Podcasts by Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It
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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The Configuration Episode from 2023-10-23T16:39
The Configuration Episode: Two Configuration Aspects, The Rotating Bulletin Board System, Arcade Fidonet, Power-Switch-Rotation, What Was I Thinking, Happy Life / Lack of Strife, USENET ...
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The Digital Faith Episode from 2023-10-16T16:38
The Digital Faith Episode: Obsession and Storage, To-Dos in a Dining Room, The Path from Analog to Digital, The Fight for Perfection, The Battles and Triumphs, Chapter and Verse, Passage...
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The Mister Jangles Option Episode from 2023-10-09T16:36
The Mister Jangles Option Episode.
In which your ol' pal Mister Jangles throws you a possible lifeline.
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The Data Dirigibles Episode from 2023-10-02T16:35
The Data Dirigibles Episode: Prehistoric TEXTFILES.COM, The Cry of the Leech, TEXTFILES.COM Comes to Pass, Downlo...
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The ScanTailor Dance Episode from 2023-09-25T16:33
The ScanTailor Dance Episode: A Small Project That Is Huge, The Endless Pages, Crop and Rotate, The Search for an Application, Best and Abandoned (and Best and Worst), The Experience of ...
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The Monotony Episode from 2023-09-18T16:32
The Monotony Episode: My Boring Day, The Crushing of Monotony, How I've Always Adored Repetition, Engagement and Disengagement, Long-Form Information, Temporary Domain Expert, Advice on ...
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The Arcade Documentary Arcade Interview Episode from 2023-09-11T16:29
The Arcade Documentary Arcade Interview Episode: Getting Down to Union Bridge, Eric and Stephanie, Zach, ARCADEDOCUMENTARY.COM, Being The Dre...
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The Last (?) Computer Shopper Episode from 2023-09-04T16:26
The Last (?) Computer Shopper Episode: Drawing The Line, Ups and Downs, My Hot Glue Enemy, Stresses and Delights, BBS List Highlights, The Ever Forever Scanning.
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The Video Content Episode from 2023-08-28T16:22
The Video Content Episode: What Is Even On Video; Commerical Tapes, Recordings of Individuals and Events, Television, The Meaning, Loss Versus Lossless, 40-Year Delay on a Dream, The Tru...
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The Amusement Part Defunctland Episode from 2023-08-21T16:20
The Amusement Park Defunctland Episode: Listening to too much Defunctland, Lessons Learned from the Amusement Park Historians, The Unique Situations of Roller Coasters, The Common Thread...
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The Long Drive Hard Drive Episode from 2023-08-14T16:18
The Long Drive Hard Drive Episode: A Common E-mail, An Offer of DVDs, A 800 Mile Drive, The Wawa, Fugue State and Explainer Videos, There and Back Again, The Process.
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The Aboveground Episode from 2023-08-07T16:15
The Aboveground Episode: What the Aboveground Means, The Cloak and Cosplay, The Risks Without Risks, Hacker Conferences, The Tech Industry, The Hidden Cost of Underground.
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The Computer Shopper Aesthetics Episode from 2023-07-24T16:45
The Computer Shopper Aesthetics Episode: Last Thoughts On the Project, Every Major Step, Considerations of Contrast, Size and Intimidation, Impossible Perfection, Resting Easy.
The Atari Hotel Episode from 2023-07-21T16:43
The Atari Hotel Episode: The Atari Hotel, Bought and Bought and Bought and Bought, The Concept Drawings, The Drawn-Out Death of Atari, Livery, Hotels, Entropy, Concepts, A Breath of a Se...
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The Tiger King Episode from 2023-07-17T16:42
The Tiger King Episode: Finally Watching Tiger King, Spoiler Alert, An Overview of the Three Seasons, Big Cats and Shady Deals, The Spectacle and the Madness, What Kind of Documentary, B...
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The Logistics Episode from 2023-07-14T16:40
The Logistics Episode: The First Computer Shopper, The Hidden Logistics, The Simplest Part, Hot Glue, Orientation, Wayward Pages, Boxes and Checks, Gaming Alexandria, A Future Stack, The...
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The Mike Berlyn Episode from 2023-07-10T16:38
The TEXTFILES.COM Machine Good Times Episode from 2023-07-07T16:35
The TEXTFILES.COM Machine Good Times Episode: A Moment of Reflection, A Previous Moment of Darkness, The Qu...
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The Unusual Look Back Episode from 2023-07-03T16:32
The Unusual Look Back Episode: Suburban Horse, Warehouse of Broken Dreams, Pennsylvania Pinball, A Mythical Warehouse, Tomb of Arcade, Compuserve Documents, The Nature of Hope, An Infini...
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The Computer Shopper Episode from 2023-06-30T16:30
The Computer Shopper Episode: A Small Billing Situation, Computer Shopper's Unique Place, The Listings and the Ads, A Happy Life, The Decline and Loss, A Reminder and an Opportunity, Com...
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The Strike Manual Episode from 2023-06-26T16:28
The Strike Manual Episode: The Mother of All Manuals. The Assignment. How Many Broom Strokes. Friends of Friends. The Honored Transcription. After-School Activities. Two Weeks Later. A M...
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The Momentary Fall And Empire of Paper Episode from 2023-06-23T16:23
The Momentary Fall And Empire of Paper Episode: A Sudden End For a Phone, Bits of Paper, The Units of Communication, Unexpected Archives, The Wonder of That Which Remains, Digitization a...
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The Cassette Digitizer Episode from 2023-06-19T16:20
The Cassette Digitizer Episode: Building a Tascam 122 Mk III, The Era of Cassettes, Previous Attempts, Why Cassettes Are Important, My Audio Era Before the Video One, Where The Process I...
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The Space Rogue Episode from 2023-06-16T16:18
The Space Rogue Episode: A Respectful Trip, A Book Reading, The Works BBS, A Ferret in Massachusetts, Gatherings to Gatherings, The L0pht, Seedlings to Guarding, The Digital Lifeline, Th...
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The Endless Procrastination Episode from 2023-06-12T16:15
The Endless Procrastination Episode: An Illusion of Productivity, The Oldest E-mail, an Exponential Graph. Fast vs. Slow, Easy vs. Hard. Not as Hard as it Seems, the Stress, the Process,...
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The Warm Spaces Episode from 2023-06-09T16:12
The Warm Spaces Episode: The Endless Font of the BBS Documentary, Skills Learned, Spaces Found. A Bowling Alley in Kansas. A Starring Role. Kids Hanging Out, My Very Own Rocky Horror, Pl...
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The Code Grenade Episode from 2023-06-05T16:11
The Code Grenade Episode: A Lost Summer, A Grey Machine, Zork II, A 13 Year Old Engineer, Modules and Rooms and Graph Paper, The Grenade That Finished Me, A Testimony to Long-Lost Data.<...
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The Bodged Calculators Episode from 2023-06-02T16:08
The Bodged Calculators Episode: A Short Conversation, A Machine Lives, Exactly One Person, The Needlessly Complicated Environment, No FAQ, Hacks and Scripts, The Wonder and the Joy, An A...
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The Ramifications Episode from 2023-05-29T16:05
The Ramifications Episode.
A lot of speculation and consideration of the ramifications of algorithmic intensity and synthetic media from someone who has been thinking abo...
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The BIG CHUNGUS Episode from 2023-05-26T16:02
The BIG CHUNGUS Episode: A Lucky Smart Situation, The Rise of BIG CHUNGUS, 8 Terabytes, Distributions, The Culture of Twitch Videos, A Ride Down The Line, Packs and ROMs, Television and ...
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The Storage Reckoning Episode from 2023-05-22T16:00
The Storage Reckoning Episode: Putting Off Forever, Final Consolidations, The Big Sort, An Unpassable Box, The Nature of Contents and Archives, The Plans and Possibilities, Where It All ...
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The Laptop Loss Episode from 2023-05-19T15:58
The Laptop Loss Episode: A Eulogy For a Laptop, Largest and Smallest, A Gift From Above, A Quirkly Little Partner, Memories of the PC Convertible, Suspicious Activity, Presentations and ...
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The Remedial College Episode from 2023-05-15T15:53
The Remedial College Episode: A Chance to Reboot, Not Quite Rebooted, A Lot of Effort, Boston or Bust, 4.25 Years, Remedial College, 20 Candidates, Roommate Switch, Sketch, Three Teacher...
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The Near Miss Episode from 2023-05-12T15:51
The Near Miss Episode: A Moment of Glass, The Ever-Returning Concern, Ramificiations, Networks of Interlocking Dependency, Divestment, Discouragement. A Near Miss With a Car, Consolidati...
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The Documentary Urge Episode from 2023-05-08T15:49
The Documentary Urge Episode: A Fleeting Moment of Weakness, The Three That Made It, The Reasons for a Documentary, The Untold Efforts, The Unattempted Documentary, A Round of Considerat...
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The VCR Mechanism Episode from 2023-05-05T15:40
The VCR Mechanism Episode: A Tangential Query, New Old Stock, The Mechanism, The Next Level of Reading, A Bit More Consideration of the Applesauce, An HD Read of a VHS Tape, The Fuzzy Fu...
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The Interesting Collections Episode from 2022-12-30T19:34
The Interesting Collections Episode: Occult Periodicals, Johnson Catalog, Kirkland's Manual Labor, Input Television, The Reality of a Sore Throat and Debt.
Some interesti...
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The Genesis Cartridges Episode from 2022-12-26T19:29
The Genesis Cartridges Episode: Walking the Stacks, Growing the Pile, The Victory and Choice of the Console Living Room, The Second Christmas Morning, The Advantages of Consoles, Many Di...
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The Whispering Episode from 2022-12-23T19:22
The Whispering Episode: A Potential New Toy, Learning of Whisper on a Drive, Throwing the Book and a Nightclub at Whisper, The Aspects of Whisper, The Idea of Unadvocated Material, A Job...
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The DiscMaster Episode from 2022-12-19T19:04
The DiscMaster Episode: From Nowhere to Everywhere One Saturday, A Rare Surprise, The Rise of Discmaster, Press and Announcement, Success Stories, The Powers of Searching, The Two Proces...
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The Two Decisions Episode from 2022-12-16T18:24
The Two Decisions Episode: Lagarith Becomes FFMV1, Large-Scale Digitization, A Future Job Opening, A Sizeable Backlog, The Big Plan, We All Get The Point, An Advisory Future. Listen
The Unstuck in Time Episode from 2022-12-12T18:07
The Unstuck In Time Episode: Men in Black 3, Griffin, Timelines, Out of Timelines, Inspiration, Gathering of Voices Silenced, Digital and Analog, Lessons Learned, Hope. Plus: Mundane Hea...
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The Fanzine Back Throw Episode from 2022-12-09T18:03
The Fanzine Back Throw Episode: A Long Trip, A Special Collection, Slash Fiction Fanzines, The Coordinators, Calling in Lodrina, 1550 Pounds, Hardcore Lifting, 33 Boxes, The Next Steps, ...
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The Atlantic Festival Episode from 2022-12-05T17:57
The Atlantic Festival Episode: A Very Long Drive, A Qu...
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The Stress Management Episode from 2022-12-02T17:53
The Stress Management Episode: Recognizing Stress, How Fast Things Change, Mitigating Responsibility, My Air Travel Issue, Your Place in Time, Rarity And Prototype, A Track From and Into...
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The Luna City Memory Episode from 2022-11-28T17:48
The Luna City Memory Episode: Vintage Quarters, The Vector Dream, The Rise of Luna City, The Family Days and Personal Visits, The True Artistry of Luna City, The Downfall, The Power of L...
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The Longest Nap Episode from 2022-11-24T17:46
The Longest Nap Episode: Arriving for Thanksgiving, The Nap, A Sleeping Beast, Why Was I So Tired, A Balance at Work But Also Overbalanced, Pushing So Hard, The Riptide. Also: A Stood-Up...
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The Transient Hardware Episode from 2022-11-21T17:43
The Transient Hardware Episode: A Prayer, A Realization, The First Openings, A Deeper and Deeper Misunderstanding, Two Technical Friends, Occasional Upgrades, A Different Person, Each Ma...
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The HOPE Transplant Episode from 2022-11-18T17:41
The HOPE Transplant Episode: Going to HOPE 2022, A Sketch History of 2600 and HOPE, Hacker Cons, Podium Drink, Hotel Pennsylvania, St. John's, A Good Experience, My Only Hacker Con, The ...
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The Rock Tapes Episode from 2022-11-14T17:38
The Rock Tapes Episode: A Link To An Auction, The Results of the Victory, Digitizing VHS Tapes, Bootleg Culture, Not a Phone in Sight, The Purpose of a Bootleg, The Easy Process, The End...
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The Return of TEXTFILES.COM Episode from 2022-11-11T17:33
The Return of TEXTFILES.COM Episode: A Problem Worse Than Thought, Remote Work, Saint Spencer, I Was Once S...
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The Inside Out Episode from 2022-11-07T17:25
The Inside Out Episode: A Long Thought in a World of Quick Takes, Growing Up Online, The Inside Out Problem, Solutions If Any, Infinite Friction, A Stunning Plan, My Own Private Inside O...
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The TEXTFILES.COM Downtime Episode from 2022-08-29T16:00
The TEXTFILES.COM Downtime Episode: A Strange Voicemail, E-mails, Downtime!, Considering Loss, Host Loyalty...
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The Secrets From The Future Episode from 2022-08-08T16:00
The Secrets From The Future Episode: Fun But What About Projects, Faces in AI, MC Frontalot, Damien Hess, Focus and Exacting, A Midjourney Music Video, Key Phrases, Banned Words, Interes...
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The Midjourney Descent Episode from 2022-08-01T16:00
The Midjourney Descent Episode: Where It All Goes Wrong, The First Few Notes, What We've Already Changed, What Is Coming, Nightmares and A Shifting Lens, The Role of the Artist, Drawing ...
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The Midjourney Ascent Episode from 2022-07-25T16:00
The Midjourney Ascent Episode: Not a Pitch, A Long Forgotten Feeling, Text to Image in A Few Sentences, The Moment of Power, The Sharing of Friends, The Excitement, A Small Chat, A Hope ...
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The Basquiat Episode from 2022-07-18T16:00
The Basquiat Episode: Visiting the Museum, The Phases and Rooms, The Nightclub and Giftshop, Lessons Learned, What is the Purpose, Ice Cream Machine, Inspiration from Logistics, A Strang...
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The Prank Call Episode from 2022-07-13T16:00
The Prank Call Episode: An Early Call, The Disappointed Monk, Phones and BBSes as Refuge, Learning Voice Skills, An Eternal Battlefield, The Landline Stare, Middle Distance, Holding Your...
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The U-Matic Episode from 2022-07-11T00:56:03
The U-Matic Episode: A Brand New Brand Old Format, The Tapes of Mark Pines, Broadcast Quality, Working But Not Working, A Street Corner Transaction, The First Steps, Success, The Uninten...
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The Boundary Check Episode from 2022-06-13T16:00
The Boundary Check Episode: Why I Like Frameworks, Limits, The Edge of What I Thought Computers Could Do, ASCII and High Code, Magic Tricks, A Non-Existent Friend, Custom Sprites and Cha...
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The Limited Time Episode from 2022-06-06T16:00
The Limited Time Episode: Under the Weather, Goals, Plans, Assessments, Considerations. Ends Are Always Messy, Roller Coaster Lifespans, Plans, Priorities and the Legend of Cheese Hands....
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The WJST Episode from 2022-05-30T16:00
The WJST Episode: Airchecks, Mike Schweitzer, Special Days, Radio Transition, The Discovery of WJST, Songs in the Air, Rubber Tubes, Reel to Reels, Baking, Digitization, The Miracle Flig...
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The Wonderswan Episode from 2022-05-23T16:00
The Wonderswan Episode: A Little Extra Free Time, 35 Minutes, The Wonderswan's Story, Boring Emulation, Vertical/Horizontal, The Extra Work, Joy From Obscurity, The Perfect Grey Market, ...
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The Tax Bill Episode from 2022-05-16T16:00
The Tax Bill Episode: The Bill, The Reasoning, A Silly...
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The City Reliquary and Panorama Episode from 2022-05-09T16:00
The City Reliquary and Panorama Episode: My Friend Eric Drysdale, A Last-Minute Spot, The Experience of the City Reliquary, The Mid-Century Panorama, Curation of Collections, The Success...
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The Severance Fox Episode from 2022-05-06T16:00
The Severance Fox Episode: Two Media Experiences. Puzzle Fox, Zelda Not Zelda, Bewilderment, Ancient Instructions, Severance, Offices, Eero Saarinen, T. J. Watson, Visitation, Hallways,...
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The Compuserve Miracle Episode from 2022-05-03T03:11:25
The Compuserve Miracle Episode: Keeping Secrets, Compuserve's Place, Incredible Ads, The Cost, Dinner Jacket, How a Teenager Got On, The Miracle That Is No Longer a Miracle, Hints and Ru...
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The Blunders and Mistakes Episode from 2022-04-01T16:00
The Blunders and Mistakes Episode: Pick-Up, Zappa, Disk Switch, Rocking Tow, Crash Cart.
Some stories of me in the middle of blunders both due to me and completely out of...
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The New Generation of Sorting Episode from 2022-03-30T16:00
The New Generation of Sorting Episode: A New Feature Lands, A Rediscovery of My Love of Sorting, Pulp Fiction Redux, The Approach and the Result, A Teenager's Categories, The Next Mounta...
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The 75 Bad VHS Tapes Episode from 2022-03-23T16:00
The 75 Bad VHS Tapes Episode: A Simple Review, A Horrible Revelation, Diagnosis, Determination, A Crossroads, Volunteer Rescue, The Solution, The Forward Moving, An Iterative Process.
The Mini-Appler Episode from 2022-03-16T16:00
The Mini-Appler Episode: A Classroom Epiphany, Beautiful Boot, 612 BBSes, Safehouse, Midwest Pirates' Guild, Gods Among Us, BBS Documentary, A Living Room Interview, The Art of Luding, A...
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The HarvardNet Redux Episode from 2022-03-11T17:00
The HarvardNet Redux Episode: HarvardNet Memories, Fraud and Deceit, The Wonder of a Datacenter, Tiles and Carpet, Loud and Cold, Remote at Any Cost, A Difference of a Year, Smiles and G...
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The Blender Episode from 2022-03-07T17:00
The Blender Episode: Learning Blender, Doing Nothing, 3D Studio, The Raytraced Canvas of My Yore, A Canvas In Time, Capsela, Knobs and Tubes, The Tools I Now Have, Boom Box, The Missing ...
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The Job Evaluation Episode from 2022-03-04T17:00
The Job Evaluation Episode: A Yearly Check-in, My Strange Job, The Heaps of Inbox, 100,000 Wojacks, Why It Gets Done, The Need to Continue, A Prediction.
January is...
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The Mountain of VHS Episode from 2022-03-02T05:07:39
The Mountain of VHS Episode: Back in the Saddle, The Depth of VHS, The Variant Quality, The Results of Digi...
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The JoCo Cruise Crazy Episode (4 of 4) from 2022-02-23T17:00
The JoCo Cruise Crazy Episode (4 of 4)
The JoCo Cruise Crazy Episode (3 of 4) from 2022-02-22T17:00
The JoCo Cruise Crazy Episode (3 of 4)
Days at Sea. Meeting The Crew, A Lifeboat Break, A False Island, The Acts and Shows. Wil Wheaton. Coulton as Conductor, Poverty and...
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The JoCo Cruise Crazy Episode (2 of 4) from 2022-02-21T17:00
The JoCo Cruise Crazy Episode (2 of 4)
Onboard, Walking The Ship, Industrial Luxury, Joco Cruise Convention Crazy, The Realms of a Ship, Meeting the Acts, Connections and...
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The JoCo Cruise Crazy Episode (1 of 4) from 2022-02-20T05:33:03
The JoCo Cruise Crazy Episode (1 of 4)
Who is Jonathan Coulton, A Thinking Musician, New Things, Home Concerts, Cruise Offer, Geek Cruises, First Signup, A Series of Shoc...
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The Most Precious Manual Episode from 2022-01-10T17:00
The Most Precious Manual Episode: Dude Ranch, Open Door, Asteroids, The Purpose of a Manual, The Secrets Within, My Awakening to Arcade Creators, The First Collection, The Millions of Ma...
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The Million Paperclips and Midday Nap Episode from 2022-01-07T17:00
The Million Paperclips and Midday Nap Episode.
Two intertwining stories of youth wasted at the International Business Machines corporation.
The Ballad of Ricky Jay Episode from 2022-01-03T17:00
The Ballad of Ricky Jay Episode: A Visit to Sotheby's, The Story of Ricky Jay, The Auction, The Magician as Storyteller, A Collection Remixed to a Collection, Broadsheets and Posters, Sh...
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The TEAC Drive Episode from 2021-12-31T17:00
The TEAC Drive Episode: A Little Drive Kerfuffle, The New Difficult Life of Floppy Drives, Sustaining the Flux, Circuit Boards, Jumpers and Software Configurations. Plus: A Dream of a Fu...
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The Streaming Episode from 2021-12-27T17:00
The Streaming Episode: A Try at Streaming, Winamp, Shoutcast, College Radio, Bifurcated Timing, The Manager...
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The Paul Andrew Mitchell Episode from 2021-12-24T17:00
The Paul Andrew Mitchell Episode : A Relatively Infamous Presentation, Lifetimes Ago, A Quick Recap, What's Happened Since, What P.A.M. Represents, Podcast Fuel, A Bit Player, The Most I...
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The DOS Applesauce Episode from 2021-12-20T17:00
The DOS Applesauce Episode: A Package Arrives, The Difficulty of DOS, The Rolls Royce of Drives, The Variations, The Extra Steps Applesauce Takes, Reading Directories, The Cog in the Mac...
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The Death Threats Episode from 2021-12-17T17:00
The Death Threats Episode: A Favorite Co-Worker, Stairs and a Truck, The Ease of Communication, Wikipedia Real Names, A Threat Through a Window, BBS and MUD and Internet, The Vintage of ...
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The Music Tour Episode from 2021-12-13T17:00
The Music Tour Episode: Visiting the Music House, Waiting Outside, Tour by Tom, The Saloon and the General Store, The Magic of Tour Guides, The Missing Archive Tour Guide, A Moment With ...
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The Wires and Sleeping Episode from 2021-12-10T17:00
The Wires and Sleeping Episode: Decades Among a Bed of Wires, The Connection To My Work, The Secret Sleeping Place At Work, A Low Hum, An Experiment to Split the Wires.
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The Stolen Account Episode from 2021-12-06T17:00
The Stolen Account Episode: A Need to Get Online, TERMINUS, Harvard Square, Harvard, A Machine Room, A Useful Utility, A Ghost Among the Terminals, My Musician Buddy, What Did We Learn.<...
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The Carousel of Nightmares Episode from 2021-12-03T17:00
The Carousel of Nightmares Episode: Rocks and Mineral Apertif, The House on the Rock, My 30 Year Wait, Roadside Obscurity Lost, The House, The Rooms, The Collections of Collections of Co...
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The Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Episode from 2021-10-20T16:00
The Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Episode.
A strongest recommendation for a cure of one of my biggest problems.
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The ZX-81 Episode from 2021-10-13T16:00
The ZX-81 Episode: A New Old Machine is Reborn, A Giggling Child, A Beige Beauty, Rampack Wobble and Cassette Loads, The Process of Booting, C64 Cassettes, The Keystrokes, Scroll Lock an...
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The Liminal Spaces Episode from 2021-10-06T16:00
The Liminal Spaces Episode: A Late-Stage Discovery, Transitions, Hallways, Contrasts, Checkerboards, Trees in Light, Gateways, Emulation as Transition, Pantone, Your Own Late-Stage Disco...
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The PCs I Have Known Episode from 2021-09-29T16:00
The PCs I Have Known Episode: Emotion vs. PCs, Our First IBM 5150, Dining Room, Word Processing, Dawn Surprise, Two Room Perfection, Out of the House, Focus PC, Hand-Delivered BIOS, More...
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The Directions Episode from 2021-09-22T16:00
The Directions Episode: Possibilities, A Monster, Where It Goes Wrong, The Choices Made and the Hardest Choice of All, Why Patreon Works, Why Youtube Wouldn't, A Likely Mentor.
The Individual Incorporated Episode from 2021-09-15T16:00
The Individual Incorporated Episode: A Simple Temp Job, A Strange Office, Off-White Shirt, Packed to the Gills, Postage Paid Envelopes, The Business, Two Full Shifts, Personalized News, ...
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The Multi-Culti-Level Episode from 2021-09-08T16:00
The Multi-Culti-Level Episode: Two Boxes of Tapes, Concentrated Evil, Organized Groups and Our Nature, A Concert and a Phone Call, Innoculation, Cynical Forever, What I Look Out For, A H...
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The Limited Time and Structure Episode from 2021-09-04T16:00
The Limited Time and Structure Episode: Aching Muscles, Third Time's the Charm, Statins, Liver, Changes, Unlimited Resources to Limited, Choices, Discordant and Structured Living, No Mor...
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The Art of Noise Episode from 2021-09-01T16:00
The Art of Noise Episode: A Video On A Television, Punk Girl and Destroyed Instruments, Record Store and Tabs, Cassette, Who's Afraid, Later Albums, Favorite Band, An Unexpected Tour, Pa...
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The Waterfall of Plastic Episode from 2021-08-29T16:00
The Waterfall of Plastic Episode: A Most Impressive Uploading, The Various Focused Uploaders, ShivaShaw, Walnut Creek and Wayzata, Niche, Rental Prices, Gigabytes, Half of all CDs, The O...
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The Deep Appreciation Episode from 2021-08-27T21:53:16
The Deep Appreciation Episode: The Flow Of Items, The Modern Day Miracle, The Fun We Have, The Momentary Life of SItes, Inevitable Doom, Thanks and Correspondence, Drama and Decay, The G...
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The Workshop Episode from 2021-08-03T20:44:47
The Workshop Episode: A Realization and Realignment, What I Specifically Do, The Joy of Sharing and Streaming, The Lessons and Conversations, My Three Potential Careers (And the One I Ch...
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The Process Episode from 2021-07-16T16:00
The Process Episode: Expert or Expert on Time, The Rush of a New Project, Determining What Is Best, How I Find a Place, The Relationship of Time to Work, Why Do All Of This, A Relay Race...
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The 2000 New Games Episode from 2021-07-12T16:00
The 2000 New Games Episode: A Fundamental Question, A New Spin on an Old Project, The Emularity, You Have t...
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The Anime Fansub Episode from 2021-07-09T16:00
The Anime Fansub Episode: Wondering How I Got Here, VHS, Mechanisms, A Sudden Offer, 700 Tapes, The Source of the Source of the Source, Asking the Experts, What is Anime Fansubs, Where W...
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The Starting Memory Episode from 2021-07-05T16:00
The Starting Memory Episode: Messing Around With Yet Another Phone Conference, A Flash of Memory, Supermarket, Rented and Unusual Machines, A Tester, Finding A Place to Stand, The Realiz...
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The Patrick O'Malley Episode from 2021-07-01T16:00
The Patrick O'Malley Episode: A Wind-Down of Focus, NE.JOBS, RAID Interview, 30 Days of Consultancy, Debt Repayme...
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The Cancellation Episode from 2021-06-28T16:00
The Cancellation Episode: Psygnosis Dreams, A Ship's Tunnel, Nintendo's Limits, Lost Between the Cracks, Infocom's Game Ideas, The Other Destiny, A Lifetime of Cancellations, Our Sine Wa...
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The Toorcamp 2009 Episode from 2021-06-25T16:00
The Toorcamp 2009 Episode: Everyone Tried, A Dream of CCCamp and Burning Man, Quaint Toorcon, I Was In, Silica, Missile Silos, Emmanuel, Two Kinds of People, Not Allowed, My Scariest Tou...
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The Clothes Horse Episode from 2021-06-23T01:36:19
The Clothes Horse Episode: A Terrible Teacher, The Boot, A Plain Chain Childhood, Cow Suits and Public Trots, The Inflection Hat, The Clothes I seek, An Outfit As Half the Introduction, ...
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The Vintage Font Episode from 2021-05-19T16:00
The Vintage Font: A Festival of Windows, Working Through Boxes, The Emotions and Feelings of Fonts, 3279-BIOS-Tandy, The Lineage of Vintage Fonts, Settling a Question By Asking the Sourc...
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The Absence of Light Episode from 2021-05-12T16:00
The Absence of Light Episode.
Upon an anniversary.
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The Shadow GET LAMP Episode from 2021-05-05T16:00
The Shadow GET LAMP Episode: Talking Head Criticism, The Intention of BBS Documentary, Two Terrible GET LAMP Choices, The Choice Made, The Choice Avoided, A Delight for A Couple Dozen Pe...
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The Audio Lot Episode from 2021-05-01T16:00
The Audio Lot Episode: A Craigslist Find, Everyone Comes Together, Eight Thousand Dollars, The Haul, The Cataloging, The Life of Mark Pines, A Future to Live Forever.
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The Morning Scans Episode from 2021-04-28T16:00
The Morning Scans Episode: A Delight When I Wake Up, DPI and Depth, The Bad Old Days, The Best of Now, 2 millimeters, The Improvements, A Truly Infinite Task, A Mostly Wonderful Time, A ...
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The Whimsical Episode from 2021-04-24T16:00
The Whimsical Episode: A Never-Found GET LAMP Feature, The Importance of Whimsy and Extra Effort, ANSI Art, A Very Loud Flap, 100 Years Ago, 100 Years from Now, Tossing Embers from a Mov...
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The Tascam Portastudio Episode from 2021-04-21T16:00
The Tascam Portastudio Episode: All the Access in the World, A High School Band, Music and Sound, The Portastudio, Multitrack Recording, Control of Time, 2 Albums and Singles, A Quiet Dr...
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The Summer Romance Episode from 2021-04-18T17:41:40
The Summer Romance Episode: Visitation, Summer, Neighb...
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The Monk and the Sherpa from 2021-03-07T17:00
The Monk and the Sherpa: 40 Years with Chris Orcutt, Our Divergent Paths, The Focus, My Carnival, The Bedrock, Tales of Long-Term Friendship, Console Games, New Eyes, A Journey.
The Buried Source Treasure Episode from 2021-03-03T17:00
The Buried Source Treasure Episode: An Ocean of Material. The Hidden Treasures. The Infocom Source Code. The As-Yet Undiscovered Dragon Hoard. The Wonder of These Offers. Drop Them Off, ...
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The Left Arm Episode from 2021-02-28T17:00
The Left Arm Episode: Medical Malady, Shakespeare in the Park, Saxophone Guy, Weird Inflatable Couch, A Minor But Not Minor Injury, Another Arm Injury, My Limits, How I Will Be Found. Listen
The Bad Review Episode from 2021-02-26T00:14:28
The Bad Review Episode: Grateful and Happy, A Cascade of Good Reviews, That Single Arrow from the Crowd, Motivations for Criticism, The BBS Documentary Not Made, GET LAMP and a Thousand Choices,...
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The Myst Episode from 2021-01-29T17:00
The Myst Episode: Rent Control, Harvard Square, An Educational Store, A Clickable Image, Lost Hours, Never at Home, An Impossible Depth, A Fake Impossible Depth, A Special Moment, Anothe...
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The Non-Programmer Episode from 2021-01-26T17:00
The Non-Programmer Episode: A Clear Declaration, No Programming Training, How Programmers Think, What I Think, What Filmmaking Makes You Think, Thrust Into a Programming Environment, WA...
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The Photon Episode from 2021-01-22T17:00
The Photon Episode: An Invitation and A Drive, A Strip Mall, A Building. Space Depot, Recruitment, Initiation, The Wonder. Black Carpet and Smoke Machines. Overbuilding For Thousands, A ...
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The Unending Projects Episode from 2021-01-21T03:51:37
The Unending Projects Episode: Perspective On Many Projects, Believing There's No End Where There Are, Ends I've Witnessed, Ends I've Been, Lessons Learned and Projects Beyond.<...
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The Great Cacophony of Scanning Episode from 2020-12-27T17:00
The Great Cacophony of Scanning Episode: An Influx Valve, Mucking The Stables, Infinite Discords, The Cover Problem, NASA Launch and Photos On A Carpet, A Trickle Versus a Flood, The Ine...
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The Oculus Episode from 2020-12-26T17:00
The Oculus Episode: An Unexpected Gift, A Long Life with VR, A Dingy Hotel Room, Features, Magic, Favorite Apps, An Unlikely Constant Place.
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The Election Episode from 2020-12-25T17:00
The Election Episode: Being an Election Inspector, Training for the Unusual, Poll Pads, 300 Feet, 5am, 6am, Shivering Hands, Solid Day, Meeting 675 People, Suit and Gloves, Giving an Oat...
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The Flash Episode from 2020-12-24T17:00
The Flash Episode: Saving a Medium, A History of Flash, The Death Blow and the Death, Ruffle The Flash, Flashpoint, An Audio/Video Conversation.
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The Software Forgery Episode from 2020-12-22T17:00
The Software Forgery Episode: Let's Do This, The First Software Forgeries, Altair 8800, Pre-Order or Vaporware, The Richard Garriott Scam, Stickers and Wiped Disks, Falling Apart, Gradin...
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The Generosity Episode from 2020-12-21T17:00
The Generosity Episode: Jason Asks About Being Generous. A Guy And His Kickstarter. The Motivations. Early Survival Pizza. Making the Leap. A Documentary As Mission. The Background Conve...
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The Amish Shareware Episode from 2020-12-20T21:51:56
The Amish Shareware Episode: The Big Leagues, The Top Shelf, Pop-Up Magazine, My Story Pitch, The Spy, Fact-Check Failure, The Missed Opportunity, Software Forgery, Never Stop Trying.
The Tea Party Episode from 2020-10-30T16:00
The Tea Party Episode: 10,000 Year Clock, The Long Now, Disclosure, Fine Drinks and a Speech, The Low Bar, Inspiring or Cynical, Why Drive Ahead, The Knowledge We Keep, A Closing Music S...
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The Past Future Episode from 2020-10-26T16:00
The Past Future Episode: A Hospital Visit, Audio Formats, Speaking Without Knowing, Wozniak and Jobs, Exerc...
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The File Format Wiki Episode from 2020-10-19T16:00
The File Format Wiki Episode: An Awful Failure, A Tremendous Success, An Acknowledgement of a Poor Idea, Just Solve One Problem, Easy Not Hard, Field vs. Forest, What is a File Format An...
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The Green Room Episode from 2020-10-12T02:11:44
The Green Room Episode: Public Speaking, Green Rooms, Quiet Before 15, School Announcer, DEFCON, Jeff Moss' Room, Webstock, XOXO, SXSW, Confrontations, A Long Overdue Hug.
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The Typewriter Episode from 2020-09-28T16:00
The Typewriter Episode: It Was Supposed To Be Magazines, Elaine and the Boxes, Floor to Ceiling, Tytell Typewriter, Sorting and Divisions, Books and Ephemera and Golden Pallets, The Typ...
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The Action Park Documentary Episode from 2020-09-21T16:00
The Action Park Documentary Episode: A Late Thursday Night, Action Park, 10 Years Ago, 2 Years of Research, A Coffee, Interview, Pile Driver, The Bones of the Plan, The Release, My Revie...
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The Medical and Life Checkup Episode from 2020-09-14T16:00
The Medical and Life Checkup Episode: An Accident With Repercussions, Bounce Back, Two Weeks, Open Inboxes That Never Close, What It's All Been, What Goes On, 100 Hours of Podcast, A Day...
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The Mysterious 4AM Episode from 2020-09-11T16:00
The Mysterious 4am: Big Plans for Kansasfest, The Wrong Bar at the Wrong Time, The Mysterious History of 4am, I'm Fine.
No car accident is going to stop me from reco...
The Inbox Cornucopia Episode from 2020-09-08T16:00
The Inbox Cornucopia Episode: Appreciating What You Have, Two Arcades Gone, The Moment of Wonder of Incoming Archive, Spam and Vandalism, The Worlds We'll Learn Of, My Favorite Stripes,...
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The Novel Episode from 2020-09-07T16:00
The Novel Episode: A Book Never Written, The Plot, A Cleaning to Make Room For The Next Things.
Time to make good on my promise of "move ahead or move on", and so he...
The Three Extraordinary Ordinary Stories from 2020-09-06T19:33:42
Three Extraordinary Stories Told Ordinarily: Russian Mechanic, Quake Logo Massacre, Nobody Lives Here, Tetris.
Three stories about usual outcomes, presented simply.<...
The Ultimate BBS List Episode from 2020-08-15T16:00
The Ultimate BBS List Episode: 20 Years of The BBS List, What Got Me Started, The Story Everyone Knows, The Story Less People Know, The Contraption Inside, 1982 not 1983, Philosophy of C...
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The Winding Conversation Episode from 2020-08-14T17:57:08
The Winding Conversation Episode: Watchmaking, My Pal Chris Orcutt, Our 40 Years of Talking, A Marathon of Words, Intertwined Lives, Podcast Jason, Chris' Typewriter, 15-50-80, Advice To...
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The Three Stories Episode from 2020-07-11T17:43:08
Three Stories: Wooden Signs and Paper Plates, Naked Man, Whipped Cream and Brotherly Love.
Three short tales from my life, gathered together in a val-u-pak for the j...
The Extreme Pain Episode from 2020-07-10T23:59:06
The Extreme Pain Episode: An Argument In The Car, I Killed You, Truly Can't Get Out of Bed, Crutches, What The Pain Means, What The Pain Was, An Airport Waiting Room, The Worst Doctor E...
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The Automatic Document Feeder Episode from 2020-06-28T03:44:01
The Automatic Document Feeder Episode: Acquiring an ADF, How Flatbed Scanners Work, The Lie of Scanning, How ADF Scanners Work, Asking For Help, 35 Minutes, 339 Pages, 3 Books, The Non-I...
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The Lost Month. from 2020-06-21T05:33:33
The Lost Month.
A biography of Tony Cennamo: https://en.wikipedia.org/...
The Storage Unit Episode from 2020-06-16T20:09:40
The Storage Unit Episode: Down to Two Units, The Legend of the Information Cube, A Pile of Yes, A Tour of Screens and Magazines, Where It All Went, How the Last Two Units are Laid Out, A...
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The Conspiracy Episode from 2020-06-11T13:54:04
The Conspiracy Episode: Conspiracy Love, 1985 and Annette Arky, Playboy, Comics, Underground, Deep Underground, Ninjas, Guns and G-Files, The Muffin File, The Comfort of Conspiracy, The ...
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The Lost Space Racing Game Demo Movie Episode from 2020-05-20T05:45:05
The Lost Space Racing Game Demo Movie Episode: Focus Studios, Two Major Projects, The Racing Game, Mark's Dream, Car Logos, Design, 3D Studio, 2 Months, Gone Forever, Starting a Race You...
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The 100th Episode from 2020-05-18T05:23:28
The 100th Episode: Start With Another Episode Please , A Little More About My Supporters, Unediting, Why This Was Started, Speech Therapy, Unintended Results, The Many Positives, Therapy...
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The Games of the Mechners Episode from 2020-05-17T20:24:23
The Games of the Mechners Episode: High School, David Mechner, Brother Jordan, Karateka, The Next Game, Assassin, The Rules, A Shining Moment, An Answered Doorbell, Reading Unlimited, Ro...
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The Bear Mountain Episode from 2020-04-21T03:10:08
The Bear Mountain Episode: Hudson Valley, Rejecting Nature, Bear Mountain State Park, The Bridge, The Lodge, The Pool, The Trail, The Zoo, Daniel Carter Beard, Strange Places, Low-Slung ...
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The Nightmare Space Episode from 2020-04-11T06:27:50
The Nightmare Space Episode: A Nightmare Repeats, The Lost Great Space, The Museumsquartier, A Booth, Spaces I Have Known: L0pht CT Hackerspace, and Hack42, The Space of the Webpage, 199...
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The Game Ideas Episode from 2020-03-27T03:09:47
The Game Ideas Episode: 25 Years Later, Two Game Ideas: Central Plumbing Unit, Ante Meridian: The Morning of The World. Focus Studios, Mark The Alien, The Real World, The Difficulty of M...
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The Metal.Ball Episode from 2020-03-25T06:21:21
The Metal.Ball Episode: For the Love of a Ball, TinyMUD, MUD, Port 4201, CB Radio, Smokey and the Bandit, TinyTIM, Metal.Ball's Roll-Playing, Mystery of the World, The Metal Ball Inside ...
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The Cybersmith Episode from 2020-03-24T21:37:53
The Cybersmith Episode: The Shining Moment of the Cybersmith, Paperback Booksmith, Mall Chains, Harvard Square, The Last Mile, Rabbit Warrens, Cybersmith's Luxury, The Fade, The Memory o...
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The Apple Cassette Episode from 2020-03-23T06:19:17
The Apple Cassette Episode: My Silly Reputation, A Witness To A Wonder, Two Cassettes and 3 Hours of Scrutiny, Ciderpress, A Car With No Gas, Apple Cassette Protection Schemes, 16k, Cust...
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The Hazy View Episode from 2020-03-15T00:15:46
The Hazy View Episode: A Single Moment and a Single Feeling, Realism and Unrealism, Graphics Efforts, The Forgotten Moment, The Melancholy Wish, An Older Person With an Older Memory, Chi...
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The Dad Question Episode from 2020-02-27T21:07:58
The Dad Question Episode: A Simple Question, Why Did The Internet Archive Even Happen, What Even Is All This, The Infinite Growth, What Data Really Is, The Handfuls Taken From The Ocean,...
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The Other Arcade Episode from 2020-02-18T07:37:52
The Other Arcade Episode: The Dream Machine, Bad Real Estate, What Happened to Arcades, The Places I'd Seek, Lake George, Childhood Gone, Quassy Park, My Short-Lived Vending Machine Idea...
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The Ingestion and Loss Episode from 2020-02-02T18:59:01
The Ingestion and Loss Episode: Winter Floppy Boxes, Kansasfest 2019 Flux Party, The Levels of Floppies, Screen Shotgun has Menu Awareness, Why Even, The Death of the Artist, Randy Suess...
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On The Occasion of Chest Pains from 2020-01-22T04:09:44
On the Occasion of Chest Pains: Stent Number Three, Poor Notes in the Symphany, Arguing For Myself, Feelings, Operation, The Talking Car, In and Out, Different the Third Time Around, A M...
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The Halo Outpost Discovery Episode from 2020-01-17T05:08:45
The Halo Outpost Discovery Episode: My Pal Kyle, Halo Doubles, A Halo Outpost, Chicago, The Idea of a Halo Convention, Mortal Kombat Side Quest, How It Was Done in Chicago, An Empty Hall...
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The RTTY Art Episode from 2020-01-11T06:09:16
The RTTY Art Episode: A Word About Loss. Meeting John Sheetz. RTTYs. RTTY Artwork. The Magic of RTTY Art. Sunday Nights. Interviewing John Sheetz. Gone Before the End. Typewriter Art. A ...
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The CPC Episode from 2019-12-26T06:05:16
The CPC Episode: Amstrad CPC Joins the Fray, A Platform Unknown to Me, The Problems CPC Had, Getting it Going, Auto-Boot, An Ugly Thing, Graphics and Sound, Isometric, Multiple Markets, ...
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The Server Cage Episode from 2019-12-21T18:36:03
The Server Cage Episode: An ISP Ends, But Hosting Never Stops, Don't Forget the Fiber, The Other Half, I Know How The Caged Server Beeps, The Arrangement, Dual 486, Stickers, Too Much Ba...
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The Rubi-Con Episode from 2019-11-29T21:26:35
The Rubi-Con Episode: Smokey the Police Dog, Rubi-Con, Detroit Not Detroit, Off-Kilter, Duct Tape, Drunkeness...
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Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It - Episode 81 from 2019-11-22T04:04:57
The Internet Archive October Event Episode: Once Again Back at the Archive, Onsite, The Things We're Working On, Wikipedia Linkage, Better World Books, A Lesson On Japanese Internment, C...
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The Raytracing Episode from 2019-11-13T03:51:24
The Raytracing Episode: A Confession, What Raytracing Is, DKBTrace, The Overnight Render, DKB and POVRay, The Pac-Man, Anything for a UNIX Prompt, Gandalf, Supermarket Gang, Pixar's Tool...
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The NAID Episode from 2019-10-26T03:35:48
The NAID Episode: Jim Says It's Happening, North American International Demo Party, A Very Ill-Advised Travel, Border, Exchange Rate, The Actual NAID, Classrooms, Jacket for Blanket, Cow...
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The Electric Stories Episode from 2019-10-10T20:30:30
The Electric Stories Episode: A VAX in Need of a Home, The Lady of the VAX, A Very Heavy 3/280, MFM Drives, 20 Amps, Electrical Cyberpunk Nightmares, Don't Do It Again, Mainframes, Pavl,...
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The Music Tracker Episode from 2019-09-29T15:47:07
The Music Tracker Episode: Carousel, Cards and Belts, Piano Rolls, Notches and Points, My Magical Amiga, Music Disks, Tiny Sizes, Spreadsheets and Waveforms, Making My Own, Tracker Ba...
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Mr. Hernandez from 2019-09-22T06:20:52
Mr. Hernandez: Kit Computers, Plastic Cases, Malls, Computer Stores. Brewster's dim days, Mr. Hernandez' Store, Plastic Bags, The Rules of Talking, Preppie! Avalon Hill, Scott Adams Adv...
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All Debt, All the Time from 2019-09-21T00:54:14
All Debt, All The Time: The Current Debt Status, The Black Shadow, I Blame Myself, The First Credit Card, A $1100/$2000 Flight, No Shame in an Accountant, Your Two Important Homework Ass...
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The Hardcoded Episode from 2019-08-27T23:25:49
The Hardcoded Episode: Blowing Glass. A Cancelled Project. Reality Shows. The Elevator Pitch. The Best Laid Plans. Why I Gave Up. Fake. Prototype This. Take It Away.
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The Project Everything Episode from 2019-08-06T15:37:18
The Project Everything Episode: Starting Projects, KansasFest 2019, Pulling Back But Then Pulled Back In, Garage Giveaway, Floppy Disk Images, Applesauce, The Start of Everything, Softwa...
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Three Stories from 2019-07-31T04:13:10
Three Stories: Kickstand. Fax Machine. Playtester.
An experiment in telling three anonymized stories.
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The Hackers Play Episode from 2019-07-14T04:39:45
The Hackers Play Episode: Never in NYC, Broadway, Merlin, Hackers, Aunt Susan the Modern Girl, A Tiny Theater, Stage, Summary, Delight, 13 to 30, Let's Do This, Impossible Logistics, E...
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The Helping Episode from 2019-07-10T23:51:03
The Helping Episode: A Tired Mom, The Urge to Help, Not Just Collecting, TIM Help Files, Heat Strick, Users Versus SysOps, Early Website Writing, Google's Eldritch Horror, Sendmail, HTML...
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The PUBG and Life Strats Episode from 2019-07-05T08:12:21
The PUBG And Life Strats Episode
They go together better than expected.
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The Long Drive Episode from 2019-07-01T07:00:51
The Long Drive Episode: A Phone Call in Denver, The Meaning of PC-Board, Overnight, Desolation, An AM Radio Companion, Mountains For a Change, The Simple Interview, The Drive Back, Solit...
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The Blorb Episode from 2019-06-02T03:26:22
The Blorb Episode: Ingestion of the Archive, The Library Goal, Some Odd Books and Items, The Blorb.
Some links of items I mentioned:
The Energy Drink Episode from 2019-05-31T05:12:53
The Energy Drink Episode: All the Caffeine and Twice the Sugar, Teenage Beverages, Wipeout, Red Bull, Diet, Zero, Taurine, Saving Red Bull Music Academy, What Caffeine Brings, A Lost Co...
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The Conference Episode from 2019-05-24T13:15:38
The Conference Episode: A Question by Jim Richardson, Gatherings, The Idea of a Conference, Why It Took Forever For Me To Attend a Conference, Why Conferences are Hard, Oh Yes The Questi...
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Jerome Johnson from 2019-05-03T03:58:41
Jerome Johnson.
For more information on Jerome, here's some links:
The Sorting Episode from 2019-05-01T14:53:10
The Sorting Episode: A Life of Sorting, File Classifications, My Subdirectories, The Storage Unit, Photos and Movies and Boxes and Personal, The Actual Question, What the Actual Answer M...
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The Infocom Source Code Episode from 2019-04-29T05:05:29
The Infocom Source Code Episode: The Specialness of Infocom, The Craft, The Z-Machine, Z-Machine Glories, Full Sentences and Every Platform, GET LAMP, The Infocom .ZIP File, A Release, S...
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The Fortress of Solitude Episode from 2019-04-05T18:43:54
The Fortress of Solitude Episode: A Machine That Is Not a Machine in Richmond, A Riot of a Data Depot, Scripts and Miscellany, 11 Terabytes, The Ultimate Tape Archive, The Metadata Machi...
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The Podcasting Episode from 2019-04-01T01:16:57
The Podcasting Episode: What Podcasting Was, What Podcasting Was Again, The Downfall, The Rebirth, The Future of Podcasting, Money Matters, Why Do I Podcast.
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Joe's Offer from 2019-03-28T07:10:43
Joe's Offer.
An episode about a single gesture that blossomed into a life-changing moment.
For Joe Sherman (1917-2010).
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The Acting Episode from 2019-03-20T23:39:07
The Acting Episode: Johannes and a Restaurant, Electricity and Christmas Lights, Acting, Pages, Out of Order, Tourist Trap, Editing.
The Wikipedia entry for the film is h...
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The Christopher March and Heimdall Episode from 2019-03-03T04:19:35
The Christopher March and Heimdall Episode: Losing Chris March, Getting Hired For Doing The Wrong Thing, Scripting and Scripting Languages, The Boundaries of Scripting, DUMPTRUC...
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The Cowicature Episode from 2019-03-01T15:20:27
The Cowicature Episode: I Needed the Money, Two Pens and Paper, Sketch the Cow, Harvard Square, Territories, No Woman No Cry, What Caricatures Are, Very Little Udder Assault, Th...
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The Postal Zine Episode from 2019-02-01T07:37:49
The Postal Zine Episode: National Lampoon, Adult Comics, Fooled Them, Forbidden Mail, Forbidden Subjects, Catalogs, Books, Power and Revenge, Factsheet Five, Gunderloy, Anarchy, Factshee...
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The Robert Hoquim Extra Episode from 2019-01-31T05:52:57
The Robert Hoquim Extra Episode: A Small Homework Assignment, A Fascinating Story, The Man in the FBI Hat, What Stories Change in Us, The Story I Won't Tell, A Book Yet Unwritten I Want ...
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The EsnesnoN Episode from 2019-01-30T05:17:25
The EsnesnoN Episode: High School Reboot, Humor Magazines, Nonsense, A Fun and Saturated Publication Landscape, John, 30 Mile Commute, Humor Column, Ripoff Photo, EsnesnoN, Janitor, Ed Barlow, Prin...
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The Kickstarter Episode from 2018-12-31T19:02:55
The Kickstarter Episode: Successful Sabbatical, Starting a Three-Pack, What Happened, A Job To Be Me, The Sacrifice, The End, The Loot, The Beginning.
The 50th Episode from 2018-12-31T09:19:31
The 50th Episode: A Short Review of How We Got Here, What the Podcast Has Done For Me, Another Kind of 50, 50 More, Thank You.
50 podcast episodes have been released...
The Don Joyce and Negativland Episode from 2018-12-30T07:46:54
The Don Joyce and Negativland Episode: A Cut-Up Record, Big 10-8, Negativland, Over the Edge, A Private Song in a Jamaican Club, Mark Hosler, Negativland Sleepover, Don's New Hangout, Go...
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The Leisure Suit Larry Episode from 2018-12-28T09:21:03
Al Lowe's Auction, Leisure Suit Larry History, SCUMMVM/AGI, How Scripting Works, Deciding to Read The Source, Twitch.tv/textfilesdotcom, More Than Six, ASMR, Jason Makes It, Preservation's Open Que...
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The Technical Interview Episode from 2018-11-30T21:32:07
The Technical Interview Episode: Answering your requests, the nature of an interview, the ultimate meaning of your interviews, quality check, pre-interview, the 10 questions, like two musicians, po...
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The Speedrunning Episode from 2018-11-30T19:11:06
The Speedrunning Episode: A Very-Ill-Advised Car Ride, World Record Progression, Speedrunning, The Rules, The Glory, The Glitches, The Thrills, Summoning Salt, Quake Done Quick, Grenade Speedups an...
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The Failed ISP Episode from 2018-11-27T21:16:06
The Failed ISP Episode: That Time I Ran an ISP, ISPs Versus BBSes, The Idea of COW.NET and COW-TOWN, Ancient Equipment, Computers In Cow Fields, Unexpected Additional Users, Dee, The Distillery, Su...
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Frank and Bootleg from 2018-10-26T02:43:03
An episode about two of my more unusual interviews for the BBS Documentary.
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The Radio Radio Episode from 2018-10-19T03:56:05
The Radio Radio Episode: WECB and WERS, Emerson College, 1980 Radio Visit, WECB and the 18 Hour Shift, Fired, WERS, Alternative Parameters and Kelly Rafuse, Live Music Week, A Little Ove...
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The Personal Philosophy Episode from 2018-10-12T04:25:36
The Personal Philosophy Episode: Fan Mail, Philosophy, Life Changes, Sharing Information, Vulnerability, The Commodore Pet, Narratives, The Hidden and Unhidden, A Lost Month, 50, This Life.
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The Podsucker Episode from 2018-10-01T00:42:22
The Podsucker Episode: The Need to Save Textfiles, The Story of Podcasts, Why Save Them, Building the Podsucker, 3 years of Podcasts, Finding the Drives, Thoughts on a Money Sense.
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The Commodore Episode from 2018-09-26T22:00:21
The Commodore 64 Emulator Episode: I missed the C64, a Commodore Announcement, VICE and a Difficult Birth, Sgeo to the Rescue, An Hour at the Scollans, Demoscene, A Depth of History, Wha...
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The HarvardNet Episode (Part 2) from 2018-08-31T20:38:54
The HarvardNet Episode (Part 2): Quitting HarvardNet, A Most Saucy Letter, Two Paychecks No Job, Harvard...
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The HarvardNet Episode (Part 1) from 2018-08-31T17:18:08
The HarvardNet Episode (Part 1): The Next Thing, A Game Engine-Worthy Datacenter, Life at HarvardNet, The Real Internet, Food Locker, Basement, DVD Bonus, The Big Fraud, Eyeing the Door,...
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The Game World Episode from 2018-08-14T22:55:11
The Game Worlds Episode: Getting Ready to Explore, The Games I Love, Adventure, Ten Years of Destiny, Halo Forever, Car Without an Engine, Player Unknown: Introspections, The Dangerous Mechanism, N...
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The Longest Friend Episode from 2018-08-01T07:35:58
The Woz-A-Day Episode from 2018-07-31T20:44:27
The Kansasfest Episode from 2018-07-31T06:26:55
The Kansasfest Episode: Why I Love Kansasfest, The Apple II, Living There, The Events and the Magic, The Friendship, The Purpose of a Vacation, The Best Things, Race You. Plus: Emergency Room.
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