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Curmudgeon’s Corner: You Got Played

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

  • Work-Life Balance / iPhone 5s / iPhone 5c / Phablets
  • Innovative Dicks and Assholes
  • Shutdown / Debt Limit

Recorded on 15 Oct 2013

Length this week – 1:33:00

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@abulsme tweets from 2013-10-15 (UTC)

  • My fitbit #Fitstats for 10/14/2013: 14,631 steps and 10.8 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:01:55
  • Just finished recording this week’s podcast with @imbou. I will try (no promise) to get it out before we hit the debt limit. :-) 04:04:26
  • Reading – Anger explodes at Yahoo Mail redesign disaster: Key functions removed or broken (Violet Blue) http://t.co/m8L9Nsp6vE 06:05:41
  • Alarm just went off telling me to get up and start getting ready for my day. I haven’t actually gone to bed yet. This day is going to suck. 12:01:33
  • RT @robertcostaNRO: Conservatives are revolting this morning in the House, will not accept Senate deal, decisions/calls in 6-8am range seal… 13:21:05
  • Waiting for the the bus now, because sleeping while riding is better than sleeping while driving. Or so they say. 13:47:05
  • Almost fell asleep two or three times in the 15 minute WALK from my house to the bus stop. Ready to fall over now. Yawn!!! 13:48:09
  • Reading – Everything you need to know about the NSA and Tor in one FAQ (Timothy B. Lee) http://t.co/jM53EJgA3C 18:37:36
  • Reading – House GOP Considers Passing Bill, Then Leaving Town (Tom Kludt) http://t.co/Bnjfskgy3F 18:42:30
  • RT @BYUfan: @abulsme Dude! Take care of yourself. It's not worth it. Your need for sleep is always a valid excuse. 18:42:56
  • .@BYUfan yeah, yeah, I know. I just start working on something at 11 PM & get on a roll, then I look up & it is time to get ready for work. in reply to BYUfan 18:44:26
  • .@BYUfan Have done it several times recently, about half & half for my own stuff & for work stuff. I feel great getting the stuff done, but… in reply to BYUfan 18:46:24
  • .@BYUfan Avg over last 7 days is about 4.5 hours of sleep per night. Not enough. Definitely catching up with me. Ready to sleep for a week. in reply to BYUfan 18:47:52
  • Reading – Boehner Searches for Votes (Robert Costa) http://t.co/Rym44pdDLh 19:31:55
  • RT @markos: Not to stand in the way of GOP's self-destruction, but they WANT a pre-Christmas showdown when "grinch" references will abound? 19:46:28
  • Reading – Juan Linz’s Bad News for America (Matthew Yglesias) http://t.co/RxbVtDUhG7 20:05:19
  • Reading – It's OK to overreact to shootings in Washington (Marc Ambinder) http://t.co/R2EBCnmVyq 20:25:48
  • Reading – Shiller on 401K Plan Investing
    Calculated Risk (Bill McBride) http://t.co/rs2unC4qwC 20:29:04
  • Reading – Miriam Carey (Josh Marshall) http://t.co/4BWDu6ndSn 21:31:09
  • RT @chucktodd: Every move House GOP leadership has made has been about trying to prevent GOP civil war from breaking out w/right. unavoidab… 22:04:43
  • Reading – House GOP May Cancel Vote (Robert Costa) http://t.co/t7JvK0ca17 22:09:19
  • RT @mattyglesias: Everyone on the Hill is talking about 10/17 but the real x-date has been pushed back by the shutdown. This could go on a … 22:23:58
  • RT @petersuderman: Congressional GOP now playing out same dynamic that gave us Romney candidacy. Republicans have no idea what they want ex… 22:24:16

@abulsme tweets from 2013-10-14 (UTC)

@abulsme tweets from 2013-10-13 (UTC)

@abulsme tweets from 2013-10-12 (UTC)

  • Reading – For America to Survive, the Republican Party must Die (Delaware Dem, dailykos) http://t.co/XuClI2FJAu 02:19:42
  • Reading – Has the shutdown leveled the House playing field? (Sam Wang) http://t.co/jm19gd4mPw 02:24:07
  • Reading – C.I.A. Disputes Early Suspicions on Snowden (Eric Schmitt) http://t.co/eDmLpoP6an 02:31:03
  • Reading – OS X 10.10 codenamed Syrah, anyone want to bet it's going to look more like iOS 7? (Rene Ritchie) http://t.co/QtAxHZAYjT 03:31:34
  • Reading – The GOP's Civil War About Nothing
    Slate Blogs (Matthew Yglesias) http://t.co/Uhvww7Jsey 03:36:08
  • Reading – This seems like big news but it’s really not (The Bloggess) http://t.co/bm5CvLUHTO 03:42:47
  • Reading – Lavabit Challenges Contempt Order in the Fourth Circuit: An Analysis of Its Arguments (Orin Kerr) http://t.co/YiRAeFHxGd 03:54:16
  • My fitbit #Fitstats for 10/11/2013: 5,016 steps and 3.7 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 04:02:03
  • Reading – Government Shutdown 2013 : Gerrymandering Isn't To Blame (Nate Cohn) http://t.co/TbxlBo6pZ8 04:39:46
  • Reading – Congressional Republicans rush to develop plan to reopen government (Montgomery/Kane) http://t.co/2AS2N5R2io 05:07:37
  • OK, been playing with the poll display. New stuff only works on Safari and Firefox at the moment. Breaks in Chrome or IE. Which is a bummer. 11:00:00
  • It took long enough messing with stuff & Googling to get it working in Safari & FF! (And any real Webdev would be appalled at the code.) 11:02:04
  • Anyway, anybody on Safari/FF got an opinion? Which display do you like better? A) http://t.co/4ILDOYdww1 or B) http://t.co/rJ2Urss0Aj ? 11:04:52
  • B is of course the new one that uses really funky stuff I googled to do the vertical text and doesn't work well on Chrome and IE. 11:05:53
  • Well, Chrome is almost passible (almost), but IE isn't even close. 11:06:44
  • I kinda like B, but it has some downsides, even besides the browser stuff. (I can always make some browsers fall back to A if I need to.) 11:08:23
  • I'll probably end up providing both as options, but which should be the default? Anybody got an opinion? 11:10:27
  • Don't think I will be getting B working in IE & Chrome. I'd love to, but probably beyond my skill. Pure blind luck I got it working at all. 11:18:06
  • Anyway, thinking I should probably be done for the night now… 11:18:52
  • RT @bob_kuszewski: @abulsme How about a version of your predictions where the size of the label is proportional to the number of electoral … 17:50:00
  • .@bob_kuszewski Thought about that. Problem is it would make it very wide (or tall) or have lots of slices too narrow for readable text. in reply to bob_kuszewski 17:52:19
  • .@bob_kuszewski You could do a diagram, & then just point labels at the appropriate parts, but I think that would be much harder. Too hard? in reply to bob_kuszewski 17:53:56
  • .@bob_kuszewski Of course, now you have me thinking about ways to try to do it…. Arghhh! :-) in reply to bob_kuszewski 18:06:41

@abulsme tweets from 2013-10-11 (UTC)

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@abulsme tweets from 2013-10-09 (UTC)

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Stronger Duct Tape

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

  • Banking Woes
  • NSA Feedback
  • Govt Shutdown and Debt Limit Standoffs
  • Twitter IPO / Samsung Watch
  • DC Car Shooting Incident

Recorded on 7 Oct 2013

Length this week – 1:22:52

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@abulsme tweets from 2013-10-08 (UTC)