That Bird Game Is Ruining My Life
A rant about the impossible little pixel-bird game everyone at the office is suddenly obsessed with, plus a lunch break spent resetting passwords after Yahoo's account warning email.
Personal
Personal
My Thermostat Doesn't Need a Wifi Chip
Google just paid $3.2 billion for a thermostat company. I'm still turning a dial on my wall by hand, and I'm explaining why I plan to keep doing that.
My Thermostat Is Still Just a Dial
Google bought Nest for $3.2 billion last week, and everyone's talking smart homes. My thermostat is still a dial, and I'm not sure I want it to be anything else.
Google Bought My Thermostat
Google just bought the company that makes the thermostat in my hallway. Some thoughts on trusting a company that already killed Google Reader once.
So Google Just Bought My Thermostat Company
Google just bought Nest for $3.2 billion, and I own one of their thermostats, so here's my actual, personal problem with it.
Polar Vortex, CES From the Couch
Snowed in during the record cold snap this week, half-watching CES from under a blanket, mildly furious about curved TVs and a leaking pipe under the sink.
A Cold House and a Warm Keynote
A very cold day spent half-watching CES liveblogs from Vegas while babysitting frozen pipes and a doomed houseplant back home.
The Drone Thing and the Bitcoin Thing
Watching Bezos pitch delivery drones on 60 Minutes while Bitcoin quietly blew past the price of gold over the same weekend, and why I can't stop thinking about the ten dollars I didn't spend on it back in 2011.
The Router Line, the Empty PS4 Shelf, and a Very Weird Twitter Feed
A Black Friday trip for a $30 router turns into notes on empty PS4 shelves, a bitcoin price spike blowing up Twitter, and a self-checkout line that made no sense.
I Forgot I Mined Bitcoin
Bitcoin's price went wild this week after Monday's Senate hearing, which sent me digging through an old hard drive for a wallet file I mined on a whim back in 2011.
GTA Online, Still Eating My Character Three Weeks Later
Three weeks after launch, GTA Online is still dropping my sessions and eating characters, plus my new Kindle Fire HDX showed up and my router is dying.
Two Weeks Into GTA Online and I'm Already on Character Number Three
Two weeks into GTA Online and I'm on my third character after another wipe, some thoughts on why the single-player campaign still outshines the buggy multiplayer mess.