Special #1 - Chris Parrish

This episode was recorded 6 May 2014 live and in person at Brent’s office in lovely, sunny Ballard. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) Chris has worked at Adobe and as a founder of Rogue Sheep, which won an Apple Design Award for Postage. Chris’s new company is Aged & Distilled with Guy English — which shipped Napkin, a Mac app for visual collaboration. Chris is also the co-host of The Record. He lives on Bainbridge Island, a quick ferry ride from Seattle. This episode is sponsored by Tagcaster. Tagcaster is not just another podcast client — it solves the age-old problem of linking to specific parts of a podcast. You can make clips — short audio excerpts — and share them and link to them. After all these years, that problem is finally solved. This episode is also sponsored by Igloo. Igloo is an intranet you’ll actually like, with shared calendars, microblogs, file-sharing, social networking, and more. It’s free for up 10 users — give it a try for your company or your team today. This episode is also sponsored by Hover. Hover makes domain name management easy. And it’s a snap to transfer domains from other registrars using their valet service. Get 10% off your first purchase with the promotional code PANIC. As in “Don’t Panic! Use Hover.” Take a look. Things we mention, more or less in order of appearance: Oklahoma Wikipedia The shopping cart Rust Homestead Act Pong Atari 2600 President Carter Pinochle Republicans Democrats Apple II Apple II Reference Manual Floppy Disks Odyssey: The Compleat Adventure Marco Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer Parallel port BASIC Apple II graphics modes LiteBrite Apple II Star Wars game Assembler Text adventure games Paper app Graph paper Merlin assembler Pascal compiler for Apple II Locksmith for Apple II Apple II copy protection Radio Shack ROM chips Tin foil Alligator clips The Complete Graphics System The Incomparable Mike Lee on The Record SATs University of Oklahoma LaserWriter Linotronic image setter The Clampetts The Joads Seattle Las Vegas Belltown Capitol Hill Everett Queen Anne Magnolia Adobe Microsoft Windows X-Wing video game 8086 Assembly language Microsoft DOS Sierra On-Line PowerBook Duo Apple IIGS Think C Sega CD-ROMs Postscript Pagemaker Quark Aldus Pioneer Square 1995 Java Natural Intelligence Roaster IDE Illustrator QA Partner Test-Driven Development InDesign COM Matt Joss Version control 2001 SourceSafe Visual Studio C++ OpenDoc Resource Compiler Sharepoint Azure FrameMaker Rogue Sheep CMYK separation Optical character alignment University of Washington HITLab Gel Electrophoresis Jeff Argast PowerPoint Western blots The Guardian Bush Administration Postage Twitterrific Brad Ellis Lehman Brothers Jake Carter Cocoa Quartz Composer Motion After Effects Kyle Richter Ian Baird IAP Rickenbacker’s The House of Shields John Gruber Dave Wiskus Napkin Guy English Thomas Unterberger C4 United Lemur World Cup Brazil WWDC San Francisco NetNewsWire 1999 Eddy awards