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@abulsme tweets from 2013-11-08 (UTC)

Reading – Exclusive: Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords – sources (Hosenball/Strobel) http://t.co/AG4McLigsF 04:41:07
My fitbit #Fitstats for 11/07/2013: 4,961 steps and 3.7 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 09:07:44
Reading – 40 Clever Life Hacks to Simplify your World (ArtFido) http://t.co/mWbazwlP5r 15:18:16
Reading – Diagnosing the Online Health Exchange Debacle (Goodman/Gonzales) http://t.co/Kz8kc7nx28 15:28:18
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: The Kids are Alright http://t.co/aNi1jT5K3C 16:39:45
Reading – How Edward Snowden Escalated Cyber War (Kurt Eichenwald) http://t.co/DtdGj0Ea2T 16:58:01
Reading: Americans already think a third of the budget goes to foreign aid. What if it did? (Dylan Matthews) http://t.co/p6kn7xHQ8N 17:08:13
Reading – One Weekend. Two Unmissable Trailers. (The Doctor Who Team) http://t.co/YSAcEB5Pb8 17:12:30
Upsetting meeting at Alex’s school today. Turns out they haven’t been doing something important they promised us. Result: Alex screwed over. 20:38:28
Which explains some aspects of Alex’s behavior over the last month and a half or so. The new puzzle piece makes it all make sense. Unhappy. 20:40:03

Curmudgeon’s Corner: The Kids are Alright

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

Daylight Saving Time
Devices on Planes / Climate Change
Alex Train Interlude
Climate Change Continued
Kids and Tech

Recorded on 5 Nov 2013

Length this week – 1:09:36


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@abulsme tweets from 2013-11-07 (UTC)

Reading – Man buys $27 of bitcoin, forgets about them, finds they're now worth $886k (Samuel Gibbs) http://t.co/adQB3MymhK 00:06:13
My fitbit #Fitstats for 11/06/2013: 14,964 steps and 11 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:01:17
Reading – Who Might Have Poisoned Yasser Arafat? (Jeffrey Goldberg) http://t.co/EKp7S3RfZ9 03:08:49
RT @KING5Seattle: WIND ADVISORY for Western WA 3a-8p Thursday. Gusts up to 45 mph: http://t.co/Efel3hPfzI http://t.co/UhAh5Vw9Fr 06:02:19
Reading – Project Africa: Phil Morris and the Hunt For Doctor Who’s Missing Episodes (Doctor Who Archive) http://t.co/wnOLIjdVWy 07:02:12
Reading – More Winds! (Cliff Mass) http://t.co/DXkNYHSaJE 07:05:27
Reading – A Win For Carlsen In The Upcoming World Championship Match Will Be A Huge Win For Chess (Garry Kasparov) http://t.co/qlnTgIkn8t 07:11:33
Reading – Darkmail opens: New email encryption standard aims to keep government agencies out (Alex Hern) http://t.co/nDVAwTCvKg 14:00:53
Reading – The Surveillance State Puts U.S. Elections at Risk of Manipulation (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/u8hN2tmesK 14:14:34
Oops. Guess I will be late for my 8 am… RT @wsdot_traffic: So if you start work at 8, you probably want to leave. …now. No joke. 14:16:26
Yay! RT @wsdot_traffic: Here’s a look at SB I-5 from Everett. http://t.co/uppVbYOiIv 14:48:48
100 min door to door commute today. (35 min or so in no traffic, 45 min median) Was helped by GPS routing around some traffic. Still sucked. 17:12:20
Missed first meeting of day entirely, arrived tired and needing a break, not ready to be productive. :-/ 17:13:50
Don’t mind my commute at all when I come or go off peak (35min). Not thrilled when need to go at peak (60min). Very unhappy on 90min+ days. 17:16:07
Best days of all are the ones with no meetings when I can work from home AND shift hours later in the day. (NOT a morning personвЂ¦ so not.) 17:17:34
I am very ready for the self driving cars. I know they are coming, but not fast enough! 17:18:39
Reading – The Greatest Enemy of Privacy Is Ambiguity (J.M. Berger) http://t.co/UQsG4A6j7y 18:08:16
Reading – Apple's First Transparency Report Gets Warrant Canaries Right (April Glaser) https://t.co/xncvjX3j1w 18:15:54
Watching – Rob Ford Crack Remix (djsteveporter) https://t.co/fb6yXG5Hhs 18:38:56
And now I have to waste hours emptying mailboxes to get under quota so I can send work mail again. Bleh. 20:00:22
Reading – This is the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, and it is gorgeous (Brian Fung) http://t.co/C8A5V12vdJ 22:42:53
Reading – Congo and Colombia thread a peace needle (CS Monitor's Editorial Board) http://t.co/z3uNm6eQmF 22:51:43
Reading – Obama personally apologizes for Americans losing health coverage (Chuck Todd) http://t.co/D2fnGh3gj7 22:54:29
Reading – Starship Troopers: One of the Most Misunderstood Movies Ever (Calum Marsh) http://t.co/82qJpNJsT7 23:07:46

@abulsme tweets from 2013-11-06 (UTC)

Just finished my ballot. As is my norm, out of principle, I wrote myself in whenever there was an unopposed candidate. 01:02:12
My fitbit #Fitstats for 11/05/2013: 16,358 steps and 12.1 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:02:31
Ballots turned in for the family. Now at dinner with Alex and Amy. :-) 03:29:59
RT @BYUfan: @abulsme For such a political junkie, you are a huge procrastinator! :-) 04:27:44
.@BYUfan Wouldn’t want to do it earlier, never know when something might happen or I might learn something new that would change my vote! in reply to BYUfan 04:30:17
RT @markos: Funny thing about tonight: Republicans would’ve won VA-Gov without a tea party crazy. Probably easily. 04:54:57
RT @davidfrum: Wow, did Virginia ever not want to vote for Terry McAuliffe, if the GOP had offered any plausible alternative 04:55:05
Reading – GOP’s Obamacare conspiracy: Sabotage from the inside (Jonathan Bernstein) http://t.co/vGT5Z9syGT 05:18:29
Reading – Samsung CEO promises to deliver devices with 'folding displays' in 2015 (Mat Smith) http://t.co/nizglJrV4C 05:20:12
Reading – A tale of two parties: Christie offers GOP roadmap to resurgence in 2016 (Michael O’Brien) http://t.co/hzgY9Upe13 05:24:44
Just completed a 1.54 km walk – Walking Roscoe. http://t.co/4M57NsU0Se #RunKeeper 05:40:32
Slog always fun to read!Reading – Election Night: The Empire Strikes Back! (Stranger Election Control Board) http://t.co/Wx2leJHBW0 05:58:30
RT @JamesFallows: Seriously, read this MT @TeaWithCarl: a massive "fuck you" to NSA and GCHQ, by top Google security engineer
https://t.co/вЂ¦ 07:16:39
Reading – Revealed: NSA pushed 9/11 as key 'sound bite' to justify surveillance (Jason Leopold) http://t.co/ORQ78d9yAb 13:35:17
Reading – The Stunning Hubris of Syria Hawks (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/rBWh2aFxgf 13:40:53
RT @LarrySabato: We need a fair, nonpartisan examination of VA GOV '13 polling. It was off–in some cases (WaPo), WAY off. 13:44:58
Greenwald interview -> Listening to "Democracy Now! 2013-10-28 Monday" http://t.co/sOsAHZFTvu 15:14:14
RT @mckaycoppins: Punditry: There is no way the Republican Party, which nominated John McCain and Mitt Romney, will ever nominate Chris ChrвЂ¦ 18:35:31
Reading – What’s Wrong with NSA (John Schindler) http://t.co/fIDmrwe8rv 20:51:55
Reading – Can Christie Be Stopped? (Daniel Larison) http://t.co/uCI4uvILHB 20:57:03
Reading – Cop Caught On Tape Shooting Unarmed Man Won’t Be Charged With A Crime (Aviva Shen) http://t.co/PzkBs1BpOa 21:01:16
Just saw my first iPhone 5s in the wild. Took awhile! 21:02:29
Reading – Cuccinelli's 'referendum on Obamacare' claims fly back in his face (Laura Clawson) http://t.co/1fkthKhdZH 21:08:08
Reading – Reports that NSA taps into Google and Yahoo data hubs infuriate tech giants (Rushe/Ackerman/Ball) http://t.co/c1R50EVh2n 21:46:29
Reading – Ignore the spin war about Obamacare. It’s irrelevant. Rinse, repeat. (Jonathan Bernstein) http://t.co/BIZUhi7Rsk 21:52:02
Just completed a 5.31 km walk – Working off dinner again. :-( http://t.co/rUUJNsIeTi #RunKeeper 21:53:33

@abulsme tweets from 2013-11-05 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 11/04/2013: 11,473 steps and 8.5 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 03:01:27
CC in the can. Out later in the weekвЂ¦ 04:18:40
Watching – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Sneak Peek [HD] (Warner Bros. Pictures) http://t.co/JFUb4QAhw8 07:38:20
Did a little more poll stuff. Added ()’s to indicate how many general elections were being used for the poll avg. http://t.co/K5o22cr5I1 07:45:30
Very few candidate/state combos have enough polls for a 3 poll average without using GE’s. None have enough for a 5 poll average yet. 07:46:30
Also started adding 2000 general elec data. Was going to try to finish, but a certain 4 yr old keeps interrupting and saying I need to stop. 07:48:02
Reading – It’s called the Second Oldest Profession for a reason (John Schindler) http://t.co/uQKrsKV769 15:39:21
Reading – Suspect Is Dead in New Jersey Mall Shooting (Santora/McGeehan/FitzSimmons) http://t.co/Rx4qKuTzah 15:47:58
Reading – Russian Intelligence is Behind the Snowden Show: German Intelligence (John Schindler) http://t.co/nWbzlLZvwx 15:52:09
Reading – Rand Paul plagiarized parts of Washington Times op-ed from article in The Week (Elias Isquith) http://t.co/x9blBSYvov 15:57:27
Reading – Apple reveals number of government requests for customer data (Josh Ong)
http://t.co/jjJ2lh6tRU 21:14:19
Just completed a 6.86 km walk – Making up for dessert. http://t.co/ReLhs9xoKL #RunKeeper 22:03:50
Reading – What Will Tonight Tell Us? (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/ngzHxSNRxD 23:14:38

@abulsme tweets from 2013-11-04 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 11/03/2013: 3,178 steps and 2.3 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:03:01
Can I get the extra hour every day please? 06:51:50
Watching – jIyIntaHvIS not qajegh (Klingon Rick Roll Parody) [Commedia Beauregard] http://t.co/3w8n6tWjUf 08:08:31
Reading – Are You Competent? Prove It. (Anya Kamenetz) http://t.co/lMTSsf6eBn 16:29:41
Reading – The NSA Leaks Are Bad, but Syria Hurt U.S. Credibility More (Mike Green) http://t.co/DSoBziRsMV 16:32:34
Reading: Senate bill would validate NSA’s harvesting phone, e-mail records, privacy advocates say (Ellen Nakashima) http://t.co/F2ofN4KD9h 16:49:10
I miss the real Nightline! -> Listening to "HBO History Makers Series with Ted Koppel" on Inside CFR Events http://t.co/X7ZH3gxflZ 21:02:16
Just completed a 3.78 km walk – Afternoon walk to comp for big dinner last night. http://t.co/jXBtmkSUEg #RunKeeper 22:53:14

@abulsme tweets from 2013-11-03 (UTC)

Reading – Little Girl Dresses Up As All 11 Doctors From "Doctor Who", Is Both Cute And Geeky (Robin Edds) http://t.co/T6GpND9tbg 06:56:24
Did some 2016 poll stuff tonight. Combined the 2 nat summary views so if it works in your browser you get a toggle. http://t.co/4ILDOYdww1 11:00:54
Next up I think I’ll be entering in 2000 General Election results before I play more with the actual code. 11:06:33
Next up for actual code I want to experiment a bit with a different graphing library. If I switch better to do it before doing more stuff. 11:09:34
Testing something: http://t.co/nYW8PC8Pdn 11:17:25
OK, fixed a couple things in my browser detection. Discovered spectrum view now works in Firefox too. Woo! Now bed. http://t.co/clvfDHxqyw 11:46:22
Duh! -> Reading – Libertarians Are Not the Tea Party (Molly Ball) http://t.co/sIucOdh1vp 17:59:45
Reading – The Day of the Doctor Minisode confirmed (James Hornby) http://t.co/kFPPNMz9qN 18:00:45
Reading – Some 13-Year-Olds Tell Us Why They Think Facebook Stinks (Jillian D'Onfro) http://t.co/9WCIAC9IqM 18:09:07
Reading – How 2016 Could Be An Even Bigger Democratic Blowout Than 2008 (Ruy Teixeira) http://t.co/3LOJEEjlr7 19:33:41
Reading – Health Care Issues: The Ghost of 2009 (tmess2, DemConWatch) http://t.co/teajrwP5GO 19:42:59
Reading – Today’s Giant Media Event, Brought to You вЂ” And Owned вЂ” By Google (Peter Kafka) http://t.co/DZ9K15hDSX 19:44:56
Reading – Radio Days: Tuning in to Western Pennsylvania's radio history (Maria Sciullo) http://t.co/uyxb6lC9IE 19:49:48

@abulsme tweets from 2013-11-02 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 11/01/2013: 12,142 steps and 9 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:02:11
Reading – Gasping in an airless system (Russell Saunders) http://t.co/MhEpLySKjI 16:15:02
Reading – US killing of Taliban's Hakimullah Mehsud sparks Pakistan outrage (Saba Imtiaz) http://t.co/Al7ENqjlMz 16:19:09
Yes! -> Reading – Breaking Bad: America Has Used Walter White Logic Since 9/11 (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/x9cY8rcr3F 16:32:33
Power had gone off and on twice in the last five minutes here. Fun! #windstorm 16:54:00
Make that three times! So far hasn’t gone out and stayed outвЂ¦ Four timesвЂ¦ FiveвЂ¦ OopsвЂ¦ This time out for a bitвЂ¦ #windstorm 16:58:59
That was fun. 30 min after the power went out, all the fire alarms in the house went off for a few min to let us know there was no power. 17:42:45
[Abulpost] Casualty of the #windstorm http://t.co/owvLk7nWqi 18:28:53
Reading – CAPTCHA Busted? (John Bohannon) http://t.co/CySeA8jO6K 19:45:49
Reading – An Architect Of A.I. (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/QkekEKzYUo 19:51:49
Power was back on when Alex and I came back from eating. #windstorm 20:33:53
Reading – Here’s The Fascinating Way Computers Have Changed How Humans Play Chess Against Each Other (Joe Weisenthal) http://t.co/xQtqNZxz1V 21:54:23
[Abulpost] Halloween Timelapse 2013 http://t.co/aJ5Y0C2El4 23:59:12

Halloween Timelapse 2013

It is easier to see Amy decorating than any trick or treaters, although you can see them if you pay attention. And for some reason it went slowly on some parts with no visible action the next day, but hey, timelapse!

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