AlexShannonJapan in summer is too hot, but there's lots of cool festivalsWhy can't I have marzipan made by nuns in California?Podcast playlist problemsConsidering the Snail, by Thom Gunnhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52887/considering-the-snailTraveling. If you need a lot of stuff, or if that stuff needs you. Real Topic Aficionados. Last Life and other lives.Watching a TV series you like and then going back and watching the same episodes again from a different character's perspective. Napping all day and seeing street festivals at night. Walking around with a tower of flaming candles on your head that keep getting tangled in power lines.Why aren't the modern World's Fairs as exciting as the ones from 150 years ago? Making a couple weeks vanish in lieu of a millennium and a half of leap days. Naming your baby Person Who Packs For Themselves. Naming your baby "Supplanter"The littlest bean that's currently born. Growing up enough to realize that everybody is named Luke now. How Bob used to be the funny fake name but now it's Jeremy. The Bob Emergency. The guy you call Baker because he's a baker. The canonical order of ore value in video games.Hacking your save file at home, just like in the good old days.Selling marzipan in a dark room with a turntable and a bell. Things you can eat in some parts of the world that you can't eat in others. San Diego's Best Seattle Burrito.The essence of fine Mexican foods. Australians telling candy companies "stop trying to make Halloween happen"That friend who has digestive issues eating salmon, but only in specific countries.The politics of buying Girl Scout cookies.The best place to sell a Girl Scout cookies on UCSD campus.Boy Scouts trying to sell popcorn, with seemingly no awareness that popcorn is not remotely as good as Girl Scout Cookies.Kobey's Swap Meet.Getting an old timey surgical mannequin at a swap meet so you can practice your surgery. Kids today trying to figure out how to operate a VCR like they're playing Myst.What happens if you put a VHS tape in backwards? Netflix's "continue watching" category, for movies you didn't like enough to finish.We don't want to hear your bra podcasts! The Stanford professor you're gardening for asking you what podcast you're listening to and now you have to explain your weird hobby to your employer. How to listen to podcasts without your boss sneaking up on you. The first time you've been to the dentist without headphones this millennium. Introvert Dentists.Tooth care advice that you forget immediately. Extremely symmetrical knots in a power cable. Climbing, sailing and caving knots. What is a snail's fury? Why is this snail so mad?A turtle that's decided it's go time. Getting really excited about the turtle races at the Renaissance Fair.Watching a carnival game where four people throw five spears each at targets attached to a wall of hay, and none of them manage to hit the wall.Axe throwing bars, where you have a beer and throw axes.Taking up axe throwing as a hobby because whenever someone gets killed with an axe, the police will be sad if they don't have any suspects.Axe throwing failure modes.Dominant javelin throwing strategies.Throwing a javelin further by spinning around like a discus thrower.Bullets: they go where they want. 
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