Topic Lords

154. QWERTY In The Streets, Colemak In The Sheets

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Lords:

  • Tyriq
    • https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday
    • https://frror.bandcamp.com/
    • Stevie
      • [email protected]

        • Topics:

        • Striped humans
        • Alternative keyboard layouts: teaching yourself to type in new horrible ways
        • Where did I get these floppy disks?
        • The floppy disk poems
        • How do I give a tech talk?
          • https://vimeo.com/91436410
          • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59hwI9Ae1qU
          • http://paperdino.com/save-the-date/

            • Microtopics:

            • The extent of Jim's patience vis-a-vis delayed plugging.
            • Wishing you didn't make things so you could talk about the things you didn't make.
            • Plugging the small random things in life, like bugs.
            • Sitting in a chair right now.
            • Trying desperately for forty years to never use Bluetooth.
            • George Michael's "Faith"
            • George Michael rehearsing a Queen song.
            • A Faith listening party.
            • The etymology of "Lobster."
            • Plugging bugs and unplugging crustaceans.
            • Invisible stripes along one's epidermis.
            • Mosaicism (as distinct from Chimerism.)
            • Blaschko Lines.
            • A secret invisible power to be striped.
            • The show where nobody knows anything.
            • Spiraling outward from a central point.
            • A thing that is a fact if you believe Wikipedia.
            • Describing an egg as ovoid because it is similar to an ovum, i.e. an egg.
            • Whether a factoid is bullshit.
            • Whether humans are humanoid.
            • The distinction between a fact and a factoid and how it has changed over time.
            • Being slightly hungry and eating a single macaronus.
            • Batman training his successor in the sci-fi future.
            • Joining the villain faction because they get the cool hooves and horns.
            • Turning 90 and getting your internal organs tattooed.
            • Check it out, here's my solar plexus. Enjoy.
            • An injection that makes your bones glow in the dark.
            • Cold-Turkey Colemak Switchin'.
            • Holding your left pinky on the tab key to keep your place.
            • Iterating until you find the episode title.
            • Typing without twerking.
            • Being able to get your hands to do what you want without hurting.
            • Getting a split keyboard so your hands keep working.
            • The ease and laziness of the Wiimote and nunchuk allowing you to put your hands anywhere you want.
            • Twitchy aim dominating the PC FPS design space regardless of what the game designer wants.
            • Making poem floppy disks and using them as drinking coasters.
            • Cleaning out your mouse.
            • Disassembling a floppy disk and folding it into the shape of the Starship Enterprise.
            • Remembering where the USB floppy drive might stuff.
            • Whether cursed demoscene executables still curse you if you run them in DosBox.
            • Whether the Ring video still cursed you after it's digitized to DVD.
            • Maybe'm or maybe'm not.
            • A pretty cool knick knack.
            • A human head like pancake batter.
            • Bread that you put in a blender.
            • The old good lord, bad lord routine.
            • Picking a god and channeling its power into your tech talk.
            • A community of people that you want to like and respect you.
            • Various ways to prepare to give a talk, and why Tyriq always does it the wrong way.
            • Going to a talk and thereby consenting to be lectured by the person giving the talk.
            • Blaming the audience for picking the wrong talk if they don't like your talk.
            • How to run an ARG for no money.
            • Deconstructing the idea that canon and headcanon are in any way different.
            • Re-telling the same story over and over again.
            • Same bullshit, different number of dimensions.
            • A movie that was cooler when it was just a throwaway line in another movie.
            • Depicting the same overarching event but with details changed.
            • Games that require you to make a choice that you can't take back.

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