Tweets for September 18, 2016

Another problem with eBay auctions is you don't know if you're being gamed ... it's blind trust that they're monitoring shill bidding.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 18, 2016

Tweets for September 17, 2016

3008 Ashley Loop, Eugene, OR back on the market for $420K. Last sold: Aug 2005 for $412K. How's that for spectacularly unfortunate timing?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 18, 2016

How to Turn Off Chrome’s Awful New “Material Design” https://t.co/lPHwdFgS9n | Hate those new sharp edges.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 17, 2016

"Chinese buyers concentrated their money in Eastside along Lake Washington b/c of good public schools" https://t.co/kfKPWqzUtM | via @niubi

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 17, 2016

Tweets for September 16, 2016

Re-tweets to my popular stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | Emailing new passwords after hack, explosive dog, The Donald's so good plans.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 16, 2016

This week's musical selection, Neko Case covering a great song by Kenny Loggins: https://t.co/Vate6ABL53

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 16, 2016

Worth noting that after-hours open in Novavax $NVAX was round number $2.00 ... closed regular session at $8.34 ... don't see that every day.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 16, 2016

The wife expanded area that driveway will be paved so she can practice her "K" turn.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 16, 2016

Nicknames for some of the guys I always see at the local poker tournament: “camo cap,” “the date rapist,” “the groundskeeper,” “the wookie.”

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 16, 2016

Tweets for September 15, 2016

"If you are in the Washington, DC area, we hope to see you @ the Hopkins-Nanjing Center's 30th Anniversary Reception on Oct 10, 5:00-6:30pm"

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 15, 2016

Tweets for September 14, 2016

Lawn boy a real mulch snob. About anyone in the neighborhood who uses red mulch he sniffs, "It looks like McDonald's!"

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 15, 2016

MT @priceonomics When Did Charts Become Popular in Newspapers? pic.twitter.com/5jd2ZLqTLb | When they didn’t need to be drawn by hand.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 14, 2016

Juan reports that the Method brand of granite cleaner is crap ("ineficaz") and smells awful, avoid the product. https://t.co/qbc3sHRmp6

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 14, 2016

Baby unwilling to speak Chinese now, but her brother will rattle on at length. Four years of immersion not enough to give child love of lang

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 14, 2016

Tweets for September 13, 2016

Love how Lillie's BBQ sauce bottles have the waxed cap, a la Maker's Mark. I'm a real sucker for packaging gimmicks: https://t.co/sf9W4mILoL

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 13, 2016

MT @WPTDeepStacks Play heads into the final level of the night w/ @mikiyoaoki near the top pic.twitter.com/SfQOrAjxW6 | Great photo, "thinking"

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 13, 2016

Re-tweets to my popular stream https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | Bushusuru, ladder race, Back When People Could Write, deplorable Pence, Guy Sitting

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 13, 2016

Tweets for September 12, 2016

NetEase $NTES at all-time high: https://t.co/IqL42BIxrM | Every time I saw a 保安 (security guard) playing games on his phone, I thought $NTES

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 13, 2016

Kroger $KR a loser on a bounce day ... you don't have to be a "relative strength" nut to note that kind of weakness: https://t.co/U26wCwrD3J

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 12, 2016

Glassdoor helpfully published their annual list of 25 Cities Where Pay Goes Furthest Where You'd Never Want To Live: https://t.co/WCkQFnXRrY

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 12, 2016

Tweets for September 11, 2016

Always fun to meet an ugly guy who has three daughters who look *exactly* like him.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 12, 2016

Dead deer in ditch, coyotes cleaned it down to the bone in one night, perfect skeleton.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 12, 2016

Here's a picture of the Metasequoia glyptostroboides (dawn redwood); tree boys told my wife came straight from China https://t.co/rcy5BasgeR

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 11, 2016

Tweets for September 10, 2016

My call at end of July for the emerging markets $VWO to fall below $27 still perfectly valid, $EEM also will go <$27 https://t.co/3yROxeA6em

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 11, 2016

Re-tweets to my popular stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | Android vs. iPhone users (accurate!), adapter madness, cruel Merriam Webster.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 10, 2016

RT @BarbarianCap Wait for it... Jim Rogers likes Asian stocks pic.twitter.com/jg2GAEIloB | Jimmy aging wonderfully, many hrs on stationary bike

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 10, 2016

Movies Watched -- Mustang

In Turkish. 94 minutes long so just the right length. Five orphaned teenage sisters live with their grandmother in rural Turkey (1000 km from Istanbul). They're carefree schoolgirls one minute and then, following a "scandal," are more or less imprisoned in their home and paired off one by one in arranged marriages. Is this realistic? I don't think so, it seemed far too abrupt and radical a change to me.

Anyway, all of these girls are *stunningly* beautiful in their own way (obviously none of them is biologically related in reality). Spoiler: when did the uncle start raping them? Surely they wouldn't have passed the virginity test after that? Did he always live with them or just after the scandal broke? Did he rape the oldest two or just start with Ece? 

There's tragedy, there's comedy, but the underlying story, this transition from secular to sacred (and eventual escape), didn't make sense to me. Having the girls cavort around in their underwear at length, lying on top of one another, made me a little uncomfortable. All of the long, close-up shots of their faces similarly "fetishizing" their beauty, their sexuality. What would people think if the director were a man instead of a woman? 

In the end, when the two little ones run away to Istanbul, what can they expect? The have a few hundred Turkish lira and know one person there, what's going to happen to them? Should we be thrilled about their newfound "freedom?" As you can see, I had a lot of mixed feelings about this one. No fast forwarding so it earns a yellow (consider) rating. 

Turkish girls of Instagram