Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

The Multi-Culti-Level Episode: Two Boxes of Tapes, Concentrated Evil, Organized Groups and Our Nature, A Concert and a Phone Call, Innoculation, Cynical Forever, What I Look Out For, A Hard-Won Allegance, The Tapes, The Fundamental Pitch, What We Gain, What the World Will Be. That time that two large boxes of multi-level marketing tapes showed up in my possession and what that all means to me. My...

The Limited Time and Structure Episode: Aching Muscles, Third Time's the Charm, Statins, Liver, Changes, Unlimited Resources to Limited, Choices, Discordant and Structured Living, No More Documentaries, Counting Pennies, Every Moment. A meditation on how structure affects my life differently than it used to.

The Art of Noise Episode: A Video On A Television, Punk Girl and Destroyed Instruments, Record Store and Tabs, Cassette, Who's Afraid, Later Albums, Favorite Band, An Unexpected Tour, Paul Morley Artistic Expansiveness, The Band. Some thoughts on my favorite band, Art of Noise. The music video I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU

The Waterfall of Plastic Episode: A Most Impressive Uploading, The Various Focused Uploaders, ShivaShaw, Walnut Creek and Wayzata, Niche, Rental Prices, Gigabytes, Half of all CDs, The Obscure Ones, Tireless Effort, A Small Portal. An episode shouting out Shiva Shaw, an unprecedented uploader of CD-ROMs. A listing of the CD-ROMs is at https://archive.org/details/@shivashaw

The Deep Appreciation Episode: The Flow Of Items, The Modern Day Miracle, The Fun We Have, The Momentary Life of SItes, Inevitable Doom, Thanks and Correspondence, Drama and Decay, The Good in That, BBS Title Screen, A Day But Also Forever. An episode about appreciating the day and the things we have instead of the things we don't.

The Workshop Episode: A Realization and Realignment, What I Specifically Do, The Joy of Sharing and Streaming, The Lessons and Conversations, My Three Potential Careers (And the One I Chose), Workshops, Planting Seeds. Some ideas on where I might go next, as well as a look back on where I might have headed.

The Process Episode: Expert or Expert on Time, The Rush of a New Project, Determining What Is Best, How I Find a Place, The Relationship of Time to Work, Why Do All Of This, A Relay Race or a Finish Line, The Process That I Believe In. Some thoughts on how I do things, the rules I follow, the pitfalls people fall into, what it's all for. It might not help anyone, but I hope it does, a little bit.

The 2000 New Games Episode: A Fundamental Question, A New Spin on an Old Project, The Emularity, You Have to Ask MAME, 2000 Games, Slot Machines, Secret Buttons, Mahjong, Old Favorites, The Heart and Soul of an Arcade Drive, A Magic Moment That Never Ends. Recorded on the event on adding roughly 1,800 new arcade machines to the Internet Archive, and the process that goes behind it. I mention that...

The Anime Fansub Episode: Wondering How I Got Here, VHS, Mechanisms, A Sudden Offer, 700 Tapes, The Source of the Source of the Source, Asking the Experts, What is Anime Fansubs, Where We Are, My Strange Little Corner. A tale of how https://archive.org/details/fansubmarine has come to be.

The Starting Memory Episode: Messing Around With Yet Another Phone Conference, A Flash of Memory, Supermarket, Rented and Unusual Machines, A Tester, Finding A Place to Stand, The Realization and the Starting Moment. Plus: Thanks for 150 Episodes. 150 episodes are a lot. I wouldn't have imagined I'd be spending years recording these memories, so I thought I'd share one of my very first.

The Patrick O'Malley Episode: A Wind-Down of Focus, NE.JOBS , RAID Interview, 30 Days of Consultancy, Debt Repayment, Life Under Patrick O'Malley, The Key Jab, The Sardonic Hit, A Later Consultancy. More Testimonies, Less Obituaries. Pat O'Malley's Website is at http://patrickomalley.com/ . 

The Cancellation Episode: Psygnosis Dreams, A Ship's Tunnel, Nintendo's Limits, Lost Between the Cracks, Infocom's Game Ideas, The Other Destiny, A Lifetime of Cancellations, Our Sine Wave. Also: A Plea for a File Folder. An episode about games, ideas, and other works that never made it off the drawing board, and some level of solace that this was the case.

The Toorcamp 2009 Episode: Everyone Tried, A Dream of CCCamp and Burning Man, Quaint Toorcon, I Was In, Silica, Missile Silos, Emmanuel, Two Kinds of People, Not Allowed, My Scariest Tour, The Police, Goodbye, I Can't Attend. My memories, hazed over 10 years, of Toorcamp 2009.  Dedicated to Dan Kaminsky, who attended the camp and who I enjoyed all the time I ever got with him.

The Clothes Horse Episode: A Terrible Teacher, The Boot, A Plain Chain Childhood, Cow Suits and Public Trots, The Inflection Hat, The Clothes I seek, An Outfit As Half the Introduction, The Substance, A Bad Teacher's Lesson. An overview of the fact I dress exotically, some of where that comes from, and a life lesson.

The Vintage Font: A Festival of Windows, Working Through Boxes, The Emotions and Feelings of Fonts, 3279-BIOS-Tandy, The Lineage of Vintage Fonts, Settling a Question By Asking the Source, Our Closing Window. Some musings on fonts on the occasion of downloading and using a variety of vintage fonts I've picked up online.

The Absence of Light Episode. Upon an anniversary.

The Shadow GET LAMP Episode: Talking Head Criticism, The Intention of BBS Documentary, Two Terrible GET LAMP Choices, The Choice Made, The Choice Avoided, A Delight for A Couple Dozen People, The Boundaries of Infinite Creation. Also: No More Plastic Disc Salesman. GET LAMP can be had for free at this URL: https://archive.org/details/GET_LAMP_The_Text_Adventure_Documentary

The Audio Lot Episode: A Craigslist Find, Everyone Comes Together, Eight Thousand Dollars, The Haul, The Cataloging, The Life of Mark Pines, A Future to Live Forever. An episode about a haul out of Connecticut that I got to play a minor part in, and which represents one of the reasons we all like to do this work. It'll be months before this bears fruit, but the results will be truly enjoyable.

The Morning Scans Episode: A Delight When I Wake Up, DPI and Depth, The Bad Old Days, The Best of Now, 2 millimeters, The Improvements, A Truly Infinite Task, A Mostly Wonderful Time, A Job Perk You Can Share. An appreciation for what we have, and yet another invitation to visit.

The Whimsical Episode: A Never-Found GET LAMP Feature, The Importance of Whimsy and Extra Effort, ANSI Art, A Very Loud Flap, 100 Years Ago, 100 Years from Now, Tossing Embers from a Moving Train. The 100-Year Traveler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Soames The 100-Year Easter Egg: Trials Fusion: https://www.polygon.com/2015/6/12/8771657/report-trials-evolution-riddle-solved

The Tascam Portastudio Episode: All the Access in the World, A High School Band, Music and Sound, The Portastudio, Multitrack Recording, Control of Time, 2 Albums and Singles, A Quiet Drifting Away. Also: An Actor to Remember a Friend. The music Jeremy and I did continues to have a page with links to many of the songs we made on the Tascam: http://www.cow.net/bis/  

The Summer Romance Episode: Visitation, Summer, Neighborhood, Patio, Atari, A Unicorn, Artwork, Dreams, Every Day, Dinner, A Handshake. A tale of a summer romance long ago. The absolute best book on the artwork of Atari and both the people behind it and capturing the loveliness of it all is "The Art of Atari" by Tim Lapetino. https://www.amazon.com/Art-Atari-Tim-Lapetino/dp/1524101036

The Monk and the Sherpa: 40 Years with Chris Orcutt, Our Divergent Paths, The Focus, My Carnival, The Bedrock, Tales of Long-Term Friendship, Console Games, New Eyes, A Journey. Chris has a blog at https://orcutt.net/weblog/blog/ where he posts something like 3-4 times a year. If you want to get hit with a novelette every season, this is the blog for you. Naturally, his books are all for sale: htt...

The Buried Source Treasure Episode: An Ocean of Material. The Hidden Treasures. The Infocom Source Code. The As-Yet Undiscovered Dragon Hoard. The Wonder of These Offers. Drop Them Off, Run Away. Spells in a Cabinet. My historical source collection on Github: https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories   The collection of game source at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/gameso...

The Left Arm Episode: Medical Malady, Shakespeare in the Park, Saxophone Guy, Weird Inflatable Couch, A Minor But Not Minor Injury, Another Arm Injury, My Limits, How I Will Be Found. A rumination on my medical limits and physical changes with age.