Topic Lords

267. Unburying The Duck


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Lords:

  • John
  • Erica
  • Topics:

    • Golden owl pre-post-mortem
      • https://goldenowlhunt.com/
      • Twin update: one year later
      • Notepad has support for alternative line endings now
      • Goodnight Moon (And/or Goodnight Dune?)
        • https://www.firstcry.com/intelli/articles/goodnight-moon-nursery-rhyme/
        • Microtopics:

          • The waiting list to get into the Topic Lords discord.
          • What goes on the lords-only channel.
          • The first rule of being a lord.
          • It's the end of the show somewhere in the world.
          • Frog Fractions Royalty.
          • Topic Lords Con East.
          • Choosing pairs of lords.
          • What lords have been on the show least recently.
          • Mystery with a B.
          • Responsibility to the lords.
          • ARG goings-on.
          • Maze of Games.
          • Rubber hose ARG solving
          • Digging up the golden owl and replacing it with a duck.
          • The minimum number of golden owls you are allowed to cast in France.
          • The History of the Owl Stuff.
          • Commemorating your love of the Golden Owl by purchasing this commemorative Golden Owl.
          • The Mystery of the Golden Owl that nobody wanted solved.
          • It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
          • Going and burying a duck
          • Unburying the Duck and putting the Owl back.
          • Looking through the Heart of France.
          • Another cursed treasure hunt in the can.
          • Ancient alternatives to zip files.
          • Re-scoping your puzzle hunt on the fly.
          • Telling twins apart using phrenology.
          • Twin identification strategies.
          • Let me see your flecks!
          • Checking your placental mammals for belly buttons.
          • Platypodes.
          • Jock twin/nerd twin.
          • Having children as a way to practice solving problems together.
          • Who forgot to take a nap today? (Everyone on the show.)
          • Flailing limbs kicking your bedmate all night.
          • Rocking your kid to sleep and then depositing them in the crib like Indy swapping out the golden idol.
          • How to teach babies to sleep.
          • Wearing children until the children no longer tolerate it.
          • A good selection of kid-friendly music.
          • A guy with a soothing British voice saying interesting things for ten minutes.
          • How much coffee to give a six year old right before bed.
          • Waiting for your kid to realize that when it's 1am he doesn't have to ask you if he can watch TV.
          • Just show me the byte order marker!
          • Adding tabs to Notepad.
          • Everyone agreeing to go back to WordStar.
          • What software developers do once a program is finished and perfect.
          • Loading CSV files into R.
          • Accidentally updating Excel.
          • The kind of person who is passionate about the latest cutting edge version of all software, who works in tech and is in charge of all update systems.
          • Adobe Premiere updates that ruin your team's entire workflow.
          • Why JWZ is no longer rich.
          • Seeing all the trailing spaces at the end of the line.
          • Jobs that require you to be able to distinguish between a tab character and the equivalent number of spaces.
          • How Unity handles upgrades and versioning.
          • The 75th anniversary of Goodnight Moon.
          • Why the New York Times's list of most borrowed children's library books of all time doesn't contain Goodnight Moon.
          • When Goodnight Moon says "Goodnight Nobody" and you immediately assume that the old lady died.
          • The calming effect of going over an inventory of really nice soothing things.
          • The Margaret Wise Brown ouevre.
          • Goodnight Dune.
          • Good night, shai-hulud bursting out of the dune.
          • Good night, Bene Gesserit witch whispering "they tried and died."
          • Too much of every character giving their internal monologue in italics.
          • Virginia Facebook's extremely cheap antiques.
          • Floating in the No-Room.
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