Jason Scott's Weblog
On January 16, 1978, Ward Christensen started his Monday trying to dig himself out of a snowstorm. Unable to successfully do so to commute out to his job as an IBM sales engineer, he went back inside and talked to his friend Randy Suess, a fellow member of the Chicago Area Computer Hobbyist Exchange. Ward […]
The refreshing cascade of new faces to the weblog over the last week have reminded me of all the ways online communication enables us to not just interact, but hate remotely. I had forgotten, I guess, how easy it is for people to take a few quick glances at some data and shove their two-line […]
Someone on the site Reddit linked to a story where someone threatened a site legally for removing an image that he was hotlinking. Someone quickly wrote “THAT’s not hotlinking, THIS is hotlinking” and linked to the entry about hotlinking I wrote in the first days of 2007. Someone else was taken enough by this to […]
One of my buddies mailed me and said “Hey, you seem to have two files lifted from a Robert Anton Wilson book.” And I checked and did some searching and yes, that’s the case, somebody typed in a paragraph from a Robert Anton Wilson book and uploaded it to a BBS many years ago, with […]
I find it easier to generally just grab anything that catches my attention for more than a few seconds. Copy it, download it, PDF it, whatever makes the most sense, shove it into a directory with a description of it (if any) and then forget about it. It takes me 10 seconds, and I think […]
Those who are not into reading long self-referential articles can content themselves with the short version of this article posted two days ago. If I’d known last week what I know now, I’d probably have not written a weblog entry about the documentary The King of Kong. And by weblog entry, I mean a vicious […]
My entry scheduled for today has been postponed until hopefully tomorrow. I’ve not let on how unwell I’ve been lately, and I spent 20 of the last 25 hours asleep. I’m good at time management, but not THAT good; and those 5 hours weren’t awesome either.
For Sunday I will give you my full thoughts on King of Kong, the questions people asked of my initial posting, and a large variant of tangential subjects. It will be very long, even for me. It required me to waste a number of hours on this subject, followed by watching the stupid movie again, […]
It is a week before I show some footage at Shmoocon. It is entirely arbitrary that I am showing footage at Shmoocon; this limitation is self-imposed. But one thing I’ve learned of myself over the many years is that I work better with some sort of structure, even if I’m a complete slack layabout regarding […]
It’s kind of interesting what some people consider the Right Thing and how once you have the Right Thing in your mind, you feel almost dirty or dishonest turning away from it, even if this Right Thing is 100% optional. To wit: the wonder of Peter Hirschberg’s Luna City arcade has now broken wide and […]