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The Pile of Badges Episode: A Soft Crash, Gathering, Badges of All Sorts of Shapes and Materials, Attending Conferences, A Late Start, Some...
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Historian and loudmouth Jason Scott shares stories of technology, retrocomputing, documentary filmmaking, and general schennanigans from his decades of travels and research. From experiences...

The Pile of Badges Episode: A Soft Crash, Gathering, Badges of All Sorts of Shapes and Materials, Attending Conferences, A Late Start, Some...

The Scarecrow Video Episode: Visiting Seattle, Walking into Scarecrow Video, My Own Mind, The Shelves, The Subjects, The Uniqueness, A Short...

The Halo Championship Episode: Heading to the Championship, Missing Out, The Layout of the Championship, Missing Out Again, Not Missing Out,...

The Final March of the Floppies Episode: A Visit with John Morris, The Applesauce, The Imaging of Floppies, An Office Becomes a Battlefield,...

The Mirrorball Episode: A Very Intense Machine, The Birth of Mirrorball, What Mirrors Are, Online Culture, Demoscene, The Ebb and Flow of In...

The Excessive Air Filtration Episode: Why Am I Like This, Air Filtration, The Old and the Plastic, Environments, Buying an Air Filter, Going...

The Upstairs Downstairs Episode: Watching Gosford Park, The Simplicity, Upstairs Downstairs, Process, Exactitude, Logistics, The Archive's S...

The Sorting Stacks Episode: Light After Shadow, Facing Down The Stacks, The Nature of Chaos, Order From Chaos, A Lifetime of Sorting, Millio...

The Video Files Episode: Hard Drives Locked, Thousands of Hours of Video, Television, Audio Versus Video, The Missing Dates, The Usefulness...

The HOPE Seminar Episode: Attending Hackers on Planet Earth, A HOPE Workshop Building, Presenting a Class, The Process of Interviews, The Go...

The Decay and Entropy Episode: A General Store, A Long Bike Ride, The Accident, The Changes in the Neighborhood, Decay, Buildings, Malls, Ar...

The Yard of Hard Drives Episode: Throwing Hands with Backlogs, The Literal Yard, Drives Cast Out, The Grind of Pain, Survivorship Bias, The...

I was invited to Banff, Alberta to give a keynote presentation to a group of educators and security people. They don't record their talks, b...

The Game Company Employment Episode: That Time I Worked for Psygnosis, The US Outpost, Temp Job, The Small and Tiny Firm, Deliveries and 800...

The Sinistar at Extremes Episode: Synamax and Sinistar, Source Code, Experiments, Sinistar Research, Sinistar Upgrade, California Extreme, A...

The Seagull Painting Episode: A Very Large Painting, a Suburban Life, a Gargantuan Campus, Divorce and Time, Aunts and Couches, Smaller Than...

The Audio Engineering Lessons Episode: Bovine Ignition Systems, They Might Be Giants, Mixing, Equipment, Future Plans, Why Audio Engineering...

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 Hand...

The Catalogs of False Promise Episode: The Meanings of Catalogs, The Promises, The Possibilities, Assistants and Artists, Apps, Crashed Test...

The Regretted Moment of Decision Episode: Bootleg, The Bootlegger, Stone Cold Hustler, House Flipping 1970s Style, Crank, Apple II Basement,...

The Couch Episode: Staying Overnight, The Glow and The Sounds, Previous Spaces, The Draw of an Overnight, Dreams of A Hacker Goblin, Welcome...

The Bob Lardine Tapes Episode: A Series of Events, A Pipeline Emerges, Bob Lardine's Career, The Process of Interviews, The Project of Digit...

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...

The Unpleasant Premiere Episode: Rushing to a Premiere, A Creator I Like, Questioning the Film, The Unwanted Twist, 6 hours of Movie, Bewild...

The Paul Rudolph Tour Episode: A Well-Placed Tik-Tok Ad, Halston, A Special Apartment, The Paul Rudolph Building, A Rectangular Walkthrough,...

The CD-ROM INC Ingestion Episode: We Take Many Things, 16 Boxes of CD-ROMs, Duplication and Destruction, First CD-ROMs, 4 Channels of Ingest...

The Infinite Hotel California: The Projects That Keep Returning, Highway 1, Hotel California, Low Power Radio, The Nightmares, Magic and Ser...

The Lessons of Too Much Halo Episode: Games Buddy Kyle, Doubles Mode, Twenty Years of Twos, No Strategy, Psychological Profiles, Preventing...

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,...

The Catching a Break Episode: H3, Accordion Hood, The Lifted Weight, Infinite Breaks, Artuo and the 80 Hours, Passing the Breaks, Infinite P...

The Hater Tools Episode: A Pleasant Visit to a Discord, A Pillory, The Right to Dislike, Tools of Response, Public vs. Actual, Walls of Sepa...

The Third Act of Collecting Episode: What Drives People to Collect, The Roles, The Responsibilities, The Urge and Drive, My Witness To The T...

The Furious Card Episode: Finding an Old Card, The Handover and the Promise, The Fury, Exclusitivity, Teenage Sharing, Providing Access, Imp...

The Arcade Tourist Episode: Visiting Other Countries, Visiting Arcades, The Uniqueness of Each Arcade, The Unplanned Planned Journey, The Ou...

The Grey Box Episode: A Fine Purchase, A New Fulcrum, Permanent Storage, Memories and Accomplishments, A Personal Set, The Futures and Desti...

The Clocks Episode: Attending The Clock, The Intercutting, The Supercut, Digital Filmmaking, Silent Labor, One to Four Hours, Time Out of Ti...

The SuperBanana Lunch Episode: A Pleasant Meetup, A Conversation, The Cold Arrow of Criticism, A Recurring Character, Why Go to Meetings, So...

The Chowder Box Deep Dive Episode: Progress into the Chowder Boxes, the layers of years, what we see in the boxes, future thoughts to past e...

The Ride to New Hampshire Episode. In which I learned an awful lot about myself and life in a very short time.

The VHS Spectacle Episode: An Apartment in New York City, Realizing the Value, The Spectacle, Television Specials, Long-Form Recording, Inau...

The Tape Baking Episode: The Cult of Baked Tapes, The Problem With Magnetic Media, Potential Solutions, Tape Baking Recipe, Digital and Anal...

The Internet Archive Downtime Episode: Not About the Archive, Downtime, What My Job Is, Switching Gears, Finding Purpose, A Chain Instead of...

The Setback Comeback Episode. A rumination on working through dark periods, set to a cadence of strength and resilience but recognition of t...

The Shockwave of Proximity Episode: A Short Trip, Los Angeles, Giving the Best Interview, Honks and Sounds, Return and Forget, Documentary R...

The Ever-Present To-Do List: The Giving of Advice, Piles, To-Do, Addressing the Options, Understanding the Trudge, The Pile Behind Instead o...

That time I met Dan Ackroyd. Maybe.

A Large Collection, Stories in a Collection, Capturing Infocom, Financialization, Families and Friends and Grief, Using The Skills You Have,...

No Tragedy Ahead, A Quick Exit, Expectations of Childhood, Stability and Home Base, Approaching the World, Valets and Storage Units, Where T...

Setting Up Tapes, The Bob Cooper Collection, Bob Cooper Biography, Imaging 3/4 Tape, Fuzziness and History, A Lost Era of Television, Everyt...