Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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The Non-Programmer Episode Jan 26, 2021

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The Non-Programmer Episode: A Clear Declaration, No Programming Training, How Programmers Think, What I Think, What Filmmaking Makes You Think, Thrust Into a Programming Environment, WAFFLEIRON, We Each Have Something.

Some thoughts on what a terrible programmer I am. Absolutely the worst. Hire me for nothing. Don't let me near your code, and certainly don't let me name it.

The Photon Episode Jan 22, 2021

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The Photon Episode: An Invitation and A Drive, A Strip Mall, A Building. Space Depot, Recruitment, Initiation, The Wonder. Black Carpet and Smoke Machines. Overbuilding For Thousands, A Short Photon Existence, No Adult Perspective, A Shadow of Photon, An Inspiring Documentary, Real Fake Guns.

There's a lot of information about Photon when you know to look for it. Some good sites:

http://www.lasertagmuseum.com/collections/the-curators-of-photon-photon-collection

http://www.lasertagmuseum.com/indoor-laser-tag/indoor-company/n-u/photon

http://futurewarstories.blogspot.com/2017/06/fws-military-sci-fi-toys-great-laser.html

Vince's website for his Laser Tag/Photon documentary is here:

http://www.lasertagvideo.com/

The Unending Projects Episode Jan 21, 2021

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The Unending Projects Episode: Perspective On Many Projects, Believing There's No End Where There Are, Ends I've Witnessed, Ends I've Been, Lessons Learned and Projects Beyond.

A rumination on the nature of large scale projects and projects without end, and how I've managed with them. Special Information Cube appearance, as well as thoughts on my other long-term messes.

The Great Cacophony of Scanning Episode Dec 27, 2020

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The Great Cacophony of Scanning Episode: An Influx Valve, Mucking The Stables, Infinite Discords, The Cover Problem, NASA Launch and Photos On A Carpet, A Trickle Versus a Flood, The Inevitable Future, A Moment of Joy. Some thoughts on the incoming mass of material coming into the Archive right now.

I mention the Pulp Magazine Archive, which is here: https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive

The Oculus Episode Dec 26, 2020

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The Oculus Episode: An Unexpected Gift, A Long Life with VR, A Dingy Hotel Room, Features, Magic, Favorite Apps, An Unlikely Constant Place.

I was handed an Oculus Quest 2. Nobody asked me to do a review, but I figured it'd be fun to do one anyway. There's actually all sorts of rules towards people saying they "just happen to have" something and then doing a review of it, so I'll just say that I wasn't going to buy one and I got one for free, and I've enjoyed it.

My Oculus "Name" is BoVRine; feel free to link up if you have one of these things.

The Election Episode Dec 25, 2020

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The Election Episode: Being an Election Inspector, Training for the Unusual, Poll Pads, 300 Feet, 5am, 6am, Shivering Hands, Solid Day, Meeting 675 People, Suit and Gloves, Giving an Oath, 90 Minutes of Silence, A Customer Service Job, An Unforunate Coda. The wonders of being an Election Inspector! I highly encourage people to look into working elections, in both General and Local years. It's been some of my favorite work in general.

The Flash Episode Dec 24, 2020

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The Flash Episode: Saving a Medium, A History of Flash, The Death Blow and the Death, Ruffle The Flash, Flashpoint, An Audio/Video Conversation.

The Internet Archive now supports emulating .SWF files (Flash) that were a critical part of the web whether it should have been, or not. Dozens of new, playable animations are flying in all the time. The top level of the collection is https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash

The excellent emulator of Flash is Ruffle, at http://ruffle.rs

The most important Flash is Badgers. https://archive.org/details/flash_badger

The Silence Episode. Dec 23, 2020

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The Silence Episode.

The Software Forgery Episode Dec 22, 2020

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The Software Forgery Episode: Let's Do This, The First Software Forgeries, Altair 8800, Pre-Order or Vaporware, The Richard Garriott Scam, Stickers and Wiped Disks, Falling Apart, Grading and Quality, Tokens of Capital, Heading Forward, Fake Historical Promotion, Keep Going.

I don't mention the name of the software, but it's Akalabeth: World of Doom. First sold in 1979 as a limited baggie software before being sold by California Pacific Computer Company, before being remixed from scratch and turned into what became Ultima. For the story of an amazing fraud, look up World Power Systems: https://medium.com/@madmedic11671/forgotten-fraud-world-power-systems-e11320aa681d

The Generosity Episode Dec 21, 2020

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The Generosity Episode: Jason Asks About Being Generous. A Guy And His Kickstarter. The Motivations. Early Survival Pizza. Making the Leap. A Documentary As Mission. The Background Conversation. Another Thank You. A somewhat strange episode, talking about what being generous means to me. I don't know if I'm the best life coach, but another Jason asked and Jasons have to stick together, for a while at least.

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