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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.

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All Episodes

18:28

The Hardcoded Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/08/27

The Hardcoded Episode: Blowing Glass. A Cancelled Project. Reality Shows. The Elevator Pitch. The Best Laid Plans. Why I Gave Up. Fake. Prototype This. Take It Away. An episode about one of my favorite projects that I gave up in the face of logic and discovery. Everyone's got a few of these if they work creatively. This one got pretty far along before it ended. I checked, and I don't know where the written notes are - sorry about that. But I'll answer questions if people have any.

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21:03

The Project Everything Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/08/06

The Project Everything Episode: Starting Projects, KansasFest 2019, Pulling Back But Then Pulled Back In, Garage Giveaway, Floppy Disk Images, Applesauce, The Start of Everything, Software Preservation, Apple II's Special Situation, A Silver Chalice, Respect for Volunteers.

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16:13

Three Stories

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/07/31

Three Stories: Kickstand. Fax Machine. Playtester. An experiment in telling three anonymized stories.

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16:27

The Hackers Play Episode

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2019/07/14

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

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21:16

The Helping Episode

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2019/07/10

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.

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20:33

The PUBG and Life Strats Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/07/05

The PUBG And Life Strats Episode They go together better than expected.

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19:39

The Long Drive Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/07/01

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/

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19:51

The Blorb Episode

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2019/06/02

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/

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17:33

The Energy Drink Episode

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2019/05/31

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:

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21:38

The Conference Episode

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2019/05/24

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

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20:16

Jerome Johnson

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2019/05/03

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/

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16:32

The Sorting Episode

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2019/05/01

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

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19:27

The Infocom Source Code Episode

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2019/04/29

The Infocom Source Code Episode: The Specialness of Infocom, The Craft, The Z-Machine, Z-Machine Glories, Full Sentences and Every Platform, GET LAMP, The Infocom .ZIP File, A Release, Stu Galley, Github, The Clones and Branches, Steve and Kevin have a chat. An episode about the release of the Infocom Source Code on Github. It's currently available on the HistoricalSource collection there: https://github.com/historicalsource The ZIL Language is now having a little renaissance and I hope to see

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20:26

The Fortress of Solitude Episode

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2019/04/05

The Fortress of Solitude Episode: A Machine That Is Not a Machine in Richmond, A Riot of a Data Depot, Scripts and Miscellany, 11 Terabytes, The Ultimate Tape Archive, The Metadata Machine, The Fortress of No Solitude. Also: Taxes. A romp through the machine I spend the most time with these days, the Fortress of Solitude, and the steps I'm taking to keep it simple and empty.

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17:50

The Podcasting Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/04/01

The Podcasting Episode: What Podcasting Was, What Podcasting Was Again, The Downfall, The Rebirth, The Future of Podcasting, Money Matters, Why Do I Podcast. Just felt like putting down my thoughts and perspective on Podcasting, in advance of the Great Podcast Boom/Bust of 2019-2020. I podcast for a reason, and I re-iterate it in this episode: Because when looking to pay off debts, I wanted to also produce something beyond selling a shirt or doing a fundraiser with nothing else to come of it besides

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12:13

Joe's Offer

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/03/28

Joe's Offer. An episode about a single gesture that blossomed into a life-changing moment. For Joe Sherman (1917-2010).

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20:12

The Acting Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/03/20

The Acting Episode: Johannes and a Restaurant, Electricity and Christmas Lights, Acting, Pages, Out of Order, Tourist Trap, Editing. The Wikipedia entry for the film is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je_Suis_Auto While editing up the episode, I'm not 100% sure I make clear that the primary director of the "Je Suis Auto" film is Juliana Neuhuber (https://www.juliananeuhuber.com/) and Johannes is co-director but mostly in the role of main actor and writer. Johannes (and I and others) had ideas

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18:19

The Christopher March and Heimdall Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/03/03

The Christopher March and Heimdall Episode: Losing Chris March, Getting Hired For Doing The Wrong Thing, Scripting and Scripting Languages, The Boundaries of Scripting, DUMPTRUCK, Heimdall, Heimdall's Secret, A Memorial Moment with Pat. An episode about Chris March, who I worked with at the beginning of my UNIX Career, and whose masterpiece, Heimdall, I'm worried may be gone forever. I hope not! But if it is, I'll honor its memory in this episode.

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23:34

The Cowicature Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/03/01

The Cowicature Episode: I Needed the Money, Two Pens and Paper, Sketch the Cow, Harvard Square, Territories, No Woman No Cry, What Caricatures Are, Very Little Udder Assault, The Clown, Street Vendor Shutdown. I spent a couple summers doing caricatures for money out as a street performer. Here's my thoughts on that. Before anybody asks, this sort of skill atrophies incredibly quickly, so I can't do it any more (people have tried to get me to do it). I took the time that would have been spent on my

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14:25

The Time Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/02/02

The Time Episode. Was it all worth it?

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