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@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-14 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 1/13/2014: 9,869 steps and 7.3 km traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/264X38 03:01
Reading – Obama Fights a Push to Add Iran Sanctions (Landler/Weisman) http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/world/middleeast/obama-fights-a-push-to-add-iran-sanctions.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&referrer= вЂ¦ 04:05
Reading – iPad mini with Retina display review (Rene Ritchie) http://pocket.co/s2BBE 06:40
Reading – NSA official: mass spying has foiled one (or fewer) plots in its whole history [Cory Doctorow] http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/rLiTxiR8JWs/story01.htm вЂ¦ 07:01
Reading – Florida Man Is Shot to Death for Texting During Movie Previews (John Gruber) http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/01/14/florida-man вЂ¦ 07:27
Reading – Christie Allegedly Diverted Millions In Sandy Relief Funds 2 Pay 4 Ads Starring Himself (Volsky) http://www.alternet.org/christie-allegedly-diverted-millions-sandy-funds-pay-ads-starring-himself?paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark вЂ¦ 07:40
Reading – Dubai Calls for End to Iran Sanctions, Says no Nuclear Threat (Juan Cole) http://is.gd/5GL43i 08:43
Reading – Is 2014 the year Apple becomes a luxury brand? (Marc Ambinder) http://is.gd/p4wNRR 08:46
Reading – Chris Christie Will Not Be the 45th President of the United States (Kevin Drum) http://is.gd/syi1yE 08:49
Reading – Star Trek, post-scarcity and DRM (Rob Beschizza) http://pocket.co/s2_yt 16:26
Reading – Ticketing at the Coliseum (Centives) http://www.centives.net/S/2014/ticketing-at-the-coliseum/ вЂ¦ 16:29
Reading – Appeals court strikes down FCC’s Net neutrality rules (Marguerite Reardon) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57617199-38/appeals-court-strikes-down-fccs-net-neutrality-rules/ вЂ¦ 16:39
RT @laurenweinstein: @declanm The path forward is clear. Declare them to be common carriers. That’s what they are. Should have been classed that way all along. 16:??
Reading – Holy Crap: Google Just Bought Nest For $3.2 Billion In Cash (Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan) http://gizmodo.com/google-just-bought-nest-for-3-2-billion-1500503899?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow вЂ¦ 16:44
Reading – The Economics of Star Trek (Rick Webb) http://pocket.co/s2_7Q 17:41
Reading – Net Neutrality Takes a Big Hit in Court (Kevin Drum) http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/01/net-neutrality-takes-big-hit-court вЂ¦ 17:45
Reading – Senate Dems put themselves in tough spot over Iran (Greg Sargent) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/01/14/senate-dems-put-themselves-in-tough-spot-over-iran/ вЂ¦ 17:53
Reading – The Dish, Year 2: Renewal Time (Andrew Sullivan) http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/01/14/the-dish-year-2-renewal-time/ вЂ¦ 17:59
Reading – What “Investment” Means to Economists (Matthew Yglesias) http://pocket.co/s2_uG 18:21
Reading – The Light Bulb Revolution Is Here to Stay (Kevin Drum) http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/01/light-bulb-revolution-here-stay вЂ¦ 18:25
RT @mckaycoppins: This is awful. RT @eliotnelson All of a sudden I want to call my parents to say I love them. http://twitter.com/eliotnelson/status/423108041936891906/photo/1pic.twitter.com/Y2XZMc5qXM ??:??
RT @AlyonaMink: RT @DanielEllsberg I am proud and honored to announce our new @FreedomofPress board member: Edward Snowden. http://bit.ly/L8H3se ??:??
RT @ggreenwald: WHOA: New Qunnipiac Poll: Americans consider Snowden more of a whistleblower than traitor by huge margin: 57-34% http://www.pollingreport.com/terror.htm ??:??
RT @mattyglesias: Kinda strange pair of polling results on Snowden: pic.twitter.com/61N69rb3S2 ??:??
RT @movingsideways: Would you like to join Google+? No? [Temperature in home steadily rises] How about now? We thought so. ??:??
Reading – Requirements for DRM in HTML5 are a secret (Cory Doctorow) http://is.gd/2qNtGP 22:35
Reading – Google Is Eating Apple’s Lunch (Todd Wasserman) http://is.gd/BLsYKA 22:39

@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-13 (UTC)

RT @BYUfan: .@abulsme That was a great show. You asked for listener predictions. Here are mine. Predictions 2014 – http://t.co/vhQQyeQfOb 00:57:57
.@BYUfan Thanks! I read your predictions the day you posted them too. Good stuff! in reply to BYUfan 01:00:37
My fitbit #Fitstats for 1/12/2014: 8,477 steps and 6.3 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:01:07
Reading – There's An Electronic Currency That Could Save The Economy вЂ” And It's Not Bitcoin (Danny Vinik) http://t.co/NKitKsx3Sa 01:40:56
Refrigerator broke Wednesday. Attempted repair failed Friday. New one ordered just now for Saturday delivery. Too much $$$. Better be good. 08:04:49
We of course upsold ourselves throughout the process. Picked one we really liked, but really probably past our rational budget. Oh well. :-/ 08:06:42
After the initial rounds of throwing out spoiled food, Brandy has been keeping the old refrigerator cold with dry ice, replenished daily. 08:11:07
Guess we keep doing that until the new one arrives. Fun, huh? 08:11:36
Reading – The only known photo of Einstein's Mass-Energy Equivalence formula (George Dvorsky) http://t.co/9TkabANgZu 08:34:02
Reading – Stuxnet's Secret Twin (Ralph Langner) http://t.co/q3xTFTExpi 09:13:24
Reading – The Coming Tribulation (Rod Dreher) http://t.co/m5S7spg0XU 15:32:31
Reading – Analysis of Terrorism Cases Finds NSA Phone Record Collection Didn’t Prevent Attacks (Gosztola) http://t.co/rk7FEOkB7J 15:39:54
Reading – Airliner Lands At Wrong Airport, Barely Misses Going Off Runway (Scott Neuman) http://t.co/NQ9PUiMSjR 15:45:26

@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-12 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 1/11/2014: 8,380 steps and 6.2 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:01:08
Reading – Is There Anything Conservative About вЂњConservative InternationalismвЂќ? (Daniel Larison) http://t.co/b85gdN8jVO 01:14:28
Reading – Kindle Vending Machine Shows How Amazon Could Take Over the World (Marcus Wohlsen) http://t.co/KIrzZ0qLLr 01:19:33
RT @KagroX: What if we sent no water to WV, and press later discovered Obama staffers texting "they're Romney voters" & "is it wrong that IвЂ¦ 01:31:00
RT @SciencePorn: Loneliest whale in the world http://t.co/k7Ycd8tszI 02:03:09
[Abulpost] We Have A Writer! http://t.co/d7HHP5hKSS 09:02:05
Reading – On Day of Symbolism, Honoring Kennedy, and Successor He Inspired (Mark Landler) http://t.co/jYrxfBvx6g 19:00:55
Reading – More Employment Graphs (Bill McBride) http://t.co/qeZPIfZjQe 19:07:47
Reading – Michael Arndt's scrapped Star Wars story was about Luke and Leia's kids (Charlie Jane Anders) http://t.co/Ei0v5Vvni6 19:11:11
Reading – 24 Reasons Husbands Can’t Be Trusted To Do Anything Right (Tanner Ringerud) http://t.co/h96XQ44xNj 19:18:48
Reading – The Untold Legal Drama Of Coyote v. Acme (Geoff Manaugh) http://t.co/gYyFkdvbmW 22:04:01
RT @YourAnonNews: Leaving your Facebook\Twitter open isn't being "hacked", it's just you being stupid. 22:26:00
RT @IFLScience: Do I really have to repost this one every time I share a cool spider macro image? Appreciate your spiderbros. http://t.co/zвЂ¦ 22:30:45
Reading – Castro: 'Oswald Could Not Have Been the One Who Killed Kennedy' (Jeffrey Goldberg) http://t.co/lMb37jFVIN 22:44:29
Reading – How Windows 8 compromised Microsoft, perhaps terminally (Rene Ritchie) http://t.co/PCA2kBQtXN 22:52:41

We Have A Writer!

He has been writing his letters on the iPhone and iPad for over a year, but this is the first fully legible I have seen on paper… with the possible exception of the occasional A, L, e and X. :-)

The new school is working out REALLY well for him. He is so much happier, and doing all sorts of new things!

@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-11 (UTC)

Reading – 4 Russian Travel Tips for Visiting America (Therese Oneill) http://t.co/ad5KpXeRp2 00:01:22
My fitbit #Fitstats for 1/10/2014: 8,406 steps and 6.2 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:01:08
Reading – Rachel Maddow unveils riveting Christie theory (Brad Friedman) http://t.co/oy8ZAliAYg 01:57:03
RT @mattyglesias: Boom. Great footnote. http://t.co/VtXxqaPjMn 02:15:18
Reading – US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data (James Ball) http://t.co/Va9uZQEM2M 02:53:40
Reading – Senator Ted Cruz Says He No Longer Believes in States’ Rights (Kragar, LGF) http://t.co/OWcZINbDMg 02:55:48
Reading – Docs show scramble over N.J. bridge flap (Elizabeth Titus) http://t.co/LTVAGzS8wR 03:05:03
One of the HS teachers who influenced me most. Time for a few tears. -> Velyen Jeanne Vaughn 1926 – 2014 http://t.co/ZCufc7d2UI 03:11:30
Reading – US polar vortex may be example of global warming (Andrew Freedman) http://t.co/iry03loaKA 04:08:01
Reading – It Doesn't Fit (Josh Marshall) http://t.co/Y9Nb5w8rmG 04:28:10
Reading – What Do We Know About the Chemical That Just Spilled in West Virginia? (Chris Mooney) http://t.co/292vUX3L0p 04:51:40
Reading – The Surveillance Industry Index: An Introduction (Matt Rice) http://t.co/y82OZmBZKH 05:55:00
Reading – Argument preview: The nomination wars (Lyle Denniston) http://t.co/0TQDZruDPd 06:23:05
Reading – Politics A Spectre Is Haunting SeattleвЂ”the Spectre of Non-Democratism (Goldy, Slog) http://t.co/fRlHbLvYTv 17:32:25
Reading – West Virginia’s Toxic Disaster (Michael Tomasky) http://t.co/gbn6lAdE0p 17:38:10
Reading – Peak Oil Is Dead: Long Live Peak Oil! (Michael T. Klare) http://t.co/sK83utjRrb 17:53:09
Watching – Jon Stewart NAILS IT on NJ Gov. Chris Christie Bridgegate Scandal (Daily Show) http://t.co/3i3Xf8UjIM 18:08:07
Reading – Some of Christie's potential felonies (Louise, Daily Kos) http://t.co/xIZp4KwRPX 19:04:19
RT @SciencePorn: Where humans live http://t.co/gqnJs63BAW 21:09:05
Reading – Doctor Who: Moffat Promises Big Change For The Twelfth Doctor (Henry Bulmer) http://t.co/QxLVL0gJ4e 21:18:55
RT @Amazing_Maps: Did you know the continents could be arranged to look like a chicken? http://t.co/3KArHV4kff 21:21:01

@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-10 (UTC)

RT @romenesko: Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby's son – missing since Monday – has been found safe in Times Square. http://t.co/5hFPAUUCq2 02:33:49
My fitbit #Fitstats for 1/09/2014: 8,632 steps and 6.4 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 08:01:05
Reading – Freezing As The World Warms, Ctd (The Dish) http://t.co/6x8k8OSxaI 08:33:11
Reading – Never Forget That Wireless Carriers Are Evil (Matt Burns) http://t.co/xaGasfvofb 15:23:44
Reading – For Christie, 2016 May Be A Bridge To Nowhere (Ken Rudin) http://t.co/lYUz0qb77e 15:27:45
Uh ohвЂ¦ Where does House stand? RT @MiriamElder: Senate Reaches Veto-Proof Majority On Iran Sanctions http://t.co/u2lZvDhxie via @rosiegray 19:38:02
Watching – 8 Facts You Didn't Know About The Hobbit Movies (BuzzFeedVideo) http://t.co/hcIZKZHZXV 19:41:33
Reading – Let’s Be Real: Online Harassment Isn’t вЂVirtual’ For Women (Jill Flipovic) http://t.co/Ng3VvjNr48 20:10:46
Reading – Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham Get Mad at Me For Asking Why She's Naked So Much on 'Girls' (Tim Molloy) http://t.co/K2B3es93pn 20:22:42
Yup! If I could! RT @imbou: @abulsme I know you would be naked all@the time if given the option! :p 22:51:03
Reading – Send Email to Your Google+ Circles (Alex Chitu) http://t.co/KOuUFWeE5K 23:17:32
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: 2014 Predictions Show http://t.co/ROHWIyqZRf 23:48:43

Curmudgeon’s Corner: 2014 Predictions Show

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

Introduction
2014 Politics
2014 Politics Continued
2014 Economics
2014 Tech
2014 International
2014 Hodgepodge / Wrapup

Recorded on 8 Jan 2014

Length this week – 1:45:24


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@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-09 (UTC)

Reading – CES 2014 Impressions: Samsung's Pro Tablets
Tested (Norman Chan) http://t.co/HWDGNJELsm 00:54:07
RT @ryan: .@Gruber nails it: "If Gates is going to be вЂњmuch more involvedвЂќ, [he] should just take the jobвЂ¦ Otherwise let the new CEO run thвЂ¦ 00:56:20
Reading – On Secrecy, Oaths, and Edward Snowden (Daniel Ellsberg) https://t.co/03YKqzx08G 00:59:41
My fitbit #Fitstats for 1/08/2014: 11,081 steps and 8.2 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:01:15
Reading – Photos (xkcd) http://t.co/1gaz3uQmtN 01:02:19
RT @AkyolinEnglish: вЂњ@olivertearle: Ha! Perhaps the best footnote in an academic textbook ever… http://t.co/NsycS9yUzgвЂќ 08:04:59
Reading – A Bunch Of Pple Threw Boiling Water To Watch It Freeze & Burned Themselves (Adrian Carrasquillo) http://t.co/0ypuTFK0Rf 08:45:08
RT @TheFix: Christie faced with bad options: 1) Say he didn't know anything and seem out of loop 2) Admit he knew and watch 2016 go bye bye. 16:33:26
Reading – Disney appoints a group to determine a new, official Star Wars canon (Rob Bricken) http://t.co/7fYeRpqV1K 17:09:39
I was in a meeting earlier, but now turning on CNN on my Slingbox for however much is left of the marathon Christie press conference. :-) 17:24:17
That was fun. :-) 17:56:03
Reading – When Did Christie Know? (The Dish) http://t.co/LG5vA2RSXo 18:03:37
Reading – First as Fake, Then As Reality: When the Polar Vortex Froze Niagara Falls (Alexis C. Madrigal) http://t.co/GuxikhD795 18:09:15
RT @AmyNotAmy: #Hottip for Winter: break your freezer and use coolers w/dry ice instead. Leave them outside for extra coolness. http://t.cвЂ¦ 18:51:02
RT @AmyNotAmy: Follow for more #saddog pics http://t.co/fXKMayGnG2 18:56:00
RT @AmyNotAmy: If you ever feel like being really creeped out by the weather every day from 6pm-10am, move to #everett. #pnw http://t.co/aTвЂ¦ 18:56:11
RT @AmyNotAmy: #Hipster kid always ready for an adventure. http://t.co/zhtBrsqwoW 19:02:09
Daughter @AmyNotAmy is on a twitter spree at the moment it seems. :-) 19:02:51
Reading – He Hasn’t Gotten Around To Anger Yet (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/XGmHhteloP 19:37:52
Heads up @imbou MT @davabel: Finally starting to look his age: Fidel Castro, 87, makes 1st public appearance in 9 mo http://t.co/sHPoYCZzrS 20:06:12
RT @BrendanNyhan: Betting odds of Christie winning GOP nomination @PredictWise before bridge scandal: 19.3%. Now 15.9% http://t.co/XaMin7czвЂ¦ 22:15:59
Reading – How and when the iMac and Mac Pro can go Retina (Marco Arment) http://t.co/JhCwFN9VcK 22:28:09

@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-08 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 1/07/2014: 9,935 steps and 7.3 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:01:59
Reading – Google hires ferry service to yacht in workers (Rob Beschizza) http://t.co/MQlTIUoBNd 02:44:08
Reading – Why I Love Hiring Working Mothers (Jenn Steele) http://t.co/f58KZ5lZSF 13:46:30
Exactly -> Reading – The NSA Leaks Are About Democracy, Not Just Privacy (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/O00BXwJ3Su 14:03:59
Reading – Amazon Confirms That the Giant Amazon Box From Reddit Is Real (Jason Del Rey) http://t.co/E2E6iZRkxu 14:06:38
Reading – Thorium-Fueled Automobile Engine Needs Refueling Once a Century (David Russell Schilling) http://t.co/0ygDEykX2m 14:10:35
Reading – The Character Of Chris Christie (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/Lc6thiYxUk 19:16:10
Reading – What The Heck Were Chris Christie's People Thinking With This Bridge Nonsense? (Josh Barro) http://t.co/w5rI7cS3tT 20:22:33
RT @imbou: @abulsme compassionate conservatives!: Republicans Move to Reclaim Poverty-Fighting Mantle http://t.co/Y4Ve4fLMff 21:30:07
Yeah YeahвЂ¦ (Context in next Curmudgeon’s Corner) MT @imbou: @abulsme compassionate conservatives! http://t.co/bwi3TH1PIF 21:30:56

@abulsme tweets from 2014-01-07 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 1/06/2014: 11,781 steps and 8.7 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:02:18
Reading – Cop shoots dead a tased, restrained, 100lb teen: "we don't have time for this" (Rob Beschizza) http://t.co/fsknQuouds 02:36:52
Reading – Effort To Shut Off The NSA’s Water Supply Goes Bipartisan In California (Eric Lach) http://t.co/BikKdg8k8s 02:47:43
I just got up to 2,117 in #DoodleJump!!! Beat that! http://t.co/7D3IL1h5j7 http://t.co/1p8bjavPDX 04:30:23
Uh… That was Alex. :-) RT @abulsme: I just got up to 2,117 in #DoodleJump!!! Beat that! http://t.co/7D3IL1h5j7 http://t.co/1p8bjavPDX 04:33:42
I just got up to 530 in #DoodleJump!!! Beat that! http://t.co/7D3IL1h5j7 http://t.co/p18zvwpE8J 04:35:00
Reading – Star Trek North Carolina Councilman Resigns… in Klingon ( http://t.co/bLUbyehc33 Staff ) http://t.co/8t8MQK925h 04:59:47
Guess he is on a roll. RT @abulsme: I just got up to 530 in #DoodleJump!!! Beat that! http://t.co/7D3IL1h5j7 http://t.co/p18zvwpE8J 05:29:45
RT @marcoarment: I love watching the religious-Republican extremists try to distance themselves from the Pope because he’s reminding them wвЂ¦ 05:42:34
Reading – Pastafarian Wins Election to Town Board and Takes Oath with a Colander on His Head (Hemant Mehta) http://t.co/mJyY3OZ4RR 06:10:25
Reading – Facebook self-censorship: What happens to the posts you don’t publish? (Jennifer Golbeck) http://t.co/MEgrtF6NtZ 08:10:01
RT @indygadgetguy: Snarky Jupiter. http://t.co/csYbcwKlsW 08:26:31
Reading – How Chris Christie Can Win in 2016 (Lloyd Green) http://t.co/XqV4cJ2lyS 16:07:19
Reading – Exciting Changes for 2014 (Tom Jensen) http://t.co/BJzG9ubN8O 16:10:02
RT @MacFarlaneNews: EPIC FAILURE- U.S. Navy accidentally sends reporter its strategy memo for dodging his FOIA request cc: @gregorykorte htвЂ¦ 16:12:06
I have been on vacation or working from home for almost 3 wks. Today is my first day back in the office. Not sure how I feel about that. 18:53:08

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