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While I always think the idea of leasing a car is CRAZY, I realized that I generally lease all of my technical gadgets. I have had awesome luck upgrading devices and then selling the old ones on eBay. I just upgraded my Apple Watch from Series 0 to Series 1 and it was a dream! I bought the Series 1 for $210 on Target’s black Friday sale, and sold my old one on eBay for $180. That’s what I the perfect upgrade price.

During my annual holiday shopping for friends and family, I always find stuff to put onto my wish list. This year I saw this amazing 2-cup coldbrew bottle over on ThinkGeek and I was so excited it by that I couldn’t wait for someone to buy it for me. I just bought it—also because ThinkGeek sometimes completely sells out of things forever. All that Mrs.Chaos could say is, “don’t you already have a cold brew system?” Sure, but that is for brewing an entire pitcher of cold brew, this is for brewing 2-cups overnight! “Don’t you have enough ways to make coffee?” I guess the answer is no? I have the drip brewer, the espresso machine, the cold brew pot, a french press, an Aeropress, and now a cold brew double-cup. I still need a Chemex, eh? I’ve been having stare downs with those.

This is a huge moment for home automation. - Tim Cook My HomeKit setup has been running pretty well these days, but sometimes I think about what is actually happening and it is insane. I lift up my  ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ and say, "Hey Siri, open the garage door." What is actually happening? The  ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ is sending that audio through Bluetooth to my iPhone, which sends it up through my AT&T LTE connection to iCloud.  iCloud processes the audio and sends it back down, through my iPhone to my  ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ. My  ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ will then use handoff to pass the command back over Bluetooth to my iPhone. Now my iPhone processes the HomeKit command and once again sends the HomeKit request up through AT&T LTE to iCloud.  iCloud is going to send it down through my AT&T U-verse connection, to my Apple Airport Extreme* which passes it via WiFi to my Apple TV which is serving as my HomeKit hub. AppleTV relays the message over WiFi back through the Airport Extreme's wired ethernet connection to my...