I’m excited to announce that I am joining NBC News as a Principal Software Engineer where I will be taking the lead on building their suite of iOS apps! I’m looking forward to having the opportunity to work for such a storied company, and help br...
Earlier today it struck me that, although I know about and frequent the Broadway Farmers Market, there are a ton of other markets in the Seattle area that I never go to. I went off to find out how many, and was surprised to discover that there app...
I don’t know why this never occurred to me before today, but it struck me that the Kindle Fire would be a great system on which to play old-school video games. I’m not a big fan of the virtual controller setup, but I bet that the 7” screen would w...
I finally bit the bullet and moved off Wordpress today after learning that my blog had been hacked at some point in the recent past. I decided to switch over to Octopress, which is based on Jekyll, in part because there’s an easy-to-use Wordpress ...
A couple weeks back, I noticed that when you ‘like’ an article in Instapaper, it will publish a link to it on your Twitter account with a predictable suffix, assuming of course that you have enabled Twitter integration. The most interesting part o...
Regarding http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/11/15/dorli-rainey-84-pepper-sprayed-by-spd-at-occupy-seattle-protest This needs to stop. Now. I voted for you because I thought Nickels was a useless idiot. I don’t think the same of you, ...
Begin forwarded message: From: Aaron Brethorst Subject: What is there to say? Date: August 25, 2011 1:54:21 AM PDT To: steve@apple.com For some reason, i feel like i am emailing santa claus. I’m saddened to hear that you’ve resigned. You’ve bee...
No, really. Check out some of the photos of Abbottabad on this website.
From: Aaron Brethorst Date: April 28, 2011 9:34:49 PM PDT To: christine.gregoire@gov.wa.gov Cc: chopp.frank@leg.wa.gov, jamie.pedersen@leg.wa.gov Subject: Please Sign SB 5073 Into Law--Don't Veto Any of It Dear Governor Gregoire, I've been a Sea...