"Secret Mall Apartment" is a documentary on Netflix that includes a lot of the videos that Townsend took during the whole project. (There's a few stills in the article.)

It's quite interesting to watch, because Townsend himself is quite the character. There's a scene where he's having an argument with his (now ex) wife that shows that Townsend has extremely different priorities than the typical person. (And why his first marriage failed, too.)

The BBC used a kinescope much longer than the US. (A kinescope recorded TV to film.)

The US pushed a lot harder than Europe for videotape because kinescopes dropped frames off of American 60i frame rates, but worked really well for European 50i frame rates. Thus the BBC continued to use kinescopes for a long time.

In 2020 I applied for a "too good to be true" high paying job. Throughout the process I kept doing exercises and never interacted with a real person.

Once the exercises got hard, I stopped trying. I didn't believe it was a real job.