Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

The Game Company Employment Episode: That Time I Worked for Psygnosis, The US Outpost, Temp Job, The Small and Tiny Firm, Deliveries and 800 Numbers, What People Did, The Temptations of Valor, The Wonders That Were Real, An Expanse of Time, The Dreams Yet To Live.A small rumination of my time working for Psygnosis putting some realistic boundaries on what I did while I was there, in reference to people sometimes overplaying their hands as to proximity to greatness.

The Sinistar at Extremes Episode: Synamax and Sinistar, Source Code, Experiments, Sinistar Research, Sinistar Upgrade, California Extreme, A Panel of Legends, An Excellent Evening, Drinks and Chats, The True Meaning, Our Vanishing Opportunity. To watch Synamax's excellent documentary on Sinistar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCuoUSDBVac

The Seagull Painting Episode: A Very Large Painting, a Suburban Life, a Gargantuan Campus, Divorce and Time, Aunts and Couches, Smaller Than I Remember, The Painting for Money, Customers, An Office Wall, a Regret of No Better Memory.An episode about a very large painting that lives in my office, and the story (and life) behind it.

The Audio Engineering Lessons Episode: Bovine Ignition Systems, They Might Be Giants, Mixing, Equipment, Future Plans, Why Audio Engineering, Going to Class, Learning the Lessons, A Part of the Chain, Lessons Learned, Jason and Jeremy Forever.The lessons learned one summer for audio engineering in a college course that still helped Jeremy and Jason even when they stopped making music (together).

The Book Release Episode: A Moment of Pride, Chris and Alexas Orcutt, The Books of Chris Orcutt, The Nine-Book Series, To Hold In One's Hands, Luck and Opportunity, The Years to Come....in which, like some sort of errant fellow at a ceremony, I raise a toast to Chris Orcutt getting review copies of his first book of his new series out. He's at https://orcutt.net/weblog/ and worth every amount of attention I can bang pans to get.

The Catalogs of False Promise Episode: The Meanings of Catalogs, The Promises, The Possibilities, Assistants and Artists, Apps, Crashed TestFlight, Computer Stores, Collections, Walking Among the Stacks, Lost Players, Lost Makers, The Guideposts to What Was.A rumination on computer software catalogs and what they might be, what they matter for, and what might happen.

The Regretted Moment of Decision Episode: Bootleg, The Bootlegger, Stone Cold Hustler, House Flipping 1970s Style, Crank, Apple II Basement, Grey Market, Lost Floppies, Decisions Made, No Regrets.I've mentioned Bootleg before, but it's time once again to talk about the uniqueness of him and an unexpected life lesson he provided me in his basement.

The Couch Episode: Staying Overnight, The Glow and The Sounds, Previous Spaces, The Draw of an Overnight, Dreams of A Hacker Goblin, Welcome Changes. I thought I'd stay overnight in the office.

The Bob Lardine Tapes Episode: A Series of Events, A Pipeline Emerges, Bob Lardine's Career, The Process of Interviews, The Project of Digitization, The Dreams and Hopes, Destiny Laughs.The Bob Lardine Collection is a lovely place to visit. It's at: https://archive.org/details/boblardinetapes

The Unexpected Second Part Episode: You Should Listen to the First Part, The Source of My Anger, GET LAMP's Two Avoided Mistakes, The Second Small One, The Huge First One, The Role of the Documentary, Telling a Story to Tell a Story, An Endorsement of Other Bobby Broccoli Creations.A flashback to when I stood during pre-production of GET LAMP and almost made the same sort of mistake this film I just watched made, and how I barely escaped. Also: What is the role of a documentary anyway?

The Unpleasant Premiere Episode: Rushing to a Premiere, A Creator I Like, Questioning the Film, The Unwanted Twist, 6 hours of Movie, Bewilderment to Anger, Scientist First, Two Parter.A rush of thoughts as I attended a film premiere for a youtuber's documentary and how he unexpectedly broke a few mild rules I didn't think anyone would even take time to break. The film I'm talking about is called 17 Pages by Bobby Broccoli, which you can find at various outlets.

The Paul Rudolph Tour Episode: A Well-Placed Tik-Tok Ad, Halston, A Special Apartment, The Paul Rudolph Building, A Rectangular Walkthrough, Rust, Rot, FDR's Library and Home, Archives for Forever.The Building: https://www.paulrudolph.institute/

The CD-ROM INC Ingestion Episode: We Take Many Things, 16 Boxes of CD-ROMs, Duplication and Destruction, First CD-ROMs, 4 Channels of Ingestion, Ups and Downs, Ultimate Goals, Importance and Obviousness, A Quick Adventure.The arrival of around 1,500 CD-ROMs from the core parts of the CD-ROM era caused me to have to take a week of time pulling them into the archive. Here's how that's gone.

The Infinite Hotel California: The Projects That Keep Returning, Highway 1, Hotel California, Low Power Radio, The Nightmares, Magic and Serendipity, A Recipe For a Lovely Time.A few thoughts about a years-long project I've thought about off and on.

The Lessons of Too Much Halo Episode: Games Buddy Kyle, Doubles Mode, Twenty Years of Twos, No Strategy, Psychological Profiles, Preventing the Quit, Why We're Winning, Moving On, Screaming at the Screen, The Edges of Learning.An episode about how Kyle and I stopped playing Halo Doubles to go get our faces wiped against the floor in Battle Royale.

The Brewster Episode. A flood of memories about my short and sad time in Brewster, New York, and why I'm still around.

The DISCMASTER 2 vs. Piper's Pit Episode: A gargantuan collection, piles of files, IBM Warez Groups, Half a Terabyte, Finder Aids and Lists, DISCMASTER 2 Arrives, The Functions of DISCMASTER and DISCMASTER 2, The Size of DISCMASTER, The Semantic Future. Someone uploaded half a terabyte of programs taken from tape backups of various BBSes in the 1990s, and the entire mountain of data it represents is being made easier to negotiate with DISCMASTER 2, the sequel we didn't deserve but got anyway: https://discmaster.textfiles.com

The Catching a Break Episode: H3, Accordion Hood, The Lifted Weight, Infinite Breaks, Artuo and the 80 Hours, Passing the Breaks, Infinite Payoff, An Office Break, A Traffic Court Appearance. Thoughts on how both giving and recieving breaks, the lifting of obligation, is some of the best investment on both sides. I didn't mention it in the episode, but interestingly, with a nearly 15 year difference, my office where I caught a break in the lease is located roughly 800 feet from the court where I didn't. There is nothing to learn from that fact.

The Hater Tools Episode: A Pleasant Visit to a Discord, A Pillory, The Right to Dislike, Tools of Response, Public vs. Actual, Walls of Separation, Our Neverending Performance, The Time and Distance, Hills and Mountains, Accepting The Hate. A small rumination on that time I visited a community and they didn't like me.

The Third Act of Collecting Episode: What Drives People to Collect, The Roles, The Responsibilities, The Urge and Drive, My Witness To The Third Act, Sentinels of Oblivion, Redundancy, The Process, Indexing Heartbreak, The Time Crunch, The Future, The Hope. Thoughts on when people have spent a long time making a collection and my experiences when they reach that inevitable end of the process.