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@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-18 (UTC)

Reading – Iran Gets an Unlikely Visitor, but No One Seems to Know Why (Corkery/Silver-Greenberg/Erdbrink) http://t.co/wm1jvQUhzx 00:45:09
Reading – Free Speech (xkcd) http://t.co/8939gB3Etk 05:30:40
Nice! -> Reading and Listening – Muppet Christ Superstar (Lara Zarum) http://t.co/INKWOyhXZc 05:40:36
I need to follow more people in Africa/Europe/Asia/Australia. When I’m up at this time of day, my twitter feed moves too slowly! 08:06:34
Finished putting together CC & some work stuff I was doing. Think I’ll catch some winks before posting it & getting back to more work stuff. 09:50:44
No morn meeting tomorrow, so not too worried about going to bed at 3 AM. Still have to get the kid to school by 8:50 AM though. So: ZZZzzz… 09:52:57
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: Just a Stranger on the Bus http://t.co/bOpvtAtXlV 16:53:10
Reading – Mystery Plane In Tehran Belongs To Overseas Client, Bank Says (Rosie Gray) http://t.co/GA72qffmzX 20:39:11
MT @mattblaze: Why is Snowden’s credibility relevant to anything? Say he’s a Russian spy. Does that mean there was actually no 215 program? 20:42:35
RT @ianbremmer: Uninhabited USA (ht @ixh) http://t.co/YZ6jrisfsg 20:43:33
Reading – There Is An Epidemic Of Republicans Plagiarizing From Rand Paul (Andrew Kaczynski) http://t.co/AncPvazBy7 20:54:58
Reading – It’s real: hackers are using Heartbleed to attack servers (Timothy B. Lee) http://t.co/ICEGWRj6yM 21:00:40

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Just a Stranger on the Bus

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

Mozilla CEO / Rice and Dropbox
Taking the Bus and Train
San Francisco Class War
Ukraine Again / Google / Solar Power

Recorded on 17 Apr 2014

Length this week – 1:38:04


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@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-17 (UTC)

Granny dog 00:52:24
Reading – Most companies have to worry about what Wall Street thinks — here’s why Google doesn’t (Timothy B. Lee) http://t.co/WkS4OlS1GW 01:05:05
Reading – Nuclear fusion could be the perfect energy source — so why can’t we make it work? (@susannahlocke) http://t.co/qUbORxLEgd 01:34:40
Reading – Invading Crimea May Have Cost Russia $200 Billion So Far (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/4nmCwqgckh 04:28:51
No dice in one we just taped, but I’ll use real ones next wk. RT @BYUfan: @abulsme I like the dice, but they should be real. #oldschool 04:42:49
Reading – The Power Of Poop: A Whale Story (Robert Krulwich) http://t.co/7G47SnNjp7 04:52:42
Reading – Privacy concerns? What Google now says it can do with your data. (Gloria Goodale) http://t.co/zdEm69gVJn 06:09:16
Agn. A shod he na ananHahahahbahahHhahaaÀrcffgjhu 14:33:24
Two tweets from the last 14 hours were actually from Alex. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine which. 14:35:01
HaHa! MT @BreakingNews: Putin tells Snowden Russia is not carrying out mass collection of citizen’s data – @Reuters http://t.co/2G4NWPQqUb 14:35:49
Reading – Liechtenstein Gets Even Smaller (John Letzing) http://t.co/yayPum6PMc 14:51:22
Reading – For Obamacare, What Counts As Success (Ross Douthat) http://t.co/oqGhZ1SEQH 15:00:16
Reading – Putin Says Obama Would Save Him From Drowning (The Moscow Times) http://t.co/KiYZxTeyyy 15:04:40
Reading – Snowden Asks Putin a Question on Call-In Show (The Moscow Times) http://t.co/TwaZQCOp5p 15:05:57
Reading – Obama Trolls the GOP (John Dickerson)http://t.co/FDxpMeh76T 15:11:40
Reading – The huge problem with the latest Obamacare conspiracy theory (@ezraklein) http://t.co/hx7x3HwCvC 17:04:05
Reading – First potentially habitable Earth-sized planet confirmed: It may have liquid water (Gemini Observatory) http://t.co/Pgendip1Wg 20:17:03
Reading – Winnowing the Republican Field (Jonathan Bernstein) http://t.co/5GzTSsVCy8 20:50:50
Reading – The Party Decides, Unless It Can’t (Ross Douthat) http://t.co/1fWK7LmCqj 20:59:53
Good? -> Reading – Putin indicates he’s not planning on taking over Alaska (Terri Rupar) http://t.co/wR0aViUsK6 21:04:40
RT @VodkaPundit: BREAKING: Unborn Chelsea baby leading in initial 2068 Iowa polls. 21:05:56

@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-16 (UTC)

Reading (from January) – A Clinton Never Forgets (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/14mWuYaGBK 12:51:39
Reading – Exposing the NSA: A Public Service Worthy of a Pulitzer (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/xPX77YeMha 12:59:20
Reading – Are Google and Facebook just pretending they want limits on NSA surveillance? (Elise Ackerman) http://t.co/W82GmpNFnN 13:12:40
Reading – Why Your Kids Should Play Kerbal Space Program (Rod Dreher) http://t.co/XTdLgaQ5Ay 16:23:24
Reading – Obama’s Meep Meep On Healthcare (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/b0hZKpvwba 17:01:32
Reading – Students Send Heartbreaking Texts As Ferry Sinks Off South Korean Coast (Alison Vingiano) http://t.co/WC0USJ0bE5 22:58:28

@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-15 (UTC)

Watching – How Frozen Should Have Ended (HISHE) http://t.co/JmtEO2Mnau 02:43:08
Was thinking of trying to take some blood moon pictures tonight. But of course… Cloudy. 05:35:11
Since it is cloudy here, watching the eclipse via NASAtelevision's live broadcast on @Ustream http://t.co/Vm1r011b5J 06:08:16
Reading – Cassini May Have Witnessed the Birth of a New Saturn Moon! (Phil Plait) http://t.co/l7jsnfI2pr 14:43:21
Reading – SoCons Damned If They Do — And If They Don’t (Rod Dreher) http://t.co/bavjEuzaoV 16:29:30
Reading (from January) – What’s That You’re Calling a Bubble? (Justin Fox) http://t.co/xhK37enXh7 20:09:53
I've been watching The Newsroom lately. This is spot on. -> Watching – The Foodroom (Amy Schumer) http://t.co/gBYtYhdI1H 20:39:04
This is going to be so much fun!! -> Reading – The Neocons Lose Their Shit Over Rand Paul (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/61RkLOKYU2 21:16:13

@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-14 (UTC)

Reading – Vladimir Putin Is Not The President Of Sim City (Tom Nichols) http://t.co/1kEzvKADUm 14:36:06
Reading – Scott Brown’s Campaign Mocks His Opponent As A ‘Senator From Massachusetts’ (Tom Kludt) http://t.co/UJ2zOFb6Xd 14:39:33
Reading – Android docs reveal before iPhone, Google's plan was a Java button phone (Daniel Eran Dilger) http://t.co/cTCnMQS9No 15:00:55
Arrested today. Ha! -> Teen's meltdown goes viral after she tweets 'joke' bomb threat to American Airlines (Gorman) http://t.co/iimlODsItD 15:21:28
They had to follow up of course, not sure they needed to arrest though. Sure they won’t keep her long but bet she won’t do that again… 15:22:42
Reading – Here's why you'll be able to see a "blood moon" tonight (@josephstromberg) http://t.co/aE4BNF8uSF 21:28:11

@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-13 (UTC)

Watching – Red Hot Nickel Ball vs Butter: http://t.co/tHKdznpObv 01:36:54
By total coincidence, walking the dog again right now and look up… ISS again! 04:36:02
Reading – Sen. Rand Paul: Don’t Rule Out Containment of Nuclear Iran (Freda Kahen-Kashi) http://t.co/RsquFJGNKO 16:18:54
Reading – Jenny McCarthy: “I’m Not ‘Anti-Vaccine’” (Phil Plait) http://t.co/ladBt9TRBN 18:25:09
Fitbit One went through the laundry Friday. Trying a Garmin Vivifit now. @wirecutter likes it. http://t.co/bofcqmDiVV 23:03:14

@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-12 (UTC)

MT @TheFix: Yes, Obama is right. The 113th Congress will be the least productive in history. http://t.co/QQJ2k125sx http://t.co/SmTT7d52Su 01:29:11
.@TheFix Day by day comparison of the last three congresses: http://t.co/umZ7tQkFXJ in reply to TheFix 01:29:53
MT @BenjySarlin: By Nov. 2016 we'd be in one of longest economic expansions ever. Even a brief recession could wreck Democrats. 01:36:39
Reading – The Heartbleed Bug Will Lurk in the Internet of Things for Decades (Meghan Neal) http://t.co/PAaqhLmi02 01:44:24
RT @EFF: BREAKING: Heartbleed vulnerability can reliably extract SSL secret keys. Attack demonstrated by @indutny. https://t.co/OALORORxyA 02:05:29
MT @declanm: FedGov: “Unless there is clear NatSec or law enforcement need.” But there’s *always* such a need, right? http://t.co/CGwjVTfogy 03:44:14
Walking the dog. Saw bright moving object in sky. Said “satellite!” Whipped out Star Walk app on iPhone. Yup, ISS flying over! Cool! 05:28:42
Dude, you are slow. They already let the kid go. RT @imbou: Wow!!! Rounding Up Suspects, Pakistan Charges a Baby http://t.co/BLlg1REUTH 15:47:02
Reading – Silicon Valley could force NSA reform, tomorrow. What’s taking so long? (Trevor Timm) http://t.co/T9f4IclI0h 15:57:37
Reading – The Untold Story Of The First Woman To Fly Around The World (Amy Saunders) http://t.co/WnRRaw9Hjj 16:33:36
Still slow. RT @imbou: @abulsme i know they did, but it’s the fact they did it in the first place 16:37:19
RT @imbou: @abulsme bite me! 16:38:33
Reading – Here’s why scientists just published the recipe for superflu (@susannahlocke) http://t.co/rkxllLiMok 16:47:17
Reading – The NSA’s Heartbleed problem is the problem with the NSA (@normative) http://t.co/QbQC2nroZ1 21:28:49

@abulsme tweets from 2014-04-11 (UTC)

Reading – A New Phase In The Torture Debate? (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/qL5k9kE61w 01:56:53
Sick four year old tonight. 04:50:21
Reading – The decline of the mobile web (Chris Dixon) http://t.co/oR7CYYAsP4 05:00:28
My fitbit #Fitstats for 4/10/2014: 1,196 steps and 0.9 km traveled. http://t.co/Hr6wP8d8l5 05:06:00
Reading – The Heartbleed situation just got a lot worse. It also affects routers. (Brian Fung) http://t.co/imvest7KWP 05:39:22
Poor four year old just puked in his sleep. Didn’t even wake up. Not feeling good at all. 06:54:01
Reading – France Didn’t Actually Ban Work Email After 6 PM — But What Did Happen Is Still Really Funny (Rib Wile) http://t.co/jdhlLrQPYI 15:09:33
Watching – Raw:Shoe Thrown at Hillary Clinton During Speech (AP) https://t.co/DLhkM5COgS 15:14:09
Of course -> Reading – NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug, Exposing Consumers (Michael Riley) http://t.co/aeAktzwgOg 19:37:55
RT @Atrios: most surprising revelation is that the NSA only has two employees http://t.co/jJ65v7N9iw 19:49:46
MT @phillipanderson: Recap: we pay tens of billions of $ every year to keep us safe. They do this by making sure the internet isn’t secure. 19:52:01
Gov denies NSA knew. -> RT @ZekeJMiller: Full NSC statement on Heartbleed http://t.co/l3eyCXpDTM 20:45:10
True dat -> RT @moody: Rand Paul in New Hampshire on NSA/spying: "Hillary Clinton's as bad or worse on all these issues." 22:14:34
RT @normative: Gov'ts denial that NSA knew about Heartbleed doesn't even include any obviously ambiguous weasels language. Huh. 22:54:00
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: A Town that Sucks http://t.co/53GCJW5Qyz 23:06:45

Curmudgeon’s Corner: A Town that Sucks

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

Letterman / TV Habits
Cuban Twitter
Heartbleed

Recorded on 10 Apr 2014

Length this week – 1:08:28


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Abulsme { My mom helpfully pointed out via email that I can't subtract, and her math was right and mine was wrong. April 2014 - Dec 2012... } on @abulsme tweets from 2014-04-13 (UTC) at 15 April 2014 00:26:44 UTC
Abulsme { I loved my Fitbit. The Vivofit has some things the Fitbit didn't... year long battery life, waterproof, wrist-worn, always on display, inactivity warnings... but it... } on @abulsme tweets from 2014-04-13 (UTC) at 14 April 2014 19:34:16 UTC
Ruth M Brandon { Poor Fitbit One! Mine has made it 16 months - thank you for it! } on @abulsme tweets from 2014-04-13 (UTC) at 14 April 2014 15:10:26 UTC
Ivan Bou { Ivan Bou liked this on Facebook. } on A Ladder for Ivan's Beep at 9 April 2014 12:18:00 UTC
Kate Wagner { Kate Wagner liked this on Facebook. } on A Ladder for Ivan's Beep at 9 April 2014 03:34:30 UTC
Samuel Minter { Tagging Ivan Bou. } on A Ladder for Ivan's Beep at 9 April 2014 03:12:59 UTC
Kate Wagner { Kate Wagner liked this on Facebook. } on Alex's First Chess Game at 9 April 2014 01:17:51 UTC
Lori Rennels { I guess so. } on Alex's First Chess Game at 8 April 2014 22:42:36 UTC
Abulsme { @RB: We'll see. I'll certainly give him a chance to learn the rules. } on Alex's First Chess Game at 8 April 2014 18:12:35 UTC
Samuel Minter { He's played iPhone games since he was a few months old. When you start early, it is easy! } on Alex's First Chess Game at 8 April 2014 17:48:42 UTC
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