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Here's the problem with new information--once you get it you always have to step back and reevaluate everything you thought you knew already. - Point Blank Being a responsible adult is hard and expensive work. For a long time my financial strategy was "put a ton of money into retirement and savings and worry about it later." I think that strategy worked well for me throughout my 20s. The problem is, now it's later. Now I've got a mortgage. Just as Mrs.Chaos is finishing up under-graduate there is a baby on the way. So now is the time to actually make sure all my retirement is organized how it's supposed to be and start to figure out if I'm going to be paying for college educates and when I'm going to retire. Now is the time to figure get life insurance in case I don't happen to make inherit the right set of longevity genes. Now is the time to have a living trust. Now is the time to have a living will and a real will. Man - being an...

Privacy. Some day in the future people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was. - Jodi Foster I am not commuting enough! In the old job my commute consistent of eight hours in the car every two weeks. In the new job my commute consists of six hours on the train and one hour in the car every two weeks. So I would have expected that my Podcast listening time would have remained about the same. It turns out that when I'm on the train I spend the time working, reading, and other things that don't involve listening to podcasts. The end result is that I can't keep up with all my listening! It's horrible! I wasn't listening to my audio books at all. The I realized that Game of Thrones will be resuming on HBO pretty soon and I hadn't even started of the latest book. So I've updated my listening strategy! Now I alternate between one Podcast and one chapter of the book. That keeps me making progress on both. Additionally I've been ...

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. - Frank A. Clark We found out that Mini-Chaos was on the way around the earlier possible time. I'm a by-the-book kind of person and figured as soon as found out that we would just wait until the recommended 12-week period to inform anyone else. Mrs.Chaos doesn't have the same philosophy on things - "it's like a present! You don't hide presents at home you give them to people!" For this period of time from about 4-weeks to about 10-weeks every day was a bit of battle. "We have to tell someone!" "No, we're going to wait." "But I'm going to see my friends, and they're going to notice, so I'm going to have to tell them." "They aren't going to notice or ask." "Ohhh, I bet they will. The only way to keep this secret is just to not see any of my friends. Is that what you want? For me not to see my friends." So thank...

"Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous." - Violet Crawley (Downton Abbey) "It seems like you're always buying new headsets." It's true! I have bought a lot of headsets over the past few years, but when you are remote phone warrior, the headset is a very important weapon in the battle against work. When I first switched to be super-remote a couple of years ago, I worked out a fantastic trick combining my AT&T phone plan and Google Voice account to be able to get all my work calls through my mobile phone with unlimited minutes. It was awesome and I needed a good headset for my phone. I got the BlueParrot Xpress for my iPhone and it is amazing. I has a giant boom mic and the most incredible noise cancellation I have ever seen. I will be walking home in San Francisco talking with Mrs.Chaos and semi will pass by making it impossible for me to hear anything and she will say she can hear my just great and didn't hear anyth...

So the thing is that Apple has not provided a good way to share iPhoto Libraries. So our solution was to merge into a single iPhoto Library on the fastest computer: MrsChaos. That means for me to do my Year in Review, if first requires me to find a time when I am allowed to use MrsChaos' computer for a long period of time. Those times are not actually that frequent. So that's the dealio. Download Video: MP4

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. - Abraham Lincoln I've come to the realization that if you put a drink in front of me I will drink. I will drink it relatively quickly. Sometimes I feel like I'm doing it wrong. Give me a glass of water. Gone. Give me a milkshake. Gone. Give me a cappuccino, latte, or tea. Gone. Give me a soda. Gone. I had this habit working from home that I would have an empty glass in front of me and then go fill it with an americano, coke, something, and then give it fifteen minutes and it would be gone. My first step to avoid having an empty cup was to brew a pot of coffee (instead of making an americano). This was a bad idea. You know what happens when I have a pot of coffee available to me? Yeah, that's right. Gone. Now I've got myself on a beverage regiment at home to keep myself from going overboard. One cup of coffee in the morning. One "something" f...

By the summer of 2012, because the product cycles are long, the majority of the televisions that you see in the television stores here will have Google TV embedded in it. - Eric Schmidt Our household has a Google TV (Logitech Revue) in the living room and an AppleTV in the bedroom. We have no cable and yet things are not as easy as they should be. I frequently find myself on the couch using Reeder to go through my RSS feeds on my iPhone and when a video comes up I just watch on my iPhone. Sure, I could airplay it to the TV, but why bother. Last week I found Mrs.Chaos in the bedroom watching a TV show on her iPhone in bed. She was probably twenty minutes into it and just said, "I don't know why I'm still watching this on my phone." I frequently walk into the living room to find her sitting at the coffee table watching a movie on her external monitor instead of playing it on the GoogleTV. To some extend, when you think about perspective, if it's just ...