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Historian and loudmouth Jason Scott shares stories of technology, retrocomputing, documentary filmmaking, and general schennanigans from his decades of travels and research. From experiences on the road while shooting documentaries to often-obscure points of order, Jason keeps a fast-moving pace and even he doesn't know where we're ending up at the end.
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- 6 days ago12 min
The PAL Video Toolchain Episode
The PAL Video Toolchain Episode: A Final Part, The Nature of PAL, PAL Videotapes, VHS, DVD-Recorder Time-Base Corrector, Finding The Process, Testing The Process, The FIrst of the Tapes, The Future, The Nature of Learning.A contemplation on how I finally got PAL Video digitizing, after so long of wanting to do so. The first of the tapes are done, and I've got only a hundred to so to put that all into the done column.
- 1 weeks ago12 min
The Homestar Runner Expert Episode
The Homestar Runner Expert Episode: A Letter From a Teacher, A Student Researcher, Homestar Runner, Expertise For a Future Researcher, The Brothers Chaps, All I Know, A Virtuoso Voice, The Maintained Lack of Maintenance, Ruffle, The Future Doctor of Homestar.Getting a letter from a teacher where a student wanted to know about Homestar Runner and I was tapped as the expert to be consulted, I took it seriously and now maybe I made a kid's day. I could think of worse outcomes. The Homestar Runner Continues at https://homestarrunner.com/
- 2 weeks ago12 min
The Misremembered Mall Episode
The Misremembered Mall Episode: The Hudson Valley Explorer, The Running Commentary, An Amnesiac Tour Guide, The Story of IBM and Dutchess County, Tracts of Land, The Lifespan of a Mall, Dutchess Mall, Service Merchandise, The Atari Bug, Why Save Memories, Wrong Memories, A Single Hope.The fact a TikTok account called The Hudson Valley Explorer went to the dead husk of a remaining portion of the Dutchess Valley Mall and tried to explain it away shouldn't have bothered me, but he was also 5 miles from my childhood home, so let's do this.
- 3 weeks ago10 min
The Background Noise of Community Episode
The Background Noise of Community Episode: Healing Music, Avoiding the Noise, Learning Audio With Jeremy, Making Works and Creations, Never Alone, Understanding Part of the Tapestry, Appreciating the Noise, Being a Good Neighbor.Unexpected directions abound as I realize my neighbor is playing music loud enough to leak on the recording, and then realizing that being part of a community comes with a little noise. The lack of noise reduction in a couple places is intentional.
- 3 weeks ago12 min
The Quick Summary of Archiving Episode:
The Quick Summary of Archiving Episode: Getting Through E-Mail, A Phone Call or Nothing, The Role of Digitizing, Some Basic Metrics, The Continuum, The Approach, Metadata's Role, Getting It Wrong, Getting It Right, An Obsidian Obelisk, Space Station, Back to Work.Getting an e-mail that I know of as one of my long-to-take-to-get-back-to e-mails, I switched to making the e-mail into a phone call, and gave a quick phone call about what archiving standards I approach are. It was a helpful exercise, so here we go again with the ideas.
- Aug 21, 202612 min
The Reel to Reel Episode
The Reel to Reel Episode: Moving to a New Medium, Learning a New Old Medium, The Process More Than the Products, College Education, Razor Blades, Small Collections and Large Collections, Individual Recordings, TC-650, Testing and Refinement, The Harder Decisions, The Time Ahead.I got my hands on a reel to reel recorder (which worked good enough for tests) and I just had to re-learn the whole aspects of reel to reel tape. It's going to be quite a joy to deal with all of them!
- Aug 17, 202611 min
The Friars Club Annual Meeting Episode
The Friars Club Annual Meeting Episode: Going Through Boxes, Turn Every Page, Listen to Every Tape, Annual Meeting, The Agenda, The Hope, COVID, Losing a Century, The Fast Closure, The Context of this Meeting, The Story Not Yet Told.About a very interesting annual meeting held at the NY Friar's Club, for which a cassette was found and digitized. The tape is here: https://archive.org/details/Annual_Meeting_2019-10-30
- Aug 14, 202613 min
The Exquisite Book Episode
The Exquisite Book Episode: Getting a Package in the Mail, A Unique Subject, The Art and the Catalog of Memories, Why Do a Documentary, The Short and Long of a Subject, Companies Doing Listings and Images, The Expense and the Obscurity, Architecture and Life, Accuracy and Fact-Checking, The Waiting Moments of a Future Reading.I was moving books around and realized I've really gravitated to books that are beautiful and about subject I lived through in my younger years. Companies like Microzeit Publishing, Boss Fight Books, and Bitmap Books are just a few (and I'm not doing affiliate links) and I just want to encourage people to see what's out there - it's rather surprising what has come out in the last decade.
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Historian and loudmouth Jason Scott shares stories of technology, retrocomputing, documentary filmmaking, and general schennanigans from his decades of travels and research. From experiences on the road while shooting documentaries to often-obscure points of order, Jason keeps a fast-moving pace and even he doesn't know where we're ending up at the end.
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