Chaos Server

People want to own their music. - Steve Jobs Pick your poison and commit, because that's how you enjoy it. My brother was over, heard my internet radio streaming, and asked what it was. I told him it iTunes Radio. When he asked me if I liked it better than Pandora there was only one answer? No. Without a doubt, I like the stations I used to listen to on Pandora better than the stations I listen to on iTunes Radio. So why don't I listen to Pandora? Because I'm a fanboy. Apple is the ecosystem I choose to support and so I do my best to use Apple with all my heart and receive the experience they are trying to give me. Apple Maps. Apple Podcast app. iTunes Radio. iTunes. AppleTV. AirPlay to Airport Express devices. I know that there are better options on the market, but I have this hope that if I give my money to Apple, Apple will do good things with it. Sometimes I wish that I could be a fanboy of another ecosystem. Android, Chromebook, Google Maps, Google Music, Google...

Look, this thing can’t land on somebody’s head while they’re walking around their neighborhood. - Jeff Bezos Sibling Chaos: "I'm surprised you don't own a drone." Me: "What am I going to do with a drone, spy on neighbors? I only buy ridiculous toys with functional value." SC: "In a few years, you're going to be playing frisbee or baseball with Mini-Chaos and he's going to get a toy stuck on the roof? How are you going to get that toy down? Use a ladder?" Me: "A ladder? Like a chump!?!? I need a drone!"

These things must be true, or else it would not be a ray-gun. But it is. Ray-guns come from space. - James Alan Gardner I wrote a lot of poetry in high school and college. Some of it was good. I read a lot of poetry in high school and college because I liked it. I eventually stopped reading poetry and stopped writing poetry. In my mid-twenties I wrote a lot of short stories. Some of it was good - you can even find it on my site. I read a lot of short stories in my mid-twenties because I liked it. I eventually stopped reading short stories and stopped writing them. I have three short stories that are stopped in the middle and I'm not sure if I'll ever finish. Every year for NaNoWriMo I challenge myself to write one complete start-to-finish story (of any length) and I fail. In preparation for this years NaNoWriMo I started to read short stories to see if I could be inspired. I was titalated by one I read last week. It was utterly delightful. The full text is findable onli...