Binary Jazz

This episode is ablaut particle smashing and alpacas in Utah. Also, Mormon pioneer names, Girl Scout Cookies, games on Kickstarter, Magic: the Gathering and things most people don’t know about us.

* Hurricane, Utah (Wikipedia)* Cecret Lake (Wikipedia)* Why Nanaimo Has Such Wacky Street Names (McCullogh Marketing, Nanaimo Homes and Real Estate)* Primer (film) (the movie Chris was thinking of) (Wikipedia)* Create, Read, Update and Delete (Wikipedia)* International GMs Day (gmsday.com)* * Cat Crimes (Think Fun)* Coyote and Crow (Kickstarter)* Caper: Europe (Kickstarter)* Tournament of Pigs (Kickstarter)* Tiny Epic Dungeons (Kickstarter)* Magic: the Gathering (Wizards of the Coast)* Star Wars Collectible Card Game (Wikipedia)* Mercadian Masques (MTG Wiki)* Ablaut Reduplication (ALM Translation)* Reduplication — English (Wikipedia)

Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.

We celebrate this episode of Binary Jazz by discussing the posterior-shaped nature of the binary episode number, Twitter lists, profile pages, Allison Live!, Martian lander moments and Binary Jazz notes.Also, weird food.

* D&D Battle Tracker (jazzsequence.com)* The code (GitHub)* YourUsername.github.io (A GitHub profile builder and link sharing tool that Chris built) (GitHub)* Chris’s profile (GitHub.io)* Allison’s profile (GitHub.io)* BinaryJazz profile (GitHub.io)* Code Thesaurus (codethesaur.us)* Allison live on the internet (pre-recorded) (YouTube)* Orion’s gender binary matrix talk (Twitter)* Critical Bard (not the same person as Orion who did the above talk….) (Twitter)* But he did moderate the D&D Live #BlackAF panel (YouTube)* The NYPD deploys a robot dog again (The Verge)* When It’s (Not?) Burnout (Except that it is) (halfelf.org)

Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.

In this episode, we talk about piste — which we all know to be some Catholic metal structure for holding things. Or part of a piston. Also, names we choose for ourselves, meat alternatives and moral quandaries in Dungeons & Dragons.

* Chicken Melon (again) (Travels with the Picky Eater)* Last episode (when we talked about Chicken Melon the first time)* Piste (Wikipedia)

Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.

Welcome to the new and improved version of Binary Jazz! Actually, there’s nothing new or improved about the show other than a new, improved intro and outro by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, who we got an email from in the last episode. We debate whether murmuration refers to a heart condition or quiet murmuring. Topics also covered include D&D, something that sounds an awful lot like a Dyson Sphere, the Genrenator, things we would do if we randomly had a month to do whatever, library smell, newspaper routes and our Twitter origins.

* Ginny Di (YouTube)* Julia Child’s Chicken Melon (Heather in SF)* Cooking with Julia (Travels with the Picky Eater)* Turkey Melon (David Lebovitz)* Genrenator Storynator (binaryjazz.us)* Genrenator code on GitHub

The making of humans as trophies or the latest cryptocurrency are probably not the subjects of this week’s episode of Binary Jazz. We also talk about testing in code which you can probably just skip past because we’re extreme nerds (#NerdyThursday). Additionally, social media hiatuses, dumb print-on-demand stuff, cryptocurrency and our secret spy identities.

* Brain Monkey (GitHub.io)* Mockery (GitHub)* Cypress (cypress.io)* PHPUnit (PHPUnit.de)* Chris’ game list (jazzsequence.com)* Printful (Printful)* Coinbase (Coinbase)* Eutrophication (Wikipedia)* What is eutrophication? (National Ocean Service)* El Murciélago, Serpiente Negra Ensamble (Bandcamp)* Spycraft (Netflix)* Lupin (Netflix)

In this episode, we examine the concept of torpor through the lens of, as most things are, role playing games and vampires. Also: hair styles, day trading, intermittent fasting and a game of Marvel Character or Yoga Pose.

* Intermittent Fasting (Wikipedia)* Vampire: The Masquerade (Wikipedia)* The Difference Between Hibernation and Torpor (ThoughtCo)* Marvel Super Hero or Yoga Pose (Critical Role Linkable Transcripts: Campaign 1 Episode 100 – Unfinished Business) (Gary & Allison tie)

In this episode we debate (or, in some cases, don’t debate) whether sternutation has to do with the steering of a ship or Howard Stern mutations. Also, Chris gives a show and tell of recent D&D miniatures he’s 3D printed (which really requires the visual), we have technical difficulties for the first time in recorded history, answering more rhetorical spam questions and D&D Familiar or WWE Wrestler.

* Laughter Yoga (laughteryoga.com)* Cat Tarot (Amazon)* The Brotherband Chronicles by John Flanagan (worldofjohnflanagan.com)* Meeple (Wiktionary)* Warhammer (Games Workshop)* Wizards of the Coast (wizards.com)* Creality Ender 5 (Creality 3D)* Rime of the Frostmaiden (dnd.wizards.com)* Triple Goddess (Wikipedia)* How to Play Auril the Frostmaiden like a Goddess of Eternal Winter (DnDBeyond)* sternutation (Merriam-Webster)* WWE Wrestler or D&D Familiar (Critical Role Linkable Transcripts: Campaign 2 Episode 38 – Welcome to the Jungle) (Allison won)

Instead of a topic, we get sidetracked talking about TV shows we’re watching or would recommend. On the Binary Jazz watchlist is: Watchmen, Ted Lasso, The Office, Midnight Gospel, Dickenson and See. Also: Chris runs weird quizzes (that have been stolen from Critical Role) and we get spam about making money online.

* Watchmen (Graphic Novel) (Wikipedia)* V is for Vendetta (Graphic Novel) (Wikipedia)* From Hell (Graphic Novel) (Wikipedia)* Alan Moore (Wikipedia)* Watchmen (TV Series) (Wikipedia)* Watchmen (Film) (IMDB)* Tulsa Race Massacre (History)* Ted Lasso (Wikipedia)* The Rookie (TV Series) (Wikipedia)* Nathan Fillion (Wikipedia)* The Office (American TV series) (Wikipedia)* Jessica Jones (Netflix)* Luke Cage (Netflix)* Midnight Gospel (Netflix)* Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Wikipedia)* Mystic Pop-Up Bar (Netflix)* See (TV Series) (Wikipedia)* Doctor Manhattan (Wikipedia)* Quizzes:* Marvel Character or Jean-Claude Van Damme movie (Critical Role Linkable Transcripts: Campaign 1 Episode 104 – Elysium) (Allison & Gary tie)* Magic: the Gathering card or Kama Sutra position (Critical Role Linkable Transcripts: Campaign 1 Episode 107 – Scaldseat) (Gary wins)* D&D Familiar or…? (Critical Role Linkable Transcripts: Campaign 2 Episode 38 – Welcome to the Jungle) (Allison & Gary tie)

Welcome to the new year and the first episode of season 4! We’re recalcitrant to discuss this episode’s topic, so instead talk a lot about the new year, coding (sorry!) and what should be added to hot cocoa.

* Jackbox Games (jackboxgames.com)* Bidiots (jackboxgames.com)* Recalcitrant (Google, definition provided by Oxford Languages)

In this, extra-long, final episode of 2020, and of season 3, we discuss defenestration, which is a thing you do to activate vegetables or a way an outgoing Presidential administration covers up past wrongs. We also reflect a bit on doing this podcast for three years, cats, meat/veggie loaf and we introduce our inaugural Binary Jazz Holiday Playlist Exchange.

* Winter Solstice Fest (wintersolsticefest.com)* BoardGameArena (boardgamearena.com)* Jackbox Games (jackboxgames.com)* Clue (boardgamegeek.com)* Clue: Master Detective (boardgamegeek.com)* Harry Potter Clue (boardgamegeek.com)* Pronking episode (binaryjazz.us)