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@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-17 (UTC)

  • Right now, this very second, I see two Microsoft Surfaces in the wild! They actually exist! Just one table over from me! 03:28:20
  • [Abulpost] Heathers: Released: 1988 Oct 1 Watched: 2011 Jan 31 Queue: Amy Format: DVD So. Movie night…. http://t.co/PC34Hz27 03:29:10
  • Reading – New Look and New Animation for Orion’s 2017 Flight to the Moon and Back (Ken Kremer) http://t.co/PqAZMxeR 06:00:01
  • Reading – I Love You But Don't Call Me, OK? (Sophia Dembling) http://t.co/2brfcyrl 06:02:54
  • RT @BYUfan: @abulsme predicting your prediction rate is recursive and may be a problem :-) 06:06:46
  • .@BYUfan If we’re lucky, there will be fun interactions, and eventually we’ll be able to calculate the fractal dimension of our predictions. in reply to BYUfan 06:08:06
  • Reading – Man reportedly outsources his own job to China, watches cat videos (Alana Semuels) http://t.co/U2MCzT7T 20:44:03
  • Reading – Did the 'fiscal cliff' deal create the tiniest tax bracket ever? (Howard Gleckman) http://t.co/xLHrkmU0 23:10:39
  • Reading – Wall Street Journal Deeply Concerned About The Fate of Rich Single Moms (Matthew Yglesias) http://t.co/7BUlpUN5 23:44:57
  • MT @geoffreyvs: Only 2.5 months. RT @samsteinhp 4% of NBC/WSJ respondents are not sure who they voted for in the 2012 election 23:47:46

Heathers

Heathersposter89Released: 1988 Oct 1
Watched: 2011 Jan 31
Queue: Amy
Format: DVD

So. Movie night. It is a thing we used to do before we moved. Maybe someday we will do it again. But of course I still haven’t posted about the ones we did in 2011. Oops. Anyway, Amy’s movie was Heathers.

This is apparently a classic. I’d never seen it before.

I hated it.

I couldn’t understand why any of the characters did any of the things they did. I had no sympathy for most of them. Most were repulsive in one way or another. It basically made no sense to me at all. I just couldn’t relate to or understand even a single character in the whole thing.

Amy and Brandy of course liked it.

And that was that.

@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-16 (UTC)

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@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-14 (UTC)

  • Reading – Flowchart: Gandalf problem solving (Nathan Yau) http://t.co/ZrlhwYZS 13:19:54
  • Reading – The bombing of Mali highlights all the lessons of western intervention (Glen Greenwald) http://t.co/5e3ejr84 14:12:21
  • Reading – When your house is burning down, you should brush your teeth (The Oatmeal) http://t.co/AeZWLrtR 14:22:04
  • Alex woke up, ran to get me, and spent ten minutes hugging me and telling me about his bad dream. 14:56:39
  • There were ant people who chased him, broke his eyes and set his train tracks on fire and were going to his preschool. 14:57:43
  • But he got the hose and put the fire out. But the ant man was still trying to get him. He needed Daddy to save him, so he came and got me. 14:58:53
  • So now we are sitting on the bed cuddled up while he watches train videos on YouTube and I eat crackers. He doesn’t want any crackers. 15:00:29
  • There was more. Mommy had fallen down. His “new friends” from preschool were doing something and being bad. And more. 15:08:20
  • Capturing the essence of ten minutes of a 3 yr olds stream of conscience is hard. :-). A pretty great way to start the day though. 15:11:13
  • He has joined me in the crackers now. 15:13:24
  • Reading – The Inevitability of Global Warming and the Need for Resilience: Part I (Cliff Mass) http://t.co/LNpEt9Mr 15:35:35
  • Reading – Reince Priebus: GOP’s Electoral Vote Split Scheme Would Give More “Local Control” (David Weigel) http://t.co/fLRNjsvj 15:53:10
  • Exploring -> The Scale of the Universe 2 (Cary and Michael Huang) http://t.co/Z9r6zPUR 16:56:20
  • Reading – Why You Can't Cry in Space (Megan Garber) http://t.co/XUGcPgCy 20:07:00
  • So, since Fed said they wouldn't accept a $T coin, could treasury still mint many smaller denim Plat coins & use them directly to pay bills? 20:09:35
  • Failing any sort of fun with coins, could Pres sell off assets? Would Russia buy back Alaska for instance? Or would that need Cong? :-) 20:11:11
  • Uh, smaller denom plat coins, not denim. Although that would be interesting. 20:30:12
  • Reading – The Largest Structure Ever Observed in the Universe (Rebecca J. Rosen) http://t.co/4GgO3a4e 21:37:11
  • Reading – Maybe the ‘blister’ of GOP opposition really will get popped (Jonathan Bernstein) http://t.co/72GmGrhV 22:46:26
  • Not Alaska? MT @brendanloy: Heh. RT @felixsalmon: RT @ObsoleteDogma: Forget #MintTheCoin It's time to #PawnTheMountain http://t.co/c7RSZYkb” 23:30:41

@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-13 (UTC)

@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-12 (UTC)

Curmudgeon’s Corner: 2013 Predictions Show

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

  • 2013 Politics
  • 2013 Economy
  • 2013 Tech
  • 2013 Other

Recorded on 8 Jan 2013

Length this week – 1:39:16

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@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-11 (UTC)

  • Been feeling not great the last week or so. Big turn for the worse in the last two hours. Bleh. :-( 04:51:13
  • [Abulpost] Cinema: Tron Legacy: Released: 2010 Dec 17 Watched: 2011 Jan 23 Hey, I'm not quite two years … http://t.co/rmpU01ld 07:19:55
  • RT @Atrios: i taught econ for several years. and, yes, the concept of money creation makes peoples' brains freeze 08:21:29
  • [Abulpost] Seven Years in the Jungle: I missed noting the anniversary the last couple of years, but as o… http://t.co/NZ1iYuOx 10:12:02
  • Reading – A Binder for Obama (Joshua E. Keating) http://t.co/hMTtqpYm 16:52:58
  • Reading – Spamhaus CEO Linford Clarifies Retail Email Position (Magill Report) http://t.co/VNkKf4Vf 16:59:21
  • RT @mattyglesias: Instead of minting the coin and sterilizing it, can Bernanke just “forgive” $1 trillion of Fed-owned debt? 17:09:18
  • Reading – Next-Generation iPad and iPad Mini Rumored for March Launch (Eric Slivka) http://t.co/Ao9LTOLT 17:14:02
  • Reading – The Wild Origins Of The Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin (Brian Beutler) http://t.co/2pMFkAPT 21:20:16
  • Working from home today because I feel like crap. Not getting a huge amount done because I feel like crap. 21:22:14
  • Last night was hit was massive sore throat and that kind of stuff. Today that is gone, lower abdominal pain instead. On pain killers. Bleh. 21:23:41
  • I’ve finished the amount of work I consider the minimum to not call it a half-day. Considering giving up on being productive now. #sicksucks 22:05:47

Seven Years in the Jungle

I missed noting the anniversary the last couple of years, but as of the time this posts (10:11 UTC) it will have been exactly 7 years* since I started with my current employer. There have been ups and downs during those years, but for the most part it has been a good experience. It is hard to believe it has been that long though.

* I started at 17:30 UTC on Jan 11 2006, but since years are not an even number of days, the time of the anniversary shifts every year.