Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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The Inbox Cornucopia Episode Sep 08, 2020

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The Inbox Cornucopia Episode: Appreciating What You Have, Two Arcades Gone, The Moment of Wonder of Incoming Archive, Spam and Vandalism, The Worlds We'll Learn Of, My Favorite Stripes, Stop by the Inbox Today. An episode about my favorite current situation, the mass of incoming materials to the Internet Archive and just enjoying the stream as it goes by. This episode also invites listeners to send me questions and ideas, which I might use for future episode subjects. It's time for the feedback loop to begin!

The Novel Episode Sep 07, 2020

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The Novel Episode: A Book Never Written, The Plot, A Cleaning to Make Room For The Next Things. Time to make good on my promise of "move ahead or move on", and so here's the plot of a novel I concocted when I was in my 20s that I haven't done anything with in 25 years. It's lacking a lot of details, but it feels good to share and move on. I'll have many other projects in my future to finish.

The Three Extraordinary Ordinary Stories Sep 06, 2020

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Three Extraordinary Stories Told Ordinarily: Russian Mechanic, Quake Logo Massacre, Nobody Lives Here, Tetris. Three stories about usual outcomes, presented simply. I found the photos we took of the Quake Logo, they're now here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157714912854851 The Tetris: http://cs.brown.edu/news/2000/04/17/tetris/ - strangely, it's been done a couple times since 2000 and the articles always insist on saying it's the "first" time. MIT has also done this sort of project as well.

The Ultimate BBS List Episode Aug 15, 2020

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The Ultimate BBS List Episode: 20 Years of The BBS List, What Got Me Started, The Story Everyone Knows, The Story Less People Know, The Contraption Inside, 1982 not 1983, Philosophy of Complication, Where to Go From Here, The BBS List Forever. An episode about the BBS List collection at BBSLIST.TEXTFILES.COM and what got me going on it. I mentioned a couple other nice information sites. GOT PAPERS? Is the demoscene letter collection. It's at: https://gotpapers.scene.org/ The Sixteen Colors collection of ANSI art is here: https://16colo.rs/

The Winding Conversation Episode Aug 14, 2020

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The Winding Conversation Episode: Watchmaking, My Pal Chris Orcutt, Our 40 Years of Talking, A Marathon of Words, Intertwined Lives, Podcast Jason, Chris' Typewriter, 15-50-80, Advice To Turn a Final Chapter Into The Middle Of The Story. Another podcast about my friend Chris Orcutt (https://orcutt.net) and our very long, near-legendary conversations we've had forever, and what that represents and inspires.

The Three Stories Episode Jul 11, 2020

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Three Stories: Wooden Signs and Paper Plates, Naked Man, Whipped Cream and Brotherly Love. Three short tales from my life, gathered together in a val-u-pak for the joy of others.

The Extreme Pain Episode Jul 10, 2020

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The Extreme Pain Episode: An Argument In The Car, I Killed You, Truly Can't Get Out of Bed, Crutches, What The Pain Means, What The Pain Was, An Airport Waiting Room, The Worst Doctor Ever, The Cure, The Fallout, A Changed Person, The Results, Poverty Charges Interest, Health Insurance. An episode about the worst pain of my life. If that's a bit much for you, I understand if you wish to skip it. Spoiler: I'm much better now! And it was a long time ago! Tay Zonday's tweet, which I think about all the time: https://twitter.com/tayzonday/status/1020003667921940480

The Automatic Document Feeder Episode Jun 28, 2020

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The Automatic Document Feeder Episode: Acquiring an ADF, How Flatbed Scanners Work, The Lie of Scanning, How ADF Scanners Work, Asking For Help, 35 Minutes, 339 Pages, 3 Books, The Non-Intuitive Parts, The Results, A Prayer. Also: Debinding And Its Malcontents. An episode about high-speed scanning on the acquisition of a lovely Fujitsu 7160 scanner acquired thanks to donations.

The Lost Month. Jun 21, 2020

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The Lost Month. A biography of Tony Cennamo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Cennamo

The Storage Unit Episode Jun 16, 2020

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The Storage Unit Episode: Down to Two Units, The Legend of the Information Cube, A Pile of Yes, A Tour of Screens and Magazines, Where It All Went, How the Last Two Units are Laid Out, A Pile of Props, MC Frontalot Shoot, Where It Will End, An Actual Attic, 100 Years. Here's 400 photos of my shoot in Queens with MC Frontalot: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157705604332681

I mentioned several museums and archives as I always have: Strong Museum of Play, Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, and the Vintage Computer Federation. All of these organizations are excellent, and worth your donations and support.

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