Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

The Storage Unit Episode: Down to Two Units, The Legend of the Information Cube, A Pile of Yes, A Tour of Screens and Magazines, Where It All Went, How the Last Two Units are Laid Out, A Pile of Props, MC Frontalot Shoot, Where It Will End, An Actual Attic, 100 Years. Here's 400 photos of my shoot in Queens with MC Frontalot: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157705604332681 I mentioned several museums and archives as I always have: Strong Museum of Play, Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, and the Vintage Computer Federation. All of these organizations are excellent, and worth your donations and support.

The Conspiracy Episode: Conspiracy Love, 1985 and Annette Arky, Playboy, Comics, Underground, Deep Underground, Ninjas, Guns and G-Files, The Muffin File, The Comfort of Conspiracy, The Mechanism of the World, The Dark Byways, A Friend Forgotten. I mention Da Muffin Papers, you can browse them here: https://archive.org/details/DaMuffinPapers The event I'm speaking of at the end is Heroku's Waza year 2013. My talk, "Time Travel from 2100: A Kit" is viewable at https://vimeo.com/61059533. A 2003 Loompanics Catalog: https://archive.org/details/Loompanics_Catalog_2003 Loompanics and Paladin Press were the classic go-to for "Underground Publishing" although I had a number of others I got in the mail. Both these organizations had FBI files, released in 2011: https://boingboing.net/2011/07/20/fbi-releases-files-o-1.html

The Lost Space Racing Game Demo Movie Episode: Focus Studios, Two Major Projects, The Racing Game, Mark's Dream, Car Logos, Design, 3D Studio, 2 Months, Gone Forever, Starting a Race You Don't Know How To Finish, Lessons For The Next Impossible Project. Also: No Regrets. An episode about TUNNEL VISION, an unreleased (and un-made) game by Focus Studios that I did some art design for, including making a very large and ambitious demo movie for. I asked Mark if he has any copies of this stuff around - I give it a very low chance, but life is funny sometimes.

The 100th Episode: Start With Another Episode Please , A Little More About My Supporters, Unediting, Why This Was Started, Speech Therapy, Unintended Results, The Many Positives, Therapy In General, Where To Go Next, A Little More About My Other Supporters. The 100th episode was recorded with no editing using the on-board microphone, which hopefully leaves only the real fans of this show and others scampering to the better, less meta episodes. Thank you so much for having me get to this milestone. I would have never thought I'd have done it, and I will double down to give you the best stories and wonders for April and beyond.

The Games of the Mechners Episode: High School, David Mechner, Brother Jordan, Karateka, The Next Game, Assassin, The Rules, A Shining Moment, An Answered Doorbell, Reading Unlimited, Rotoscoping, The David in the Machine. While gathering links, I discovered the Mechners have a foundation and all the kids are on the advisory board! http://mechnerfoundation.org/ Jordan Mechner has an amazing archive of his own work here: https://www.jordanmechner.com/archive/ The Wikipedia entry for the Assassin Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin_(game) Horace Greeley High School has some lovely photos of the halls and campus at the site: https://www.ccsd.ws/horace-greeley-home

The Bear Mountain Episode: Hudson Valley, Rejecting Nature, Bear Mountain State Park, The Bridge, The Lodge, The Pool, The Trail, The Zoo, Daniel Carter Beard, Strange Places, Low-Slung Buildings, A Spectacular Spot, Telling The Story Beyond Yourself. The Bear Mountain Lodge/Inn has a very snazzy page: https://visitbearmountain.com/ More about the bird watching at Bear Mountain: https://parks.ny.gov/parks/13/bird-conservation-areas.aspx An overview of the museums and zoo at Bear Mountain: https://parks.ny.gov/environment/nature-centers/20/details.aspx What I (and locals) call the Bear Mountain Bridge is officially called the Purple Heart Veterans Memorial Bridge, and here's some information about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Mountain_Bridge

The Nightmare Space Episode: A Nightmare Repeats, The Lost Great Space, The Museumsquartier, A Booth, Spaces I Have Known: L0pht CT Hackerspace, and Hack42, The Space of the Webpage, 1990s Net, Dreams From the Nightmares, Never Stop Dreaming.The Museumsquatier website is at https://www.mqw.at/en/ It is a constantly changing and flowing location, and I don't know if the actual corridor I'm speaking of has a name, but you'll find plenty of inspiring aspects to it - definitely visit if you're ever in Vienna/Wein. The CT Hackerspace is at http://www.cthackerspace.com/ Hack42 is over at https://hack42.nl/blog/ The results of the scanning at Hack42 so far is at https://archive.org/details/manuals_hack42 I wish I had a photo of that pyramid building off Route 9! But I can't find a single record of it.

The Game Ideas Episode: 25 Years Later, Two Game Ideas: Central Plumbing Unit, Ante Meridian: The Morning of The World. Focus Studios, Mark The Alien, The Real World, The Difficulty of Making Games Live, HK Project, Get In The Car Loser, Make Your Own Game. I mention a game called HK Project: https://hk-devblog.com/ Kowloon City is a rewarding research project in itself. Get In The Car, Loser! has a Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/938860/Get_In_The_Car_Loser/

The Metal.Ball Episode: For the Love of a Ball, TinyMUD, MUD, Port 4201, CB Radio, Smokey and the Bandit, TinyTIM, Metal.Ball's Roll-Playing, Mystery of the World, The Metal Ball Inside My Heart The story of a special online character, who never stopped rolling into my life and represents one of the most positive experiences I've had in the realm of a world I don't belong to anymore. TinyTIM is at tim.org port 5440.

The Cybersmith Episode: The Shining Moment of the Cybersmith, Paperback Booksmith, Mall Chains, Harvard Square, The Last Mile, Rabbit Warrens, Cybersmith's Luxury, The Fade, The Memory of a Promise. Here's everything I could find easily mentioning Cybersmith: An article about visiting Cybersmith in 1995: http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/mar/jason.html CS Monitor on Same: https://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0217/17032.html NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/03/business/waiter-oh-waiter-excuuuse-me-but-there-s-a-mouse-in-my-coffee.html The article from the Boston Globe announcing the end of Cybersmith: http://graphics.boston.com/globe/living/cyberlinks/cybersmith.shtml Photos are a bit scant; a small amount from Getty Images: https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/cybersmith?phrase=cybersmith&sort=mostpopular#license

The Apple Cassette Episode: My Silly Reputation, A Witness To A Wonder, Two Cassettes and 3 Hours of Scrutiny, Ciderpress, A Car With No Gas, Apple Cassette Protection Schemes, 16k, Custom Cards, Vertical Monitor. The author of Ciderpress gave a great overview of Apple Cassette schemes here: https://fadden.com/apple2/cassette-protect.html Ciderpress' home page is at https://a2ciderpress.com/ I mention these awesome sites: http://www.hackzapple.com/INDEX0.HTM https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/

The Hazy View Episode: A Single Moment and a Single Feeling, Realism and Unrealism, Graphics Efforts, The Forgotten Moment, The Melancholy Wish, An Older Person With an Older Memory, Childhood's Haze. A simple fetch quest turns into a forgotten childhood memory. The single-best overview of the amount of technical effort and calculation behind every frame of Grand Theft Auto V is probably http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study/ - while others are out there, the use of a single frame of the game (that calculates 60 frames per second) lets you look at all the subsystems and choices made to make the system run. If that's not deep enough for you, may I suggest Miriam Bellard's explanation of baking story and meaning into architecture in GTA V: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025736/Environment-Design-as-Spatial-Cinematography

The Dad Question Episode: A Simple Question, Why Did The Internet Archive Even Happen, What Even Is All This, The Infinite Growth, What Data Really Is, The Handfuls Taken From The Ocean, Towards the Future. A simple question from my Dad forces me to explain how we got into this mess and how we're going to have to keep in it, even in the face of impossibility. The URL https://archive.org/~tracey/mrtg is not the most perfect page and not set up for easy understanding of what it's talking about, but it is the most up to date indicator of how much data is floating into the Internet Archive and how it's handling it. With an understanding and a stress that not all of the used disk space is "stuff" you can browse or necessarily related directly to Internet Archive stored items, over 60 petabytes of unique disk space has been stored by all operations and that's at least 120 petabytes of real hard drives.

The Other Arcade Episode: The Dream Machine, Bad Real Estate, What Happened to Arcades, The Places I'd Seek, Lake George, Childhood Gone, Quassy Park, My Short-Lived Vending Machine Idea, Organized Crime, Barcadians, No Documentary, Except a Documentary, Dream Machine. Another episode covering arcades, but I wanted to approach this important-to-me subject through an alternate thread. I wanted people to know that http://arcadedocumentary.com now points to a project called ARCADIA, which I'm supporting as a replacement for what I'd been intending to do with my own film. Carly Kocurek, who was interviewed for my film, came out with a book you might have missed called COIN OPERATED AMERICANS, the page for which is here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/coin-operated-americans In the episode, I don't mention Lyons Pinball, which of all the public arcades (there were a few private ones I also liked), I found the most charming, and the most lovely. Here's their website (they're in Lyons, Colorado), and they are still the only place in the world you can consistently play one of the ultra-rare JOUST two-headed pinballs machines (less than 500 were ever made). http://www.lyonspinball.com/intro.htm Besides my URL, here's the official URL for Arcadia: https://arcadiathemovie.com/ Do you need to know about Quassy Amusement park? https://www.quassy.com/ The Wikipedia article of Quassy is currently more useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassy_Amusement_Park It's the internet, so there's pages about the Dream Machine in Poughkeepsie (the other one in my area, besides the one I went to at Dutchess Mall), and it even has photos of what I'm talking about: https://thearcadearchives.com/2011/09/21/raygunn-dreams-of-dream-machine/ All hail arcades!

Forever.

The Ingestion and Loss Episode: Winter Floppy Boxes, Kansasfest 2019 Flux Party, The Levels of Floppies, Screen Shotgun has Menu Awareness, Why Even, The Death of the Artist, Randy Suess, Laughing Squid's Photo Policy. A few thoughts on imaging floppies, and never knowing who will take care of your stuff after you. I couldn't begin to list everyone who helped with the Kansasfest flux efforts, and we had multiple people who spent hours, days even, making it go down. It's still my favorite place to be, an inspiration, a warm hearth, a special thing. I hope everyone gets to have a place like that. Laughing Squid runs a great news and interest blog at https://laughingsquid.com/. Randy Suess' obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/technology/randy-suess-dead.html

On the Occasion of Chest Pains: Stent Number Three, Poor Notes in the Symphany, Arguing For Myself, Feelings, Operation, The Talking Car, In and Out, Different the Third Time Around, A Message About Support. A short side-path into getting a procedure done and what it's like when it's not a new thing anymore. Been resting and doing nicely, don't worry, and things look very good. (And not as expensive as previous procedures were.) The patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/textfiles

The Halo Outpost Discovery Episode: My Pal Kyle, Halo Doubles, A Halo Outpost, Chicago, The Idea of a Halo Convention, Mortal Kombat Side Quest, How It Was Done in Chicago, An Empty Hall, Corners and Booths and Stages, Vendors and Library, VIP Access, AR Halo, Caddyshack and the Murray Family, Goth Caddyshack, Halo Fun, Final Thoughts, You Ruined Doubles 343. This year I attended a Halo-themed convention being held at various times around the country, and now you know how it was like. I call it Halo Waypoint the whole episode because that's what the App you used to walk around was like, but Halo Output Discovery is the true and actual name. You'll get it. Halo Outpost Discovery site: https://halooutpostdiscovery.com/ Halo Outpost Twitter: https://twitter.com/halooutpost Kyle in the Quiet Place: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1157703244514091009 Halo VIP Lounge: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1157704146138599425

The RTTY Art Episode: A Word About Loss. Meeting John Sheetz. RTTYs. RTTY Artwork. The Magic of RTTY Art. Sunday Nights. Interviewing John Sheetz. Gone Before the End. Typewriter Art. A Living Room of Artwork. Overstrike and Multi-Column. Epson MX-80. A Fading Work. After John is Gone. Timeless RTTY. A Printer As Easel. I may have mentioned John Sheetz in an episode before, but I certainly didn't go into all the elements of the RTTY artwork and world he was a part of. It was nice to finally get all of that out in one place. Photos from my interview with John Sheetz. The Full Video Interview with John Sheetz. RTTY Art Made Easy by Don Royer, WA6PIR The Story of the Typewriter, 1873-1923. Marcin Winchary's incredible collection of typewriter artwork books (as well as many other type and typewriting works). The RTTY.COM collections of RTTY Art and Related History. (The Gold Standard) The TEXTFILES.COM collection of RTTY Art

The CPC Episode: Amstrad CPC Joins the Fray, A Platform Unknown to Me, The Problems CPC Had, Getting it Going, Auto-Boot, An Ugly Thing, Graphics and Sound, Isometric, Multiple Markets, Thousands of Programs, A Helpful Discord, A New Platform, Nearly the Last. Upon the event of the Amstrad CPC joining the emulation family at the Internet Archive and what that might mean. To journey among the newly added titles at the Archive, just browse from this URL: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_cpc?and%5B%5D=mediatype%3Acollection&sin=

The Server Cage Episode: An ISP Ends, But Hosting Never Stops, Don't Forget the Fiber, The Other Half, I Know How The Caged Server Beeps, The Arrangement, Dual 486, Stickers, Too Much Bandwidth, The Worst Way to Page Me, Goodbye, What We Have Lost. I'm happy to say that there are photos of the arrangement described in this episode. They're browsable here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157653792998936

The Rubi-Con Episode: Smokey the Police Dog, Rubi-Con, Detroit Not Detroit, Off-Kilter, Duct Tape, Drunkeness, The Adult in the Room, Fire, The Raid, Another Year and Another Name, $100 Towels, What Is Destruction For, Hacker Cons, The Real Jewel. I captured the Rubi-Con site from way back then: http://cow.net/rubicon/decaffeinated/navigation.html To listen to audio from Rubi-Con 5: http://audio.textfiles.com/cons/rubicon/rubicon5/

The Internet Archive October Event Episode: Once Again Back at the Archive, Onsite, The Things We're Working On, Wikipedia Linkage, Better World Books, A Lesson On Japanese Internment, Company Culture, Six Weeks or Six Years, Unlike Anything Else, An Elephant Costume and a Hospital Visit. The 2019 October Event's livestream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az4BpuVrOhI (Things start happening around the ten minute mark)Wendy Hanamura's collected library of Japanese Incarceration is here: https://archive.org/details/digital-library-of-japanese-american-incarceration 2,500 MS-DOS games added: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games?and%5B%5D=emulator_start%3A%2Aiafix%2A&sin=&sort=-downloads

The Raytracing Episode: A Confession, What Raytracing Is, DKBTrace, The Overnight Render, DKB and POVRay, The Pac-Man, Anything for a UNIX Prompt, Gandalf, Supermarket Gang, Pixar's Tools, A Missed Boat With No Regrets. DKBTrace/POVRay has a website here: http://www.povray.org/ The original creator of the POVRay Pac-Man Render: http://vs.iki.fi/raytrace/ Here's the Pixar Presto demonstration I'm talking about (I was in the back of the room): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFSVx7NhmM The POVRay Wikipedia page is (as of this writing) a good overview of the lineage and aspects of the program.

The NAID Episode: Jim Says It's Happening, North American International Demo Party, A Very Ill-Advised Travel, Border, Exchange Rate, The Actual NAID, Classrooms, Jacket for Blanket, Cow Suit, Walking the Halls, Font Throwing, The Competitions, A New Idea about Conferences, A Wild Success, Synchrony, Thanks. A mirror of NAIDorabilia: http://cd.textfiles.com/naidorabilia/ Memories of NAID: https://trixter.oldskool.org/2012/06/06/memories-of-naid/ Who Killed the American Demoscene? (Stupid headline, great article): https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wgp7/who-killed-the-american-demoscene-synchrony-demoparty NAID party artifacts at POUET: http://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=159 Vintage News Broadcast in Montreal about NAID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVj_EXJt0mY Keyboard Throwing Competition (1996, I'm the last Keyboard Tosser): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieHC9ZrCpJM Me in a Cow Suit: http://www.slengpung.com/v3/show_photo.php?id=10253&ref=people&uid=1428

The Electric Stories Episode: A VAX in Need of a Home, The Lady of the VAX, A Very Heavy 3/280, MFM Drives, 20 Amps, Electrical Cyberpunk Nightmares, Don't Do It Again, Mainframes, Pavl, The Underside of Conferences, 220 Drop, A May December Romance. Three stories of me and electricity. This presentation by Joe Grand includes pictures (in the PDF) of the vax: http://www.grandideastudio.com/perspectives-from-the-l0pht/ Images of a Sun 3/280: http://www.obsolyte.com/sunPICS/3_280/ I can't find any images of the MFM drives so use your imagination. I wrote a long article about the DEFCON Vaxes, so there's lots of details: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2114

The Music Tracker Episode: Carousel, Cards and Belts, Piano Rolls, Notches and Points, My Magical Amiga, Music Disks, Tiny Sizes, Spreadsheets and Waveforms, Making My Own, Tracker Battles, CDROM.COM, Making My Fastrackers, Sketch the Cow, Saving the MODs, The Time I Got Flattened. In this episode, I talk about music tracking, which has such a deep part of my life for years on end. The beautiful sub-300k song I mention is called Klisje paa Klisje (English: Cliche' after Cliche') by Walkman. Here's a youtube video of it being played in a tracker, showing all the different ways the music changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S0MC8nKRc Recordings of my musical creations playable right now are here: http://www.cow.net/jason/music/ And if you want to browse hundreds of music disks for the C64 and the Commodore Amiga, they're playable here at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_c64_musicdisks https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_amiga_musicdisks

Mr. Hernandez: Kit Computers, Plastic Cases, Malls, Computer Stores. Brewster's dim days, Mr. Hernandez' Store, Plastic Bags, The Rules of Talking, Preppie! Avalon Hill, Scott Adams Adventures. The Bright Line. Flaking Out, Fading Away. Preppie! is playable at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Preppie_1982_Adventure_International_US Preppie's Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preppie!_(video_game) The original book that started the preppie craze was "The Official Preppy Handbook" by Lisa Birnbach. (1980). The illustrator for the Preppie! game was Scott Ross, who's still around and still in business: http://www.scottross.com/index.html The Avalon Hill Game I bought was Dnieper River Line. A playable version is here, although playable is relative without all the cardboard pieces: https://archive.org/details/a8b_Dnieper_River_Line_1982_Avalon_Hill_US_BASIC Further information on Dnieper River Line is here: https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-8-bit/dnieper-river-line I am reasonably sure the Scott Adams adventure game I played was Adventure #4: Voodoo Castle. It's playable here: https://archive.org/details/a8b_Adventure_No._04_Voodoo_Castle_v3.9_119_1981_Adventure_International_US_k_file.a (I didn't have the graphics version, though.)

All Debt, All The Time: The Current Debt Status, The Black Shadow, I Blame Myself, The First Credit Card, A $1100/$2000 Flight, No Shame in an Accountant, Your Two Important Homework Assignments. 75 episodes in! Time to talk about that whole debt issue the podcast was created for, and my current thoughts on debt in general.

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.

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.

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

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 the Hackers script: https://books.google.com/books?id=lxTsTiD91CEC If you wish to put on the play, here's the logistics information: https://www.samuelfrench.com/p/5318/hackers

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.

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

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/

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/ https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/02/13/atari-arcade-concept-art-a-glimpe-of-the-future/ https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_IdUuPX8s84IC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Scappi https://archive.org/details/journeyroundmyro00maisrich

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: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/48xndr/jolt_cola_all_the_sugar_and_twice_the_caffeine/

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 of them. I mentioned ConfCon was online. What I should say is that ConfCon WAS online, then the sites went down, and I thought I had them on textfiles.com but I don't easily see them, so then Famicoman to the rescue and they're both on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/confcon2009audio https://archive.org/details/confcon2010audio That was a close one!

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/

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 times I invite people into projects, the project mentioned at the end is going to be continual and the offer won't expire. Thanks for considering some help.

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 some actual games come out of it. Until then, I'm not kidding - type in the name of any Infocom game and you can probably be playing it within seconds. I recommend a walk through the document Steve Meretzky wrote at Infocom to explain the ZIL source code here: https://archive.org/details/Learning_ZIL_Steven_Eric_Meretzky_1995 Here's the video of the chat with Steve and Kevin: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/416801231

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.

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 stasis. At 60 episodes, this is quite a body of work, and you've been inspirational in helping me create it.

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

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 but Juliana was the final word on set. The casino/tourist trap I mentioned is called Excalibur City and the home page for it is here: http://www.excaliburcity.com/en/

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.

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 artist game and moved into movie making and computers, and while it's sad I let that talent go, I did some other good stuff with it! I idly looked up how street performing did after we got flushed out, and it turns out that this year, this year, they just changed the rules and policies regarding performing and fees and technically, I could start up again! (But I'm not going to: Kind of busy.)

The Time Episode. Was it all worth it?

The Postal Zine Episode: National Lampoon, Adult Comics, Fooled Them, Forbidden Mail, Forbidden Subjects, Catalogs, Books, Power and Revenge, Factsheet Five, Gunderloy, Anarchy, Factsheet Five's Big Party, Internet, Zines, PDFs. Also: The Tax Treadmill. An episode about my relationship (and others) to postal-based forbidden things, including access to the Factsheet Five magazine, one of the best printed things on earth at the time. The Internet Archive Zine collection is massive and growing: https://archive.org/details/zines Factsheet Five has a few issues up on the archive, but we need a large and high-quality scanning of this thing. https://archive.org/search.php?query=factsheet%20five We even have a pretty zesty Loompanics catalog: https://archive.org/details/Loompanics_Catalog_2003