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It’s nice to think of stuff in theory, speak as if you’re an expert, and then, in practice, have it shown to you why you were dead wrong. Such as it has been in this, the most top-heavy portion of the documentary, the last 10 percent or so of work. I had thought I was […]
Two issues that are on the forefront of my mind as of late. They are not related, but they are both minor issues in the context of most of my work, so I’m just combining them in one entry so I can be done with them. TEXTFILES.COM is slow this week. The main reason this […]
As part of the work on the documentary I am going through an awful lot of historical items, trying to find examples of BBSes regarded by media throughout its quarter-century. I’ve been finding some great stuff, but I figured that since the purpose of most modern blogs are to sneer at earnest past/current attempts to […]
I have now tried extended interaction with Wikipedia. I consider it a failure. In doing so, I will describe why, instead of just slinking off into the night on my projects. Maybe it will do some good. Maybe it will not. I’m sure, at the end of the day, there must be hundreds like me […]
Sometimes people wonder how a site like textfiles.com can even be up in the modern world. Sometimes I ask that myself. However, be assured that my life is occasionally interrupted with threats, legal and otherwise. The legal ones are always interesting because someone is being paid to threaten me. Today, I was finally made aware […]
Geekdom, extreme geekdom, does not just have depths, my friends; it has heights. 1982. Atari Games, to celebrate the creation of their Atari 2600 Pac-Man Game (which, I might add, was one of the most pathetic, slapdash, slipshod piece of programming ever to churn out of a development studio) held a massive “Pac Man Day” […]
I’m staggering this information out slowly, but the BBS Documentary DVD set is now available for pre-order. The page to pre-order it from is http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/order. Everyone who signed up to be notified is now notified. Basically, you can order my set from KAGI.COM and PAYPAL.COM. Between them, they can handle almost every major money transaction […]
Imagine you have, in front of you, a machine. It is unlike any other machine in the world, although it might look like a lot of them. On this machine are your dreams, dreams you had about people you once knew and a life you once lived, or wanted to live. In these dreams, people […]
One of the advantages of going through my documentary and related DVD creation is that I get to put my personal mark or belief into the whole process. That is, at critical junctures where I saw things I didn’t like in documentaries and DVDs, I can now go “I will do this differently.” Or, maybe […]
I’m happy to finally give some firm information about the release of the documentary and a chance for people to see it before it’s released on DVD. This has been years in the making, so I’m pretty excited about the whole thing. First of all, I have basically committed to finish the BBS documentary this […]