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The Pile of Badges Episode

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Scarecrow Video Episode

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Halo Championship Episode

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Final March of the Floppies Episode

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Mirrorball Episode

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Excessive Air Filtration Episode

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Upstairs Downstairs Episode

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Sorting Stacks Episode

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Video Files Episode

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

The HOPE Seminar Episode

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Decay and Entropy Episode

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Yard of Hard Drives Episode

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

Everything Is Great Except the Burning: A Fireside Chat

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, but I do. H...

The Game Company Employment Episode

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

The Sinistar at Extremes Episode

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Seagull Painting Episode

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Audio Engineering Lessons Episode

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Book Release Episode:

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 an...

The Catalogs of False Promise Episode

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Regretted Moment of Decision Episode

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Couch Episode

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Bob Lardine Tapes Episode

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Bob Lardine Tapes Episode: A Series of Events, A Pipeline Emerges, Bob Lardine's Career, The Process of Interviews, The Project of Digitization, T...

The Unexpected Second Part Episode

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Unpleasant Premiere Episode

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Paul Rudolph Tour Episode

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The CD-ROM INC Ingestion Episode

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

The Infinite Hotel California Episode

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Lessons of Too Much Halo Episode

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Brewster Episode

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 vs. Piper's Pit Episode

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The DISCMASTER 2 vs. Piper's Pit Episode: A gargantuan collection, piles of files, IBM Warez Groups, Half a Terabyte, Finder Aids and Lists, DISCMASTE...

The Catching a Break Episode

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Hater Tools Episode

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, Ou...

The Third Act of Collecting Episode

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

The Furious Card Episode

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Arcade Tourist Episode

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Grey Box Episode

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Clocks Episode

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The SuperBanana Lunch Episode

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Chowder Box Deep Dive Episode

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 experiences...

The Ride to New Hampshire Episode

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Tape Baking Episode

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Internet Archive Downtime Episode

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Setback Comeback Episode

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Shockwave of Proximity Episode

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Ever-Present To-Do Episode

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Dan Ackroyd Episode

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

That time I met Dan Ackroyd. Maybe.

The Infocom Auction Episode

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Contingency Episode

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Bob Cooper Tapes Episode

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

The New Office Excitement Episode

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Officially at the New Office, The Advantages, The Size, The Dimensions, Multiple Projects, Facing Your Own History, Trash and Treasure, Walking Down M...

The Dying Computer Museum Episode

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hearing of the Living Computer Museum, Illegally Parking, Artifacts and Items, The Paul Allen Story (Short Version), A Conversation with Stephen Jones...

The Legacy Speech Episode (Part 2 of 2)

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Second Part, HOPE's Second New Year, Attendance, Location, Improvements, A Striking Walk Through Classrooms, The Legacy Speech, Friends, Lore, Leg...

The New Office Episode

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Finding A New Space, Failure to Communicate, New Home, Aspects I Like, Enclosed Spaces, The Grand Plan, The Far-Reaching Intentions, One At A Time, Po...

The 300th Episode

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hitting 300 of Anything, Humble Towel Beginnings, Possible Audience Rotation, What Drives The Tales, Finding Subjects, Broken Strings, Eagerness and D...

The Rack of Magazines Episode

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Procrastination By Sorting, Memories of Magazines, Computer Awareness, Obscurity and General Interest, Compute!, Creative Computing, Reader Service, T...

The Legacy Speech Episode (Part 1 of 2)

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Giving a Speech at HOPE, The Concept of Legacy, The Approach to Subjects, Ed Piskor, Cheshire Catalyst, Best and Worst Speech, Short Deadlines, Light ...

The Robert A. Harris Episode

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Going To A Show, Meeting Robert Harris, Film Restoration, The Brittle Nature of Film, Film Is Dead All Hail Film, Meeting Mister Harris, Inspirations ...

The Chaotic Office Episode

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Edging Into The Office, Stacks and Wires, Process and Teardown, A Version of a Version, Dreams of the Next Process. As I wind up the current office an...

Susan.

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Lyn Sadofsky, 1948-2024

The SOFTWARELIBRARY_MC10 Episode

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emulation, James Gerrie, Weak Specifications, The User Interface Wall, Press SCRL LCK and F2, The Tiny Pipe to the Shot Glass, Inspiration, Kind of Fi...

The End of the Office Episode

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Saying No to the Renewal, Moving Into The Office, A Blank Canvas, Choices Made, The Thousands and Hundreds, The Separation of Home and Work, FInding L...

The Galloping Ghost Episode

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An Uninteresting Square Building By The Road, $25, Far as the Eye Can See, Walking the Games, The Usual Experience, Endless Rooms, Experiencing Videog...

The Font and Lines Episode

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All-Sport, Megagym, Racquetball Camp, Benches, Numbers, Lines, Designs, Waves Not Blocks, Frog Design, Attachment, The Font. A rumination on a font an...

The DX-Peditions Episode

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

No Specific End, A Couple Boxes, Expeditions, Ham Radio, QSL Cards, The Tapes Arrive, Digitizing for a Week, Exotics, Blur, VHS Feel, Preservation. A ...

The Sellout Episode

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is Selling Out, This Podcast, The Facts of Working for Money, The Forks and Compromises, Thoughts and Concerns For Others' Journeys, Crossroads, ...

The Lost Media Episode

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Reminding Myself of a Lost Media Show, What is Lost Media, What is Lost, Turn-on, The Thrill of Finding, Endless Uploads, ZIPs inside ISOs, That Old R...

The Horizon Talk Episode

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A Talk Accepted, Rare Appearances, The Gist of Software, The Accomplishments and the Achievements, What's Next, What's Coming, What Will We Do, The Ch...

The Conspiracy VHS Episode

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A Double-Tape UFO Conspiracy, A Life of Forbidden Knowledge, The Assumption of Presentation, The Ease of Misdirection, A Momentary Pause, Handing to N...

The GDC Expo Booth Game Episode

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Attending the Game Developers Conference, the Expo Floor, The Booths, The Floor, Pamphlet Game, Meeting Manifestos and Dreams, The Mag Chain. A discov...

The Sockington Currency Episode

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An Invitation to a Scheme, Some Thoughts on Lemonade, Wash Trading, The Ultimate Plan, A Special Little Cat. Some charlatans tried to get me to enter ...

The Splash of Cold Water Episode (Part 4 of 4)

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yet More AI, The Eye of the Storm, Little Computer People, Eliza, The Sims, SIGGRAPH, Imagination Overload, Analysis, Excitement, Empathy, Curious, Fo...

The Bright and Blinding Light Episode (Part 3 of 4)

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A Computer Lab, Browsers, Surfing, Electronic Zine, Endless Linking, What's New, Web MUD, Extensions and Add-Ons, CENTER Heresy, TEXTFILES.COM, Early ...

The Distant Glow Episode (Part 2 of 4)

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Before My Time, Meetings and Considerations, Terminus, Command Line, FTP and Gopher, UNIX Lingua Franca, MUDs, Endless Time, Waiting for Me, Ghost in ...

The Spark in the Darkness Episode (Part 1 of 4)

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fishing, Night, Truck, Grandfather, Empty, Modem, Moments, Boards, Phones, Fear, Elation, Soul, Duality, Broken, DIscord, Heights, Memories, Places, H...

The Transcription and Summarization Episode

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Transcription and Summarization Episode: LLMs, Modems, Magic, Technology, Infinite Toys, Change, Promises, Reality, Tascam, Amiga, Manuals, Summar...

The UMATIC Gems Episode

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The UMATIC Gems Episode: A Small Hot Room, The Mechanisms, The Robots, 40-50 Years, Sony and From Another World, Tensions and Read Heads, Tapes and De...

The Bad Review Episode

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Bad Review Episode: 2 Stars Out of 5, Bad Cinematography and No Effort, The Timeline of the BBS Documentary, Choices Made, Experiences Lived, 10 t...

The Appreciation For Spaces Episode

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Appreciation For Spaces Episode: A Moment of Recognition, A Time of Containment, The Best Separation, Thanks to Sponsorship and Gifts, The Rooms I...

The Industrial Spaces Episode

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Industrial Spaces Episode: Hurricane Electric, Ikea Paramus, Customers and Hybrid Customers, Beach Chairs, 19-Inch Racks, Content Delivery Network...

The Teraleak Episode

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The CLIVE Episode

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The CLIVE Episode: Introduction To The CLIVE, Our High School Parents, Not Just a Salesman, Where Are They Sitting, Working With The CLIVE, Lessons an...

The Voice Quality Episode

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Voice Quality Episode: A Very Bad Idea, Public Speaking, My Thoughts on Audience, The Unspoken Guarantee, Sickness and Health, Voice and Articulat...

The Learning Process Episode

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Learning Process Episode: My Extreme Oscillation in Learning, Why I Learned The Way I Did, BBSes and Textfiles, Where This Worked, Fastest Temp, T...

The Japanese Spaces Episode

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Time Bandits Episode

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Time Bandits Episode: The Dutchess Mall, Movies 4, Suburbia Boring/Excellence, Chaotic Universe, Surpreme Being, Great Evil, Foundations, Portals ...

The Constant Contact Episode

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Constant Contact Episode: Why People Write In, Repeats, Questions, Meaning, Culture, Context, Contact, Response, Arms Open Wide. Just some though...

The Modern Medicine Episode

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Modern Medicine Episode: Feeling Unwell, Emergency Drive, Portable X-Ray, The App, The Doctors, The Information, The Sense of Well-Being In Myster...

The Atari Font Episode

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Atari Font Episode: Atari Microcomputers, Dark Rooms, Curtains and Shades, Customizing Fonts, Creating Games, Unfulfilled Goals, Unfinished Plans,...

The Nostalgic Web Episode

10 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Nostalgic Web Episode: Ingestion Thoughts, Early Web, Something Lost, Wandering Through Memories, The Early Web, The Lost Form, Expensive and Excl...

The Deep Image Analysis Episode

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Deep Image Analysis Episode: The Fun Toy, The Advancements, Apple II Crack Screens, Transcriptions, A Held Out Hand, The Dark Cloud, A Lifetime of...

The Hacking Museum Episode

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Hacking Museum Episode: Friends Bringing Up A Museum, What Is a Museum, What Is Hacking, How Do You Start, The Fundamentals, The Extras, Before Yo...

The Eyeball Difficulties Episode

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Eyeball Difficulties Episode: A Ring of Light, An Emergency Ophthalmologist, Posterior Vitreous Detachment, Eyeball Tubes, an Unfortunate Curtain,...

The Media Burnout Episode

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Power Wash Simulator Episode

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Power Wash Simulator Episode: Not Just Battle Royale, Power Wash Simulator, Plot and Intrigue, The Basic Idea, Angle of Attack, Parts Within Parts...

The Manuals, Manuals, Manuals! Episode

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Manuals, Manuals, Manuals! Episode: Heading Out To Deal With Manuals Plus, The Manuals Plus Saga, The Latest Part, The Digital Manuals, Aesthetic ...

The Cheshire Catalyst Episode

10 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Cheshire Catalyst Episode: The Brightest Smile, A Long History, TAP Magazine, 2600 Magazine, HOPE Conferences, A Late Start, No Sleep, Close to th...

The Configuration Episode

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Configuration Episode: Two Configuration Aspects, The Rotating Bulletin Board System, Arcade Fidonet, Power-Switch-Rotation, What Was I Thinking, ...

The Digital Faith Episode

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Digital Faith Episode: Obsession and Storage, To-Dos in a Dining Room, The Path from Analog to Digital, The Fight for Perfection, The Battles and ...

The Mister Jangles Option Episode

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Mister Jangles Option Episode. In which your ol' pal Mister Jangles throws you a possible lifeline.