Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

The Manuals, Manuals, Manuals! Episode: Heading Out To Deal With Manuals Plus, The Manuals Plus Saga, The Latest Part, The Digital Manuals, Aesthetic And Information, My Great Manual Sorting Screwup, Brands and Flibberjibbits, The Future Holds. Plus: The Facade of Brands. Lots of thoughts about two parallel projects: The Manuals Plus Loadout, now about to get a lovely upgrade, and the Manuals Coll...

The Cheshire Catalyst Episode: The Brightest Smile, A Long History, TAP Magazine, 2600 Magazine, HOPE Conferences, A Late Start, No Sleep, Close to the Edge, 3-2-1, Space Hobo, A Chance To Remember. Some thoughts about Cheshire Catalyst, a hacker who had a lovely history and who is gone, leaving behind memories and smiles.

The Configuration Episode: Two Configuration Aspects, The Rotating Bulletin Board System, Arcade Fidonet, Power-Switch-Rotation, What Was I Thinking, Happy Life / Lack of Strife, USENET Groups and Configuration, Works Or No Works, Cancelmoose, ROFLCon Panel, I Call Upon My Brain. I noticed I've been getting heavy the last few episodes, so here's a geek waterfall of the ups and downs of configurati...

The Digital Faith Episode: Obsession and Storage, To-Dos in a Dining Room, The Path from Analog to Digital, The Fight for Perfection, The Battles and Triumphs, Chapter and Verse, Passages to The Light, Losing a Taste for Conflict, The Fan Mail. Some ruminations of how digitization is digitization and what matters is we get the bits.  Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It is supported by Patreon subs...

The Mister Jangles Option Episode. In which your ol' pal Mister Jangles throws you a possible lifeline.

The Data Dirigibles Episode: Prehistoric  TEXTFILES.COM , The Cry of the Leech, TEXTFILES.COM Comes to Pass, Downloading Archives, Downloading More Archives, Kilo Mega Giga Tera, TEXTFILES TIME CAPSULE, What Persists, The Unpretty But Surviving Clump, Slash Internetarchive, Slash Internet, Software Capsules, Ace and I Ride High An episode about my idea that the future is just massive balls of data...

The ScanTailor Dance Episode: A Small Project That Is Huge, The Endless Pages, Crop and Rotate, The Search for an Application, Best and Abandoned (and Best and Worst), The Experience of ScanTailor Advanced, The Missing Mentor, Before Applications, The Dance of Software Destiny. I have learned way too much about ScanTailor in a few days, and I thought I'd share how it felt before my brain tells me...

The Monotony Episode: My Boring Day, The Crushing of Monotony, How I've Always Adored Repetition, Engagement and Disengagement, Long-Form Information, Temporary Domain Expert, Advice on Handling Monotony, A Web of Friends. Plus: THE ANALYTICS. Some thoughts about handling long form repetition, considering that's all I've been doing since forever and onward forever still. Jason Scott Talks His Way...

The Arcade Documentary Arcade Interview Episode: Getting Down to Union Bridge, Eric and Stephanie, Zach, ARCADEDOCUMENTARY.COM , Being The Dream Interview, Always The Last, A Closing Moment. Thoughts as I do an interview for the Arcade Documentary being done by Zach Weddington, "Arcade Dreams" (also called "Arcadia" in some places), which I gave my domain to: https://arcadedocumentary.com Eric and...

The Last (?) Computer Shopper Episode: Drawing The Line, Ups and Downs, My Hot Glue Enemy, Stresses and Delights, BBS List Highlights, The Ever Forever Scanning. Some last big mentions of the Computer Shopper scanning project, because otherwise this becomes a series of episodes about Computer Shopper and that's not very enjoyable for anyone. The Computer Shoppers are growing here: https://archive....

The Video Content Episode: What Is Even On Video; Commerical Tapes, Recordings of Individuals and Events, Television, The Meaning, Loss Versus Lossless, 40-Year Delay on a Dream, The True Nature of Television, The Hope of Doing It Right. A meditation of what video content ends up being, now that I'm several thousand tapes in. Here's hoping I can do a few thousand more! Jason Scott Talks His Way Ou...

The Amusement Park Defunctland Episode: Listening to too much Defunctland, Lessons Learned from the Amusement Park Historians, The Unique Situations of Roller Coasters, The Common Threads, The Lessons and Inspirations. A bit of a love letter to Kevin Perjurer's Defunctland series, a youtube series which brings together, especially as time goes on, a really deep and rich overview of very well-resea...

The Long Drive Hard Drive Episode: A Common E-mail, An Offer of DVDs, A 800 Mile Drive, The Wawa, Fugue State and Explainer Videos, There and Back Again, The Process. Someone offered me an attic of DVDs. I said yes. And then I drove 800 miles to get them. Here's what that's like. Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It is supported by Patreon subscribers. You can check out episodes before anyone else...

The Aboveground Episode: What the Aboveground Means, The Cloak and Cosplay, The Risks Without Risks, Hacker Conferences, The Tech Industry, The Hidden Cost of Underground. Some thoughts on a concept I've been mulling about, regarding "The Aboveground", a cosplay version of being underground used by certain groups, usually for some gain, to bring the delusion of lawlessness and lack of limits, when...

The Computer Shopper Aesthetics Episode: Last Thoughts On the Project, Every Major Step, Considerations of Contrast, Size and Intimidation, Impossible Perfection, Resting Easy. One last set of consideration about all the aspects of the Computer Shopper Scanning Project before I do whatever it is I'm doing 200 times. Finished issues will be here: https://archive.org/details/computer_shopper This po...

The Atari Hotel Episode: The Atari Hotel, Bought and Bought and Bought and Bought, The Concept Drawings, The Drawn-Out Death of Atari, Livery, Hotels, Entropy, Concepts, A Breath of a Seed, The Real Atari Hotel. As of this writing, the Atari Hotels are still being advertised at https://atarihotels.com/ I took photos of my trip through the TWA hotel and the album is here: https://www.flickr.com/pho...

The Tiger King Episode: Finally Watching Tiger King, Spoiler Alert, An Overview of the Three Seasons, Big Cats and Shady Deals, The Spectacle and the Madness, What Kind of Documentary, B-Roll, Too Funny to Fail. An overview of the documentary series "The Tiger King", which has three seasons (eight episodes, five episodes, three episodes) and what it feels like to me, watching it from the point of...

The Logistics Episode: The First Computer Shopper, The Hidden Logistics, The Simplest Part, Hot Glue, Orientation, Wayward Pages, Boxes and Checks, Gaming Alexandria, A Future Stack, The Logistics of Empathy. A recognition of how very little of scanning is scanning, and how hard everything but the scanning is, and how if Logistics does its job, you never once think about it. Thanks to Gaming Alexa...

  The Mike Berlyn Episode: Mike Berlyn, Memories of Mike, The Greatest Love Story, GET LAMP's Shaky Start, Final Approval. Plus: The Archives. On the loss of Mike Berlyn, some links: The Infocom Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXNLWy7rwH4 Mike's Interview Page for GET LAMP: http://www.getlamp.com/cast/20060225berlyn/index.html Mike and Muffy Berlyn Archive: https://archives.museumofpla...

The TEXTFILES.COM Machine Good Times Episode: A Moment of Reflection, A Previous Moment of Darkness, The Quarter Century of Hosting, A Shifting Window, The Role TEXTFILES.COM Has Played, ARCHIVE.ORG vs. TEXTFILES.COM , a Heartfelt Thank You. Recognition of how the TEXTFILES.COM replacement machine is working so well, and an additional recognition of the context of a hosted machine existing so many...

The Unusual Look Back Episode: Suburban Horse, Warehouse of Broken Dreams, Pennsylvania Pinball, A Mythical Warehouse, Tomb of Arcade, Compuserve Documents, The Nature of Hope, An Infinite Relay Race. A knockaround set of thoughts about things that were only weird when I look back at them. The photos I took of the pile of vintage equipment and software before I was ejected from the facility is her...

The Computer Shopper Episode: A Small Billing Situation, Computer Shopper's Unique Place, The Listings and the Ads, A Happy Life, The Decline and Loss, A Reminder and an Opportunity, Coming Together, Debinding, The First and the Last Scan. A little bit about the comes-out-of-nowhere Computer Shopper scanning project now underway, where I'll be digitizing thousands of pages and materials across the...

The Strike Manual Episode: The Mother of All Manuals. The Assignment. How Many Broom Strokes. Friends of Friends. The Honored Transcription. After-School Activities. Two Weeks Later. A Moment to Make Things Right. A tale told out of school of the best typing assignment I never completed.

The Momentary Fall And Empire of Paper Episode: A Sudden End For a Phone, Bits of Paper, The Units of Communication, Unexpected Archives, The Wonder of That Which Remains, Digitization and Gatekeeping, Glory and Wonder, A Catalyst or a Threat, The Joys of Every Day. A small reverie on the aspects of digitization and how wonderous it was that things worked out like they did in the 20th century for...

The Cassette Digitizer Episode: Building a Tascam 122 Mk III, The Era of Cassettes, Previous Attempts, Why Cassettes Are Important, My Audio Era Before the Video One, Where The Process Is, The Future Paths, The Joy Of The Cassette Pile. I am finally moving on to digitizing audio cassettes at high quality! Here's some of my thoughts on that. One of the main destinations will be this collection: htt...