04:05:55 Retweeted @HeerJeet04:01:01 The endgame is becoming more visible: after Trump loses or drops out, will blame GOP elite for sabotaging. Then off to Trump TV.
16:10:46 Retweeted @daveweigel16:07:02 Bernie on DNC: “It doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee, so I’m not going to determine the scope of the convention."
18:53:17 .@cspan broadcasting a Periscope from the floor of the House instead of official cameras is bizarre. (GOP turned off cams on Dem protest.)
19:24:55 .@FHQ Question: Could Trump be denied under current rules (no changes) simply by enough dels choosing not to show up 4 the roll call vote? in reply to FHQ
20:33:39 Retweeted @FHQ20:21:20 2) Less likely. Rules give deference to delegation chairs from each state. They're the ones tallying within states. @abulsme 2/ in reply to FHQ
20:33:43 Retweeted @FHQ20:22:45 Those delegation chairs could count votes of those not there (in the event no alternate fills the slot). Not prohibited. @abulsme 3/ in reply to FHQ
20:33:47 Retweeted @FHQ20:24:02 3) Rule 37 also gives the RNC the power to come up w/an alternate means of determining the nominee if a roll call can't happen. @abulsme 4/ in reply to FHQ
20:33:51 Retweeted @FHQ20:25:10 Intent of that is natural or other disaster, though, not mass walk outs. But it is expansive enough to cover that too. @abulsme 5/ in reply to FHQ
20:34:05 Retweeted @FHQ20:28:02 Defaulting to that sort of option would not be without controversy. Of course, nor would not showing up as a delegate. @abulsme 8/8 in reply to FHQ
I now present Alex’s new mega episode from his channel ALeXMXeLA.com. He is very proud of this. It is different than his usual gaming videos. There is no video game. Instead, he and Amy present some educational material about plants. Sorta.
Alex and Amy go to the store to buy plants, then head home and re-pot them. In between the commentary on plants, you’ll hear them bickering and talking about all sorts of other things as well. For instance, Alex wanted to make this two episodes, Amy wanted only one. Amy won that one. Alex was right. Off camera, Amy also wanted to cut a lot to make it shorter. Alex was having none of that. Enjoy! – Recorded 2016-04-14
Alex did a lot of the editing on the video (what there was of it) himself, adding scene transitions and choosing how to do the credits at the end, and making choices about how much to leave in and what to drop. He decided he wanted to include almost all of the footage we had, only a few seconds total were left out. And a few seconds of footage are actually included twice! So this is his longest video yet, over an hour. And while I may have cut some out of it if I was doing the editing all by myself to bring it under an hour, I admit to being amused by the sibling banter that winds its way through the entire episode.
Enjoy! And subscribe to his channel! This is the 74th episode. We have 70 more “in the can” that have been recorded but not yet posted. I am trying to post several each week, but am having issues keeping up with the rate he records them! In addition to the gaming videos, he has been making some more of these non-gaming videos occasionally as well about various topics. :-)
PS: Lets Plant 1 was an earlier video giving an overview of different sorts of trees that appear in the games he plays.
PSS: I specifically had Alex choose some of the built in “use it anywhere” music loops from Garage Band for the credits to be safe on copyright sorts of issues, but YouTube still identified it as copyrighted music (although with the wrong title, so I suspect it may be an incorrect identification) and so ads were inserted by the the supposed copyright holder. Annoying. Better than blocking the video, but still annoying. You can just close the ads, but still…
Update 2016-06-24 13:56 UTC: Had to upload a new version of this because a day and a half after publishing it Alex pointed out there was a place in the middle with an audio gap that escaped my notice despite watching it over and over again. I was able to fix it, and a corrected version is now posted and embedded above.
Update 2016-06-26 07:09 UTC: It looks like the new version, with the exact same closing credits music, didn’t trigger the copyright warning this time. Good. Because it wasn’t the song it said it was anyway. Sigh.
00:20:49 Listening in on the briefing for national delegates. Warning them about reporters and social media. :-) #WADemCon
00:42:17 Still waiting for the Sanders at large delegate results. #WADemCon
00:50:08 One national del tells me “politics is going on” w/in the delegation & that there are some items of contention. No surprise there! #WADemCon
18:25:45 Retweeted @natsecHeather18:20:35 "ISIL wants to manufacture clash of civilizations…view of us vs them. Why on earth are we giving them what they want?" -Biden #CNAS2016
18:54:41 Watching TEDTalks (video) I survived a terrorist attack. Here's what I learned | Gill Hicks
via iCatcher! https://t.co/82fV8EWhMf
07:17:05 New polls added in AZ/WA/IL/IA over at @ElecCollPolls. No changes that would trigger a blog post here.
09:02:10 Updated the “Most needed poll” listing on https://t.co/lFrW6BgIda to show the five most needed polls instead of just one.
09:12:31 These are currently the most poll starved states given “closeness” in my avg: CO/NV/MO/NM/AR. Wondering how much a @ppppolls poll costs. :-) in reply to ElectionGraphs
04:59:45 Retweeted @Lileks04:42:49 Checking the Amazon product page to see if it says “this clear plastic iPhone case mellows to the hue of smoker’s teeth in 3 months”
18:07:59 Sanders campaign also adding people to the list. Were they just confused completely? #WADemCon
18:08:44 Retweeted @elonmusk15:25:26 We *def* don't recommended this, but Model S floats well enough to turn it into a boat for short periods of time. Thrust via wheel rotation.
18:13:46 List correction complete. Speeches for Sanders PLEO candidates about to start. #WADemCon
18:18:17 .@NoelFrame, yesterday’s chair, now giving her speech. She has to win a spot, right? Everybody liked her. Excellent chair.
19:55:59 Going through the process of correcting the list of Clinton at large candidates, which has many errors. Seems like a theme today. #WADemCon
20:02:45 Speeches for Clinton at large delegates have now begun. This will take a little while. #WADemCon
20:28:53 Many more women running for Hillary at large delegate than men. (To maintain ratios 5 women and one man will be elected anyway.) #WADemCon
20:33:51 Retweeted @owillis20:08:44 a scene from the rnc chairman's office
"whew, maybe trump will settle down this week"
"sir, he's calling for racial profiling"
"fuhhhhh"
20:43:32 142 more days! -> Lewinsky allegedly freaked out after Clinton’s affair with VP’s daughter (Daniel Halper) https://t.co/7vUZGhoDFU
21:24:38 Retweeted @nduchast21:23:13#WADemCon dueling resolutions most ptobably coming up: "endorse Bernie" vs "dual endorse Bernie and Hilary" – all symbolic
22:17:23 .@nduchast Presumably they thought it was pointless since Clinton the clear nominee at this point, so they didn’t bother. in reply to nduchast
22:41:13 Given how this is going & extrapolating to other states, I’m predicting at least one Sanders electoral vote in Dec from a faithless elector.
22:43:33 That is a little flip. Electors end up under enormous pressure to do what they are supposed to do. So maybe 50/50. But still. in reply to abulsme
22:47:22 Nomination speeches for elector done. Voting soon. If nobody has majorities for the two slots (one male, one female) then runoff.
22:47:55 Someone again asking what the hell an elector does and who they vote for. They are trying to explain. :-/ #WADemCon
22:49:25 Someone who was actually an elector in 2012 explaining. #WADemCon
23:22:18 Now they are going through giving permission to let amendments be withdrawn for amendments where the authors want to withdraw. #WADemCon
23:27:05 All amendments that the authors wanted to withdraw are withdrawn. @NoelFrame says we just saved two hours. Yay!
23:27:14 Now charter amendments that will actually be considered.
23:46:22 They are tallying votes on a gender equity related charter amendment. Quietest it has been in the room all day. #WADemCon
23:47:49 Someone pointed out that if they tally all votes they won’t get through the whole agenda today. Think that boat sailed hours ago. #WADemCon
23:52:25 The charter amendment passed. Someone objecting cause chair of the tally committee wrote the amendment. Oops! #WADemCon Vote stands anyway.
23:55:38 Move to suspend rules to lower time people can speak on each item. Passes. Of course that isn’t what has taken the time. #WADemCon