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December 16, 2024 60 mins
Lords: * Tyriq * Alex Topics: * Trying to superficially familiarize myself with every country * The log burner fan * https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/S68d58689db54401f9a434456881cbdfcf/4-Blade-Heat-Powered-Stove-Fan-Log-Wood-Burner-Eco-Friendly-Quiet-Fireplace-Fan-WinterWarm.jpg * Drilling this chair for ancient water * Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams, by Kenneth Koch * https://allpoetry.com/Variations-On-A-Theme-By-William-Carlos-Williams * Boichik bagels * Boxfish skeletons are wilder than seahorse skeletons Microtopics: * Saya Gray. * Least-favorite UFO 50 games. * Treating the city you live in as if you're a tourist. * Going to obscure corners of parking lots. * A way to have an adventure in real life. * The tiny squishy seal that's no longer in your back pocket. * Web sites that are nothing but quizzes. * Trying to name every country. * This Sporcle quiz's opinion about which disputed territories count as countries. * Feeling more worldly after you memorize the names of every country. * Learning katakana and then being annoyed when signs do katakana wrong. * The curse of perfect-pitch. * Corrupted Pitch. * Tuning your whole band to the same out of tune guitar. * Hearing sounds in your head but only the sounds you're also hearing with your ears. * State.gov hosting PDF reports of the US government's opinion of every country. * Dear diary, today I did a cool fishing trade with Norway. * The Four Guineas. * The Place Across the Woods. * A giant CPU heat sink in gunmetal black sitting on top of your wood burning stove. * Devices powered by ambient temperature differentials. * The spinning thing on the roof that looks like a macaroon. * Putting googly eyes on your turbine roof vents. * Whether Stirling Engines are useful for anything other than a demonstration of the principles of the Stirling Engine. * Fluids moving through spaces of different sizes. * Injection molded hollow chunky boys. * Extremely mundane time capsules. * A Chair for Scientists. * A giant plastic-encased garbage ravioli. * Entire ecosystems that have existed without light for thousands of years. * Your FEMA-approved disaster preparedness chair. * Sorting all the water molecules on earth from newest to oldest. * Artists' depictions of the Hadean Earth. * The biggest wettest comet in the universe. * Don Quixote, the sopping wet comet. * Free sharps, only used once! * Writing a piece for prepared guitar after your kid fills the guitar with crayons. * Unprepared Pianos. * Juicy cold March wind. * A fair-use parody. * AI analysis of poetry that completely misses the point. * Editing Wikipedia to say that Lil Jon went to Harvard. * List of Rivers in Togo. * What a Specific Guy! * Registering an account to vandalize Wikipedia every few months for years. * Supermarket bagels. * Boiling round bread in water with crustaceans from the Bronx. * Making your own water to make coffee with. * Where to get food-grade lye. * Pastrami lox. * Seahorse skeletons. * Every Platonic Solid Has a Fish. * Where babies breathe from. * Fish without ribcages. * Caltrops arranged into a fish. * Using a pufferfish skeleton as a fidget toy. * The pufferfish at the center of our solar system. * The kind of decoration you see in a lobster joint. * Tropes of the open ocean. * The guy preventing you from being able to find search results for the Atari game Toobin'. * The loudest drinks in the world. * The Toobin' zone in LEGO Dimensions. * Chucking whole unopened cans of beer from your inner tube.
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