Jason Scott's Weblog
I have a soft spot in my heart, maybe even a warm and loving relationship, with speed runs. Speed runs, in this case, refers to a genre of video game recordings wherein people play through a game as fast as they possibly can. The gold standard for me is “Quake Done Quick (With a Vengeance)” […]
We’ve finished assembling the speaker’s list for Blockparty 2008, the second Blockparty. Here’s the list, as it appears on the site. The Fat Man: Art Behind Enemy Lines: A Target-Rich Environment In the first five minutes of his talk, Fat will define Art once and for all, especially in context of high technology creation and […]
Oh, there’s been some great hits in my webserving past. The word gets out, and thousands of people start visiting a specific URL or location on one of my sites. This has included the “Freedom, Justice and a Disturbingly Gaping Ass” weblog entry on this site (78,000 visitors in a single day) and Koalas are […]
Editing in earnest began on the GET LAMP project over the weekend. There’s still a tiny set of interviews left to do, as well as a continually open door to a couple of people who said no to change their minds. But with roughly 80 interviews done, totaling 100 hours, I think we can make […]
While not required to jump on his sword like my boss Brian, Patrick O’Malley was definitely up there, a close second to Brian in all he did for me. By the time Brian hired me, he did so when I was 29, a veteran of hosting computers and UNIX and a bunch of other technical […]
I was lucky enough to have a little dinner with old co-employees last night, and it reminded me to put my thoughts down about a few of my best bosses. I’m going to start with Brian, because his actions are particularly memorable. Here’s what Brian looks like nowadays. He used to have no goatee but […]
This is post-California trip, but I’m kind of still in California, so maybe I should say that statements made within this entry are forward-looking and are not meant to be predictions or assurances of future Jason locations. This weekend was all about the ANSI Gallery showing on Saturday the 12th, and to that level it […]
One of the constant refrains of past consideration of what great things computers will do for us is the “smart agent”, a mythical delightful artificial intelligence that will cater to our every whim. In fact, this is the central thesis of Hyperland, one of those surreal film projects where you no longer have to wonder […]
As an example of where my new weblogging schedule comes into play, I’ll be away in California all this weekend. That’s time I can’t spend writing entries, but time doing stuff. So let me dump out a variety of related topics. The reason I’ve jaunted out to the West Coast is to be at the […]
A big step happened for me today; I moved a domain I considered “mine” to a hosting service. The service is Dreamhost and the site is getlamp.com. It’s now hosted elsewhere, as is the mail, and all of the “stuff” is being handled by Dreamhost. When you go to the site, in other words, nothing […]