Abulsme.com: January 2013

Cinema: Tron Legacy

Released: 2010 Dec 17
Watched: 2011 Jan 23

Hey, I’m not quite two years behind!

Anyway, Amy and I went and saw Tron Legacy. A few months earlier, we had watched Tron on one of our Family Movie nights to prepare.

It looked cool. It continued the story from the first movie. It was a fun fluffy couple of hours.

And that’s about all there is to say about it. Nothing spectacular. But worth it for an evening out with some popcorn.

Oh, and they did some neat stuff with de-aging Jeff Bridges. Not 100% convincing, but good enough.

It could have used some more Bruce Boxleitner though. I mean, he was in it, but he could have been in it more. Speaking of that, when are they bringing back Babylon 5? Or Scarecrow and Mrs King?

It seems it did well enough that they will be making a third Tron. I’m sure I’ll watch that too.

@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-10 (UTC)

It is snowing! 02:05:46
Reading – America Has A Bad Case Of The Flu (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/cimFHLY8 17:00:31
Reading – Mr. President, don’t mint that platinum coin! (Ezra Klein) http://t.co/6HkqckQ3 17:07:24

@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-09 (UTC)

Reading – The conservative movement is still an elaborate moneymaking venture (Alex Pareene) http://t.co/ocfPk5sl 00:05:02
Reading – Pandora and Spotify Rake In the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties (Ben Sisario) http://t.co/4bWYReuf 00:07:11
Reading – CES 2013: Hands-On with Garmin's nuvi 3597 LMTHD (Fletch, http://t.co/3hxUMkTi) http://t.co/BW8Yvyy9 02:35:53
RT @JeriLRyan: Oh, this is GOLDвЂ¦! Alec Guinness writing to a friend re: Star Wars: http://t.co/juSvF9L9 /via @LettersOfNote 02:55:31
Reading – Report from AAS: Exoplanets (and exo-asteroids, and exo-comets) everywhere (Emily Lakdawalla) http://t.co/HEz4hpLg 03:29:45
Reading – Obama's Superior Organization Probably Didn't Win the Election for Him (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/QfsFCm7x 03:34:12
Reading – Washington Goes Platinum (Megan McArdle) http://t.co/BFxUJ0UM 03:44:01
MT @MikeGrunwald: Like coin & the pple who like it. Hate the debt ceiling & the pple who exploit it. But sorry, no one's gonna #mintthecoin. 07:42:06
RT @owillis: how soon until the rumor starts that hugo chavez is already dead? did i just start it? 09:16:08
Reading – White House won't rule out $1 trillion coin (Jennifer Epstein) http://t.co/V1aW1SCo 20:23:17
Reading – Carney Leaves White House Wiggle Room For Platinum Debt Limit Workaround (Brian Beutler) http://t.co/oKrTC73l 21:00:28
Solved by actually paying bills with the coins -> Reading: The Coin and the Problem of Circulation (Eugene Kontorovich) http://t.co/cQpWZKuL 22:58:41

@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-08 (UTC)

Reading – Rebranding the вЂњtrillion-dollar coinвЂќ (Steve Waldman) http://t.co/zrIkX3aA 00:13:29
RT @nickconfessore: RT @johnjcook: Seriously why isn't North Korea going to kidnap and ransom Eric Schmidt? Seems so straightforward to me. 06:49:19
Reading – Hands-on with Blue Mics' Nessie: a USB mic that masks your flaws (Terrence O'Brien) http://t.co/fXoz4BLq 07:01:53
MT @dangillmor: In disappointment category, 2nd only to his awful civil liberties record is Obama's ongoing complicity with Wall St crooks. 07:19:17
Reading – Republican Angry at Trillion-Dollar Coin (Jonathan Chait) http://t.co/zTlgc4wg 16:19:21
Reading – Former head of U.S. Mint: The platinum coin option would work (Ezra Klein) http://t.co/2lABt22t 19:55:04
Reading – Rage Against the Coin (Paul Krugman) http://t.co/E0FFgfFK 22:18:29
Reading – Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe on the Legality of #mintthecoin (Ryan Cooper) http://t.co/qIyZyt8N 23:34:24
Reading – How Much Is A Penny Worth In Business? Ctd (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/D1vMFlcN 23:45:27

@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-07 (UTC)

Reading – Jon Huntsman Could Do Without Bill Clinton’s Kudos (Andrew Goldman) http://t.co/t7w4Z3L8 00:03:50
Reading – If a corporations are people, do they qualify as carpool-lane passengers? (Cory Doctorow) http://t.co/gpYGshTr 00:12:09
Reading: The Greatest Convs To Ever Happen On Twitter Between Real Astronauts And The Cast of Star Trek (Cyberbuzz) http://t.co/Y79kkTX3 00:32:24
Reading – Michael Cronan, Who Gave TiVo and Kindle Their Names, Dies at 61 (Richard Goldstein) http://t.co/VWVphcXU 02:26:15
Reading – Crack Pipe (Josh Marshall) http://t.co/coCc6jDK 02:45:08
WTF? -> Reading – The bizarre tale of John McAfee, spymaster (Nate Anderson) http://t.co/4NSimvvo 05:54:36
Reading – Be Ready To Mint That Coin (Paul Krugman) http://t.co/VonKOtZ0 15:33:41
Reading – Debt in a Time of Zero (Paul Krugman)!http://t.co/ipu1B3UL 15:35:56

@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-06 (UTC)

Reading – Default Ceiling: Bluffing into the Nuts (Bill McBride) http://t.co/mKXpcQRy 06:28:55
The real solution to gun violence? -> Reading – America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/NTDvLuum 19:15:40
Reading – Flying, Rolling Robot Might Make a Great Titan Explorer (Jason Major) http://t.co/8iAUcWxF 19:22:11
Reading – A veteran hostage negotiator’s advice on handling the GOP (Greg Sargent) http://t.co/dAh1iAT5 19:28:07
Reading – Why Hagel? (Marc Ambinder) http://t.co/bB6KtFsp 19:30:33
Reading – Why not mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin? (Joshua Holland) http://t.co/7afclNb6 19:34:30
Reading – Why Chuck Hagel Is A Disappointing Choice For Secretary Of Defense (Oliver Willis) http://t.co/MfiTHSwD 19:43:25
RT @David_Gergen: Hagel deserves fair hearing as SecDef nominee. Enuf of vitriolic attacks. His views close to G.W. Bush, former mainst … 22:48:19

@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-05 (UTC)

RT @Atrios: my actual serious policy – though not actually authorized by congress – would be to mint $10,000 coins and mail them to ever … 03:32:07
Reading – Wait, Nancy Pelosi Voted for *Herself*? (John Sides) http://t.co/e0J09RGO 04:07:46
RT @petersuderman: You could just pick a big, hard to move rock, and declare it worth a trillion dollars. 07:45:05
Reading – #MintTheCoin: Can social media and a trillion-dollar coin solve the US debt? (Adi Robertson) http://t.co/heLnJWGj 07:49:40
RT @ggreenwald: Fox News – whose 2nd largest owner is Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal – takes the lead in smearing Al Gore for selling … 07:54:18
Reading – OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Tops Lion as Most Popular Mac Operating System (Juli Clover) http://t.co/6bSbDNgy 08:02:59
RT @owillis: i believe we are all underestimating biden 2016. 09:24:23
Reading – The Secret History of US Drone Strikes in 2012 (Woods et al.) [Juan Cole] http://t.co/xy9evZlk 09:27:40
RT @YourAnonNews: Seriously…. George Orwell must be rolling in his grave for the shit like this… #Privacy http://t.co/jtW4fYtD 09:29:53
Reading – Yes, House Republicans supported the fiscal cliff deal (Ezra Klein) http://t.co/GRRyQbYV 09:33:00
RT @daveweigel: "Change We Can Believe In" was actually a weirdly predictive slogan about the 2013 platinum coin 11:47:34
Reading – Scare Amplifies Fears That Clinton’s Work Has Taken Heavy Toll (Mark Landler) http://t.co/krnlmaqo 12:53:36
Reading – Time of travel in the 1800s (Nathan Yau) http://t.co/3j8I2Off 12:57:42
Reading – There’s No Avoiding Google+ (Amir Efrati) http://t.co/JPSEOB8v 19:37:27
Reading – South Africa: The Kitchen Remodel That Wasn’t (Kathryn Crawford Saxer) http://t.co/Im8LKBQk 20:06:07

@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-04 (UTC)

RT @dandrezner: "Like many suburban homeowners, I like to kill and eat the wild animals that populate my backyard." http://t.co/AgJcHUhb 00:38:10
Reading – Al-Awlaki may have booked pre-9/11 flights for hijackers, FBI documents show (Catherine Herridge) http://t.co/KgdpQwrj 00:49:11
RT @TheFix: FINAL VOTE: Boeher 220, Pelosi 192, Labrador 1, Lewis 1, Cantor 3, West 2, Powell 1, Jordan 1, Walker 1, Cooper 2, Amash 1, … 06:28:45
Reading: After the Republican Rout (Patrick J. Buchanan) http://t.co/OPXAPp2V 06:32:43
RT @ZekeJMiller: Important Q вЂ” whose face would be put on the $1t coin? 06:50:25
Reading: What Andrew Sullivan's New Venture Could Teach Us About the Web (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/8gFOFWck 06:56:49
Party Pooper -> Reading – No, a $1 Trillion Platinum Coin is Not Legal (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/jJQa5HTF 07:25:25
RT @TheStalwart: Everyone's talking about the platinum coin. So awesome. 07:38:13
Reading – Apple's Pandora-like iRadio Service to Launch in 2013? (Husain Sumra) http://t.co/v9pwGd4Y 07:57:39
RT @TheStalwart: Obama should come out tomorrow and say: "The sequester will just happen, and I'm using the platinum coin. Let's move on … 08:02:34
Reading – Killing My Voice Mail (John Scalzi) http://t.co/oWqe5FqM 08:07:45
Reading – The Economics of the Dragon Smaug (John Carney) http://t.co/mnoNeuv0 14:53:01
Reading – Rand Paul, Bob Corker, and the Foreign Relations Committee (Daniel Larison) http://t.co/dO4DqzEF 15:25:24
Reading – Were the G.O.P. Votes Against Boehner a Historic Rejection? (Micah Cohen) http://t.co/VjqpTpgU 15:42:07
Reading – Gerrymanders, Part 1: Busting the both-sides-do-it myth (Sam Wang) http://t.co/tdMauWp5 16:11:24
Reading – Platinum coin option. (Matthew Yglesias) http://t.co/NcxqRRAA 16:22:35
Reading – After a half-decade, massive Wikipedia hoax finally exposed (Kevin Morris) http://t.co/J1BCP9Ao 16:36:59
Official, no faithless electors -> Reading – ELECTORAL VOTE COUNTED BY CONGRESS TODAY (Richard E. Berg-Andersson) http://t.co/VouHJi4F 20:16:40
Reading – Keeping Safari Secret (Don Melton) http://t.co/UE5k9Fka 20:21:26
Reading – Patrick Dempsey Buys Tully's Coffee? Ohhh-kay…. (Wm. Stephen Humphrey) http://t.co/hTehEJZW 20:30:19
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: 2012 Retrospective Show: In the latest Curmudgeon's Corner Sam and Iva… http://t.co/grAkSfkC 20:44:08
RT @Atrios: I also support putting a trillion dollar coin in a random happy meal 23:11:52

Curmudgeon’s Corner: 2012 Retrospective Show

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

2012 Politics
2012 Economy / 2012 Tech
2012 International
2012 Final Tally

Recorded on 31 Dec 2012

Length this week – 1:06:36


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@abulsme tweets from 2013-01-03 (UTC)

RT @breakingpol: White House: President Obama has signed the ‘fiscal cliff’ bill into law – @CNBC 06:09:46
Reading: Maybe вЂњThe Big SortвЂќ Never Happened (John Sides) http://t.co/xjaGcKuX 06:32:30
Reading: Skylab 4 Rang in the New Year with Mutiny in Orbit (Amy Teitel) http://t.co/imflfW3P 16:25:02
Reading – Megaupload: U.S. Deliberately Misled the Court with Unlawful Search Warrants (Ernesto, TorrentFreak) http://t.co/bHCvruX1 16:49:32
RT @breakingpol: Ohio Republican John Boehner is re-elected as House speaker in 113th Congress – @WSJ, @BloombergNews 18:40:54
Reading – The Dish Model (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/JpF3bEc0 18:47:46
Reading: Andrew Sullivan Goes Indie (Again) [John Scalzi] http://t.co/7Qoi5bzw 18:50:30
Reading: That Apple/Waze Deal Hits A Roadblock вЂ” That Roadblock Being Reality (Not Happening) [MG Siegler] http://t.co/b6DCkz8R 18:52:33
Reading – How The Fiscal Cliff Deal Killed Washington’s Fuzzy Math Epidemic [William Galston] http://t.co/WrG92Q4i 18:55:43
Reading: Filibuster reform is in serious trouble (Greg Sargent) http://t.co/IXDcIZY7 19:05:19
Reading – Boehner reelected as Speaker; nine Republicans defect in vote (Pete Kasperowicz) http://t.co/OkqulwC7 20:10:06
Reading – The Dish Model: The Data (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/xNCH2Ikm 20:13:28
Reading – Why the House stuck with Boehner (Marc Ambinder) http://t.co/17HmMXU0 20:45:44
Reading – Why We Must Go Off the Platinum Coin Cliff (Josh Barro) http://t.co/LxAHv0zO 21:05:37
Reading – Andrew Sullivan: вЂњI Figured, What The HellвЂќ (Rosie Gray) http://t.co/L2CSZ5YW 21:28:48
Reading – Corning introduces Gorilla Glass 3, promises ape-sized improvements in durability (Brad Molen) http://t.co/O3ds5MMD 22:03:24
RT @GarrettQuinn: Only two states had third party vote totals amount to more than 4%: Alaska and New Mexico https://t.co/936sYM6b 22:07:48

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