Jason Scott's Weblog
With the documentary’s day-to-day production out of my life, I can focus on getting back to a number of projects that were seriously back-burnered. The office I work in here has a bunch of large metal racks that basically function like a huge, piled “to-do” list and the list had gotten very physically large. One […]
I mentioned on April 2 that there was an auction for a CD-ROM of 20 megabytes of message bases, and how I tried to get it donated but the seller was not interested. Well, I bought it. I paid $7.50 plus $2.00 shipping, so $9.50. For BBS messages. And, as the proud new owner of […]
This goes outside the news, so it’s here and not there. Another reason to keep this weblog in a reader or otherwise check it. That and, of course, my penchant for dropping entirely weird links. I had considered for some time that when I got my check discs back, I would put a couple sets […]
The first of three check discs arrived. Actually, the first SET of check discs arrived, of what will be three sets. This is disc #2. Am I being confusing? Let’s start again. The way that it works with DVDs is that you submit the raw data to the printer, then they make a “glass master”, […]
I haven’t quite been able to get my head around why my first reaction to this auction is anger. One of the big mistakes a historian or archivist can make is that the stuff they’re collecting is “theirs” or somehow, because they have a particularly large pile of stuff, other smaller piles should naturally go […]
Documentary Disc #2 went to the printers last night. Not an April Fool’s, by the way. It really did go out to them. Of course, the natural question is “Why only #2? Why not all of them?”. Well, there’s two reasons, one financial and one technical. The financial one requires you to know how DVD […]
Well, it has been quite an interesting few days. I knew that when I was heading down into the abyss of this production that I’d probably get hit across the face a few times with the Bat of Unexpected Tidings. I’ve been hit with said bat as expected, and picked myself when it came crashing […]
This interview will also be on the main textfiles.com site, to join the archive. TEXTFILES.COM: AN INTERVIEW WITH KRAKOWICZ Conducted by Jason Scott, February, 2005 It’s hard for me not to sound superlative about Krakowicz, and there’s a good set of reasons why. He is a member of a relatively small but memorable community, that […]
The BBS documentary DVDs may have something which hasn’t been tried before. I have subtitles in English (and in some places, Spanish as well), but I have a third subtitle set called “Non-Technical”. Basically, when people throw out terms that are completely from left field (“8-bit”, “Acoustic Coupler”, “8080”), the “Non-Technical” subtitles define them, at […]
MAKE IT PAY is now done. All of the episodes need a final run-through and re-render, mostly for extremely, extremely minor things, like a fade going a second too long or a spelling error in a title card. All of these are just one-off tweaks before final render. Last night, I sent mail to the […]