Jason Scott's Weblog
When I closed down the first incarnation of my BBS and went to college, I got contacted by a young BBS user who’d enjoyed my board when it was still up, and asked if he could continue it. He did, and The Works BBS lived on for another solid decade before being dormant for the […]
Late last year I realized a very awesome problem. It turned out that the BBS Documentary, my little flick from 2005, was in real danger of running out of copies. Way back when, I ended up having to decide how many copies were going to be printed up, I chose the number of 4,500, figuring […]
Just a quick comparison between a pair of shoes I liked and bought about a year and a half ago, and the exact same brand and size of shoes bought new. I am really tough on shoes. I walk with a strange gait, pushing outwards on both sides as I walk, and this destroys pretty […]
Let me explain what this is: What you’re looking at is what happens when things get a little out of control with all the computer history, with a dash of major miscommunication. Let’s take a better look: What you’re looking at is a collection of 79 cardboard boxes, extra-strength, that contain every legal document held […]
Getting up on a decade of reading what is probably hundreds of thousands of weblog posts, I am least interested in “I am sick” posts. They tend, in the aggregate, to be yelly, teary-eyed rants punctuated by what one imagines to be coughing, all towards the goal of “I am sick”. As a bonus, they […]
After a week or so of duping ISOs on the side, here is the collection as it currently stands. These will be eventually uploaded to cd.textfiles.com and its mirrors. I’m happy to say two people have stepped forward and CD.TEXTFILES.COM will have two mirrors, CDMIRROR.TEXTFILES.COM and CDMIRROR2.TEXTFILES.COM. This makes me feel a ton better about […]
Subject: I Sure Wish You Got It In answer to your webpage: https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/781 Dear Jason, This is in regards to the lawsuit against you from Mr. Mitchell. I do not know him personally but I know the issue he is making his best attempt to correct and from reading your page I will assume that you […]
OK, so CD.TEXTFILES.COM is such a wild, insane success that I’m starting to think I need mirrors. Right now, the data’s only in two locations, and I don’t like that. I’m going to make it three, shortly. With over 350gb of data in over 3.3 million files, it’s a lot of data. But what data! […]
OK, let’s begin by establishing some things. Currently, by the standards of independent (actually independent) filmmaking, I’m fucking Steven Spielberg. I’ve made two films, BBS and GET LAMP, which are not even films – one is a box-set miniseries and the other is actually three documentaries combined with a coin. They’re films++, a reflection of […]
I’ve gone on about how fantastic Jamie Zawinski’s chronicles of taking over and renovating the DNA Lounge are. Besides his unflinching of the ups and downs of renovating the club, and his deliciously nasty reaction to the status quo of licensing and politics surrounding entertainment in a city reknowned for being open-minded and supposedly free, […]