Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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**Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It**

Historian and loudmouth Jason Scott shares stories of technology, retrocomputing, documentary filmmaking, and general schennanigans from his decades of travels and research. From experiences on the road while shooting documentaries to often-obscure points of order, Jason keeps a fast-moving pace and even he doesn’t know where we’re ending up at the end.

Latest Episodes:

Three Stories Jul 31, 2019

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Three Stories: Kickstand. Fax Machine. Playtester.

An experiment in telling three anonymized stories.

The Hackers Play Episode Jul 14, 2019

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The Hackers Play Episode: Never in NYC, Broadway, Merlin, Hackers, Aunt Susan the Modern Girl, A Tiny Theater, Stage, Summary, Delight, 13 to 30, Let's Do This, Impossible Logistics, Easy to Do Nothing, A Magical Night

I kept the program from Hackers and scanned it in years ago because of course I did:

https://archive.org/details/hackers_playbill

The NY Times did a review of the play here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/23/theater/stage-hackers-computer-comedy.html

The Google Books excerpt of the Hackers script:

https://books.google.com/books?id=lxTsTiD91CEC

If you wish to put on the play, here's the logistics information:

https://www.samuelfrench.com/p/5318/hackers

The Helping Episode Jul 10, 2019

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The Helping Episode: A Tired Mom, The Urge to Help, Not Just Collecting, TIM Help Files, Heat Strick, Users Versus SysOps, Early Website Writing, Google's Eldritch Horror, Sendmail, HTML, Reaching Out, A Better Place, Strick's Language

The Internet Archive Unofficial Wiki, my most recent attempt to "Help", is at https://internetarchive.archiveteam.org.

My other attempts to "help" are scattered across the wasteland.

The PUBG and Life Strats Episode Jul 05, 2019

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The PUBG And Life Strats Episode

They go together better than expected.

The Long Drive Episode Jul 01, 2019

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The Long Drive Episode: A Phone Call in Denver, The Meaning of PC-Board, Overnight, Desolation, An AM Radio Companion, Mountains For a Change, The Simple Interview, The Drive Back, Solitary, Not Alone Ever Again.

The raw interview with David W. Terry and Steve Catmull is available here: https://archive.org/details/bbs-20030221-terry

Photos I took pictures of on my trip to Wyoming and Utah are here:

http://bbsdocumentary.com/photos/jason/WYOMING/

http://bbsdocumentary.com/photos/jason/UTAH/

The Blorb Episode Jun 02, 2019

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The Blorb Episode: Ingestion of the Archive, The Library Goal, Some Odd Books and Items, The Blorb.

Some links of items I mentioned:

https://archive.org/details/retro_future_Pepsi

http://unifiedpoptheory.com/visualization-of-19th-century-ship-routes-from-publicly-available-noaa-data-set/

https://archive.org/details/TNM_Hitachi_505_Analog_Computer_Brochure

https://archive.org/details/TNM_Hitachi_505_analog_computer_-_Hitachi_Ltd_196_20180302_0149

https://igl.ethz.ch/projects/make-it-stand/

https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/02/13/atari-arcade-concept-art-a-glimpe-of-the-future/

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_IdUuPX8s84IC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Scappi

https://archive.org/details/journeyroundmyro00maisrich

The Energy Drink Episode May 31, 2019

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The Energy Drink Episode: All the Caffeine and Twice the Sugar, Teenage Beverages, Wipeout, Red Bull, Diet, Zero, Taurine, Saving Red Bull Music Academy, What Caffeine Brings, A Lost Collection, A Wide-Eyed Doctor, Stress Test.

An episode about me and the classification of beverages called Energy Drinks. And a little unexpected event.

The Internet Archive mirror of Red Bull Music Academy is here: https://archive.org/details/redbullacademy

A picture of the original Jolt can as I saw it in 1985: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/48xndr/jolt_cola_all_the_sugar_and_twice_the_caffeine/

The Conference Episode May 24, 2019

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The Conference Episode: A Question by Jim Richardson, Gatherings, The Idea of a Conference, Why It Took Forever For Me To Attend a Conference, Why Conferences are Hard, Oh Yes The Question, Virtual Conferences, ConfCon, Why We Go, 1.2 Million of 2 Billion, Thanks MuseumNEXT and ACMI.

An episode that's answering a question Jim Richardson of Museum NEXT posited, which I thought everyone should listen to, and also my bigger thoughts on what conferences are about as well as personal history behind a few of them.

I mentioned ConfCon was online. What I should say is that ConfCon WAS online, then the sites went down, and I thought I had them on textfiles.com but I don't easily see them, so then Famicoman to the rescue and they're both on Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/confcon2009audio

https://archive.org/details/confcon2010audio

That was a close one!

Jerome Johnson May 03, 2019

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Jerome Johnson.

For more information on Jerome, here's some links:

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/its-his-home-and-an-energy-lab-and-he-might-lose-it/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DlSY_ppxJ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hED7I6zp1hI

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/10/a-dream-that-grew-in-brooklyn-faces-foreclosure/

The Sorting Episode May 01, 2019

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The Sorting Episode: A Life of Sorting, File Classifications, My Subdirectories, The Storage Unit, Photos and Movies and Boxes and Personal, The Actual Question, What the Actual Answer Might Be, An Empty Container. Plus: An Offer to Help Me Sort.

A lot of people asked me to speak about my sorting method - I hope it's simple and straightforward how I approach things. I use this everywhere, and if I wanted to be a very bearded Marie Kondo, this is how I'd start to explain myself.

Like all the other times I invite people into projects, the project mentioned at the end is going to be continual and the offer won't expire. Thanks for considering some help.

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