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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-25

nickdupree — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:06:00 +0000

Welcome to my running commentary on the Republican Candidates' Debate in Tampa #FLdebate #
As president, how will you give us CHOICE over our Medicaid/Medicare funding so the disabled aren't trapped in nursing homes? #FLdebate #
Newt & Romney believe that Obama, commanding drone-headshots around the world to any al-Qaida suspect, is soft on defense??? #FLdebate #
Ha ha! The audience groans at Romney's statement that illegal immigrants should be unable to work here and deport themselves #FLdebate #
Romney's "tough on crime" stance on immigration goes over like a lead balloon with Florida audience. #FLdebate #

Twitter Updates for 2011-09-12

nickdupree — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Been sick a couple of months, now have IV in my typing hand for pneumonia antibiotics. Hard to communicate, but still here & love you all. #

Twitter Updates for 2011-07-13

nickdupree — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:06:00 +0000

I wrote this article for Wikipedia about 1890s Cuban intellectual http://t.co/PPUw1ja It made the Main Page Did You Know section #
In my essay "The History of U.S.-Latin American Relations" I explore inter-hemispheric relationships from 1800: http://t.co/5WT4h46 #

Twitter Updates for 2011-06-03

nickdupree — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Wikipedia and academia don't have to be enemies! With public policy Wikiproject, top colleges assign article creation – http://t.co/1Uzb5qK #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-30

nickdupree — Mon, 30 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on #MeetThePress saying "doing nothing is not an option" on Medicare, debt is our worst threat #MTP #
Republicans, including Mitch McConnell, constantly are saying "Medicare has to be on the table," they're meaning the execution table? #MTP #
On #MeetThePress @ChuckSchumer saying "want to preserve the current system" of Medicare. I don't know if I like that, system is so corrupt #
On #MeetThePress roundtable, GOP strategist Alex Castellanos says Sarah Palin is out of the 2012 race, Michele Bachmann is in #MTP #
David Brooks doesn't like @SarahPalinUSA says she isn't ready to have the US red phone & is not a team player #MTP #
Harold Ford is saying it's "hard to run on TARP" (giving banksters welfare blank checks) but TARP "was necessary" I'm not a fan of Ford #MTP #
LOL I can't believe Alex Castellanos just said "not for the general election, but doom & gloom sells VERY well in Republican primaries" #MTP #
On #MeetThePress Harold Ford says the recent NY 26th district Democratic victory wasnt just abt Medicare but resentment of high unemployment #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-28

nickdupree — Sat, 28 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Bat girl-ears hear all… @superaleja saved the day again, hearing an air leak from the other room… #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-27

nickdupree — Fri, 27 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

YAY! Our 1000versary! RT @superaleja Oh, hey, it's 1000 days of @NickDupree living in New York (first in hospital, then home) today… #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-26

nickdupree — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Though Chinese people are divided by 7 different major spoken languages, they're united by a single written language #DiscoveryAtlas #
At the start of every day, 140 million schoolchildren sing the Chinese national anthem and salute the flag #DiscoveryAtlas #
The Chinese national anthem is about revolution, reminded me of the French anthem, "La Marseillaise" #DiscoveryAtlas #
Beijing's Forbidden City is made up of 800 palaces, temples and grand halls #DiscoveryAtlas #
One last Imperial bowmaker (ancient Chinese art of archery) survives, the rest were purged by Mao's Cultural Revolution #DiscoveryAtlas #
"A nightmare" The bowmaker hid one bow in the chimney that Red guard couldn't find, "it was like everyone had gone insane" #DiscoveryAtlas #
To my eye, the Mongolians in this film have the facial type (not to mention culture/customs of horse-life & economy) of U.S. plains Indians #
Disturbing scenes of Chinese 12-year old girl Olympic gymnast working 7 days/week, hands covered in blisters & oozing blood #DiscoveryAtlas #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-25

nickdupree — Wed, 25 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Watching "Discovery Atlas: China Revealed" to learn about China & tweet about it. Look under #DiscoveryAtlas for my comments. #
Only in China do you have thousands of 5-year olds doing synchronized kicks in a single public square #DiscoveryAtlas #
Workers on Long Shen's ancient mountain-side rice terraces spend 12-13 hours a day on rice cultivation #DiscoveryAtlas #
After the Communist Party gave up direct control of farmlands in 1978, peasant income has increased over 1500%! #DiscoveryAtlas #
$10 billion USD foreign investment is pouring into Shanghai per year, Shanghai's grown to 8x the size of New York City #DiscoveryAtlas #
These numbers are from 2006, the statistics for today would be on an even greater scale #DiscoveryAtlas #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-24

nickdupree — Tue, 24 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Watching documentary series "Wild China" about China's eye-popping geography, incredible regional diversity and natural history. #
This series focuses more on the beauty and majesty of the species, and 8,000 years of rice culture… streaming from Netflix now. #WildChina #
With every inch of possible land used for rice cultivation, the Miao minority build their homes on jagged hillsides #WildChina #
In China, animals are valued much for their symbolic value. Return of swallows means good luck, indicate planting season begins #WildChina #
But a burgeoning egret colony was blamed for bad luck and illness, and the locals nearly destroyed it before gov't intervened #WildChina #
Only a fraction of China's caves have been explored. In Guizhou province, Chinese spelunkers rappel down horizontal cave walls. #WildChina #
in the most inaccessible caverns and streams of Guizhou province, very rare endangered primates called "Francois' langur" #WildChina #
"Francois' langur" are spry, spritely monkeys. The adults have black fur, but the infants have red fur #WildChina #
The Li river is one of the cleanest, fishermen in their 80s and 90s use cormorant birds to catch fish #WildChina #
The fishermen tie a noose around the cormorant birds' necks so when they find fish they spit it out on boat http://t.co/sZHDX3q #WildChina #
Southwest China seems to breathe, steam rising from the forests, streams, mountains and villages #WildChina #
China is home to the "baby fish," the giant salamander, the world's largest amphibian at 5ft long. Severely endangered. #WildChina #
Elsewhere, on the Yangtze flood plain, Chinese alligators with neon orange stripes are like mythic dragons #WildChina #
Chinese alligators are nearly extinct in the wild, and would be long gone without women like Chur, who protect her "babies" #WildChina #
The jungles of Yunnan represent China's (and the world's) greatest natural wealth #WildChina #
in the gorgeous river valleys of Yunnan province, the Dai people have beautiful http://t.co/xXbf4Nn #WildChina #
the Dai people's water festival is about giving thanks for the river water that sustains their bodies & culture, & about epic water fights! #
On the other side of Yunnan province is not jungle but snowy Himalayas, where the red panda & slope-nosed monkey live #WildChina #
The locals consider the slope-nose monkey their ancestor. No need for evolution drama & monkey trial like crazy Americans #WildChina #
Locals still use sling and rope to swing across giant Yunnan river gorges. Elderly woman seen sliding across rope, simultaneously smoking #
Lost world in real life: weird tropical rainforest where Himalayas should be! Yunnan province is such a strange and magical place #WildChina #
Bamboo sprouts can be roasted for a soft, nutritious meal, but mature bamboo plants have a higher tensile strength than steel #WildChina #
China's severely endangered Asian elephants number perhaps 250 in the wild, hiding in the remote valleys of Yunnan province #WildChina #
Examining the lives of the few remaining black-crested gibbon (rare primates) in China; they often have 2 or 3 wife monkeys #WildChina #
Since Mao's Cultural Revolution banned most imports, rubber plants needed for tires, destroying Yunnan habitats for rubber #WildChina #
Rubber plantations have choked off once-sprawling habitats, pinning in the elephant & gibbon populations #WildChina #
Episode 2 of #WildChina ends with a disturbing scene, elephants trying to get to the river for water birth and human activity is in the way #
a road was in the elephants' way filled with trucks and bicycles and obnoxious tourists clowning around with camcorders and cameras #
one elephant shook his head NO very explicitly at tourists. then, giving them the trunk, as close as he can get to giving them the finger #
The elephants did eventually get to the river to give birth, just sounded SO angry at human encroachment on their habitat & life cycle #
like the elephants desperately wanted to gore and murder some tourists and SO FRUSTRATED & despairing that they cannot #WildChina #
This concludes my twitter coverage tonight of the #WildChina documentary series. Could do more in future if there's popular demand for it #
More information about the documentary series Wild China on @GetGlue http://bit.ly/lbaHGr #
Anybody out there want me to tweet detailed analysis and ridicule of @meetthepress? Anyone? anyone? no…? Bueller? #MTP #
A big focus on whether Newt Gingrich hates #Medicare enough to win Republican support #MeetThePress #MTP #
I really don't understand @RepPaulRyan's Medicare ending plan; since when will insurance companies cover the elderly??? #MeetThePress #MTP #
#MeetThePress is always obsessed with who's "serious," which plan to eliminate Medicare is "serious" #MTP #
Again, how is it "serious" to expect insurers to accept any amount of vouchers & take care of elderly with preexisting conditions? #MTP #
GOP #Medicare plan is crazy because NO insurer will touch elderly & disabled, WHY IS #GINGRICH DESTROYED for reticence to embrace insanity? #
Conventional wisdom is near unanimous, #Gingrich is an embarrassment to the GOP for reticence re: @RepPaulRyan's Medicare ending plan #MTP #
Republican nomination litmus test for 2012: you must have an unwavering commitment to balance the budget on backs of elderly & disabled #MTP #
I think people want leadership, people want solutions, but won't accept an America of such wealth that puts majority of the pain on elderly #
Reticence, consideration, criticizing party line, on Medicare, means Gingrich's campaign is OVER, #MeetThePress panelists unanimously say #
On yesterday morning's #MeetThePress @andrewrsorkin saying politics kinda irrelevant because election will be swung by gas prices #MTP #
#MeetThePress panelists ponder @DavidGregory question: is #JonHuntsman fascist, "gun-toting" enough to be "viable" in the GOP primary? #MTP #
#AndreaMitchell on #MeetThePress says that if @MittRomney can "address" sordid past helping MA poor get health care, he could be frontrunner #
#AndreaMitchell on #MeetThePress says that if @MittRomney is frontrunner, that "opens up space" for family values candidate to challenge. #
WTF, #AndreaMitchell doesn't think @MittRomney is a sufficiently hard-right social conservative? i don't get it. #MeetThePress #MTP #
I love twittering my analysis & ridicule of wankers on @meetthepress but nobody parodies the self-parodying Sunday talkers like @Bobblespeak #
Don't miss the hilarious translations of Meet The Press and This Week by @Bobblespeak at http://tinyurl.com/Bobblespeak #MeetThePress #MTP #
via @TheOnion – Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People http://t.co/JR4iZE8 #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-20

nickdupree — Fri, 20 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Doing important adding to Wikipedia tonight. Let's see if it's all reverted/devolved into edit wars when I wake up tomorrow. #
Added to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He info from Journal of Chinese Studies about why the Ming barely recorded the Zheng He voyages #
Thanks to @superaleja I had source needed to create this new section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism#Women_in_Confucian_thought #
Finally! @nprnews CDC Has Tips For 'Zombie Apocalypse' And Other Disasters http://n.pr/mtKSDn #
Obama's #MEspeech "America values the dignity of the street vendor in Tunisia more than the raw power of the dictator" is all over the media #
but no one in U.S. media will cover how street vendors within U.S. are treated: hardly with "dignity," banned, jailed, restricted, harassed #
watch this video about an legal effort by @IJ to overturn laws across the country that all-but-ban street vendors http://iam.ij.org/ggJSil #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-19

nickdupree — Thu, 19 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

“Muslim societies that are most repressive toward women…also have some of the highest pornography usage in the world." http://is.gd/LCf3lV #
When Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the faltering Mongol dynasty in 1368 AD, he founded the Ming Dynasty, "Ming" meaning #brilliant or light #
The name Ming, meaning #brilliant reflects the Manichaean Ming Cult that catapulted the Dynasty to power. #
The Ming were the last Dynasty led by majority Han Chinese people. The Ming were overthrown & the Manchu-led Qing dynasty took over in 1644 #
The Manchu-led "northern barbarian" Qing Dynasty saw the fall of Imperial China; they ruled until 1911 when replaced by Republic of China #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-17

nickdupree — Tue, 17 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

My hometown Mobile, Alabama, it's like New Orleans' slower twin, identical on the surface, but with DD & one milky filmy eye @SaraJBenincasa #
Oh YAY! #DailyShow #039;s @TheInDecider magnificent @SaraJBenincasa retweeted my description of Mobile, AL for her high school #CityArchetypes #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-16

nickdupree — Mon, 16 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Stunt comedian Mark Malkoff proves that buses in Manhattan are so slow, he's faster on a child’s big wheel tricycle! http://huff.to/e8RQIT #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-10

nickdupree — Tue, 10 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Booo @ChuckSchumer for planning a security crackdown on trains. http://bit.ly/iynMhA #SchumersFolly yet another hit on the #4thamendment #
Before you know it, the TSA will be at every PATH & Amtrak station checking every boob & scrotum like airports. Thanks a lot @ChuckSchumer #
I wish the Duopoly (Team Donkey and Team Elephant both two wings of the same unjust system) would care about our liberty! #SchumersFolly #
I joined Twitter on the 9th of May 2008 (1,095 days ago). Find your age at http://www.twuration.com/ #
Mayor Bloomberg & Commissioner Kelly Honor 10 Members of 9/11 Cleanup who Perished of WTC-related Respiratory Diseases http://t.co/ZZn2Kv2 #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-09

nickdupree — Mon, 09 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Classic #SNL opening, Tina Fey & Maya Rudolph singing a soulful R&B double duet–quartet?–between themselves and their "unborn feti" LOL #
Watching #SNL Jason Sudeikis' devil character on #WeekendUpdate compares v. poorly with Jon Lovitz's Mephistopheles in the '80s, so lame #
The decline of #SNL watch Jon Lovitz's Mephistopheles sketch http://hulu.com/w/ind compare with Jason Sudeikis' flat, lame devil character #
RT @nycHope: @NickDupree @Book_Dude I really can't get over how awful #SNL was tonight. They wasted Tina Fey TwitLonger: http://tl.gd/aauh80 #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-07

nickdupree — Sat, 07 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Watching the #GOPdebate on foxnews.com with shock and wonderment! #
Rick Santorum on #GOPdebate just said Obama is wrong on Central America and Colombia policy. Why?! He didn't have time to explain. #SCGOP #
Unintentional hilarity! @TheInDecider: Every time a candidate goes over time I think somebody is winning on Jeopardy. #tweetthepress #scgop #
Shocking, watching big applause for waterboarding #tweetthepress #SCdebate Mr. Cain got cheered for justifying torture bc "want to kill us" #
I'm live-tweeting the appalling first debate of the Republican presidential primary #tweetthepress #SCdebate amazingly scary right-wingers #
Herman Cain, former Godfather's Pizza CEO, explains plan to eliminate income tax but nothing on how to pay for it #SCdebate #tweetthepress #
Fmr. New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson wants Medicaid replaced with block grants #SCdebate #tweetthepress he also has hilarious muppet hands #
Why is former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain getting the bulk of the questions and screen time?? #SCdebate #tweetthepress #
Once studying how to address climate change "a clunker in [my] record" & a terrible thing, Governor Pawlenty says #SCdebate #tweetthepress #
Comical, weed-smoking muppet Gary Johnson predicts Obama can't win because U.S. on the verge of economic collapse #SCdebate #tweetthepress #
Santorum says people shouldn't be bullied into NOT running bc of morally "falling short" (gross ethical hypocrisy) #SCdebate #tweetthepress #
Human muppet Gary Johnson says he climbed Mt Everest; that would be a weird sight #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-06

nickdupree — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Hello Twitter hive mind: Do you want me to live-tweet the crazy right-wing Republican presidential primary debate tonight? #NickpollQuestion #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-05

nickdupree — Thu, 05 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Pakistan de facto sheltered #OBL to 1) keep the manhunt funding $$$ flowing and 2) it's always been in their interest to help the Taliban #
Pak's foreign policy is abt countering India: they want Taliban, anti-infidel forces to keep India from influencing Afgh. & surrounding them #
Look at Central Asia map, Pakistan DNW Afghanistan falling under India's sphere of influence, they'd be pinned in along every border! #
Pakistan's military and intel (ISI) has always seen Taliban, with their insane hatred of infidels, as a bulwark against India's influence. #
I'm sad to see the gorgeous Qing dynasty exhibits gone from @metmuseum they were incredible & very relevant to understanding #ChineseHistory #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-04

nickdupree — Wed, 04 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Way to go ADAPT brothers & sisters! 89 arrested in Medicaid protest – POLITICO.com http://politi.co/jb5ovU peaceful assembly shnt be illegal #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-03

nickdupree — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Translation of what they really meant on #MeetThePress at http://t.co/hYHDTqS huge LULZ, @Bobblespeak nails it again #
Good Lord, #OsamaBinLaden is killed by Joint Special Operations Command! WHY NOW, nearly 10 later? it's a super bizarre moment in #history #
Bottom line: now that Osama bin Laden is dead, can we please LEAVE Afghanistan before that quagmire bankrupts us like it did the USSR? #
We gain only retribution here, no dead returned or lessening of suffering, so I hope the message will be #peace a closure to this dumb war! #
There is zero justification now for more "kinetic activity," as @deptofdefense flacks call violence, in the AfPak theater. #BRINGTHEMHOME #
#BinLadenisDead WE WON! leave the gruesome AfPak theater in the history books! I signed this petition to #bringthemhome http://goo.gl/0mjf #

Twitter Updates for 2011-05-01

nickdupree — Sun, 01 May 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Tweeting my commentary on #MeetThePress now. Great ideas from @MikeBloomberg, let immigrants repopulate Detroit & reinvigorate America #
Nice burn from @DavidAxelrod "glad we could help [Trump] boost his ego" with #Birthcertificate release on #MeetThePress #
#MeetThePress @MikeBloomberg saying Republicans "have to get off the #birther issue" if they're to have a chance in 2012 presidential race. #
#MeetThePress @MikeBloomberg says Donald Trump "a NY icon" and "bigger than life" but it's up to American people to decide if he's an idiot #
#MeetThePress @BobMcDonnell looking bitter, constipated, says governors have to balance their states' budgets with no debt, no excuses #
#MeetThePress @DavidAxelrod burns @BobMcDonnell, saying he actually balanced Virginia's budget with fed largesse & raiding state pensions #
#MeetThePress @DavidGregory says independent voters won't vote for #PresidentObama again because don't like $4 gasoline. What?! #
#MeetThePress @BobMcDonnell says he's a governor, likes governors, he'd like to see a governor be president ASAP #
#MeetThePress @DavidAxelrod gives ridiculous response on campaign finance. Collecting bribetributions is good as long as against #KochBros #
#MeetThePress @DavidGregory asks @marcorubio do you think Dems & Reps are SERIOUS about solutions? Gregory is obsessed over who's "serious" #
#MeetThePress @marcorubio has huge 6in tall ears, says we have to end #Medicare now, or else face the horrible prospect of losing Medicare. #
#MeetThePress LOL @DavidGregory asks @marcorubio if he's sure he wants to end Medicare, he's Senator of Fla "full of" old people on Medicare #
#MeetThePress @marcorubio replies "why hasn't the president run up to capital hill and presented a plan" to end Medicare? LOL #
#MeetThePress @marcorubio says Donald Trump only a contender for president because "you [media] guys give him a lot of attention" BINGO #

Twitter Updates for 2011-04-30

nickdupree — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:06:00 +0000

I'm so happy that thanks to great new nurses I got to go to #theMet to see the #Qing dynasty exhibits before they ended this weekend #
It focused on Qianlong Emperor's retirement villa within the Forbidden City–the Juanqinzhai, "Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service." #
So lavish, decades and millions in silver spent on incredibly elaborate rooms. but incredibly tranquil in its epic feng shui-ness… #
Too bad that so much wealth was used on incredible detail, even wood painted to look like bamboo, and emperor never even moved into it. #
"Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service" was gorgeous, but millions spent on resorts the Qing never even used caused hate for monarchy #
I saw with my own eyes a guy rickshawing the rich yd, #pedicabs look so weird and new class antagonism for U.S. #weirdNYC #seenon5thAvenue #
Which park did I see downtown yd with a big giant woman's head sculpture in its center? @BryantParkNYC was that you? @NYCParks do you know? #
That giant head statue in a park downtown was vertically stretched, "bad aspect ratio" in real life! thought I was hallucinating #weirdNYC #

Twitter Updates for 2011-04-28

nickdupree — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Pictures from getting up in the wheelchair & going outside test run for #theMet http://flickr.com/gp/superaleja/45V891 by & with @superaleja #
ZomCon "better life through containment" (of zombies) T-shirt. Only available on http://riptapparel.com limited time until midnight EDT! #
"Foolish Dems Think Bush Plan Will Increase Debt LOL" RT @simonowens This 2007 Washington Post article is hilarious http://wapo.st/gLukrW #
MSNBC just now: "It's crunch time in London. But what's Pippa (Kate sister)'s role in the big event? That's next." http://is.gd/6KA9uE #WTF #
What's wrong with you @nbcnightlynews RT @rehemanbcnews: The royal couples' big day is almost here. They were spotted today. Watch tonight #
Do Americans' frenzied obsession w/ William & Kate @royalwedding indicate a desire for monarchy instead of paralyzed US political system? #

Twitter Updates for 2010-11-07

nickdupree — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 04:06:00 +0000

What makes a novel something you hate, and what makes a novel something you love to read? http://4ms.me/dw2JQk #

Twitter Updates for 2010-10-23

nickdupree — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:06:00 +0000

ATTN women comics readers: I'm working on a comic script (mystery/noir set in a futuristic dystopia with a journalist girl as heroine) #
the goal here is changing the nature of adventure stories, make more accessible and relatable to the girl audience. Make a webcomic of it #
I'm writing the script but am looking for an artist for the webcomic project…. anyone knows someone who might be interested? #
ATTN women comics readers: what elements should a mystery noir webcomic have for you to actually want to keep reading it? #

Twitter Updates for 2010-08-30

nickdupree — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:06:00 +0000

can't believe @superaleja, trying to get him to do flush, accidentally said to cult-like nurse "do the kool-aid–I mean gatorade flush!"ROFL #

Twitter Updates for 2010-08-22

nickdupree — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:06:00 +0000

Working on my song "Whirlwind" in GarageBand. May be sans melody #

Twitter Updates for 2010-08-15

nickdupree — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:06:00 +0000

it's true, I suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th), pretty badly. #

Twitter Updates for 2010-08-12

nickdupree — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:06:00 +0000

RT @superaleja Yay to @NickDupree for leaving his first successful phone message for someone using a text-to-speech relay operator! #
just made my first live call with the relay (non-answering machine) to a dentist. I got the dentist directly, and it went surprisingly well. #