Jason Scott's Weblog
A little self-discovery’s been nagging away at me for a while. I thought I’d share. I don’t think I’m a film guy. I should have figured this out when I went to film school in the 1990-era realm. In fact, I sort of did; while at the college, I was on the newspaper, AM station, […]
Sometimes it’s easy to think that if a project or production is missing something, it’s because the creators totally forgot about it, are in some way mentally damaged and didn’t know about it, or otherwise screwed up. In fact, the amount of effort that goes on behind the scenes to make something usually means that […]
There was this chat I had a few years back. It was a very memorable chat, because I still remember a sizable chunk of it and I still live off advice from that chat. It was with Jack Rickard, founder and editor of Boardwatch magazine, who had since retired with many millions from the sale […]
This entry is somewhat self-indulgent and much more of a multi-media youtube link fest than I normally would find myself doing, but the opportunity to talk about something important to me and my personal influences is just a tad too great, and after all, in today’s copyright-violating internet goulash, it’s just so simple to dip […]
While adding a bunch of CD-ROM images to the cd.textfiles.com site, I found one of them, “Forbidden Subjects 3”, contained a nice selection of “Hacker GIFs”, otherwise known as “Photos”. These all date to the 1990-1993 period and appear to be primarily from ATDT, a hacker BBS in Massachusetts that was one of the inspirations […]
What a marketer, sales weasel, or heavily persuasive speaker seeks to do when they seemingly coin a word or phrase out of the air is own it. Ideally, this word or phrase might be a term already in use (but not quite universal), so they can manipulate the conversation into a direction where they dictate […]
A bunch of stuff got moved ahead over the weekend. The office from which I do most of my stuff, received an (announced) visit by none other than Koz of rsync, an old buddy. He’d not seen the new office, so I wanted to make a good impression and used this as an excuse to […]
Greetings and hello. As you’ve no doubt recognized, with these summer months have come a slowdown of weblog entries. While I had time, scant time, to write some helpful and/or entertaining entries on a daily or near-daily basis, I really am just too busy to do that right now, and I absolutely refuse to fall […]
This letter came in, in response to this weblog entry. Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:00:06 -0500 From: Nick Nelson To: mailbox@textfiles.com Subject: Maybe Midphase used to blow goats.. Hi Jason. First, name’s Nick Nelson, I’m part of the UK2 Group who recently (within the last 7 months) purchased Midphase.com, as well as the rest […]
I am on Facebook, that umpteenth generation networking site that has benefited from the bones and corpses of all the sites before it. I have been using it for some time, and like all of these contemporary creations, I am taken with the complexity of them, as well as what is annoying. Some very old […]