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@abulsme tweets from 2018-12-30 (UTC)

03:10:56 Follower gained. Thread worth reading. https://t.co/2vYx6iX7Hl
03:20:14 Thread. https://t.co/snvD2mcrSz
03:40:38 Retweeted @SteveHoffmanTV 2018-12-27 22:18:13 “Snowflake is a word used by sociopaths in an attempt to discredit the notion of empathy.” – John Cleese https://t.co/5VXn0MtzOh
04:36:44 Curmudgeon’s Corner: 2019 Predictions Show https://t.co/X667jhxblh https://t.co/MTNor6gLXk
16:18:00 @ChienAndalucia @imbou I still didn’t understand after watching that. Then I found https://t.co/z5oPhhvPUD. But I still didn’t understand. in reply to ChienAndalucia
18:59:37 @ChienAndalucia @imbou Glad you are enjoying the show! in reply to ChienAndalucia
19:01:30 Great thread. https://t.co/5CcjuGPe1l
19:58:08 @ChienAndalucia @imbou Wonder which ones those could beвЂ¦ <symbol> in reply to ChienAndalucia
23:36:45 Hippo eating Iran https://t.co/9NN81SrMFW

2018 Reading List

About a quarter of the way through 2018, I lamented that I wasn’t reading enough books, and made a resolution to do better. My goal was to finish 10 books in 2018, which would be considerably better than the 3 I managed in 2017. I am now reporting back. I did improve on both 2017 and 2016, which were pitiful years, but I did not finish 10 books. I finished 8. Here is the list:

2018 (0 Physical, 4 Kindle, 4 Audible)

2018-04-04, Fiction, Kindle, The Man from Berlin by McCallin
2018-04-18, Non-Fiction, Audible, Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition by Twain
2018-05-22, Fiction, Audible, The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Fforde
2018-07-11, Non-Fiction, Audible, The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving by Gallagher
2018-09-01, Non-Fiction, Kindle, The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Woodward
2018-09-19, Fiction, Kindle, A Study in Scarlet by Doyle
2018-10-24, Fiction, Audible, Arrow of God by Achebe
2018-11-16, Non-Fiction, Kindle, Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning by Kane

And that’s it.

The goal for 2019 is 12 or more, to try to hit a one per month average at least. We shall see.

I’ll leave you with the updated chart of my reading since 2006 with 2018 added in… the trend is in the right direction.

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: 2019 Predictions Show

This week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner is the annual predictions show! Sam and Ivan give all their predictions for 2019 on the topics of domestic politics (both Trump and non-Trump), international politics, economy/business, technology, and other random things too. Tune in this week to hear the predictions, then listen every week in 2019 to see how they do!

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Recorded 2018-12-28
Length this week – 2:53:50

(0:01:09-0:05:47) Intro
(0:07:47-0:48:17) Domestic Politics [non-Trump]
(0:49:01-1:54:34) Domestic Politics [Trump]
(1:55:14-2:10:25) International Politics
(2:13:02-2:25:06) Economy / Business
(2:25:44-2:39:55) Technology
(2:40:34-2:53:30) Hodgepodge

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-12-29 (UTC)

02:40:44 Listening to WhoWhatWhy’s Podcasts RadioWhoWhatWhy: The Real Story of the Pentagon’s $21 Trillion Con Game https://t.co/S8yH7oY4z8
07:31:05 Retweeted @RonBrownstein 02:59:01 It wasn’t that long ago when @LindseyGrahamSC helped craft two immigration reform plans that coupled more $ for borвЂ¦ https://t.co/szNzmgCg3R
19:55:11 <symbol> https://t.co/CLUMJnWWOZ
20:15:12 Retweeted @joncoopertweets 16:31:50 вЂњMueller’s top priority has been to stab liars with the law and then turn the blade inside the wound to get them toвЂ¦ https://t.co/GrnxaD3llJ
20:22:51 Oops. <symbol> New Jersey AG has obtained evidence of possible crimes at Trump’s golf club вЂ” and Mueller, FBI are involvedвЂ¦ https://t.co/KpdPCEGOWJ
21:16:32 Retweeted @mwichary 21:12:11 Good. https://t.co/2JqEk2iIlk
21:55:51 Reading – For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain (Glenn FleishmanвЂ¦ https://t.co/VwsPWVN383
23:42:20 Listening to It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders Year-End Wrap: Big Tech Reckoning, Identity Politics, & Yanny vs.вЂ¦ https://t.co/KdnBDTzG4S

@abulsme tweets from 2018-12-28 (UTC)

00:23:12 Retweeted @AlanStern 2018-12-25 18:53:04 BREAKINGвЂ¦Signal has just been received at mission control, New Horizons has successfully started its flyby programвЂ¦ https://t.co/FHtaHT9NL1
02:23:16 Zuul. https://t.co/N4JjJfvEqW
07:30:36 Retweeted @ENSAlerts 07:10:18 WASHINGTON: 9-1-1 outage affecting agencies across the state. If you have an emergency, use this list to reach emerвЂ¦ https://t.co/I0ELef57vf
07:47:24 Retweeted @solomonout 05:45:59 Current @CenturyLink outage map. A lot of areas in the West impacted, including 911 call centers in Western WashigtвЂ¦ https://t.co/1vFXyavTr0
08:14:03 Retweeted @AlperUcok 2018-12-20 21:24:18 Countries that appeared most frequently in New York Times headlines each month since 1900… (of total 741.576 sectвЂ¦ https://t.co/gcmUT0gxHu
17:07:02 Listening to Slate Politics вЂ“ Spoken Edition In a Year Full of Heinous Men, Jeffrey Epstein Still Managed to Be ShoвЂ¦ https://t.co/9ivAkMDQvD
19:08:16 Retweeted @michaeldweiss 18:09:56 This, by @20committee, tracks with what I’ve been hearing. NSA and GCHQ sources behind the Cohen cellphone in PraguвЂ¦ https://t.co/drZkTPVDrT

@abulsme tweets from 2018-12-27 (UTC)

07:32:55 Retweeted @MSNBCPR 2018-12-26 22:12:01 RATINGS: @MSNBC is the #1 cable news network for the week of Dec. 17, beating @FOXNews and @CNN for the 1st time inвЂ¦ https://t.co/Xzh6EZwXp0
07:38:41 Retweeted @DavidPriess 03:42:21 вЂњThe people who purport to know when Mueller will complete his work are outside his circle and appear to be mostlyвЂ¦ https://t.co/bqFIQRw2cp
07:48:03 Read this thread if you are a space geek. Flyby in just a few days. https://t.co/nY8akd5zg2
08:51:29 Retweeted @JohnRMoffitt 08:23:27 On #NewYearsEve and a billion miles beyond Pluto, Earth’s fifth and FASTEST #starship zips past a dwarf planet. ItвЂ¦ https://t.co/gkV2NtL07L
09:29:45 @ChienAndalucia Noted in our list for the show. Thanks! Cc @imbou in reply to ChienAndalucia
16:05:47 @ChienAndalucia @imbou Got it! <symbol> in reply to ChienAndalucia
16:16:12 Last time McClatchy has something on Cohen and Prague no other news outlets were able to confirm it. Will be intereвЂ¦ https://t.co/9mYltDVMEN
16:18:14 Retweeted @MontaudPro 16:03:31 These are SIMULATED images of Ultima Thule showing how our view of the object will rapidly improve only shortly befвЂ¦ https://t.co/lbGv0jnVUV
23:30:03 Retweeted @kylegriffin1 23:15:17 Mueller now has someone’s nude selfie. I’m not ready for 2019. https://t.co/wjIB3QM2LW

@abulsme tweets from 2018-12-26 (UTC)

04:46:26 Retweeted @DavMicRot 04:39:36 Contract that pays $1.00 if Trump finishes his first term is trading at $0.64. Last time it was below $0.64 was MayвЂ¦ https://t.co/bXymzpkgnY
05:07:50 Retweeted @RIPProgDadTV 2018-12-25 21:18:13 My partner’s kids got Kinder Surprise Eggs in their Santa stockings. I swapped out the toy for a duck heart & liverвЂ¦ https://t.co/NmiPDxv5oR
06:49:23 Retweeted @Ange_Amene 2018-11-01 15:41:09 If your goal is to build a coalition on the left out of telling black people and POC what they should be concernedвЂ¦ https://t.co/1BdeJk8VMy
06:51:34 Retweeted @toolotheday 2018-12-24 18:01:54 Cookie cutter making machine https://t.co/XyGCn51N0V
19:32:34 Can he stay? https://t.co/IzDCFO1TGi
22:28:54 Retweeted @drvox 21:54:59 Lord, go back & read some of the early writing & thinking about the internet — its liberatory & egalitarian potentвЂ¦ https://t.co/WJjfmqKlQV

@abulsme tweets from 2018-12-25 (UTC)

00:36:05 Retweeted @biz 00:25:39 Happy Christmas Eve and happy 50th anniversary of вЂњEarthriseвЂќ. https://t.co/HsX00V4sP8
01:41:54 Retweeted @kurtbardella 01:37:41 And that’s the @potus ruining the magic of #Christmas for a 7-year-old … also exposing that he is a #Santa denierвЂ¦ https://t.co/BNevkOvlSB
05:18:05 This was funny. https://t.co/XyrB3wPJds
17:59:20 Christmas Tree 2018 https://t.co/HB2NZDGb9T https://t.co/8zVzZVTieK

@abulsme tweets from 2018-12-24 (UTC)

06:51:06 Retweeted @karol 2018-12-22 17:33:06 Overheard dad to sulky teenager on a Caribbean island: вЂњyour family is pretty well off. That’s not fair. You were bвЂ¦ https://t.co/IfecuukZn3
06:55:48 Retweeted @scottlincicome 01:02:50 This is the equivalent of being awakened by a phone call from your college freshman son, who then leads with “the iвЂ¦ https://t.co/lAyAP4D78Y
06:58:44 Retweeted @gabrielmalor 2018-12-23 20:41:23 Per OMB guidance, checks for Pay Period 26 (December 9-22) will be processed as usual. Which means federal employeeвЂ¦ https://t.co/LGFBPpQI12
07:16:08 Retweeted @gilbertjasono 2018-12-20 22:49:58 Projected Trump Cabinet, March 2019 https://t.co/bz0esVeKIL
07:25:27 Retweeted @xkcdComic 05:10:40 Christmas Eve Eve https://t.co/J8xIRgIiMi https://t.co/AXnFQ5Dtsf https://t.co/siZ83veSbr
07:27:38 Retweeted @ChrisMurphyCT 2018-12-23 14:12:22 There are a million reasons why $5B for a wall is a ludicrous demand to shut down the government over.But here’sвЂ¦ https://t.co/lOJT4Lj61g
08:12:07 Retweeted @justinyost 04:13:28 I love how we upended Western democracies for a 1 year event. https://t.co/wLc4Pn3uKb
08:19:16 Retweeted @NuclearAnthro 08:11:36 I read this as вЂњnext couple of yearsвЂќ and it still made perfect fucking sense to me.Respect people when they sayвЂ¦ https://t.co/dmEmkTOvqq

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