Chaos Server

Thank Siri when she helps. It’s only polite. - Dutch Jones I just passed my six year anniversary at work. I’m the second longest employee there. At my last job I ended up in the top five oldest employees. It’s funny how that happens. The days of working for the same company for decades has never been a thing in high tech, but I’ve always sort of wanted it. When I joined one of the big pushes was “mobile.” Making sure all of our experiences and everything we did worked wonderfully on iPhones. I was always, “sure sure, we can do that, but no one really uses their mobile phone to do anything serious, right?” Six years ago I was sorta right, but mostly wrong. I think that really shifted my opinion was having kids and being at soccer and gymnastics and the park and all of that stuff. Prior that life shift, I was in front of a computer most of the time - any time I was working I was in front of computer, and any time I was relaxing (watch TV, movies, reading), there was probably a computer...

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. - William Blake As I raise the little chaos machines, it really does amaze me the things that are apparently learned skills as opposed to instinctual. Like, here’s a good one, if you want to go to sleep, you should close your eyes. Seems like you would just inherently know that that on. Mini-Chaos and Ms.Chaos are great sleepers. Put them to bed, and they will go sleep. If they aren’t tired, no problem, they will play or sing until they are tired and go to sleep. Micro-Chaos? Not so much. I’ve come to realize, it seems likely that I could be one of the 3% of the population that manage with the 6-hours of sleep a night mark instead of the 8.5 hours that people average. Likely too that I inherited that trait from my dad. Likely too the Micro-Chaos inherited the same thing (sigh). It kind of makes me understand why, when I was trying to sleep for 8-9 hours a night, I always felt like a insomniac unable to fa...

“It’s not possible.” “No, it’s necessary.” - Cooper (Interstellar) It’s the most wonderful time of the year! I have been an aggressive beta tester for a long time - my first bigboy beta was in the late 90s when I was using Microsoft Outlook Express aggressively for email and newsgroups and an active participant in Microsoft’s forums on it. MS invited me into their beta program which lead me into betas for Office, Win98, WinNT, and other MS things. At the time those were small private betas and the MS developer teams loved to hate my computer which I had quad-booting between Win98, WinNT, Linux, and OS/2 with a shared HPFS data drive. It was awesome. These days I’m on the Windows 10 public beta track, but I’m all Apple for the most part so after WWDC each year it’s time to jump onto the beta tracks! I usually put either my iPhone or iPad into the developer beta as soon as it comes out. BAM! Those are non-essential devices, right? Yeah. Totally. If I can’t get any phone calls for a few ...