Jun 30, 2025

The Brewster Episode.

A flood of memories about my short and sad time in Brewster, New York, and why I'm still around.

Jun 23, 2025

The DISCMASTER 2 vs. Piper's Pit Episode: A gargantuan collection, piles of files, IBM Warez Groups, Half a Terabyte, Finder Aids and Lists, DISCMASTER 2 Arrives, The Functions of DISCMASTER and DISCMASTER 2, The Size of DISCMASTER, The Semantic Future.

Someone uploaded half a terabyte of programs taken from tape...

Jun 16, 2025

The Catching a Break Episode: H3, Accordion Hood, The Lifted Weight, Infinite Breaks, Artuo and the 80 Hours, Passing the Breaks, Infinite Payoff, An Office Break, A Traffic Court Appearance.

Thoughts on how both giving and recieving breaks, the lifting of obligation, is some of the best investment on both sides.

I...

Jun 13, 2025

The Hater Tools Episode: A Pleasant Visit to a Discord, A Pillory, The Right to Dislike, Tools of Response, Public vs. Actual, Walls of Separation, Our Neverending Performance, The Time and Distance, Hills and Mountains, Accepting The Hate.

A small rumination on that time I visited a community and they didn't like me.

Jun 9, 2025

The Third Act of Collecting Episode: What Drives People to Collect, The Roles, The Responsibilities, The Urge and Drive, My Witness To The Third Act, Sentinels of Oblivion, Redundancy, The Process, Indexing Heartbreak, The Time Crunch, The Future, The Hope.

Thoughts on when people have spent a long time making a...