Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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The BBS Tapes Episode Mar 15, 2018

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The BBS Tapes Episode: Release the Tapes, The Four Kinds of Remaining Storage, Mini-DV Tapes: Our Flaky Little Friends, A Generous Tape Deck, Interviewing Jack Rickard, Make Them Pay For Your Mistakes, Oh Jack, So Many Interviews, Thom Henderson is Doing Fine, Goodbye Robert Fowkes, A Better Person, Get Out There. Thanks, everyone, for your patience.

The Phone Phreak Episode Feb 28, 2018

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The Phone Phreak Episode: The Woods, To All Who Dare, Phreak Philes, The Office, My Ship In The Darkness, The Next Generation, Exploding the Phone.

I really push the book "Exploding the Phone" by Phil Lapsley in this episode. If you've not heard of it or you've always been on the fence about it... if the history of Phreaking interests you, this is the book.

The John Romero Episode Feb 20, 2018

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The John Romero Episode: Meeting John Romero Twice, Doom, Deathmatch, Interviewing John, History and Historian, Apple II Reunion II, Taco Truck, A Most Difficult Debt. I mention a great architecture walkthrough John Romero gave it can be watched here: https://vimeo.com/156288044

The CD-ROM Episode Feb 14, 2018

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The CD-ROM Episode: Open-armed Historian, CD-ROMs, Quartz and Early CDs, Analog, Reader Service CD-ROMs, CD-ROM Industry, Shareware, The Depths of Shareware, Patent Troll Vanquished, Robots Playing Pac-Man, Forever, Taxes.

After a discussion with a book author about a subject tangentially related to some of the interviews I did in the BBS Documentary, I hauled my collection of Mini-DV tapes out of storage and I've begun uploading their contents to the Internet Archive. The collection is here:

https://archive.org/details/bbs_documentary?sort=-publicdate

If you want to browse around the CD-ROM collection I mention in this episode, it's here: https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive

The Celebrity Episode Feb 05, 2018

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The Celebrity: Perks, Michael Jackson Birthday, The Star of Yourself, The Real Celebrities, Sockington the Cat, Medical Freedom.

This episode is about the idea of celebrity and fame and how I've treated it over the year, whether for me or about my cat. I also shout out a bunch of names of people I admire, and I also have good news about my medical bills.

The Games Episode Jan 29, 2018

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The Games Episode: My First Arcade, Fun With Machines, Home Computers, Wumpus, Kat and Mouse, Commodores and Apples and IBM PCs, Connectivity, Joy, A Road Rash Moment, My Favorite Type of Game, Games Forever.

The Public Speaking Episode Jan 19, 2018

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Public Speaking: The Iron Sheik, No Stage Fright, A Rat for Office, Presentations, Tips for Talks, TED is Fake, In Your Head Lover, A Five Minute Offer

Heavily going into my thoughts on public speaking so this episode is longer than usual. I've talked about presentations and why I think they're important here and there, but I try to lay it all down here, give you some pointers and thoughts, and hopefully inspire you to make your own. And I give an offer at the end.

I'm always experimenting, so the podcast is not nailed down into a specific processed style that would come from a team working on it - so this episode is very dynamic and energetic. Learning my limits and what works and doesn't is always important, as well as your feedback.

A New Year and a New Season Jan 12, 2018

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A New Year and a New Season. The Process. Bamiga Sector 1. Apple II Tables. Provenance. Notation. A 14-Year-Old's Classification. An Unborn Collaborator.

The Bamiga Sector 1 Project I mention has a homepage here: http://www.amigaclub.be/bs1/

Andy Dec 29, 2017

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Andy.

With the close of the year comes the exciting prospect of how next year's taxes will be handled. Naturally, I'll be having an accountant help me. I bring this up as I have multiple times in the past because I've run into a number of people who have tax issues who are some sort of ashamed that they're experiencing problems or bumps, and feel in some way this makes them look bad. If I may, please let me be the first to say that taxes are not intuitive and you can't just wing them or think it's something you might get perfectly right going it alone. This is doubly the case now that the tax laws are changing. Don't avoid dealing with them, like I did.

Next up for me regarding this podcast will be refining delivery and process. It's fun to learn on the way.

The Internet Archive Grab Bag Dec 18, 2017

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The Internet Archive Grab Bag: Another Week Online, The Archive Building, The Verifications, The Ups and Downs, The Narrative, Patreon Fail, PODCAST.TEXTFILES.COM, Building Pride and Love, Teeth, Thanks. Recorded on the office floor of the Internet Archive, I went for a grab bag of random thoughts, so this episode is very, very loose. I also didn't have my pop shield out here, so apologies to your speakers. I mention the Patreon stupid and also offer PODCAST.TEXTFILES.COM as the secure central information and donation vector for this podcast going forward. It has been quite the ride watching support drop and return for this Patreon, and I don't need more uncertainty in my life, thanks. Opinion seems to float that people would like an interview show or similar, but I'd probably make it a bonus, because it would be different than this format, and notably longer. We'll see when that happens, but it's on my mind.

Next episodes will be much less miscellaneous, but it felt great to talk about it all. Thanks for riding along.