Topic Lords

209. Do Caterpillars Anticipate?


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Lords:

  • Will
  • Chris
  • Topics:

    • Canoes
    • Blowing soap bubbles with your hands, making cricket noises, "party tricks"
    • nissan.com
    • Nothing Is Too Small Not To Be Wondered About, by Mary Oliver
      • https://thevalueofsparrows.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/poetry-nothing-is-too-small-not-to-be-wondered-about-by-mary-oliver/
      • Would zombies try to hide the fact that they were zombies?
      • Magic
      • Microtopics:

        • Soda Drinker Pro for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
        • Finding someone to port your game to NES via LinkedIn.
        • The Vivian Clark Experience.
        • Making certain contortions slightly easier.
        • Rock climbing. (Not a topic.)
        • The Phantom Lapboard.
        • The Only Viable Product. (OVP.)
        • What if you could mouse and keyboard on the couch?
        • Growing up in a canoe family.
        • Paddling vs. rowing.
        • Carbon fiber paddles for canoe racing.
        • Waterwalker by Bill Mason.
        • Your favorite memories of a kayak.
        • Waking up in your kayak to see a snapping turtle staring at you.
        • Floating up and wiggling all over the place.
        • Kayaking to lunch from your office.
        • Living in a ski cabin and your office is at the bottom of the mountain.
        • Living at a Lagrange point and your office is at the bottom of the zipline.
        • Boston Unity Knights.
        • Doing a game jam every month for four years.
        • Knowing enough people in your field that you no longer need to network.
        • Five really worthy zero-hour games.
        • Making a therapeutic horror game.
        • Going to a terrifying party in an abandoned train tunnel and finding a burned-out police car.
        • Questionable poisonous air filled with unknown tunnel organisms.
        • Doing mouth stuff in VR.
        • Making the soda line up with your mouth.
        • The Ferris Bueller water drop noise.
        • The thing where you play a blade of grass like a reed instrument.
        • Cheek-flapping noises.
        • Magic tricks vs. Party Tricks.
        • Inhaler magic.
        • Twenty levels of spinning pens.
        • A different horrible knife game.
        • A game about chopping off fingers named "Chop the Finger."
        • Shooting arrows in the air while your friend run away.
        • The keyboard shortcut for finding someone to port your game to NES.
        • A web site where you endorse people as thought leaders.
        • Entering the LinkedIn cheat code on Xbox 360.
        • Porting your video game to a robotic arm.
        • Making it move when you think about it.
        • Uzi Nissan v. Nissan Motors.
        • It can happen to you or someone you know!
        • Picturing conceptual rabbit holes in your head.
        • Sylvester Stallone's Mom's web site.
        • Sylvester Stallone's mom doing palm readings of your ass.
        • All our favorite apps, such as buffalo wings and boneless spare ribs.
        • Thinking about a cricket's interiority.
        • Putting some nature in your poem.
        • Using cricket noises to tell what temperature it is.
        • Having the same number of wings you've always had.
        • Do any bugs make a plan.
        • Leaving "I gave up" pheromones
        • Leaving a map of a physical space in the space.
        • Sizable ants.
        • Fewer scorpions than you'd expect.
        • Putting a bug into your awareness.
        • Pseudoscorpions hanging out on old stuff.
        • Little guys in random places very occasionally.
        • Zombies going to Whole Foods.
        • Going quiescent until a dude walks by with a tasty-looking scalp.
        • Painting a brain on your helmet to fool the zombies.
        • A short-hair wig taped to your grandfather's basketball.
        • Dropping your scalp like a lizard tail and the zombie shakes your scalp back and forth in its teeth.
        • An analyst commissioned by a think tank to write a book explicating how to deal with the zombie apocalypse.
        • Sound Reading Trainer.
        • Having a bunch of magic props that you never show anyone how to use.
        • The casino OJ got arrested at.
        • Tommy Wonder.
        • Reviewing a product on YouTube without ever showing it or saying what it does.
        • How stage hypnosis works.
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