Tweets for November 3, 2016

Young Katie Benedetto, or maybe, Bruttodetto? from ep. 5 of The Fall S03 #tv pic.twitter.com/9A7z7todrb

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 4, 2016

The magic phrase when you want to bump up your credit line is, "I need to increase my financial flexibility." 2 words, 8 syllables the trick

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 3, 2016

America's Craft Beer Capitals: https://t.co/LaCmdfS4ZR | Something about cities named Portland! via The Daily Shot email newsletter

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 3, 2016

$EWW, the unfortunately tickered iShares MSCI Mexico ETF, has been unusually active of late, has to do with The Donald's possibly winning.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 3, 2016

如果你想：♥ 认识朋友圈之外的优质女生 ... they're assuming there are already some high quality women in my circle of friends, no? Top quality! (All married)

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 3, 2016

.@TraderMike kind enough to send me an invite to Gmail on 23 June 2004 ... never used Yahoo mail again after that day.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 3, 2016

"At Vanguard, my voice is my password."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 3, 2016

Tweets for November 2, 2016

Assistant Chief Constable Burns making it through the days thanks to a healthy supply of airplane-bottle booze #tv pic.twitter.com/STYIju4Mij

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 3, 2016

This week's music selection (been awhile) ... a breathless Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds (a great band name): https://t.co/TPvfaZoPhQ

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 3, 2016

"[Glaxo] set up a special 'crisis management' team in China and began offering money and gifts to regulators." https://t.co/GurdC5JxTX

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 2, 2016

Tweets for November 1, 2016

Sally Ann Goebbels from the third episode of The Fall S03 ... doesn't get any darker than this: #tv pic.twitter.com/SDvGdkttHt

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 2, 2016

$YUM spun off their China business, now trading under $YUMC. S-1 is interesting reading if you missed it: https://t.co/5oPqmFKbnb

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 2, 2016

"After November 18th, you will no longer be able to receive The Daily Shot" ... Sweet, I thought y'day was last day for freeloaders like me.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 1, 2016

Monthly production for October for our solar panels on garage roof: 411.042 kWh

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 1, 2016

There’s probably a German word to describe the kind of people who put a bowl of Halloween candy out even though they’re at home.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 1, 2016

Movies Watched -- Timbuktu

In Arabic, French, and a bunch of tribal languages (Bambara, Songhai, Tamasheq, etc.).

97 minutes so the right length (under the sacred 100 minute mark), but I still fast forwarded from the midpoint to the end. It's about Timbuktu, which is a city on the southern edge of the Sahara desert, in Mali, above the Niger river (get out a map). Anyway, some Islamic fundamentalists, extremists I guess, have taken over the place and are terrorizing the populace with their dumb rules (women must cover up, even their hands; soccer balls are confiscated; music of any kind is verboten, etc.). 

There are two beautiful scenes: a group of kids are playing a game of soccer, but without a soccer ball ... they're choreographed perfectly, it's really wonderful. The second great scene is a group of young people playing some stringed instruments, and some percussion thing, and a woman is singing some tribal song ... beautiful stuff until they're busted by the jihadists and the woman receives 40 lashes, which they do show, unfortunately. Another two people are buried to their necks and stoned to death -- nasty stuff. Not sure if they were part of the music group or arrested for some other offense like smoking or yacking on a cell phone. Nevertheless, two perfect scenes do not a great movie make.

There's another story line with a Bedouin guy who accidentally kills someone and gets the death penalty from the jihadists as a result ... anyway, it's not a feel-good movie, it's a bummer. But I don't think we need any more convincing that Islamic extremist crazies are bad dudes. Yellow rating (consider), definitely not the coveted green ... no idea why the critics were so wild about this one.

Bedouin girl thinking about the goat, GPS

Island of Blue

Odd spot in Northern Appalachia.... 

Movies Watched -- Wild Tales

In Spanish. 122 minutes long so at least 20 minutes too long, but I have a solution for that ... the movie is a collection of six separate tales, the second of which is the weakest (about a waitress) ... that one runs about 13 minutes so if you cut that out, the running time would come closer to the sacred 100 minute mark.

The tales are funny and zany, I liked them. I *was* watching at 2x ffwd and Spanish is even more amusing sped up, but this was truly an entertaining movie. Tales of revenge from Argentina. The last story, a wedding story, is a full 30 minutes, and it's the most over-the-top crazy fun one of the bunch. This gets a coveted green go, recommended. 

This is only the eighth movie from 2015 that I loved and can recommend (the first seven are: 45 Years; Mad Max: Fury Road; The Revenant; Shaun the Sheep; Son of Saul; Tangerine; and The Diary of a Teenage Girl)

Road Rage

Movies Watched -- The Martian

164 minutes so at least an hour too long. I fast forwarded from 20 minutes in at 2x (retain audio). This is one of those movies made by Hollywood committee. The commander is a woman, the crew has a smartass Latino on it, the scientists are black, including a disheveled genius black kid who slurps coffee and has to plug his laptop into a mainframe to do the really big equations. I hate all that. But you know what I hate more? Pandering to the Chinese Communists to get selected as one of the 34 movies they'll let into their market every year. (Thrilled to see Colbert did a whole segment on this.) It was disgusting.

The story itself is kind of interesting, kid trapped on Mars has to survive for four years by "sciencing the shit" out of things. Space nerds probably loved it. I wasn't thrilled, even at 2x fast forward. Deserves a red rating for that Chinese kowtow, but will give it a yellow rating for science nerds, and idiots who like big budget, by-committee Hollywood productions ($100 million in opening weekend). 

Beefcake stapling self

Movies Watched -- The End of the Tour

105 minutes. I made it 20 minutes in before quitting, didn't even bother to fast forward. About the author Dave Wallace whom, I'm told by reliable people who read books, is a *terrible* writer, and his supposed masterpiece, Infinite Jest, is *crap* ... so this is more myth-making. Jesse Eisenberg has a lock on young Jewish guy roles, this time playing  David Lipsky (earlier, Zuckerberg). Red rating, avoid.

I'm terrified that you don't like me, man!

Tweets for October 31, 2016

Bit cheesy in The Fall S03 to give Nurse Sheridan exactly the type of look that Spector favored in his victims. #tv pic.twitter.com/9NcqtHdTFK

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 1, 2016

Valeant $VRX finally breaks below last June's low: pic.twitter.com/sILlPQaH0D

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) November 1, 2016

"For 100 yuan each, Liu bought 100 shares ... Within two years, each share was worth ten thousand yuan" https://t.co/J4O2GmHyzW| Liu Yiqian

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 31, 2016

MT @PlanMaestro American Middle Class … American dreams pic.twitter.com/eqZAFTnKlL | Bifurcation is real.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 31, 2016

RT @meghara Friendly reminder that China is really enjoying our election pic.twitter.com/PfI8W0sTil

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 31, 2016

Tweets for October 30, 2016

Season three of The Fall has been released on Netflix ... love Scully with her hoity-toity British accent #tv pic.twitter.com/SQwVGx5m9x

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 31, 2016

RT @om Pornhub offers to buy Vine: ‘Six seconds is more than enough’ - CNET https://t.co/AUrnk59P44 | Also true for cage fight highlights.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 30, 2016

Juan dropped my iPhone in the mop bucket the other day, but quickly recovered. No apparent damage, headphones always on but prob went away.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 30, 2016

Tweets for October 29, 2016

Reversing both my S&P 500 and Small Cap longs entered last February: https://t.co/NxPY3JzXU4 | $SDS $TZA

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 30, 2016

Tweets for October 28, 2016

MT @zerobeta If Hillary had just used Slack, the FBI would have given up trying to search for something after about 15 minutes.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 28, 2016

"This is a receipt for your Feedbin account. Please reply to this email if you have any questions" | I haven't looked at RSS for many months

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 28, 2016

"employees sneaked into the station and stuffed cotton into the [air pollution monitoring] sensors" https://t.co/ouCjj7Hvb6 | More ingenuity

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 28, 2016

Tweets for October 27, 2016

Higgins sold the estate last summer … Magnum and the Lads are out on their asses:https://t.co/ZI7vNm03cp

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 27, 2016

Waxing services: Lip $25, Brow $35, Underarm $45, Half leg $60, Bikini $90, Full leg $115 ... based on surface area

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 27, 2016

There's a six-seater flying from Kahalui if you're staying at the Hotel Hana (now called something else).

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 27, 2016

Gannett $GCI plunges to new all-time low: https://t.co/VM8SMCMXlO | This despite the $20 a month I pay for the daily Jumble.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 27, 2016

MT @ChinaDailyUSA Chinese baozi shop gains popularity in Harvard Square https://t.co/nrlHMh1TvN | Could open branch at Cornell.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 27, 2016

The water company called to say that we'd used 186,000 gallons in the last three months. The woman asked, "do you have a leaky toilet?"

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 27, 2016

"Ethically and organically handmade in India (for next to nothing)."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 27, 2016

MT @shanghaiist City Weekend Beijing shut down 'with great optimism' after 19 years https://t.co/MLCWOn2csy | Read faithfully for a decade.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 27, 2016

"witnessed an agitated man in his 70s wagging his finger and lecturing an even-keeled but steely woman in her 40s." https://t.co/U2jZvmxXSq

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 27, 2016

"as China's economy develops, its citizens have new grievances that [should] lead to organized political activity" https://t.co/kVqTeKXknL

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 27, 2016

Tweets for October 26, 2016

I like The Daily Shot email newsletter, but not enough to subscribe to the WSJ to continue getting it. Wonder what conversion rate will be?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 26, 2016

"Users that download Uber from app stores based outside of China will not B able 2 use it from w/in China" https://t.co/0PKWMs0X4E | Love it

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 26, 2016

"Rurik Jutting filmed himself torturing and killing one of his victims" https://t.co/MUsl2wYGkK | Mobile phone footage in evidence.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 26, 2016

Mrs. Meyer’s seasonal scent “Iowa Pine” smells exactly like the stuff I used to clean urinals when working in state park one summer as a lad

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 26, 2016

Tweets for October 25, 2016

I didn't hate the movie, 'James White' https://t.co/xsOfnPb64x

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 25, 2016

"On some nights, the wait for a table at the Costa Mesa location of Din Tai Fung runs three and a half hours." https://t.co/COabE5Ccbq

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 25, 2016

Tweets for October 24, 2016

"Years ago we made a terrible mistake: we developed the WeatherSpark Dashboard in Adobe Flash." https://t.co/Jn42J0H3x4 | Sorely miss it!

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 25, 2016

People who didn't sell $ARIA on the Bernie tweet have seen an additional 15% drop: https://t.co/atmbhV2Yla

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 25, 2016

TD Ameri aufhausernbddatekwaterhousethinkorswimscot trade

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 25, 2016

"To opt-out of Google’s identified tracking, visit the Activity controls on Google’s My Account page" https://t.co/LVyGlr2WvN | Don't B evil

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 24, 2016

The best reply to someone who says "I don't want to pay for everyone else's health care" is, "You already do, dummy!"

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 24, 2016

"The Club Lounge is a social hub where you'll meet like-minded assholes and where new friendships are developed."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 24, 2016

Tweets for October 22, 2016

Watched the first two episodes of Netflix’s ‘Luke Cage’ … looks like I’m not alone in finding it super slow: https://t.co/pgRtKFLp7I

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 22, 2016

Tweets for October 21, 2016

"This would be the ideal time to buy shares knowing about the upcoming leadership change" ... fishy $CXRX action yday pic.twitter.com/vCD0CII19G

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 22, 2016

Re-tweets to my popular stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | ICANN technical staff error; Hillary on Death Row; Best debate gifs; Rly dumb dog.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 22, 2016

That embedded Bloomberg TV thing in Twitter is kind of neat, but I wish I never saw the jacket @CoryTV is wearing.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 21, 2016

Finally got a good day of rain here so our bomb crater (the pond) is filling up: https://t.co/mlmq2vJzQ2

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 21, 2016

The Fishes Leap Up To Take a Look

Watched a movie about this guy once, had no idea who he was as I watched ... I dig this tune. 

Music video by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performing Breathless.

Tweets for October 20, 2016

Gannett $GCI at all-time low: https://t.co/VM8SMCMXlO | This despite the $20 a month I pay for the Ithaca Journal (4 crime blotter + Jumble)

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 21, 2016

Re-tweets to my popular stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeswIV | Organ donor Tinder; Cretaceous coastline still cretinous; Badly-done braces.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 20, 2016

"...we’ll always have a soft spot for Slow Boat's scrappy hutong hole in the wall brewery" https://t.co/oxa3IARokq | Chandler close old one?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 20, 2016

This Honda dealer says they’ve never done the fix (TSB 15-046) for the vibration in any 2015 CR-Vibrator. Just wish they were honest abt it.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 20, 2016

At the Honda dealer, two beautiful new colors available: Aegean blue metallic & Rallye red. Also one called Energy green pearl but not here.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 20, 2016

RT @KaiserKuo No handshake. Good for her. Fuck that guy.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 20, 2016

Asked the boy at Wegmans why there was no @noosayoghurt … He says they keep ordering it, but noosa doesn’t send any. Supply problems?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 20, 2016