This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle.

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Nat Irons has worked at Apple Developer Relations, as a WebObjects consultant, and as IT director at The Stranger. He’s now QA Manager at Black Pixel. He once delivered pizza to The Far Side author Gary Larson.

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This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. It’s high level — you can get more done with less work.

Things we mention, in-order-of-appearance-ish:

• Lode Runner
• Dark Castle
• Windows
• Boston
• San Francisco
• Berkeley, CA
• Bay Area
• High school
• Seattle
• Tim Eyman
• Sit & Spin
• Blogger Meetup
• Natty Bumppo
• bumppo.net
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Leatherstocking Tales
• Michael Mann
• Daniel Day Lewis
• Last of the Mohicans movie
• AOL chatrooms
• Berkeley Macintosh User Group (BMUG)
• BBS
• First Class BBS
• Tim Holmes
• Purple Harley
• BMUG Newsletter
• Modems
• Heidi Roizen
• Bleeding in six colors
• Twitter
• Bolo
• Spectre
• Stuart Cheshire
• Virtual Reality
• Bonjour
• ZeroConf
• Cheshire Cat
• Stuart Little
• Alice
• PERL
• Excel
• Mac OS 9
• iMac
• Floppy drive
• ADB
• USB
• NeXT
• Rhapsody
• UNIX
• Terminal.app
• BBEdit
• SE/30
• Apple in middle of menubar
• MPW
• MacPerl
• Latent Semantic Mapping (LSM)
• Regular expressions
• WWDC
• Homer Simpson in The Land of Chocoloate
• Schadenfreude
• MacInTouch
• NPR
• Microsoft
• Microsoft invests in Apple and pledges to keep developing Office for Mac
• Powerbook G3
• Filemaker Pro
• Claris
• Microsoft Access
• Bento
• Apple events
• Farallon
• Chuck Shotton
• WebSTAR
• MacHTTP
• StarNine
• Quarterdeck
• Apache
• Open Transport
• Xcode
• WebObjects
• Java
• Bill Bumgarner
• Objective-C categories
• SSH tunnels
• 1999
• Redmond
• 2000
• Maria Cantwell
• King County
• Pierce County
• Eastern Washington secession
• Shoreline
• Queen Anne
• Ballard
• Magnolia
• Discovery Park
• Capitol Hill
• Pagliacci Pizza
• 2003
• Sand Point
• Gary Larson
• Dumbledore
• The Far Side
• San Francisco Academy of Sciences
• Workmen’s Compensation
• Virgina Mason
• 2001
• 2002
• Upcoming.org
• Seattle Weekly
• Dan Savage
• The Rocket
• Lynda Barry
• Life in Hell
• Matt Groening
• Evergreen State College
• University Village Apple Store
• Seattle Xcoders
• Dave Winer
• Daniel Pasco
• C4
• Paul Goracke
• Black Pixel job listings