New ☆ Tweet from @nybooks

“Bernie Sanders is unusual because he brings together three kinds of radicalism, each with very different roots.” https://t.co/eNQMZxc6F4

— NY Review of Books (@nybooks) December 28, 2015

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Do You Even VR, Bruh?

https://youtu.be/XiDRZfeL_hc

Nabbed a Google Cardboard when they were giving them away the other day and have been using it daily since. It's not perfect; frustratingly, my Nexus 6 doesn't actually fit in it. Still, works well enough for viewing panoramic shots and for watching some of the content on the 360 channel.

The kids dig it, too. They took the White House guided tour that came out recently and are eager to see more educational content, so am planning to see if their school would be interested in the Google Expeditions program after the holidays.

Speaking of which, blogging will continue to be light through the end of the year, so want to take a moment now to wish you all a happy holiday season wherever you are and whichever, if any, you may celebrate.

Looks like we won't see The Force Awakens until Saturday, so if you could all not talk about it for just a few more days ... just kidding, no spoiler-phobe, me. Saw on the twitter machine that my flick shaman liked it well enough, so heading in with high hopes of recapturing the nerdjoy of seeing the original three for the first time. (Well, the first two anyways.)

New ☆ Tweet from @UConnHuskies

Daniel Hamilton joins some elite @UConnMBB company with the program's 11th-ever triple-double in a win vs. CCSU http://pic.twitter.com/rsqM8ZroZl

— UConn Huskies (@UConnHuskies) December 23, 2015

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New ☆ Tweet from @Wonkette

Sad Dumb North Carolina Town: Stop These Solar Panels From Bogarting Our Sun! https://t.co/Pox51OXblE http://pic.twitter.com/smhfobzOm5

— Wonkette (@Wonkette) December 15, 2015

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New ☆ Tweet from @BadWilf

Here's the autograph Capaldi gave #drwhodaniel http://pic.twitter.com/qdCuyQ4GwG

— Martyn Havell (@BadWilf) December 8, 2015

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New ☆ Tweet from @igorvolsky

Sen. @ThomTillis received $2,459,881 in expenditures from NRA. He voted against today's background check measure http://pic.twitter.com/U6Vd7a969O

— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) December 4, 2015

Our other senator, Burr, voted the same way for a lot less of an outlay on the NRA's part. Of course, the money was wasted on them; both those dirty [expletive rhyming with "bunts" deleted] almost certainly would've voted the same way for nothing.

(Still waiting for a cover of the ol' Captain Moonlight ditty geared towards North Carolina politicians ... )

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