Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

The Space Rogue Episode: A Respectful Trip, A Book Reading, The Works BBS, A Ferret in Massachusetts, Gatherings to Gatherings, The L0pht, Seedlings to Guarding, The Digital Lifeline, The Story of the L0pht and of Space Rogue, Why The Book is Needed, A Joyful Noise, A Family's Witness. My pal Space Rogue wrote a book called SPACE ROGUE: HOW THE HACKERS KNOWN AS L0PHT CHANGED THE WORLD. It talks ab...

The Endless Procrastination Episode: An Illusion of Productivity, The Oldest E-mail, an Exponential Graph. Fast vs. Slow, Easy vs. Hard. Not as Hard as it Seems, the Stress, the Process, Techniques and Cheat Codes. Two Simple Tools. Plus: Good Financial News. A rumination on my procrastination issues and what I try to do to mitigate them. 

The Warm Spaces Episode: The Endless Font of the BBS Documentary, Skills Learned, Spaces Found. A Bowling Alley in Kansas. A Starring Role. Kids Hanging Out, My Very Own Rocky Horror, Plastic and Fabric and Wood. Some thoughts on how I loved being in warm spaces, and how many different rooms, including the one I stream in, try to live up to that. Jim Willing's Interview shots show his now-since-cl...

The Code Grenade Episode: A Lost Summer, A Grey Machine, Zork II, A 13 Year Old Engineer, Modules and Rooms and Graph Paper, The Grenade That Finished Me, A Testimony to Long-Lost Data. When I was very young, I tried to make an Infocom-level Adventure Game. It did not go very well at all. 

The Bodged Calculators Episode: A Short Conversation, A Machine Lives, Exactly One Person, The Needlessly Complicated Environment, No FAQ, Hacks and Scripts, The Wonder and the Joy, An Apology to the Future. Reflecting the fact that there's really only me for adding new machine emulators to the Internet Archive, in this case, The Calculator Drawer, adding emulated calculators at https://archive.or...

The Ramifications Episode. A lot of speculation and consideration of the ramifications of algorithmic intensity and synthetic media from someone who has been thinking about the Blorb for a very long time. Listened best without headphones.

The BIG CHUNGUS Episode: A Lucky Smart Situation, The Rise of BIG CHUNGUS, 8 Terabytes, Distributions, The Culture of Twitch Videos, A Ride Down The Line, Packs and ROMs, Television and Dumps, A Secret Clubhouse, A Half a Petabyte, The Chungus Among Us, The Closed Future And The Bridgers, A Warm Thermos. Ruminations of BIG CHUNGUS, my ongoing weird project. Nothing stops the Chungus.

The Storage Reckoning Episode: Putting Off Forever, Final Consolidations, The Big Sort, An Unpassable Box, The Nature of Contents and Archives, The Plans and Possibilities, Where It All Goes, The Lack of Guilt, Advice and Concerns, The Empty Future. Thoughts on finally consolidating down to a single storage unit again, and how maybe, I might finally have a to-do list that will actually shrink inst...

The Laptop Loss Episode: A Eulogy For a Laptop, Largest and Smallest, A Gift From Above, A Quirkly Little Partner, Memories of the PC Convertible, Suspicious Activity, Presentations and Podiums, Signs of Aging, A Secret Of Hard Drives, The Next Generation. A eulogy for a laptop, brave travel companion, editor of my podcasts, now clearly gone and awaiting one last salvage. Noted in this episode is...

The Remedial College Episode: A Chance to Reboot, Not Quite Rebooted, A Lot of Effort, Boston or Bust, 4.25 Years, Remedial College, 20 Candidates, Roommate Switch, Sketch, Three Teachers, A Couple Suspicious Moments, The Results, The 19 Plus One, A Final Improvement. A rapidly fading memory of the really odd way I finally got into college.

The Near Miss Episode: A Moment of Glass, The Ever-Returning Concern, Ramificiations, Networks of Interlocking Dependency, Divestment, Discouragement. A Near Miss With a Car, Consolidation, Hopefulness. Some musings on a very weird phobia (or coping mechanism) I have with regards to near miss tragedy, in this case, some rather unexpected glass.

The Documentary Urge Episode: A Fleeting Moment of Weakness, The Three That Made It, The Reasons for a Documentary, The Untold Efforts, The Unattempted Documentary, A Round of Considerations Along a Technical Level, The People Doing What I'd Do, The Things Only I Can Do. A continued reminder about why I stopped making documentaries and why I'm not going to start doing them again.

The VCR Mechanism Episode: A Tangential Query, New Old Stock, The Mechanism, The Next Level of Reading, A Bit More Consideration of the Applesauce, An HD Read of a VHS Tape, The Fuzzy Future, One-Off Equipment, VHS-Decode, A Dream In the Days of Reality. Until the day comes.... my dreams continue. Applesauce: https://applesaucefdc.com/ Acronova Nimbie: https://disc.acronova.com/product/auto-blu-ra...

The Interesting Collections Episode: Occult Periodicals, Johnson Catalog, Kirkland's Manual Labor, Input Television, The Reality of a Sore Throat and Debt. Some interesting collections I've stumbled over the last few months. And a little bit about pushing yourself towards commitments. https://archive.org/details/iapsop https://archive.org/details/iapsop_curio_catalogs https://archive.org/details/m...

The Genesis Cartridges Episode: Walking the Stacks, Growing the Pile, The Victory and Choice of the Console Living Room, The Second Christmas Morning, The Advantages of Consoles, Many Distractions and Greener Pastures, Returning to the Scene, The Next Sets of Repairs, Dreamcast Probably Never, Consoles Forever. Some work on Genesis Cartridges continues, bringing the total up to 18,000 emulated at...

The Whispering Episode: A Potential New Toy, Learning of Whisper on a Drive, Throwing the Book and a Nightclub at Whisper, The Aspects of Whisper, The Idea of Unadvocated Material, A Job Nobody Wants, A Massive Success, Kalev Leetaru, Extensive Versus Immediately, Experiment Results, Scary Both Ways, Forging Ahead, Mission Critical, The Road Ahead. Some thoughts on the transcription program Whispe...

The DiscMaster Episode: From Nowhere to Everywhere One Saturday, A Rare Surprise, The Rise of Discmaster, Press and Announcement, Success Stories, The Powers of Searching, The Two Processes, Why DiscMaster Changes Everything, Taking the Brunt, A Bouncer Outside a Nightclub, The Users Not Quite Here, Do It Again Please. An episode about discmaster.textfiles.com , a new search engine created by a de...

The Two Decisions Episode: Lagarith Becomes FFMV1, Large-Scale Digitization, A Future Job Opening, A Sizeable Backlog, The Big Plan, We All Get The Point, An Advisory Future. A musing about two big Decisions made, one about tape and one about life. We'll see how they both do.

The Unstuck In Time Episode: Men in Black 3, Griffin, Timelines, Out of Timelines, Inspiration, Gathering of Voices Silenced, Digital and Analog, Lessons Learned, Hope. Plus: Mundane Headlines. Some ruminations on a supporting role character in Men in Black 3 and what it means about my memories and purposes with the flow of time.

The Fanzine Back Throw Episode: A Long Trip, A Special Collection, Slash Fiction Fanzines, The Coordinators, Calling in Lodrina, 1550 Pounds, Hardcore Lifting, 33 Boxes, The Next Steps, The Event Horizon, Back Damage, Next Steps, Hired Hands and Hotels. In which I do what may finally be the last large-scale lifting in which I play any part except coordinating. And also, putting my doctors through...

The Atlantic Festival Episode: A Very Long Drive, A Quid Pro Quo, Getting Back on the Horse, The Real Staff, Late Arrival, Rehearsals and Clarifications, Booties, A Short Relief, Out The Door, Respect, Twitter Spaces, Money and Time, A Turning Away, An Appreciation. About my presentation and appearance at Atlantic Festival 2022 and how it all happened. My short presentation is on Youtube here: htt...

The Stress Management Episode: Recognizing Stress, How Fast Things Change, Mitigating Responsibility, My Air Travel Issue, Your Place in Time, Rarity And Prototype, A Track From and Into Fog. A hopefully-helpful essay on stress, and how to do your best to avoid the pressure when faced with it. I'm answering the question because it comes up a lot. If you have other questions you want me to answer i...

The Luna City Memory Episode: Vintage Quarters, The Vector Dream, The Rise of Luna City, The Family Days and Personal Visits, The True Artistry of Luna City, The Downfall, The Power of Luna City's Memory. I've discussed Luna City and Vector Dream before, but I wanted to touch on how important it stands, even as a memory, to so many people and how inspiring it is to have been this effective at its...

The Longest Nap Episode: Arriving for Thanksgiving, The Nap, A Sleeping Beast, Why Was I So Tired, A Balance at Work But Also Overbalanced, Pushing So Hard, The Riptide. Also: A Stood-Up Date. Have you ever had a nap so epic you remember it 20 years later? Or make a podcast episode about the philosophy behind it? 

The Transient Hardware Episode: A Prayer, A Realization, The First Openings, A Deeper and Deeper Misunderstanding, Two Technical Friends, Occasional Upgrades, A Different Person, Each Machine, And Now, A Finished Task. A rumination on me and my relationship to computers, especially hardware, as a break from tackling a short-lived card installation program. (I finished recording, went back, and it...