Jason Scott's Weblog
I have a number of in-transit projects I’m always working on. Some of them are in very good shape, others are in states of disrepair and decay. It’s always a constant game to decide what needs my time and what can go another few months without my meddling. But in terms of in-progress sites, the […]
The two options for submitting a DVD to the printer for duplication are DLT (Digital Linear Tape) or an actual burnt DVD. Dual-Layer DVDs (which is what my DVDs are) are somewhat new in terms of burning them at home, and while my printer indicated that they were sure they could take it in that […]
Well now. As you might have picked up, the process of doing the three DVDs inside the documentary set works as follows: Create Content Create DVD Master Plant creates DVD “Glass Master” from DVD Master Plant presses 5 example discs (“Check Discs”) Jason plays Check Discs, approves Plant makes one hundred billion discs Discs go […]
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 […]