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@abulsme tweets from 2014-06-02 (UTC)

  • Poll Added: PPP in OR from 2014-05-22 to 2014-05-27 – Clinton 52% to Cruz 37% http://t.co/F2UHCRR26U 00:11:25
  • Poll Added: PPP in OR from 2014-05-22 to 2014-05-27 – Clinton 51% to Huckabee 39% http://t.co/HFpErnI3BQ 00:11:33
  • Reading – Hillary Clinton and the trouble with inevitability (Joan Vennochi) http://t.co/mDloFRywk2 01:34:45
  • Reading – WWDC 2014 Prelude (John Gruber) http://t.co/oqCKldHgY3 04:34:56
  • Reading – Dear GOP: The US has negotiated with Terrorists and Amnestied Them all through History (Juan Cole) http://t.co/mat4bOmBtf 09:29:36
  • Signed up -> Reading – An Important Message for Our Core Readers (@joshtpm) http://t.co/4hFp94bEQ3 09:41:36
  • Subscriber since Day 1 -> Reading – New Dish, New Media Update (@sullydish) http://t.co/SsFU868m2B 09:51:08
  • Reading – King Juan Carlos of Spain to Abdicate Throne (Minder/Cowell) http://t.co/J2bA8zfic7 09:53:53
  • Reading – The Trick That Makes Google's Self-Driving Cars Work (Alexis C. Madrigal) http://t.co/WYMxMbGrn7 10:06:13
  • Reading – Pirate Bay co-founder Peter "brokep" Sunde arrested in Sweden (Cory Doctorow) http://t.co/IuysdIn2Zk 10:17:45
  • Reading – June 2 is the most important day of Obama's second term (@mattyglesias) http://t.co/JEJ2TywGYW 10:24:08
  • Finished up a document for work around 2 AM. But my email quota was full, so I couldn’t send it. 90 minutes cleaning out mail so far. :-/ 10:27:44
  • Reading – The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot Coming to DVD/BD (PCJ) http://t.co/g1ryfExeT7 10:29:44
  • Finally got my docs out just a few minutes ago. Time for bed. Just about 3 hours until I have to be up. Bleh. :-/ 10:53:54
  • Up late doing work for work, plus limited sleep, plus dial in numbers available for all meetings today = Work from home, skip commute. 15:14:02
  • Also, WWDC live stream! Except I will be on work phone calls for a significant chunk of it, so won’t enable to watch the whole thing live. 15:18:26
  • Reading – We Lost Soldiers in the Hunt for Bergdahl, a Guy Who Walked Off in the Dead of Night – (Nathan Bethea) http://t.co/31cfmaUR6r 16:16:46
  • Reading – What you need to know about the 'right to be forgotten' on Google (@m4tt) http://t.co/NWTGsBNWQ9 16:33:24
  • Been on conference calls for the last hour of the WWDC live stream, but had it on mute in the background. Looks like many cool things… 18:06:11
  • Family Sharing will SO get used by my family… shared purchases will be killer! No more multiple purchases! Hmmm… same credit card tho. 18:14:44
  • A big theme here is full integration between all Apple devices. Very cool if it all works smoothly. 18:19:38
  • Hey Siri! 18:22:26
  • Nest wasn’t on that home automation slide. Wonder why? :-) 18:36:52
  • Not a real programmer, although obviously I play around a bit with simple stuff. Swift makes me want to try it out. 18:54:29
  • It seems like what they announced for both OS X and iOS is a lot more extensive than people expected. Good stuff. 18:56:58
  • RT @marcoarment: They didn’t need new hardware today, and they knew it. 18:57:43
  • Nice. I’ll have to go back and watch the first hour that I missed sometime. But probably not right now. Back to work… 18:59:12
  • Looks like this happened. RT @minardanna: UNANIMOUS PASSAGE OF THE $15 WAGE LAW IN SEATTLE. 22:43:39
  • Reading – Everything You Need to Know From WWDC 2014 (Mashable) http://t.co/y0iSH0GrDE 23:16:46
  • Reading – Narrative Clip Review (@BYUfan) http://t.co/xTm4L383V9 23:23:07
  • Watching – Net Neutrality (Jon Oliver) https://t.co/qMeHDyDccA 23:37:27

@abulsme tweets from 2014-06-01 (UTC)

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-31 (UTC)

Pics from Apr 2014

April was difficult. Started out with 979 pictures for the month. Narrowed down to 77 in the first pass through looking for pictures worth posting. Then had to narrow it down to 30 (one per day) for this post. The last cull was tough! Anyway, here goes…

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2014-04-02 02:01 – Alex riding his bike, for real!

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2014-04-06 21:58 – Goggle selfie

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2014-04-12 07:39 – Roscoe cuddles up to sleep

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2014-04-19 21:57 – Amy (and Alex) at the Space Needle

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2014-04-19 21:58 – Alex conspiring with Cousin Lev

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2014-04-19 22:58 – Still conspiring, now under Alex’s new umbrella, under watchful adult eyes

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2014-04-19 23:51 – Walking with Grandma Ruth

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2014-04-20 00:02 – The Seattle Great Wheel

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2014-04-20 00:12 – Cousin Seth was there too

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2014-04-20 00:?? (picture by my mom) – Sitting with Daddy in the wheel

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2014-04-20 00:26 – But I was less interesting than Cousin Lev

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2014-04-20 00:?? (picture by my mom) – Lev had a good view out the window

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2014-04-20 00:37 – Back on the ground, Lev and Alex continued to stick together as much as they could.

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2014-04-20 03:26 – Having said goodbye to the cousins, walking back toward the car past EPM/SFM

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2014-04-20 03:31 – Alex runs within the “Glass Blades” sculpture.

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2014-04-20 21:56 – And then there was an Easter egg hunt at my mother’s college roommate’s house!

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2014-04-20 22:02 (screenshot from a video) – Alex even had Amy climb a tree to get an egg!

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2014-04-20 22:04 (posted previously) – It was great fun. There was running.

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2014-04-20 22:10 – And climbing.

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2014-04-20 22:40 – And of course the counting of the loot.

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2014-04-22 22:34 – Another day, and it is a trip to a park.

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2014-04-22 22:27 (Animated GIF assembled by Google+ Autoawesome) – A park with trains!!

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2014-04-22 22:34 – A park with a beach and logs to sit on with Grandma Ruth!

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2014-04-22 22:36 – Alex looks over the beach

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2014-04-22 22:42 – It was a pretty beach

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2014-04-22 22:43 – Alex got brave and dipped his feet in the water

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2014-04-22 22:46 – Grandma Ruth and Alex examined things other people had drawn on the sand

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2014-04-22 22:48 – But then there was another train!

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2014-04-22 22:55 – A panorama of Alex and Grandma Ruth on the beach. (Click it to enbiggen.)

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2014-04-27 23:47 – And to finish off the month, Alex running with Roscoe :-)

Edited 23:00 to fix typo.

Curmudgeon’s Corner: That’s Just How It Goes

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam talks about:

  • Housekeeping
  • Feedback / Isla Vista Shootings
  • #YesAllWomen
  • Snowden Boredom
  • Google Car
  • SpaceX Dragon V2

Recorded on 30 May 2014

Length this week – 1:08:44

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Edit 2014-06-02 21:06 to correct post title

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