October 03, 2022

154. QWERTY In The Streets, Colemak In The Sheets

1 hour 17 minutes

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

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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October 03, 2022

154. QWERTY In The Streets, Colemak In The Sheets

1 hour 17 minutes

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

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.

Support Topic Lords

...more

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