Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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The Amish Shareware Episode Dec 20, 2020

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The Amish Shareware Episode: The Big Leagues, The Top Shelf, Pop-Up Magazine, My Story Pitch, The Spy, Fact-Check Failure, The Missed Opportunity, Software Forgery, Never Stop Trying. A story that I thought was the best, and which had to be thought too good to be true in the fact check. (I still believe it is true). Majere's Legacy: http://www.librum.us/ - Majere (1959-2008).

The Tea Party Episode Oct 30, 2020

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The Tea Party Episode: 10,000 Year Clock, The Long Now, Disclosure, Fine Drinks and a Speech, The Low Bar, Inspiring or Cynical, Why Drive Ahead, The Knowledge We Keep, A Closing Music Shop and a Lot of Manuals. Thanks to Andre G for the idea.

The Past Future Episode Oct 26, 2020

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The Past Future Episode: A Hospital Visit, Audio Formats, Speaking Without Knowing, Wozniak and Jobs, Exercised, Technology Designs, The Best Isn't What Wins, Factories and Factors, Cheap and Expensive.

Thanks to Scotty Deepgeek Fitzgerald for the idea. (And the visit.)

The File Format Wiki Episode Oct 19, 2020

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The File Format Wiki Episode: An Awful Failure, A Tremendous Success, An Acknowledgement of a Poor Idea, Just Solve One Problem, Easy Not Hard, Field vs. Forest, What is a File Format Anyway, 2012 Turned Into 2013, The Forever Problem, A Format Mirror, The Great Success of Failure.

Thanks to Dan Tobias for the idea of this episode.

The File Formats Wiki is at https://fileformats.archiveteam.org.

The Green Room Episode Oct 12, 2020

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The Green Room Episode: Public Speaking, Green Rooms, Quiet Before 15, School Announcer, DEFCON, Jeff Moss' Room, Webstock, XOXO, SXSW, Confrontations, A Long Overdue Hug.

This episode comes from an idea by Chris Erlanson.

Curt Vendel. Sep 30, 2020

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Curt Vendel.

Curt's 2003 BBS Documentary appearance:

https://archive.org/details/bbs-20030323-vendel

Curt at the 2019 VCF Festival:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlqxDgnYHWU

Curt and Marty's book:

https://www.amazon.com/Atari-Inc-Business-Curt-Vendel/dp/0985597402

The Typewriter Episode Sep 28, 2020

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The Typewriter Episode: It Was Supposed To Be Magazines, Elaine and the Boxes, Floor to Ceiling, Tytell Typewriter, Sorting and Divisions, Books and Ephemera and Golden Pallets, The Typewriter Business, Peter's Last Wishes, A Project Ahead. Also: Battery Danger and Write Me 20 Times. An episode about how a simple picking up of magazines led to two truckloads of typewriter history. Some URLs worth reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/11/typewriter-man/376988/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Tytell https://www.irishtimes.com/business/no-carriage-return-for-the-jurassic-typewriter-1.304472 https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/nyregion/new-yorkers-co-mr-typewriter-new-york.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/nyregion/12tytell.html https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/19/nyregion/one-fewer-place-to-unstick-a-inicky-f-key.html http://algerhiss.com/history/the-hiss-case-the-1940s/the-typewriter/forgery-by-typewriter/forging-a-typewriter/ http://afflictor.com/2012/06/11/he-could-make-an-american-typewriter-speak-145-different-tongues-from-russian-to-homeric-greek/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/obituaries/mary-adelman-89-fixer-of-broken-typewriters-is-dead.html https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-tribute-to-peter-tytell-son-of.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/peter-v-tytell-dead.html

The Action Park Documentary Episode Sep 21, 2020

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The Action Park Documentary Episode: A Late Thursday Night, Action Park, 10 Years Ago, 2 Years of Research, A Coffee, Interview, Pile Driver, The Bones of the Plan, The Release, My Review, Nothing in the World. The website for the Class Action Park documentary: https://www.classactionpark.com/

The Medical and Life Checkup Episode Sep 14, 2020

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The Medical and Life Checkup Episode: An Accident With Repercussions, Bounce Back, Two Weeks, Open Inboxes That Never Close, What It's All Been, What Goes On, 100 Hours of Podcast, A Day Grabbed With Two Hands.r Just a little reflection on a post-accident depression and concern which I am now definitively out of.

The Mysterious 4AM Episode Sep 11, 2020

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The Mysterious 4am: Big Plans for Kansasfest, The Wrong Bar at the Wrong Time, The Mysterious History of 4am, I'm Fine. No car accident is going to stop me from recording an episode! Also, you get to hear my voice modulate differently for slides and video that don't exist. The description for "The Mysterious History of 4am" from the Kansasfest program:| International Cracker of Mystery 4AM is not just a hero, a teacher, an inspiration; they're also an indication of the heights the art of software engineering can achieve. Let's walk it all through. Jason Scott, recently voted "Least Likely to Be 4AM" but also voted "Most Likely to Work at the Internet Archive" presents historical work of 4AM, introduces the audience unaware of the scope of 4AM's work to what has gone on over the past few years, and hopes to bring the hundreds of new visitors to Virtual Kansasfest just what they have been missing.

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