In the year 2000
In this world there are only two tragedies; one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde Every night MrsChaos and I climb into bed, watch a show on the TV, and then read a chapter out of parenting book we're going through. Then what? Then I have to climb out bed to turn off the TV, turn off the light, and turn on the fan. This is insanity. We live in a world where the sum of human knowledge is available to me from the phone sitting on my nightstand, you might wonder why the phone (capable of controlling the furnace) can't do this for me. I wondered this. I wondered this every night as I climbed out of bed to hit all these switches. I have been eyeing devices capable of control these various things for a long time - but there expensive. The lights were giving me the most hassle. Belkin makes a WeMo light switch --which is promising, but the bedroom light needs a dimmer. Insteon has a dimmer, but everyone tells me that Insteon isn't quite...