Topic Lords

138. From Infracheddar To Ultrableu

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  • Elena
  • Alexander plugs https://www.constantpodcast.com/

    • Topics:

    • Hosting a party is way better than going to a party
    • The Pearl Jam Liner Notes method of writing first drafts
    • Lagrange Point Lasagna
    • Jonathan Swift, "Ode on the Longitude"
      • https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_the_Rev._Jonathan_Swift/Volume_17/Ode_on_the_Longitude
      • The theory of spontaneous generation
      • It turns out Sunday Roasts are a whole Deal
      • Diagnose my tongue!
        • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI3yD3WAcz4
        • https://www.buzzfeed.com/danielralston/the-true-story-of-the-fake-zombies-the-strangest-con-in-rock

          • Microtopics:

          • Unfindable Lords.
          • The Constant: a History of Getting Things Wrong.
          • Continuous vs. discontinuous weighted blankets.
          • People asking you about your life so you have to give them all the necessary context on your life so they'll understand.
          • A masquerade ball where you receive a quest to find someone wearing a dog mask and talk to them about topology.
          • The smallest of talk.
          • A continuous unplanned unstructured talking with each other that you expect to just happen by itself.
          • Bringing a cheeseboard to a party so you can go sort it whenever the conversation gets awkward
          • Sorting the cheeseboard from sharp to mild and then sorting the cheese by color but nobody at the party is allowed to actually eat any.
          • From Infracheddar to Ultrableu.
          • A sorting algorithm gaining intelligence and trying to understand itself.
          • Teaching your friends sign language so they'll be quieter at parties.
          • The weirdness of reading aloud.
          • Writing while talking.
          • A species of alien that can follow two conversations at once.
          • Balancing the complexity of your word choices so your sentence flows nicely.
          • Writing the most important word of each sentence first and then going back and filling in the rest of the sentence.
          • Worrying about commas later.
          • Taking so long to implement the core of your idea that you've forgotten the details.
          • How to bake brownies that are all edge pieces.
          • How to bake brownies that's all center pieces.
          • Sous vide brownies.
          • People who only like the center of the falafel.
          • The perfect solution for the person who prefers the grossest part of the brownie.
          • Opening a portal to the lasagna dimension and scooping some out and feeling safe because there's no e. coli in the lasagna dimension, just lasagna.
          • Tectonic plates in the lasagna dimension.
          • Subduction lasagna.
          • The asteroid equivalent of brownie soup.
          • Forming trade alliances with the people who live in the air pockets of the lasagna dimension.
          • Lasagna creationists.
          • The Earth is a rock lasagna.
          • Whether lasagna or baked ziti is more likely to be naturally occurring.
          • Bepst and besht.
          • A long-standing problem in navigation.
          • Figuring out how to determine longitude in the Age of Navigation.
          • Getting kicked out of Cambridge because you don't accept the Trinity.
          • Firing a cannon at noon so everyone knows what time it is.
          • Such explosive ships, in such known locations.
          • A new method for discovering longitude both at sea and land, humbly proposed for the consideration of the public.
          • The Jewish Space Lasers of the 1700s.
          • The sense in which GPS is extremely loud.
          • Putting a log on the fire and salamanders come out.
          • The riddle where to understand the answer you have to know that bees come from lion carcasses.
          • How earth used to have enough energy to spawn humans out of clay but now it only has enough juice left to make bugs and snails.
          • A recipe for scorpions.
          • The Tragedy of the Sunday Roast.
          • The St. Tuppensday Brouhaha.
          • Million Shilling Idea: serving Sunday Roast all week.
          • Victorian orphans mining for Bitcoin (or "bittums") out on the Playa.
          • Eating a Yorkshire pudding at a Lagrange point and sopping up gravy from the gravy dimension.
          • Via Gravia.
          • Nega-scurvy, where you eat too much fruit and grow extra teeth.
          • The Yes Ship of Theseus.
          • That time the Zombies broke up and then had a hit record and then fake Zombies started touring the US until someone from the real band noticed.
          • The Caramelldansen saga.

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