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21 Oct
I got a chance to attend the TED Conference one year, because moot was speaking and he could bring one guest for very cheap (for TED prices) and as he said "You're the only person I know who'd want to go and would spend that money". So I went. I annoyed a lot of celebrities.
I am no fan of Sarah Silverman and she was going to do her act, and so I just left the theater to go hang in the lobby and see other things out there, until she was done. The lobby was almost completely empty except a few bored staff members. And a guy sitting in a corner.
So there I am with James Randi, and we talk for about 15-20 minutes about Stuff. The Stuff was mostly about history, capturing facts, etc. He mentioned how he'd passed some dates of his European tour to a researcher and the researcher had proved he'd not been in Europe that year.
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21 Oct
In 2011, after doing documentaries on Bulletin Board Systems and Text Adventures, I had a kickstarter for doing an Arcade Documentary. (And two others). Due primarily to getting the dream job of a lifetime and seeing the potential of what I could do with it, I cancelled them. Image
I was going for a very warm/emotional aspect of "what are these places, these dark boxes we create to play with machines". I had music lined up and I shot a bunch of footage for it before realizing I couldn't quite do it right.

Here's my footage preview:

vimeo.com/56666304
Now, I went ahead and created The Internet Arcade at the Internet Archive, at archive.org/details/intern… and hundreds of arcade machines became part of the conversation again, as well as making sure we had copies of hundreds of arcade manuals, and other artifacts. Image
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20 Oct
But Jason, can you mirror it?

Bruh, I've already downloaded it and mirroring it here:

archive.org/details/tomleh…

It'll be done in an hour or two.
You can see our system doing it - shoving in the PDFs and then generating the derivatives, previews, readables, etc. I'll be going through and fixing metadata after they're rendered, and soon we'll have a real lovely Tom Lehrer collection well past "December 31, 2024".
Speaking of Master Lehrer, in 1967, he gave a performance at the height of his skills and stage presence to an adoring and respectful audience, with excellent audio and video, and the tape resurfaced on Youtube and should not be missed:

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19 Oct
Bob Mahoney! Bob and his second in command EACH had a requirement for me to interview them - I could not interview one while the other was in the room. Ultimately, I did not get a chance to interview Bob although he sent me lovely bizarre e-mails for years afterwards.
Millionaires are hard to get a hold of. I found Bob by noticing many pictures had him next to a sport car and I found the nearest club to where he lived for that sports car and passed my message to give to him.

He called the next day going "NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE".
Bob is sitting on a Cray X-MP, by the way. Either you know about those things or you don't. If you don't, this was a supercomputer that was one of the most powerful machines at the time AND looked like something from space. ImageImageImage
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12 Oct
My new shoes have arrived
Two things. First, these were sent to me directly from China based on the packaging, and it's quite obvious these should be warn for the ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ　ヒ院な and not because, say, you want to go hiking in them or wear them as daily drivers. I'll take it.
Second, and this is top-notch comedy: I was notified these got delivered on Friday, but they weren't downstairs, and today they showed up at my door, with the packaging ripped open on one side. We get a ton of packages here, it's obvious that a neighbor grabbed it by mistake.
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9 Oct
Quick Thread: Guffey Park.

My company name for my documentaries is BOVINE IGNITION SYSTEMS, a band name my pal and I came up with in High School. (The Band's page is cow.net/bis and has all our music.) When I made documentaries and needed a company, I named it that.
But in the running was GUFFEY PARK, which is a park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, close to where I lived for a few years, and which is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. It has a sign on it that says GUFFEY PARK and everything. I'd go by it every time I drew Caricatures. Look:
Now, this park actually has a historical reason for this: It was named for two local residents because it was at the center of a fight where a local business tried to expand over the location. So, at this point, it was named a park out of pure spite. It used to have a sign.
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