HeyJaredJason Scott Talks His Way Out of It
Historian and loudmouth Jason Scott shares stories of technology, retrocomputing, documentary filmmaking, and general schennanigans from his decades of travels and research.
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The Many Twisty Passages Episode (opens the original)
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The Many Twisty Passages Episode: Can You Cite a Podcast, Driving at 27, An Eternal Passenger, Incurring a Debt, Life at Walking Speed, Changing The Mode, Infinite Variations, Complexity Instead of Simplicity, A Hearty Review of the Chosen Path. A heady contemplation on the fact I didn't learn to drive until I was 27, and how different my life turned out as a result.
The Ingestion Wonderment Episode (opens the original)
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The Ingestion Wonderment Episode: Sitting At The Incoming Pile, PDF and CBZ, Text and Sound, Newsletters, Layouts, Projecting The Excitement, Not Just Money, The World The Newsletters Were Made In, Love Across Decades, The Bravest Position. Just a moment to appreciate the thousands of truly off the rails and amazing PDF files that are coming in to the Archive these days, hundreds of user newsletters and mailed brochures, easy to read and fun to find. We can always have nice things, if we stop to
The PAL Video Toolchain Episode (opens the original)
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The PAL Video Toolchain Episode: A Final Part, The Nature of PAL, PAL Videotapes, VHS, DVD-Recorder Time-Base Corrector, Finding The Process, Testing The Process, The FIrst of the Tapes, The Future, The Nature of Learning. A contemplation on how I finally got PAL Video digitizing, after so long of wanting to do so. The first of the tapes are done, and I've got only a hundred to so to put that all into the done column.
The Homestar Runner Expert Episode (opens the original)
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The Homestar Runner Expert Episode: A Letter From a Teacher, A Student Researcher, Homestar Runner, Expertise For a Future Researcher, The Brothers Chaps, All I Know, A Virtuoso Voice, The Maintained Lack of Maintenance, Ruffle, The Future Doctor of Homestar. Getting a letter from a teacher where a student wanted to know about Homestar Runner and I was tapped as the expert to be consulted, I took it seriously and now maybe I made a kid's day. I could think of worse outcomes. The Homestar Runner
The Misremembered Mall Episode (opens the original)
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The Misremembered Mall Episode: The Hudson Valley Explorer, The Running Commentary, An Amnesiac Tour Guide, The Story of IBM and Dutchess County, Tracts of Land, The Lifespan of a Mall, Dutchess Mall, Service Merchandise, The Atari Bug, Why Save Memories, Wrong Memories, A Single Hope. The fact a TikTok account called The Hudson Valley Explorer went to the dead husk of a remaining portion of the Dutchess Valley Mall and tried to explain it away shouldn't have bothered me, but he was also 5 miles
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