI7r9RfY
02:29:21 Reading – The GOP and the Nuclear Deal (Daniel Larison) http://t.co/QPRDGlaQJm
02:35:09 Reading – Is Obama Sidelining Congress on Iran? (Derek Chollek) http://t.co/4cvQ2Kz4LZ
02:38:39 Reading – Not all fake medicines are created equal (Carolyn Johnson) http://t.co/yYEmQHcvte
02:41:33 Reading – Sorry Donald, Most Republicans Don't Actually Care That Much About Illegal Immigration (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/6GLuZaJ5i4
02:47:35 Reading – Brain-eating amoeba is eating Republican brains (Frederick Leatherman) http://t.co/ZMLbt64mbX
02:49:50 Reading – Fox Host Calls Out Huck's Holocaust Remarks: 'You May Not Go There!' (Sara Jerde) http://t.co/8L4pcF4iQy
02:51:59 Reading – Planned Parenthood Confirms Hack (Tierney Sneed) http://t.co/ouCqEAaOWz
02:56:30 Reading – This Weekend, Seafair Should Blanket the Sky with Drones (Rich Smith) http://t.co/gGc4Bf51r0
03:00:25 Reading – Congress Will Vote No on the Nuclear Deal вЂ” But What Will вЂNo’ Mean? (John Hudson) http://t.co/tBhzd0qpA4
03:06:18 Reading – Dear Nigel Richards, Please Try Romanian Scrabble (Emma Pierson) http://t.co/PP1c4bziG4
03:09:49 Reading – Jeff Bezos's Space Company Is Now Taking Sign-Ups for Rocket Ship Rides (Sydney Brownstone) http://t.co/982HkNG3oP
03:23:48 Reading – The Case for Banning High-Speed Police Chases (Zachary Crockett) http://t.co/NkDeiWvPi1
07:33:43 Alex fell asleep by 6 pm. Woke up at Midnight. We are now in the tent again. 12:30 am now. He wants breakfast. :-/
07:39:44 Retweeted @RyanLizza 01:54:28 True fact: immigrant-bashing and a debate about spousal rape were not among the recommendations in the RNC's post-2012 autopsy report.
07:41:07 Retweeted @AbbyMartin 05:59:02 What. Donald Trump's attorney responds to ex-wife's rape allegation by declaring that "you cannot rape your spouse." http://t.co/g4CqbiY6Ez
13:25:35 Boy never went back to sleep. He did let me sleep a bitвЂ¦ In 30 minute intervals between interruptions. Now almost time to wake up. So tired.
16:09:41 Yup -> I can't get over this giant contradiction in Iran hawks' case against the nuclear deal (Max Fisher) http://t.co/hzc4L1lAZk
16:33:43 Reading – BuzzFeed Helped Spread Far-Fetched Conspiracy Theories About Sandra Bland’s Death (Jesse Singal) http://t.co/9RZAgLptwj
17:24:17 Reading – If you think women in tech is just a pipeline problem, you haven’t been paying attention (Rachel Thomas) https://t.co/i7mMex0MlI

@abulsme tweets from 2015-07-27 (UTC)

00:05:20 Watching – Democalypse 2016 – Focus, Boy, Focus (The Daily Show) http://t.co/tKcElNISyE
00:21:10 Reading – What’s the Big Deal About the Pentaquark? (Vanessa Janek) http://t.co/MlVM6iPnR6
00:27:25 Reading – In a world that embraces gentle boys, is there still room for my wild child? (Dionne LaPointe-Bakota) http://t.co/YLdU2iXf1F
00:36:22 Reading – Exceptionally deadly (The Economist) http://t.co/uuFlBBQGRi
00:49:29 Reading (from 2014) – A second Sedna! What does it mean? (Emily Lakdawalla) http://t.co/kUA2vP5yN8
00:55:52 Reading – Donald Trump and the Press: Why Coverage Matters (Nate Cohn) http://t.co/FBCPeYVF4s
01:15:35 Reading – Donald Trump Survives McCain Controversy, Goes UP In Poll, Remains GOP Frontrunner (Oliver Willis) http://t.co/qO4eCQItjk
01:30:52 Reading – Wesley Clark Calls for Internment Camps for "Radicalized" Americans (Murtaza Hussain) http://t.co/MkemMgyAEs
01:40:29 Reading – Iran's nuclear deal (The Economist) http://t.co/BAVFkrMYsq
01:44:27 Reading – CNN/ORC poll: GOP voters want more Trump (Jennifer Agiesta) http://t.co/scmgPUtBF4
01:52:45 Reading – Candidates Caught in Middle as Words Ring Hollow to Activists (Martin/Haberman) http://t.co/sMSPD6CZLP
01:56:44 Reading – The not-planets (Emily Lakdawalla) http://t.co/9p5964xYKB
01:57:34 Retweeted @BreakingNews 01:56:08 Authorities: 2 people stabbed, 1 fatally, at a prayer counseling center in Frederick County, Md. – @cbsbaltimore http://t.co/gGdA0hb9uc
01:58:13 Frederick is where I went to High School. :-(
02:13:57 Reading – The Harper Lee вЂGo Set a Watchman’ Fraud (Joe Nocera) http://t.co/qQYOr0jVFV
02:21:19 Reading – Earth just had its warmest June on record, and warmest year so far (Andrew Freedman) http://t.co/mtWChU6P10
03:39:41 Reading – Don’t order the fish (Marco Arment) http://t.co/1xRDt68brC
06:06:20 In the tent w/Alex again for night 2. Brandy thinks he has decided this is his new room. Unlike yesterday I have work in the morning thoughвЂ¦
15:39:16 First hour is my dad being interviewed about Africa related issues -> Listening – KPFK Sunday Show https://t.co/17mWdazyXa
15:44:07 Retweeted @owillis 2015-07-26 17:21:30 trump attacks mccain war record
msm: NOOOO THE PRECIOUS
huckabee calls obama hitler
msm: YAWN whats for brunch?
16:23:09 Retweeted @AmyNotAmy 03:57:30 All praise the donut king http://t.co/ARKm6xFNSK

@abulsme tweets from 2015-07-26 (UTC)

00:46:16 Retweeted @daveweigel 2015-07-25 18:32:31 Trump on Iran: "Supreme Leader — that's a great term. That's like a term Trump would use. Supreme Leader!"
02:58:04 Retweeted @ScottNY71 02:55:59 .@abulsme Thanks for sharing this. I was looking for something to give me a totally new kind of nightmare tonight. https://t.co/mh7NNmVMzU in reply to abulsme
02:58:26 .@ScottNY71 Quite welcome. Quite welcome. in reply to ScottNY71
03:22:46 In the tent in the side yard with Alex listening to the rain and playing on our iPads. Good way to spend a Saturday night. :-)
15:39:23 Retweeted @politicalwire 13:28:10 Trump leads in New Hampshire
http://t.co/IARhF2Ook2
Trump leads nationally
http://t.co/0gnb4SLW1T
Trump 2nd in Iowa
http://t.co/ZCqmwO2rld
16:00:19 Retweeted @ThisWeekABC 13:37:32 .@GrahamBlog is now using an iPhone, he just revealed on #ThisWeek.
16:02:25 Retweeted @TheFix 14:14:54 Ruh roh. http://t.co/JjtlykxG5O
16:05:36 Retweeted @EricBoehlert 13:21:07 Ha. 1wk ago pundit class announced Trump's attack on McCain was "turning point." They were right–Trumps MORE popular now w/ GOP voters.
16:06:57 Retweeted @mikiebarb 14:28:13 Smart @maggieNYT on @ThisWeekABC: GOP field is "literally stumped" by Trump. Rs had embraced him. Now he's terrorizing them.
18:46:52 Retweeted @ElectProject 17:09:12 Trump & Sanders polling roughly same. 1 is their party's frontrunner & 1 not. Reason: Ds have true frontrunner that cleared out competition
22:01:18 Didn’t last night вЂcause Alex and tent, but finished switching my poll comparison page to always calculating offline. http://t.co/r85eXS0TgP
22:03:20 If you go there & it needs recalc it will show you old one, let you know, & reload every 30s until update is ready. http://t.co/r85eXS0TgP
22:05:47 I’ll change my other pages to behave same way soon, but not today. The comp page was the one currently causing prob. http://t.co/r85eXS0TgP

@abulsme tweets from 2015-07-25 (UTC)

01:18:17 Retweeted @ScottNY71 00:48:40 @abulsme @ForecasterEnten Maybe he's a closet Democrat and this has been his goal all along. in reply to abulsme
01:19:19 .@ScottNY71 @ForecasterEnten There have of course been people saying he is really a friend of the Clinton’s and such, butвЂ¦ Come onвЂ¦ :-) in reply to ScottNY71
01:29:02 Retweeted @ScottNY71 01:28:44 @abulsme @ForecasterEnten His entering the race at all makes it much more interesting. Becoming an Independent makes it fascinating. in reply to abulsme
01:36:04 .@ScottNY71 @ForecasterEnten It would b SO fun 2 watch! If he does & is strong enuf tho, messes up my election site! http://t.co/EZdmGlTAg8 in reply to ScottNY71
04:08:32 Retweeted @ScottNY71 04:03:59 @abulsme @ForecasterEnten Something tells me you'll fix the site to be compatible with 3 (or more!) candidates even before that happens. in reply to abulsme
04:15:23 .@ScottNY71 @ForecasterEnten Maybe. It world be a fundamental change. Current approach very tied to having only two competitive candidates. in reply to ScottNY71
05:24:43 Retweeted @ScottNY71 04:34:16 @abulsme @ForecasterEnten Making the change sooner means less downtime if/when it happens, whether it's 2016 or a later election. in reply to abulsme
05:25:57 .@ScottNY71 @ForecasterEnten I prefer my current approach unless I end up with no choice. But I have started to think about what I would do. in reply to ScottNY71
08:19:47 Retweeted @ScottNY71 05:38:01 @abulsme @ForecasterEnten Knowing you, you're half dreading the day you have to basically redo it all, half like a kid on Christmas morning. in reply to abulsme
15:54:23 Retweeted @mattyglesias 12:40:23 On the one hand, early polls don't tell you much. On the other hand hahahahahahaha. http://t.co/7dCZLno637
15:54:49 Retweeted @dangouge 12:49:35 @mattyglesias Having survived Toronto's Rob Ford years all I can say is that it's only funny until it actually happens. in reply to mattyglesias
18:21:10 Reading – Hillary Clinton’s Aides Say She’ll Testify Before Benghazi Committee (Schmidt/Haberman) http://t.co/yHPfBd7KbN
18:24:33 Reading – Donald Trump is still rocketing up polls in dominating fashion (Maxwell Tani) http://t.co/3GFSJ2jryR
18:27:51 Reading – Twitter is deleting stolen jokes on copyright grounds (Dante D'Orazio) http://t.co/Ucoamlh2Zv
18:41:32 Reading – Donald Trump Does Laredo, Texas (Molly Ball) http://t.co/NHcXjKmaKB
19:05:33 Reading – Past time to change our state song: вЂњMaryland, My MarylandвЂќ (Tom McCluskey) http://t.co/gQX2yRDDvx
19:10:03 Reading – Some Dude Created an Ashley Madison Account and All I Got Was This Lousy Extortion Screen (Chideya) http://t.co/dD8OqV9yNU
19:13:08 Reading – Authorities: Man shot at Minnesota Arby’s went for officer’s gun (David Chanen) http://t.co/BF25esDkF5
20:18:50 Hit some sort of limit in live recalculating of my comparison page. Forced it to use old cache. Will switch to offline recalc tonight.
20:52:26 Elec site using cache unless something out of date, then live recalc. Will move to always using cache & triggering offline recalc if needed.
20:54:44 I had been planning on that shift anyway, but comp page getting to point live recalc hits a resource limit and fails forces the issue. :-)
20:58:22 Reading – Watchdogs: Clinton emails 'never' should’ve been sent on private system (Martin Matishak) http://t.co/7QxcgHIFSu
21:04:46 Reading – Four-limbed, long-fingered snake hints at a creepy crawly evolutionary journey (Rachel Feltman) http://t.co/wK354G5fMg
21:07:49 Reading – How We Got Lindsey Graham To Destroy His Cell Phone (Benny Johnson) http://t.co/PT1yzM3kC3
21:11:03 Reading – Pluto’s Mountains Continue to Astound at Parabolic Arc (Doug Messier) http://t.co/iBcExi7uo7
22:39:44 Got to the company picnic just in time to get free t-shirts for the family and a soda, then get kicked out as everything closed. Oh well!
23:13:31 Retweeted @AmyNotAmy 23:13:03 "It's called a sideWALK, not a sideRUN!" – Alex (5) about why we can't have a race on the sidewalk.
23:15:03 Retweeted @AmyNotAmy 23:14:33 Alex (5) also just yelled at @abulsme's phone for making a noise while he was speaking. "DON'T you phone make a noise while I'm talking!"
23:18:12 Retweeted @jbarro 21:24:34 I don't think Trump will be the nominee. I think the overwhelming likelihood is he will not be. But I now rate the odds higher than zero.
23:47:02 Retweeted @jaketapper 21:51:16 POTUS in Kenya: "I suspect that some …critics…are suspecting that I’m back here to look for my birth certificate. That is not the case.вЂќ

@ElecCollPolls tweets from 2015-07-24 (UTC)

18:42:44 [Blog Post] "Curmudgeon’s Corner: I want to be in the Window!" http://t.co/HRk3Jk2duG

@abulsme tweets from 2015-07-24 (UTC)

15:53:54 [Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: I want to be in the Window! http://t.co/EzGZ0oZHvu
16:32:23 Reading – The Verge's web sucks (lmorchard) http://t.co/2NvKlu1WPB
16:41:22 Reading – The mobile web sucks (Nilay Patel) http://t.co/APt51W0wMb
17:09:06 Reading – Hillary vs. the Press, Round One Million: The Times Screws Up a Scoop (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/IFbSQT5ed4
17:27:28 Reading – Trump Would Lose Badly In A Third-Party Bid, But He Could Take The Republican Down, Too (Enten/Silver) http://t.co/tfxfGvUul0
20:14:33 Retweeted @AmyNotAmy 20:13:05 Listening to a recording of myself from right after I woke up from the wisdom teeth removal… Sorry to all the people who had to deal w/me.
20:14:50 .@AmyNotAmy You were very amusing. :-) in reply to AmyNotAmy
20:22:10 Retweeted @drvox 19:19:38 Beltway types want so badly to believe that "the grownups are in charge" in the GOP. They want Paul Ryan. The base wants Trump.
20:22:33 Retweeted @drvox 19:20:21 Note, BTW, that in terms of policy substance the Ryans are just as radical as the Trumps. But his affect is more Serious, so journos swoon.

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