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It's not polite to remind your partner that you are a gross decaying piece of meat. - John Hodgman So let's talk about the quantified self and tracking all of your health data forever for reasons! I'm quite excited about this - because I love the future where I have all this data for a long time back in my life. The quantified self is going combine along with genetic sequencing to do amazing things for all of our health. I'm in the Apple HealthKit ecosystem, so if you're in the Android world, there is probably a different place for you.  The starting point for this is an iPhone and an Apple Watch  which is going to serve as the secure enclave and get your the basic move data - let's move on from there! Smart Scale - you definitely need to be keeping logs of your weight and BMI over time, right? The Withings Scale (now Nokia) is the classic - it's been tweeting peoples weight for a long time and when you launch the Nokia Health Mate app, it syncs your ...

Life is series of doors that only open one way. - Luna: New Moon (Ian MacDonald) I've been asked by quite a few friends about what amazing internet of things devices they should be putting on their wishlist or buying for family members this year - so let me organize my thoughts around this for this buying season about what I have. First I am bought into the Apple HomeKit ecosystem as my choice. If you are an Android or Alexa ecosystem, the options are probably different for you. You'll need an AppleTV as your home hub - in theory an old iPad, but don't be silly. I also have devices that are not natively HomeKit, and use a cool app called HomeBridge to connect them. See below! Smart Thermostat  - I think the first big IoT thing was the thermostat.  My recommendation on this one is now the  ecobee4  as the best one with native HomeKit support.  I currently own a Nest  and I like it better, but it will probably never have HomeKit support and I would like ...

It’s the kind of fatigue that feels earned , rather than imposed .  - Wil Wheaton Trying to do slightly complex things on my iPad, things I could trivially on my MacBook, brings back some of the joy of early computing to me. When I was first using computers as a kid, reading through my 3-ring binder manual of MS DOS 3.3 and BASIC and discovering how to do things was pure bliss. In the modern world, I’m competent enough I rarely hit those moments on the old MacBook, but I still hit them on my iPad where I have a, “I wonder if...” Like, tonight, “I wonder if I could get the Rescue Bots theme song onto Mini-Chaos’  Amazon Music playlist...” Find the song on YouTube and then use ListenToYouTube.com to convert it to MP3.  This opens as a new tab in Safari, where I can “Share” the URL into the clipboard and swap over to GoodReader to download the MP3 onto my iPad. From GoodReader, export it over to iCloud Drive. Now, because it’s YouTube, the song has gross “monetization...