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Wow! In the top 10? Amazing... so, you're rich now, right? 8^)
Congrats, Phil!
El Doctore
Commented Nov 21, 2013 on Exploding The Phone Selected as One of Amazon's Best of 2013 at The History of Phone Phreaking Blog
Exploding The Phone Selected as One of Amazon's Best of 2013
I am delighted to report that Exploding The Phone has been selected as one of Amazon's best nonfiction books of 2013! (In the top 10, in fact.) Many thanks to everyone who has supported me in this crazy project!
"I note that there is something vexsomly and recursively delightful about filing a vexsome request for a list of vexsome requesters. :-)"
Heh! How very "oroborosian."
(Is that even a word?)
8^}
---Dr. Schaefer
Commented Sep 27, 2013 on Vexsome at The History of Phone Phreaking Blog
Vexsome
In researching Exploding The Phone I spammed various federal agencies with hundreds of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The FBI bore the brunt of my requests since I figured they were the agency that had the most info on phone phreaks. According to my tracking spreadsheet I sent the...
Looks like the video above has been removed and the "associated YouTube account has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement." Meh! Gah! Hu'tegh!
["You've been terminated, fucker!" -- Sarah Connors, aka DMCA]
Not so fast, Sarah! (in "Arnoldian" T1 sotto voce)
Alternative, working link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XESDRP82png
"Ray Bradbury - Story of a Writer" (full 25 min. doc./1963)
And: "On what today would have been Bradbury’s 92nd birthday, said Michael Meyer, NASA’s lead scientists for the Mars Exploration Program, “In his honor, we declared the place that Curiosity touched down to be forever known as Bradbury Landing.” Meyer’s announcement was followed by applause for Bradbury, as requested by Pete Theisinger, Curiosity’s project manager."
See: http://wapo.st/Qqzojc
Dr. Schaefer
Commented Oct 11, 2012 on Dial Double Zero (Ray Bradbury, RIP) at The History of Phone Phreaking Blog
Dial Double Zero (Ray Bradbury, RIP)
"In the world of Ray Bradbury anything is possible. Including, within the vast complex of the telephone system, a spontaneous formation of intelligent life." From The Story of a Writer: Ray Bradbury, NBC, November 1963. RIP, Mr. Bradbury. (Tip of the hat to BernieS for letting me know about...
Well... that "1000 Abstract Machines" recording was rather... weird. Don't know if it could be termed "music," though.
I'd have spiced it up somewhat with edited strings of dialed MF tones, maybe a little "MF Boogie," with stacked tandem sounds un-kerchinking, interspersed into the mix if had had any input. Of course, talk is cheap, and armchair critiques just too easy. 8^}
Dr. Schaefer
Commented Oct 11, 2012 on "1000 Abstract Machines" ... and a New Generation of Phone Phreaks? at The History of Phone Phreaking Blog
"1000 Abstract Machines" ... and a New Generation of Phone Phreaks?
First, give this a listen. It's amazing: Now, the backstory. ElmerCat is a phone phreak who is passionate about the sounds of the long-distance telephone network. He has been working with the audio recordings made by phone phreak Evan Doorbell featured on the Phone Trips web site to collect ...
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