Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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The City Reliquary and Panorama Episode May 09, 2022

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The City Reliquary and Panorama Episode: My Friend Eric Drysdale, A Last-Minute Spot, The Experience of the City Reliquary, The Mid-Century Panorama, Curation of Collections, The Success of the Experience, A Look Instead of a Glance, A Drowned Car, An Inspiration. Some words on the Mid-Century Stereo Panorama. The website: https://midcenturystereopanorama.com/ Which took place at the City Reliquary: https://www.cityreliquary.org/

The Severance Fox Episode May 06, 2022

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The Severance Fox Episode: Two Media Experiences. Puzzle Fox, Zelda Not Zelda, Bewilderment, Ancient Instructions, Severance, Offices, Eero Saarinen, T. J. Watson, Visitation, Hallways, Warrens, Fonts, Machines.

An acknowledgement of two modern media experiences I've had that push back through childhood and memories, and the unexpected love I have for a sterile place.

The Compuserve Miracle Episode May 03, 2022

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The Compuserve Miracle Episode: Keeping Secrets, Compuserve's Place, Incredible Ads, The Cost, Dinner Jacket, How a Teenager Got On, The Miracle That Is No Longer a Miracle, Hints and Rumors, The Big Announcement. Regarding a bounty of Compuserve that has fallen (partially) into my hands, and what Compuserve means to me.

The Blunders and Mistakes Episode Apr 01, 2022

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The Blunders and Mistakes Episode: Pick-Up, Zappa, Disk Switch, Rocking Tow, Crash Cart.

Some stories of me in the middle of blunders both due to me and completely out of my control.

The New Generation of Sorting Episode Mar 30, 2022

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The New Generation of Sorting Episode: A New Feature Lands, A Rediscovery of My Love of Sorting, Pulp Fiction Redux, The Approach and the Result, A Teenager's Categories, The Next Mountains, The Reason Behind it All. A rumination of the act of sorting and presentation, and remembering why I do this.

https://archive.org/details/pulpfictionarchive is ready for your attentions and enjoyment.

The 75 Bad VHS Tapes Episode Mar 23, 2022

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The 75 Bad VHS Tapes Episode: A Simple Review, A Horrible Revelation, Diagnosis, Determination, A Crossroads, Volunteer Rescue, The Solution, The Forward Moving, An Iterative Process. A story of a terrible mistake found by random, and the efforts to unravel the knot. To enjoy some fansubs with goodsound: https://archive.org/details/fansubmarine

The Mini-Appler Episode Mar 16, 2022

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The Mini-Appler Episode: A Classroom Epiphany, Beautiful Boot, 612 BBSes, Safehouse, Midwest Pirates' Guild, Gods Among Us, BBS Documentary, A Living Room Interview, The Art of Luding, Applesauce, A Day Late, The Golden Wake.

A full interview with MPG is here: https://archive.org/details/20040125-bbs-612

Here's beautiful boot in action: https://archive.org/details/Dung_Beetles_Ms._PacMan_Pooyan_Star_Cruiser_Star_Thief_Invas._Force

There are many games and programs by Mini Appler/Matt Dornquast around, here's a terminal program written in his teens: https://archive.org/details/a2_Megaterm_v3.0_1984_Novation

The HarvardNet Redux Episode Mar 11, 2022

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The HarvardNet Redux Episode: HarvardNet Memories, Fraud and Deceit, The Wonder of a Datacenter, Tiles and Carpet, Loud and Cold, Remote at Any Cost, A Difference of a Year, Smiles and Grimaces, HarvardNet's Doom, See Ya, Pal.

A rather ramshackle and rambunctious episode in memory of a wild friend now lost.

Also, HarvardNet Sucks.

The Blender Episode Mar 07, 2022

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The Blender Episode: Learning Blender, Doing Nothing, 3D Studio, The Raytraced Canvas of My Yore, A Canvas In Time, Capsela, Knobs and Tubes, The Tools I Now Have, Boom Box, The Missing Imagination.

Less a review than a set of thoughts of my interactions with Blender, the free 3D Program now at version 3.0. https://www.blender.org/

The Job Evaluation Episode Mar 04, 2022

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The Job Evaluation Episode: A Yearly Check-in, My Strange Job, The Heaps of Inbox, 100,000 Wojacks, Why It Gets Done, The Need to Continue, A Prediction.

January is job self-evaluation at the Archive and it put me in the mood of why I keep doing all this, and here's where I am about my place in this magnificent contraption. If you need 100,000 Wojacks, they're here: https://archive.org/details/wojak-collections

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