Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It
Episodes
The Workshop Episode
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Workshop Episode: A Realization and Realignment, What I Specifically Do, The Joy of Sharing and Streaming, The Lessons and Conversations, My Three...
The Process Episode
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Process Episode: Expert or Expert on Time, The Rush of a New Project, Determining What Is Best, How I Find a Place, The Relationship of Time to Wo...
The 2000 New Games Episode
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 2000 New Games Episode: A Fundamental Question, A New Spin on an Old Project, The Emularity, You Have to Ask MAME, 2000 Games, Slot Machines, Sec...
The Anime Fansub Episode
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Anime Fansub Episode: Wondering How I Got Here, VHS, Mechanisms, A Sudden Offer, 700 Tapes, The Source of the Source of the Source, Asking the Exp...
The Starting Memory Episode
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Starting Memory Episode: Messing Around With Yet Another Phone Conference, A Flash of Memory, Supermarket, Rented and Unusual Machines, A Tester, ...
The Patrick O'Malley Episode
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Patrick O'Malley Episode: A Wind-Down of Focus, NE.JOBS, RAID Interview, 30 Days of Consultancy, Debt Repayment, Life Under Patrick O'Malley, The ...
The Cancellation Episode
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Cancellation Episode: Psygnosis Dreams, A Ship's Tunnel, Nintendo's Limits, Lost Between the Cracks, Infocom's Game Ideas, The Other Destiny, A Li...
The Toorcamp 2009 Episode
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Toorcamp 2009 Episode: Everyone Tried, A Dream of CCCamp and Burning Man, Quaint Toorcon, I Was In, Silica, Missile Silos, Emmanuel, Two Kinds of ...
The Clothes Horse Episode
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Clothes Horse Episode: A Terrible Teacher, The Boot, A Plain Chain Childhood, Cow Suits and Public Trots, The Inflection Hat, The Clothes I seek, ...
The Vintage Font Episode
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Vintage Font: A Festival of Windows, Working Through Boxes, The Emotions and Feelings of Fonts, 3279-BIOS-Tandy, The Lineage of Vintage Fonts, Set...
The Absence of Light Episode
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Absence of Light Episode. Upon an anniversary.
The Shadow GET LAMP Episode
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Shadow GET LAMP Episode: Talking Head Criticism, The Intention of BBS Documentary, Two Terrible GET LAMP Choices, The Choice Made, The Choice Avoi...
The Audio Lot Episode
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Audio Lot Episode: A Craigslist Find, Everyone Comes Together, Eight Thousand Dollars, The Haul, The Cataloging, The Life of Mark Pines, A Future ...
The Morning Scans Episode
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Morning Scans Episode: A Delight When I Wake Up, DPI and Depth, The Bad Old Days, The Best of Now, 2 millimeters, The Improvements, A Truly Infini...
The Whimsical Episode
24 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Whimsical Episode: A Never-Found GET LAMP Feature, The Importance of Whimsy and Extra Effort, ANSI Art, A Very Loud Flap, 100 Years Ago, 100 Years...
The Tascam Portastudio Episode
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Tascam Portastudio Episode: All the Access in the World, A High School Band, Music and Sound, The Portastudio, Multitrack Recording, Control of Ti...
The Summer Romance Episode
18 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Summer Romance Episode: Visitation, Summer, Neighborhood, Patio, Atari, A Unicorn, Artwork, Dreams, Every Day, Dinner, A Handshake. A tale of...
The Monk and the Sherpa
07 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Monk and the Sherpa: 40 Years with Chris Orcutt, Our Divergent Paths, The Focus, My Carnival, The Bedrock, Tales of Long-Term Friendship, Console ...
The Buried Source Treasure Episode
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Buried Source Treasure Episode: An Ocean of Material. The Hidden Treasures. The Infocom Source Code. The As-Yet Undiscovered Dragon Hoard. The Won...
The Left Arm Episode
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Left Arm Episode: Medical Malady, Shakespeare in the Park, Saxophone Guy, Weird Inflatable Couch, A Minor But Not Minor Injury, Another Arm Injury...
The Bad Review Episode
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Bad Review Episode: Grateful and Happy, A Cascade of Good Reviews, That Single Arrow from the Crowd, Motivations for Criticism, The BBS Documentar...
The Myst Episode
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Myst Episode: Rent Control, Harvard Square, An Educational Store, A Clickable Image, Lost Hours, Never at Home, An Impossible Depth, A Fake Imposs...
The Non-Programmer Episode
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Non-Programmer Episode: A Clear Declaration, No Programming Training, How Programmers Think, What I Think, What Filmmaking Makes You Think, Thru...
The Photon Episode
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Photon Episode: An Invitation and A Drive, A Strip Mall, A Building. Space Depot, Recruitment, Initiation, The Wonder. Black Carpet and Smoke Mach...
The Unending Projects Episode
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Unending Projects Episode: Perspective On Many Projects, Believing There's No End Where There Are, Ends I've Witnessed, Ends I've Been, Lessons Le...
The Great Cacophony of Scanning Episode
27 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Great Cacophony of Scanning Episode: An Influx Valve, Mucking The Stables, Infinite Discords, The Cover Problem, NASA Launch and Photos On A Carpe...
The Oculus Episode
26 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Oculus Episode: An Unexpected Gift, A Long Life with VR, A Dingy Hotel Room, Features, Magic, Favorite Apps, An Unlikely Constant Place. I was h...
The Election Episode
25 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Election Episode: Being an Election Inspector, Training for the Unusual, Poll Pads, 300 Feet, 5am, 6am, Shivering Hands, Solid Day, Meeting 675 Pe...
The Flash Episode
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Flash Episode: Saving a Medium, A History of Flash, The Death Blow and the Death, Ruffle The Flash, Flashpoint, An Audio/Video Conversation. The I...
The Silence Episode.
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Silence Episode.
The Software Forgery Episode
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Software Forgery Episode: Let's Do This, The First Software Forgeries, Altair 8800, Pre-Order or Vaporware, The Richard Garriott Scam, Stickers an...
The Generosity Episode
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Generosity Episode: Jason Asks About Being Generous. A Guy And His Kickstarter. The Motivations. Early Survival Pizza. Making the Leap. A Document...
The Amish Shareware Episode
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Amish Shareware Episode: The Big Leagues, The Top Shelf, Pop-Up Magazine, My Story Pitch, The Spy, Fact-Check Failure, The Missed Opportunity, Sof...
The Tea Party Episode
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Tea Party Episode: 10,000 Year Clock, The Long Now, Disclosure, Fine Drinks and a Speech, The Low Bar, Inspiring or Cynical, Why Drive Ahead, The ...
The Past Future Episode
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Past Future Episode: A Hospital Visit, Audio Formats, Speaking Without Knowing, Wozniak and Jobs, Exercised, Technology Designs, The Best Isn't W...
The File Format Wiki Episode
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The File Format Wiki Episode: An Awful Failure, A Tremendous Success, An Acknowledgement of a Poor Idea, Just Solve One Problem, Easy Not Hard, Field ...
The Green Room Episode
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Green Room Episode: Public Speaking, Green Rooms, Quiet Before 15, School Announcer, DEFCON, Jeff Moss' Room, Webstock, XOXO, SXSW, Confrontations...
Curt Vendel.
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Curt Vendel. Curt's 2003 BBS Documentary appearance: https://archive.org/details/bbs-20030323-vendel Curt at the 2019 VCF Festival: https://www.youtub...
The Typewriter Episode
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Typewriter Episode: It Was Supposed To Be Magazines, Elaine and the Boxes, Floor to Ceiling, Tytell Typewriter, Sorting and Divisions, Books and E...
The Action Park Documentary Episode
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Action Park Documentary Episode: A Late Thursday Night, Action Park, 10 Years Ago, 2 Years of Research, A Coffee, Interview, Pile Driver, The Bone...
The Medical and Life Checkup Episode
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Medical and Life Checkup Episode: An Accident With Repercussions, Bounce Back, Two Weeks, Open Inboxes That Never Close, What It's All Been, What ...
The Mysterious 4AM Episode
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Mysterious 4am: Big Plans for Kansasfest, The Wrong Bar at the Wrong Time, The Mysterious History of 4am, I'm Fine. No car accident is going to st...
The Inbox Cornucopia Episode
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Inbox Cornucopia Episode: Appreciating What You Have, Two Arcades Gone, The Moment of Wonder of Incoming Archive, Spam and Vandalism, The Worlds...
The Novel Episode
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Novel Episode: A Book Never Written, The Plot, A Cleaning to Make Room For The Next Things. Time to make good on my promise of "move ahead or move...
The Three Extraordinary Ordinary Stories
06 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Three Extraordinary Stories Told Ordinarily: Russian Mechanic, Quake Logo Massacre, Nobody Lives Here, Tetris. Three stories about usual outcomes, pre...
The Ultimate BBS List Episode
15 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Ultimate BBS List Episode: 20 Years of The BBS List, What Got Me Started, The Story Everyone Knows, The Story Less People Know, The Contraption In...
The Winding Conversation Episode
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Winding Conversation Episode: Watchmaking, My Pal Chris Orcutt, Our 40 Years of Talking, A Marathon of Words, Intertwined Lives, Podcast Jason, Ch...
The Three Stories Episode
11 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Three Stories: Wooden Signs and Paper Plates, Naked Man, Whipped Cream and Brotherly Love. Three short tales from my life, gathered together in a val-...
The Extreme Pain Episode
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Extreme Pain Episode: An Argument In The Car, I Killed You, Truly Can't Get Out of Bed, Crutches, What The Pain Means, What The Pain Was, An Air...
The Automatic Document Feeder Episode
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Automatic Document Feeder Episode: Acquiring an ADF, How Flatbed Scanners Work, The Lie of Scanning, How ADF Scanners Work, Asking For Help, 35 Mi...
The Lost Month.
21 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Lost Month. A biography of Tony Cennamo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Cennamo
The Storage Unit Episode
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, Ho...
The Conspiracy Episode
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Conspiracy Episode: Conspiracy Love, 1985 and Annette Arky, Playboy, Comics, Underground, Deep Underground, Ninjas, Guns and G-Files, The Muffin F...
The Lost Space Racing Game Demo Movie Episode
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Month...
The 100th Episode
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 100th Episode: Start With Another Episode Please , A Little More About My Supporters, Unediting, Why This Was Started, Speech Therapy, Unintended ...
The Games of the Mechners Episode
17 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Games of the Mechners Episode: High School, David Mechner, Brother Jordan, Karateka, The Next Game, Assassin, The Rules, A Shining Moment, An Answ...
The Bear Mountain Episode
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Bear Mountain Episode: Hudson Valley, Rejecting Nature, Bear Mountain State Park, The Bridge, The Lodge, The Pool, The Trail, The Zoo, Daniel Cart...
The Nightmare Space Episode
11 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Nightmare Space Episode: A Nightmare Repeats, The Lost Great Space, The Museumsquartier, A Booth, Spaces I Have Known: L0pht CT Hackerspace, and H...
The Game Ideas Episode
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Metal.Ball Episode
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Cybersmith Episode
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Cybersmith Episode: The Shining Moment of the Cybersmith, Paperback Booksmith, Mall Chains, Harvard Square, The Last Mile, Rabbit Warrens, Cybersm...
The Apple Cassette Episode
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ca...
The Hazy View Episode
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Hazy View Episode: A Single Moment and a Single Feeling, Realism and Unrealism, Graphics Efforts, The Forgotten Moment, The Melancholy Wish, An Ol...
The Dad Question Episode
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Other Arcade Episode
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Forever.
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Forever.
The Ingestion and Loss Episode
02 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Ingestion and Loss Episode: Winter Floppy Boxes, Kansasfest 2019 Flux Party, The Levels of Floppies, Screen Shotgun has Menu Awareness, Why Even, ...
On The Occasion of Chest Pains
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
The Halo Outpost Discovery Episode
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 I...
The RTTY Art Episode
11 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The RTTY Art Episode: A Word About Loss. Meeting John Sheetz. RTTYs. RTTY Artwork. The Magic of RTTY Art. Sunday Nights. Interviewing John Sheetz. Gon...
The CPC Episode
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Server Cage Episode
21 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Arrangem...
The Rubi-Con Episode
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It - Episode 81
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Internet Archive October Event Episode: Once Again Back at the Archive, Onsite, The Things We're Working On, Wikipedia Linkage, Better World Books...
The Raytracing Episode
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Raytracing Episode: A Confession, What Raytracing Is, DKBTrace, The Overnight Render, DKB and POVRay, The Pac-Man, Anything for a UNIX Prompt, Gan...
The NAID Episode
26 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The NAID Episode: Jim Says It's Happening, North American International Demo Party, A Very Ill-Advised Travel, Border, Exchange Rate, The Actual NAID,...
The Electric Stories Episode
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
The Music Tracker Episode
29 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Music Tracker Episode: Carousel, Cards and Belts, Piano Rolls, Notches and Points, My Magical Amiga, Music Disks, Tiny Sizes, Spreadsheets and...
Mr. Hernandez
22 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mr. Hernandez: Kit Computers, Plastic Cases, Malls, Computer Stores. Brewster's dim days, Mr. Hernandez' Store, Plastic Bags, The Rules of Talking, ...
All Debt, All the Time
21 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Account...
The Hardcoded Episode
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Hardcoded Episode: Blowing Glass. A Cancelled Project. Reality Shows. The Elevator Pitch. The Best Laid Plans. Why I Gave Up. Fake. Prototype This...
The Project Everything Episode
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Project Everything Episode: Starting Projects, KansasFest 2019, Pulling Back But Then Pulled Back In, Garage Giveaway, Floppy Disk Images, Applesa...
Three Stories
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Three Stories: Kickstand. Fax Machine. Playtester. An experiment in telling three anonymized stories.
The Hackers Play Episode
14 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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'...
The Helping Episode
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Helping Episode: A Tired Mom, The Urge to Help, Not Just Collecting, TIM Help Files, Heat Strick, Users Versus SysOps, Early Website Writing, Goog...
The PUBG and Life Strats Episode
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The PUBG And Life Strats Episode They go together better than expected.
The Long Drive Episode
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Sim...
The Blorb Episode
02 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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.o...
The Energy Drink Episode
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Energy Drink Episode: All the Caffeine and Twice the Sugar, Teenage Beverages, Wipeout, Red Bull, Diet, Zero, Taurine, Saving Red Bull Music Aca...
The Conference Episode
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Con...
Jerome Johnson
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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-...
The Sorting Episode
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Sorting Episode: A Life of Sorting, File Classifications, My Subdirectories, The Storage Unit, Photos and Movies and Boxes and Personal, The Actua...
The Infocom Source Code Episode
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Fortress of Solitude Episode
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ultim...
The Podcasting Episode
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Podcasting Episode: What Podcasting Was, What Podcasting Was Again, The Downfall, The Rebirth, The Future of Podcasting, Money Matters, Why Do I P...
Joe's Offer
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joe's Offer. An episode about a single gesture that blossomed into a life-changing moment. For Joe Sherman (1917-2010).
The Acting Episode
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Acting Episode: Johannes and a Restaurant, Electricity and Christmas Lights, Acting, Pages, Out of Order, Tourist Trap, Editing. The Wikipedia ent...
The Christopher March and Heimdall Episode
03 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Christopher March and Heimdall Episode: Losing Chris March, Getting Hired For Doing The Wrong Thing, Scripting and Scripting Languages, The Bounda...
The Cowicature Episode
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Cowicature Episode: I Needed the Money, Two Pens and Paper, Sketch the Cow, Harvard Square, Territories, No Woman No Cry, What Caricatures Are, Ve...
The Time Episode
02 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Time Episode. Was it all worth it?