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Being busy does not always mean real work. - Thomas Edison We struggle with our “eating out” budget, just like every family in America. Cooking? Yeah, I theoretically like to cook, but in practice when I’m done with work and have two kids who want to play, do I really want to cook? In practice when I get off work, and Mrs.Chaos has spent eight hours taking care of two kids, does she really want to cook? No. But yet, eating out (or getting take out) adds up fast on the budget. When we decided that meal planning needed to be a joint marital effort, I did the only thing I know how to do: researched apps to find one that would be awesome for meal planning. Because, the theory goes, if I have a super-convenient method to do it across all my devices, won’t that really be the tipping point? We’re three weeks in and all is going pretty well on this front. Saturday is meal-planning day. Sunday is grocery run. We’ve been sticking to the schedule. The app? Paprika - which goes on sale once a yea...

That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines. - Terry Bisson (They're Made Out of Meat) I've had an iPhone since 2007 and Mrs.Chaos has had one since 2012. Between the two of us we've had about 14 years of carrying around an iPhone and we've lost around two screens. She dropped her iPhone 3Gs and put a nice crack in the screen - nothing too bad. She put a screen protector on it and managed to carry it for another few months until she was eligible for the next one. I dropped my iPhone 4s and put tiny little chip into the screen - nothing too bad. I trivially carried another six months until I was eligible for the next one. This past month she dropped her iPhone 6 and *BOOM* the screen exploded in the insane way that screens do. We paid to repair it. I'll be super interested to see what kinds of materials mini-Chaos and micro-Chaos will carry around in their pocket and how shocked they will be that our generation carried around these pieces of...

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time - Macbeth When Apple announced HomeKit at WWDC it sounded awesome. I have been slowly getting my house onto the Internet of Things (IoT) over the past few years, much to my delight, and perhaps to Mrs.Chaos' annoyance. I have a lot of apps on my phone to control all the different Things in my home and the promise of my beloved Apple solving the multiapp problem was amazing. Then months and months and months passed and none of my devices were becoming HomeKit enabled. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, brings forth this petty pace. Then came the vendor leaks that Apple was imposing stringent security requirements on devices for them to be certified for HomeKit. Which in the grand scheme of things is fantastic - we were heading towards a future where every device in home was connected to the Internet and they all had a password "admin/admin." Apple is fo...