June 27, 2022

140. The Most Edible Petrochemical

1 hour 15 minutes

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Lords:

Kevin

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ or http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/nircam/

https://youtu.be/in6RZzdGki8

https://youtu.be/lrY04VPDg8I

John

Topics:

Reading the other headlines/articles on newspapers in films that flash on screen solely for the headline

http://www.chess-in-the-cinema.de/

The Game Boy Camera/revisiting the PXL-2000 topic and other toy cameras/tech

Best Halloween candy: candy corn or pumpkin-shaped candy corn?

Icarus, by Edward Field

https://genius.com/Edward-field-icarus-annotated

Douglas Hofstadter

Microtopics:

The James Webb Space Telescope.

The thing you get the most DMs about.

Recording a fan's answering machine message in the Mario Frustration voice.

The guy who "fixed" the NES triangle wave.

Bandlimiting your oscillators.

What the real Lordheads know.

Another place to shitpost.

3D entertainment.

Deku momentum problems.

The analog stick mod for Mario 64 DS.

A remaster that is in direct conversation with what it's remastering.

The pros and cons of Mario 64 DS.

Abandoned let's-plays.

Waterworld for the Virtual Boy.

Wario Ware and Rhythm Heaven.

How to give Nintendo money in 2022.

Prodigy Child Wins Every Award Given.

Pausing movies to read the nonsense headlines that the prop designers didn't expect you to read.

Pausing the movie to complain about the nonsensical Scrabble game depicted.

A movie about people who don't know how to play Clue.

A mahjongg game that is a literary microcosm of the players' lives.

Leaning across the couch to your girlfriend and saying "that's Chappie's chess game."

Playing Super Mario Bros. with the Power Glove.

The Steam reviews for the 8-bit wrestling game that appears for three seconds in The Wrestler.

The only digital camera that was under $100 in the 90s.

How to get images off of the Game Boy Camera.

Hooking together a TV, VCR, SNES, Super Game Boy and Game Boy Camera and plugging it in with a very long extension cord so you can shoot a movie outdoors.

An in-your-face student film about what happens when computers can detect emotion.

Using your Game Boy Camera as a webcam on Twitch.

The Game Boy Camera's music sequencer.

The Game Boy Camera asking ROM hackers if they are feeling ok.

The Gold Zelda Camera.

The gold Breath of the Wild cartridge that tastes like the Master Sword.

The Cool Cam.

The Lefty RX.

Ranking candy by its volume to surface area ratio.

Getting sick of candy corn naysayers.

Wax Lips: Ya Gotta Eat 'Em!

A powder that's been glued into a little puck.

What the American Oil and Gas Historical Society has to say about wax lips.

The oleaginous history of wax lips.

Edible dinosaur bones.

Bananasaurus Rex-flavored string cheese.

The Genius of the Hero falling to the Middling Stature of the Merely Talented.

Looking back on your best work and knowing you'll probably never best it but still liking your life more now.

A short story with extra line breaks.

Turning any text into a poem by resizing the window so there are extra line breaks.

Robert Altman's follow-up to MASH.

A retelling of Icarus featuring the wicked witch saying a slur.

What it means to be conscious.

Godel, Escher, Bach: I am a Strange Loop except more confusing.

Writing a book for the general public and having to figure out how to make your ideas fun.

Searching YouTube for "Crab Cannon" and only finding music for weirdos and no cannons of any kind.

Martin Gardner's column about math games in Scientific American.

Metamagical Themas.

Using math to do fun space stuff.

Stream Frasier Online Free.

Rubik's Cube except spelled like an asshole.

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