Ian Simmons launched Kicking the Seat in 2009, one week after seeing Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia. His wife proposed blogging as a healthier outlet for his anger than red-faced, twenty-minute tirades (Ian is no longer allowed to drive home from the movies).
The Kicking the Seat Podcast followed three years later and, despite its “undiscovered gem” status, Ian thoroughly enjoys hosting film critic discussions, creating themed shows, and interviewing such luminaries as Gaspar Noé, Rachel Brosnahan, Amy Seimetz, and Richard Dreyfuss.
Ian is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. He also has a family, a day job, and conflicted feelings about referring to himself in the third person.
Leo was rooting through a stack of old floppy disks and unlabeled CDs in his grandfather’s attic when he found it—a single, silver USB drive with a masking tape label that simply read: .
This is a story about , a tale of how a forgotten file bridged the gap between two generations of tech enthusiasts. The Discovery File: steigo2_Windows_1_1.zip ...
The "helpful story" of the ZIP file became Leo’s inspiration. He realized that the technology he took for granted—touchscreens, instant cloud syncing, AI—all started with people like Steigo2, who sat in dim rooms wrestling with "File: steigo2_Windows_1_1.zip" just to see what was possible. The Modern Connection Leo was rooting through a stack of old
Leo didn't just delete the folder. He updated it. He added a new sub-folder titled Leo_Windows_11_Notes and re-zipped it. He tucked the drive back into the attic, knowing that someday, someone else might find the file and see the bridge he’d built between the first Windows and the latest. He realized that the technology he took for