Aaron Parecki

The Google Voice iPhone app found a very clever way to make calls.

When calling someone, it used to first call you, you'd answer and then it would ring the other person.

Now it seems to make a request to the GV servers and dynamically allocate a phone number to your target, then it tells your iPhone to dial the temporary number which they forward on to your target's phone number.

The end result is seamless! Go to the GV app and dial a number, and it Just Works™

Just got my #chromecast in the mail! Anybody know how to root it and install #ubuntu? Seems reasonable, right?

Pretty crazy truck & power line accident in the Pearl just now! http://i.imgur.com/ZtojQdv.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FAMRE2M.jpg

News stories:
http://www.katu.com/news/local/Truck-pulls-down-power-pole-in-NW-Portland-217647501.html
http://www.koin.com/2013/07/30/utility-pole-falls-transformer-leaks/

Reddit comment thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/1jd6lr/truck_accident_at_14th_and_marshall_doesnt_look/

`sudo make me a sandwich` https://gist.github.com/aaronpk/6116966

Jeez. Look at one shirt on zazzle.com and it follows you around the rest of the Internet! #ads #privacy

Edited a video on my phone in under 5 minutes complete with splicing, transitions and a background track. This would have taken at least 2 hours 10 years ago. We're living in the future now! #imovie

Finally linked my Facebook account with my iPhone using the new iOS FB integration. We'll see how this goes.

@julien51 This is a bit excessive, don't you think? ;) https://gist.github.com/aaronpk/699c5fcfdb5a776b5d00

Just got this notice from Flickr about 6 hours of scheduled maintenance on the API. I'm a little terrified of what changes they might be making https://gist.github.com/aaronpk/6040998

With inspiration from @obra this weekend, I'm experimentally archiving tweets and other bits of data in a Maildir folder accessible via IMAP. Call me crazy, whatever.

Password-less logins from your own domain with a #Pebble watch! http://aaron.pk/a4R11 #indieweb

Yes, I did just use a Google image search for my name as photo ID #yxyy

Filing this under: "how not to announce an acquisition" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6014001 #startups

@patrickarlt Time-based CSS queries. Discuss.

Just submitted to talk at the W3C workshop on social web standards Aug 7-8 in SF. http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/ Today's the last day to submit if you have something you'd like to share! More info here: http://tantek.com/2013/189/t6/indieweb-creators-today-join-w3c-socialweb-workshop-sf #indieweb

@thatgirl do you have a blog post somewhere about the other bill splitting/payback techniques you use? I just successfully explained Expectorant, although we didn't use it tonight!

Turns out explaining stochastic bill splitting does not, in fact, take longer than actually splitting the bill, at least among @esripdx people. http://messymatters.com/expectorant/ http://bethaknee.com/projects/expectorant/

Hey Yahoo! Get your weird navbar out of my Flickr! http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7377/9202901976_39e0c3b24f_o.png

OH: "They're kickstartering their kickstarter kickstarter."