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Jenni is emailable at [email protected] and plugs Chris's cooking channel on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRsnCRAIi-VsRPPX4AtzVGQ/Maxx is on Twitter as @mechcem or emailable at [email protected] and plugs their game bookclub thing. https://groups.google.com/g/game-book-club/aboutNot caring if you're duplicating thought work that was done by a ton of people forever ago because you're having a good time.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnett_squareCorrection on Japanese crop microbiome.The PXL-2000 camcorderhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000This is the first Wikipedia page for a movie that has the entire movie embedded in the page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_BaliSearch and rescue as an excuse for robotics research.What if poop worked like, you ate dinosaur chicken nuggets, you got dinosaur poops.It's annoying that it took me so long to realize I love writing dialog trees.Thinking that other people have had sex, when they haven't.Making a very good one about fried green boys.The dominant recessive two alleles punnett square stuff.All the mystery flowers that have been reproducing willy nilly.Finding out about Redstone and reinventing computing from scratch.Whether figuring out all the crafting shapes is a good part of Minecraft.Waking up in an abandoned cryogenics facility and enjoying the plastic bag upgrade tree.Waking up in an abandoned cryogenics facility but there's lots of fish sticks so you just eat fish sticks.Whether fish sticks are frozen fish or are born sticks.Making a stick into a spear by holding it in your hand.A shopping cart breaking into almost enough pieces to make a new shopping cart.The soul of the shopping cart ascending into heaven so you have to play a fishing minigame to get it back.A good starter project where after your finish it there are birds in it right now.Beginner knowledge work projects feeling useless because somebody already wrote the program you just wrote.3D printer projects resulting in a physical artifact even when there's an error.Constantly being annoyed that you're not a scientist in the 1300s.How Tycho Brahe was the "greatest naked eye astronomer" because he owned a sextant and had a bunch of spare time that he spent looking up.An "octant" possibly being 33% more than a sextant but nobody on the podcast is sure.Trying to figure out what "congresstant" means.Japanese far right nationalists being terrified of Koreans touching their rice.Hearing a Japanese person say a fact about Japan and just assuming that it's true.Wes Anderson accidentally validating far right Japanese nationalists by putting their caricatures of a foreigner in Isle of Dogs.Watching Japanese television because your Japanese isn't good enough to tell who's being a far right douchebag.Muting a TV show and procedurally generating subtitles whenever someone speaks.Localizing an anime without knowing what characters were originally saying.Sitting there with your 2020 sensibilities going "oh my god."Saving video to audio cassette.The camera that filmed the two minute performance art scene in Richard Linklater's Slacker.Not having time to watch Monty Python movies but hanging eventually internalizing the whole oeuvre from when fans quote it.Picking a movie and having to communicate only in lines from that movie for the rest of your life.Looking for the movie with the most words in it but Google only wants to tell you the movie with the most f-words in it.Not having seen Casino but deciding to say only things that they say in Casino from now on.According to this one web page Jim found, Team America World Police only having 1600 words in it.Hearing a line from Casino and immediately forgetting it.Singing Come to my Window by Melissa Etheridge except with blueberries.A mask that covers your eyes but plays a tone in your ears based on the distance of the closest object in front of each eye.Watching the entire movie inside the Wikipedia page for the movie.Embedding Myst in Wikipedia.Putting on your business card that the Frog Fractions Wikipedia page is rated "GA" for "good article."Plugging the Wikipedia article for Frog Fractions into GPT-2 and learning facts about future sequels.Insect-inspired robots.People asking what your robot design is for and always saying "search and rescue" and everybody believing you even though search and rescue people never use robots.Making robots that are too small to get military funding because they can't carry a payload.Taking an ultrasound of a fly while it's flying.Inventing the idiom "cheap as a moth."Harvesting antennae from dead moths and attaching it to your circuit board with Bio Gel and your circuit board has a sense of smell until the antenna rots away an hour later.Moths not having a circulatory system but they do some stuff with liquids.Whether or not Jim's wife needs an army of robot bugs for her park ranger crew.Your life goal being to annoy your neighbors with the self-replicating robot mosquito you invented.Smearing bio gel on you battery connectors and then inserting any foodstuff into the battery compartment.Putting flies on leashes.A robot-fighting praying mantis with a perfect record.The mantis refusing to fight any given robot more than once.Oops, All Biogel.Enjoying looking at all your little dinosaur poops.Eating alphabet soup consecutively and sending a photo of the toilet to your message recipient.Discovering your superpowers at a baby food tasting party.Eating baby food for the first time and vienna sausages bursting from every pore.Identifying a strange substance by putting it in your mouth.Tasting the ash of a cremated person and pooping out their face, then applying the electricity and they come back to life.Not discovering that you love writing dialog trees until you're 41.Making a mixtape of Nintendo DS ROMs for your partner.Writing a dialog tree into a stressful email so you get all the future stressful emails out of the way too.Your girlfriend reading your dialog tree linearly so she thinks you want to break up, get married, have a baby, and move to Pittsburgh.Gmail basically being a dialog tree nowadays.The Gmail Labs feature that predicts the three suggested responses that your recipient will see, so you can rewrite your email until they only get three variations of "Wow, what a great email!"Ostensibly being a comedy writer but laughing harder at dialog written by an algorithm.Japanese people making an acknowledgement noise for every word you say, and feeling way too validated.Reading RPG-style text and imagining somebody making a grunting noise every time a letter appears.
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