Jason Scott's Weblog
When I was 17 and a senior in high school, we had to pose for yearbook pictures. Horace Greeley High School, where I attended, had a nice policy about the pictures, which was that the students could basically choose their backgrounds, poses, and the rest. Since I spent most of my time in my house, […]
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I know I always hate it when someone tells me where they’ll be speaking…. TOMORROW. But there you go. I’ll be speaking/presenting at the Princeton Library in Princeton, NJ tomorrow (February 7th) at roughly 7pm. You get to see some of the documentary, hear me babble, and then, if you’re feeling frisky, buy a few […]
I finally removed the Paypal link from the Adventurers’ Club page, as well as the part where I beg people to join. Instead, it’s now a description of what the club is and who the members are. There are 50 members in the club (not all are listed, at their request). This is five thousand […]
I had a call waiting for me on my voicemail, from a Jennifer Pew (her phone number was 206-903-3915) of a law firm called Dorsey and Whitney LLP, who specialize in IP law. She asked me to call her back, in association with an MGM vs. Grokster case. Now, there’s always that interesting swimming feeling […]
With absolutely no fanfare or warning, Western Union ceased its telegram service on January 27, 2006. They notified employees internally in mid-January, and then abruptly closed off the service. The full message for saying goodbye to 155 years of telegraph service was: “Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging […]
35 might not seem like a very old age to some, but in many ways, it’s a good time for me to really decide what projects of mine are going to “happen”, which will not, and what, if any, new projects I should be taking on while I still have the energy and age of […]
None of the following concepts/ideas/paragraphs grew in my mind enough to warrant a decent weblog entry, so I’m grouping them together, like a lost hiking party, clinging to each other for warmth and hoping you’ll read them before the ice weasels come. There were a number of planned ideas at the beginning of BBS: The […]
Philip J. Kaplan, “Pud” of Fuckedcompany.com (and a bunch of other sites) was interviewed for the BBS Documentary in 2002. I’ve now finally put his total interview up, and it’s definitely one of the more entertaining and hilarious ones, all the way through: http://www.archive.org/details/20020302-bbs-kaplan It’s about 43 minutes, and you can tell in the first […]
The best dramatic movie about BBSes was created not in the 1980s, but last year, 2005. And it wasn’t a movie, it was a TV series. And it wasn’t made in the United States – it was made in Japan. It’s called Densha Otoko (Train Man), and in my opinion it is the best dramatization […]