Jason Scott's Weblog
Every once in a while I remind myself how cool Mark Weiser is, and then I go see what he’s up to and remember he’s dead. He did a bunch of cool things, but the one that I keep going to again and again is the idea of “Calm Technology”. Such a simple idea, such […]
See? I knew there’d be a benefit to reading my weblog eventually. Or, at least, a benefit for some people. Obviously, when I make a documentary, I need a lot of help. Among the help is a series of tools, ranging from the mechanical (HVX-200, piles of energy drink cans), to scripts and software. And […]
This is a weblog entry that’s in response to my friend Trixter’s weblog entry “Lost“. (archive) I suggest reading that first. To my good friend Trixter, here is my own life preserver tossed in your general direction. Do not despair, buddy, just because you don’t always switch seamlessly from your job and homelife as a […]
A number of items, all trivia, all this and that. Presented in handy list format for you to print out and mull over as you make your way down to the local tire fire. Added another few dozen artpacks to artscene.textfiles.com, some of them hidden away and lost for a decade. Thanks to Cleanah and […]
Bear with me on this one. It gets weird and tangential fast. A number of times when giving speeches and writing essays about my Documentary and the whole issue of “pirating” it, I talked about something that was, but never called, a “Piracy Spectrum”. The description went something like this. The users who currently interact […]
As per previous entries, I have been going to a gym and generally trying to improve myself physically, to make up for a 16 year slackfest that may have actually turned me into human Silly Putty were I not to have tried and stop the slide. So here we are, nearly six months in. I […]
Subject: need your guidence sir To Jason, Sir, I am sunny from India. I have grown up in science fantasies and watching movies, but when I grew up I learnt that I loved science and reality more. We friends worked on some movies and projects at local and state level, but atleast I wish to […]
Lately, I’ve been concerned with some weighty issues; concerns of law, procedures of licensing, the capturing of history and the pain of network/system administration. But one question has been gnawing at my soul for the past month or so, working its way into my quiet times, and threatening to take over all my attention if […]
Over time, I’ve tried to move textfiles.com sites out of my house. My connection can’t take it and it slows down my 24/7 leeching. The big one was CD.TEXTFIILES.COM, which is extremely popular among the “I will now bear down with the awesome power of this fully functioning T-3” crowd. Finally, tonight, my hosting provider […]
Travel for the Text Adventure Documentary put me in Pittsburgh for a little of the Memorial Day weekend; I headed down on Saturday, did a great interview on Sunday, and got back into town on Sunday night. But of course I’m doing two documentaries, and when I don’t have extra text-adventury stuff to do, I […]