The Transcription and Summarization Episode: LLMs, Modems, Magic, Technology, Infinite Toys, Change, Promises, Reality, Tascam, Amiga, Manuals, Summarization, Weird But Tireless, Always a Revolution.
Some quick thoughts on the world of LLMs as they start entering my life (and many others) from the poin...
The UMATIC Gems Episode: A Small Hot Room, The Mechanisms, The Robots, 40-50 Years, Sony and From Another World, Tensions and Read Heads, Tapes and Decay, The Lifespan, The Future, The Joy of Saving, The Potentials and Possibilities, Mark Pines.
A rumination on the UMATIC tape decks in my office, which...
The Bad Review Episode: 2 Stars Out of 5, Bad Cinematography and No Effort, The Timeline of the BBS Documentary, Choices Made, Experiences Lived, 10 to 15 Minutes, A Crew of One, The Unknown End, The Results, GET LAMP, Your Project's Future.
A rumination on a 2/5 review I got in 201...
The Appreciation For Spaces Episode: A Moment of Recognition, A Time of Containment, The Best Separation, Thanks to Sponsorship and Gifts, The Rooms I've Travelled, A Consistency of Inconsistency, A Moment For You.
Perhaps a well-needed acknowledgement of the time of the moment where I have a lovely of...
The Industrial Spaces Episode: Hurricane Electric, Ikea Paramus, Customers and Hybrid Customers, Beach Chairs, 19-Inch Racks, Content Delivery Networks, Approaches to Space and Cost, New York Conveyor Basements, Payments in Pain. And Mangoes.
A rumination on a few industrial spaces I recently spent ti...
The Teraleak Episode: The Occasion of the Teraleak, Testflight and Test Flight, 9 Years, The Leap Between Communities, The Result, The Press, The Future Fallout, Meaning of a Leak, Meaning to Archive Team, A Wish For More.
You can be excused if you missed the short wonder of the "Teraleak", where some ...
The CLIVE Episode: Introduction To The CLIVE, Our High School Parents, Not Just a Salesman, Where Are They Sitting, Working With The CLIVE, Lessons and Learning, The Other End of Layoffs, Reading the Room, Thanks To The CLIVE, A Final Domain Gift.
Memories and thoughts about THE CLIVE, the father of on...
The Voice Quality Episode: A Very Bad Idea, Public Speaking, My Thoughts on Audience, The Unspoken Guarantee, Sickness and Health, Voice and Articulation, The Roads Not Taken, Finding Your Voice.
Some ruminations on my speaking voice, and qualities and issues related to it.
The Learning Process Episode: My Extreme Oscillation in Learning, Why I Learned The Way I Did, BBSes and Textfiles, Where This Worked, Fastest Temp, The Non-Threat of Failure, The Narrative, What Has Changed.
A rumination on my personal learning process and where it has gotten better (or not) and why I...
The Japanese Spaces Episode: Trip to Japan, Verticality, Variation, Most Favorite Small Spaces, 20 In An Alley, Specifics, The Draw of Control, The Theme, The Full Story.
A rumination on very small spaces in Japan, where I see the tradeoff of intense theming and tiny spaces, and how I take that feeling...
So, I thought it would be "cute" to do a two-part podcast about my voice, while suffering from voice loss due to a cold.
It's not cute. It sounds grating, scratchy, and I know I'm doing some real rough stuff to my throat.
So, I'm only able to do two episodes this month. They were recorded before I really went s...
Patreon just changed a mass of things from the creator side of the site, and with that upheaval comes a notable and increasing chance for things to get weird indeed. I'll keep you informed if I see anything change out from under me, and feel free to warn me if you're getting odd differences in the user interface or, really, a...
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The Time Bandits Episode: The Dutchess Mall, Movies 4, Suburbia Boring/Excellence, Chaotic Universe, Surpreme Being, Great Evil, Foundations, Portals of BBSes, Robbery of Textfiles, Before It's All Ruined.
A short meditation on one of my favorite films, Time Bandits (1981) before a remake arrives. I ha...
The Constant Contact Episode: Why People Write In, Repeats, Questions, Meaning, Culture, Context, Contact, Response, Arms Open Wide.
Just some thoughts on how many times I find myself brought into conversations where anyone mentions anything about materials that might need a home. It's probably impossi...
The Modern Medicine Episode: Feeling Unwell, Emergency Drive, Portable X-Ray, The App, The Doctors, The Information, The Sense of Well-Being In Mystery, Four Figures.
A small visit to the emergency room reminds me how much more amazing medical experiences can be now, even if they cost you.
The Atari Font Episode: Atari Microcomputers, Dark Rooms, Curtains and Shades, Customizing Fonts, Creating Games, Unfulfilled Goals, Unfinished Plans, Rescue from Darkness, The Real Reason for Atari Fonts, A River of Nostalgia and Memory.
Some thoughts on my love of Atari and specifically, why I ...
The Nostalgic Web Episode: Ingestion Thoughts, Early Web, Something Lost, Wandering Through Memories, The Early Web, The Lost Form, Expensive and Exclusive, BBS Versus Web, Reality, Mirroring Ourselves, An Evolution.
A rumination on the early Web and what that even means to me, looking back, along with ...
2023-09-30 23:49:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The Deep Image Analysis Episode: The Fun Toy, The Advancements, Apple II Crack Screens, Transcriptions, A Held Out Hand, The Dark Cloud, A Lifetime of Scanning, The Advantages, The Wishful Thinking, A Critical Thinking Requirement.
Thoughts on deep image analysis, which I've been experimenting with and...
The Hacking Museum Episode: Friends Bringing Up A Museum, What Is a Museum, What Is Hacking, How Do You Start, The Fundamentals, The Extras, Before You Hire a Staff, Hacking Stories and Lore, Mobile or Static, The Possible Real Hacking Museum.
Some pals of mine were talking with me about a hacking muse...
The Eyeball Difficulties Episode: A Ring of Light, An Emergency Ophthalmologist, Posterior Vitreous Detachment, Eyeball Tubes, an Unfortunate Curtain, Into the Laser With Remaining Eye, Pancakes, Equilibrium, Next Steps, The Things Seen, A Community of Eyeballs, A Vision for Gratefulness.
This episode ...
If you were sent mail about episodes for this month, I've just deleted them and will be reposting them now.
Patreon changed the look of the website and the functionality of a bunch of things, and the "Charge For This Post" setting has the absolute lightest box to click, almost an anti-pattern, and with my eye troubles ...
This Patreon system is getting upgrades and offering all sorts of silly ancillary ways to grab your audience and shake them upside down for pennies. One of them is a "shop".
What would I sell in a shop? Best answers get compliments.
2023-09-28 20:12:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The Media Burnout Episode: A Confession of Disinterest, A Lifetime of Media, The 14 Hour Episode, How It Once Was, The Top Shelf Mistake, Sturgeon's Law, Manga Forever, Other Interests, Word of Mouth Again.
A rumination on the fact that I've fallen off watching the sheer cliff of media experience that ...
The Power Wash Simulator Episode: Not Just Battle Royale, Power Wash Simulator, Plot and Intrigue, The Basic Idea, Angle of Attack, Parts Within Parts, The Urge to Clean and Make Things Better, A Messy Childhood, A Small Defined Zen Joy.
Power Wash Simulator is a game/adventure where you have a power w...
The Manuals, Manuals, Manuals! Episode: Heading Out To Deal With Manuals Plus, The Manuals Plus Saga, The Latest Part, The Digital Manuals, Aesthetic And Information, My Great Manual Sorting Screwup, Brands and Flibberjibbits, The Future Holds. Plus: The Facade of Brands.
Lots of thoughts about two par...
The Cheshire Catalyst Episode: The Brightest Smile, A Long History, TAP Magazine, 2600 Magazine, HOPE Conferences, A Late Start, No Sleep, Close to the Edge, 3-2-1, Space Hobo, A Chance To Remember.
Some thoughts about Cheshire Catalyst, a hacker who had a lovely history and who is gone, leaving behind...
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 Groups and Configuration, Works Or No Works, Cancelmoose, ROFLCon Panel, I Call Upon My Brain.
I noticed I've been get...
2023-08-01 03:50:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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, Passages to The Light, Losing a Taste for Conflict, The Fan Mail.
Some ruminations of how digitization is digitization and w...
The Mister Jangles Option Episode.
In which your ol' pal Mister Jangles throws you a possible lifeline.
The Data Dirigibles Collection: Prehistoric TEXTFILES.COM, The Cry of the Leech, TEXTFILES.COM Comes to Pass, Downloading Archives, Downloading More Archives, Kilo Mega Giga Tera, TEXTFILES TIME CAPSULE, What Persists, The Unpretty But Surviving Clump, Slash Internetarchive, Slash Internet, Software Capsules, Ace and ...
2023-08-01 00:45:52 +0000 UTC View Post
