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[namey.livejournal.com]

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[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Soon you will need several IP addresses for a spring outfit.

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

Or to turn on a light.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

"Nest?" What a tool.

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

Bringing the Smart Grid Home: Google Buys Nest (http://theenergycollective.com/chrisking/330851/bringing-smart-grid-home-google-buys-nest")

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Had the OP guy been referring to this company's product, I would be inclined to forgive his trend-sucking vocabulary.

As to smart gizmos, why stop (http://www.theenergydetective.com/about-ted) at the thermostat? I want the whole house! Integrating the two would be even better.

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

You mean the cartoon or the poster here? I think the cartoon is referring to the buy-out. Not sure about namey, although this was pretty big on the news. Anytime Google spends a couple of billion to buy something, everybody in the media hyperventilates and makes a huge mess all over themselves.

That's an interesting product.

[namey.livejournal.com]

A number of friends and coworkers have them, so it triggered with me a bit more, but yeah, Google Bought Something... and I'm not sure what else it the cartoon would be referring to, per peristaltor's comment.

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

I think peristaltor may have thought that pretentious techie hipsters refer to their apartments as "nests", although I can't imagine why they would want to. Associating nests with people generally is a very negative thing - As in "nest of bombers/terrorists". Honestly, I can't imagine why the company would want it as a name, unless the company was run by a pretentious techie hipster who doesn't understand the history of the word s/he is using.

Maybe Google saved them from themselves.

How do your friends and co-workers like the service?

[namey.livejournal.com]

Haven't heard a bad thing yet; a couple of cases of user error that were easily fixed, remotely.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

That's what I was referring to, yes. The trendy thing was to refer to a night in as "nesting" some time back. I still hear it on occasion and roll the eyes.

I'm not plugged into the tech hype as much as many, it seems. I guess I'll just apologize for being too old and get back to whittling on my porch and yelling at them darned kids on my lawn.

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

Those damn kids pester my yard too.