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My new retirement plan just dropped
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"Jason Scott is an arrogant, self-impressed idiot who thinks he's god's gift to techies because he remembers "the golden days" of BBS's." - Superbanana, Slashdot comment, 2006
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Jason Scott
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My new retirement plan just dropped
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Jason Scott
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IT IS TIME FOR THE LOST PRODIGAL TO COME IN FROM THE COLD
"Howard the Duck" should be welcomed back into official Thomas Dolby musical canon, with open arms
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MOx...
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Jason Scott
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"Febreeze that Shit" is currently my go-to solution to any problem now
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Jason Scott
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The Minions movie really hits different when you realize the reason the Minions find "sanctuary" in an ice cave and then journey out years later due to "boredom" was 100% to avoid having a Minions movie where they naturally follow Hitler
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Jason Scott
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I forgot to show you the suit.
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Yes, yes, you all have hard lives. But the instructions with one of my new suits appears to indicate that there is absolutely no way to clean the suit, ever. Literally no action will not ruin it and therefore wear it for 6-10 occasions and then throw it out? Starting a GoFundme
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Jason Scott
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I used one of these back then. They work, they're fine and convenient. Once you could USB2 they make zero sense.
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Jason Scott
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Oh, and I see they cracked the back of the mold they bought at auction because they throw and move it around like this 55+ year old artifact is a minute old.
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Jason Scott
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The way my face drops in the new RedLetterMedia episode when I see Mike mishandle 35mm film
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Jason Scott
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One country sent me a letter that I was no longer welcome to visit because of textfiles dot com. I've stopped by now and then regardless, and am waiting for the time I get thrown to the ground So I can ask about letting me finish my succulent Chinese meal
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Textfiles dot com got a letter just a week or two ago informing me it was Very Bad I host sex stories and something Should Be Done. Something is not going to be Done
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Jason Scott
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Whut
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)
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the erasure of 20+ years of news stories here is yet another sign that future generations will have much richer knowledge of the 1930s than they will the GW Bush and Obama years. The wayback machine is carrying a lot of weight these days. If that goes, adios: variety.com/2024/digital...
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Jason Scott
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I'm not really sure if the $271 is the real buzzkill to this activity
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Jason Scott
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I mean you're wrong but happy Monday
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Jason Scott
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So it would be better preserved if we were a profit?
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Jason Scott
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Nobody told me I COULDN'T set the icon for the whisper (transcription) collection page:
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Kay Savetz
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Here's a just-recovered 1985 interview with Apple Computer's Bill Atkinson, talking about the new Macintosh. "When I came to Apple, there were 30 people there." He programmed Apple II, designed software for Lisa, and programmed MacPaint. archive.org/details/the-...
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Jason Scott
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scholar.archive.org/search?q=jes... Archive Scholar has the same issue. Not sure of the underlying cause.
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Jason Scott
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25 people complained it wasn't about LAMP stacks. In e-mail. To me.
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Jason Scott
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Am I worried this guy is going to stab me? Well, probably a little, but he's barely above background radiation compared to some others. What's more important, though, is that you can't really recount his multi-years antics against people without seeming a bit cracked yourself.
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Jason Scott
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I don't expect people reading the review of GET LAMP to track down that the author of that review and realize he lives in a cinematic spectrum with an Interactive Fiction documentary on one end and SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY on the other. But rest assured, the review on my movie was the only one.
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But, like, burn for years, years and years, like the Centralia, Pennsylvania of fury. Personal attacks, near-threats, sockpuppeting, it's all there, the classic situation of someone glowing so hot with hate that their not-good-thing got called not-good that they're the Revenant, but for Nerds.
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By looking through wayback links, and then cross-referencing, I realized I'd almost forgotten about Marshal Tenner Winner, an interactive fiction author who entered the Interactive Fiction Competition, got not-positive reviews, and decided the best use of his time was to burn everything down.
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Jason Scott
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Here's a good example of how hard it is to maintain context on a web that is an interlocked series of handshake deals and text inertia. I was looking over IMDB and then I saw this review, and I'd initially wondered what they were talking about. Naturally I checked up on the reviewer.
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I should fix that
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Eleanor Franzen
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The literally knee-weakening relief of finding 5 obscure novels from the 1790s on Internet Archive, when my other options were a) pay the currently-wildly-overworked BL research services team for scan & send, b) pay £250 for POD versions via AbeBooks, or c) invent the rest of this thesis chapter.
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Amanda Lane Cumming
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Phew. The Internet Archive has saved me from driving to Enumclaw to read one chapter in a book. Bless the Internet Archive forever and ever.
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A few years ago, I had a role in an Austrian Sci-Fi movie about a rogue AI and its attempts to interface with humans via a car, and the question of the roles of humans in a world with AI. Nothing from it is relevant today. Anyway, the premiere is July 1, Austria Stadtkino.
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Jason Scott
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Get in line
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C A N Y O N Y E R O
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Kay Savetz
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Uploaded to Internet Archive: 7 just-digitized talks from Xerox PARC including Document Management and the Net (order a pizza online!) from 1995 and “You are HERE - Why you will use GPS Every Day Eveywhere” from 1998. archive.org/details/xero...
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Jason Scott
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Well, they used notes here but whenever they go off the rails on the notes they do super shallow stuff. They have direct numbers but, for example, they don't mention the Disney-20th Century Fox distribution choke-off which is killing indie theaters. Why would they? That takes research beyond seconds
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Watching the red letter media guys analyze the movie industry and just absolutely get a pile of things completely wrong was not the greatest way to start the day
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Dungeonbuster
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GayBlade (1992) by Ryan Best was an obscure CRPG for the Apple Macintosh, Windows 3.1 PCs, and one of the earliest LGBT-themed games. With a quest to save Empress Nelda, it's billed as a lighthearted "spoof" with unique classes and enemies based on Best's own struggles. (a fabulous thread)
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Jason Scott
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Matthew Lesko is on tiktok!
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Did you hear the story about how $400k worth of Playdates were misdelivered by FedEx to a construction site near our warehouse? And then someone just… stole them? Seriously. Well, guess what got hastily dumped at a random restaurant this morning? Welcome back stolen Playdates!
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Jason Scott
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And then, fuckin' BOOM.
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I think my favorite bit about the House MD series is that by this point, Hugh Laurie has made not one, not two, but three or four major series appearances or starring positions, and while I'm sure he personally felt he had more, he didn't HAVE to, to already be established as a legend.
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Jason Scott
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Very excited to go through my items to find something to sell! #endofmonth
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Are they really planning to repeal 230 protections? Chaos.
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The Most Interesting Uninteresting Thing
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Finger guns
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