Chaos Server

I realized that jobs suck, but if you could get up at 6 A.M. and bake your own breakfast, that is very satisfying. - Marco Arment Raised in Sacramento, the launchpad of Rush Limbaugh, how could I avoid being a fan of the talk radio? Working from home I used to always have KGO playing in the background during work. These days, I am massive fan of Podcasts. It was a natural evolution. When I had a thirty-minute drive every day, that got me listening to five hours of shows a week, or did it? I can't remember when podcasting introduced playing at "1.5x" and "2x" speed, but I feel like this happened somewhere in the iPod-mini phase of things. Maybe it was early as running Rockbox on the my Archos - who's to say? The important thing is that I bumped up to listening at 1.5x-2.x on podcast and it was great. Now, listening to normal talk radio sounds like drudgery. I get up in the mornings with Mini-Chaos. We have our bottles (formula for him, coffee for me). We g...

When I attend church the sermons are usually addressing and prescribing for a common lack that I don’t identify with - Don Miller Going to Catholic high school and college means that I have eight years of Catholic religious education under my belt through HS-level and college-level religious studies courses. I know the bible really well, right? Funny thing is that religious studies never meant bible study. Mostly in those courses the bible was the pre-req and we read books like Siddhartha, Man's Search for Meaning, Jungian Views of Religion, and similar contemporary works that were saturated with theology. Since starting to go to my new church (like 5 years ago--so not that new), the small groups and series have all been bible study. I've missed the broader scope of my college courses. Over last summer our small group did a series on Acts, and I mentioned to Mrs.Chaos that reading Acts yet again is sort of interesting, but I don't expect to gain much over the three times I...

They say the truth will set you free, but sometimes, not telling the truth can make you lots of money. - Christopher Elliott When I head into the office in SF I get a great opportunity to have some SF foodstuff. On my walk back to the train I grab dinner, and there are a dozen quick-grab SF eat-fast startup restaurants. They are constantly going out of business, which provides a great variety. The current place I've been diggin' is the Tava Indian Kitchen. I used to eat a lot of Indian food, but now I don't have Indian coworkers and curry disagrees with Mrs.Chaos, so I have to grab Indian on my own whenever I can. This place is founded by former software developers. It probably won't last a year, but it's very delicious for now. The first week I got the spicy borroti (yeah, Indian burrito fusion) and it knocked me down. My tastebuds couldn't withstand flavors of that magnitude. Now I've gotten settled in with medium spicy and I love it. I buy the borroti an...

I have never been lied to by a txt file that had been hand-aligned. - XKCD When I was a younger boy spending my Friday nights in my parent's office, logged into BBS chatrooms and watching late-night PBS, the world was busy painting a picture of people like me that looked like Sandra Bullock on The Net. Seriously, at the time people said that's how the visualized me (*shudder*). When I read the TMNT graffic novels, an adult comic book reader meant the Simpson's Comic Book Guy. Comics were for kids and something you gave up into adulthood, unless you read the New Yorker. When I started programming for fun, I knew programmers ended up like Lazlo from Real Genius (how great when a show which celebrates nerds, still makes the computer scientist the reclusive large glasses guy?). When I obsessed over The Lord of the Rings and other fantasy novels, the friends who shared that love were part of the nerd crew. People outside that group maybe had to read The Hobbit in gra...

We've added two new babysitters to the mix for mini-chaos. For a lot of babysitting I'm working in the front office and available for any issues and to spy, but sometimes I'm out of town when we need a daytime babysitter.  To be those extra creepy parents we decided to buy a nanny cam. I had a long look between the Dropcam and the Belkin NetCam. Dropcam got acquired by Nest (Google) and I love Nest.  Belkin makes the WeMo line of home automation and I love WeMo. What to do? I finally ended up going with Dropcam with hope that Google is the bigger player and high hopes that Nest, the sub company, will go all on with HomeKit later this year. It'll be interesting to see how all the home automation I've done rolls into HomeKit. Dropcam is pretty slick! I can have it send me push alerts when there is movement during alert periods. You can even flag/name areas so if someone opens the front door between 10pm-8am I get an alert that the front door was opened and Drop...