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@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-20 (UTC)

  • Reading – Palin: Not too late to enter GOP presidential race (AP) http://t.co/b7Shb6ZA #
  • Reading- We're Approaching That Brief Time of Year When Christmas Searches Eclipse Porn (Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic) http://t.co/Sh6YyQ4X #
  • MT “@fivethirtyeight: With the InsiderAdvantage poll our model now has Newt dropping to 4th in Iowa http://t.co/g5fANFK6#

@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-19 (UTC)

  • Reading – Paul Moves Into Lead in Iowa Forecast (Nate Sliver, NYT) http://t.co/V6uxBXWm #
  • RT @fivethirtyeight Our Iowa forecast, reflecting PPP poll, now shows: Paul 24, Romney 21, Gingrich 16, Perry 11, Bachmann 11, Santorum 10 #
  • Reading – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead at age 69 (AP) http://t.co/qm6cYJWB #
  • Reading – First Look at a Black Hole’s Feast (Jason Major, Universe Today) http://t.co/EznyjaDo #
  • Reading – The world's first audio recording is creepy, not made by Edison (Maggie Koerth-Baker, Boing Boing) http://t.co/1bbNbQVM #

@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-18 (UTC)

  • Reading – Newt Gingrich Would Send U.S. Marshals To Arrest ‘Activist’ Judges (Zack Ford, Think Progress) http://t.co/MyMJP7bF #
  • Reading – The Gingrich Dive (Josh Marshall, TPM) http://t.co/2znOvtls #
  • Reading – NYC woman set ablaze, burns to death in elevator of apartment building; suspect sought (AP) http://t.co/9g5i5nIU #
  • RT “@BreakingNews: Former Czech president Vaclav Havel dies – Czech TV via Reuters” #
  • Reading – Last US combat troops leave Iraq (Aljazeera) http://t.co/PfZPpF0Q #
  • RT “@rebliv: The twitter xmas lights at our house: http://t.co/Vyazi7fi #cheerlights white blue and love” #
  • Reading – Gingrich Downturn In National and Iowa Polls (Charles Franklin, Polls and Votes) http://t.co/kTyOIPJk #
  • Reading – No, the U.S. is not leaving Iraq (Justin Elliott, Salon) http://t.co/4YtqfXE5 #

Then She Traded In The Minivan

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Painting

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@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-17 (UTC)

@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-16 (UTC)

  • Reading – Megaupload Video Reinstated, Universal Says “You Can’t Touch Us” (enigmas, TorrentFreak) http://t.co/k1enAZfe #
  • RT @VanityFair Christopher Hitchens, 1949 — 2011 #
  • Reading – Should Copyright Be Allowed to Override Speech Rights? (Marvin Ammori, The Atlantic) http://t.co/EJpuzIqN #
  • Reading – Louis CK's DRM-free direct-sales video experiment pays off (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing) http://t.co/YyDVI9zN #
  • Reading – Piracy Is a Form of Theft, and Copyright Infringement Is Neither (Matthew Yglesias, Slate) http://t.co/OI4UxBsn #
  • Reading – Gingrich Momentum Slows, Polls Suggest (Nate Silver, NYT) http://t.co/X6BXeNMz #
  • Reading – Could the 2012 Election End with a Deadlocked Electoral College? (Josh Kraushaar, The Atlantic) http://t.co/1gZUUnID #
  • Reading – End of the line for the Ponds (Marcus, Doctor Who News) http://t.co/akL3u12U #
  • Reading – Can Paul Win? (Andrew Sullivan, Daily Beast) http://t.co/F71m2cYK #

New Office Setup

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No desk. No desk chair. Just a comfy Poang and some shelves. I think I still need a small table to hold a drink and a snack, and probably a footstool.

This will probably result in me spending more time in my actual assigned space. For the last nine months or so I spent most of my time as a nomad, working from comfy chairs in lounges or coffee shops across the work campus.

Curmudgeon’s Corner: A Man Alone

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner…

Sam talks about:

  • Cars
  • Republicans
  • Holiday Shopping
  • Twitter

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