Lords:
* Stevie
* Bri
Topics:
* 3D modeling and my lack of visual imagination
* Cutthroat compounds (my linguistic specialty) – current pursuit is "verb-em" last names – I'm researching the origins of the fictional law offices of Dewey Cheatum and Howe
* Pocket Warwick and other lost software
* For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper, by Joseph Fasano
* https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1fvzv1f/poemforastudentwhousedaitowriteapaper/
* Colma's city motto "It's Great to Be Alive in Colma" is great marketing
Microtopics:
* Silly inventor and brainstormer.
* Writing code that generates audio.
* Giving talks at the Odd Salon.
* Coffeehouse revolutionary thinkers.
* Classic Hughes Behavior.
* Looking at Blender again every seven to ten years.
* Imagining a place in any level of detail. (Other than the name.)
* The memory of what a tiger looks like, and whether it rotated on a Lazy Susan.
* Whether seeing things in a dream feels similar to visualization.
* Needing a license to operate as an engineer, but anyone can call themselves an Imagineer.
* Weenies and MacGuffins.
* Drawing something in 2D and tracing it in Blender.
* Different ways to approach level design.
* Thinking of something and putting it in your game.
* Getting your game design playable as soon as possible so you can find out if it's any good.
* A verb and its direct object.
* Misers and drunks and cowards and gluttons.
* Kick 'em Jenny.
* Bop It!
* Plastic keys where the point of the key is that it immediately breaks and you have to buy a new one.
* Lawyer jokes from 19th century Australia.
* Whether Nukem is his last name or just a nickname.
* Syntactic freezes.
* Rude slang words that end up on listicles.
* How "cacafuego" became "spitfire."
* Etymonline shrugging and giving up.
* Not knowing about the alternate pronunciation of parentheses and processes until you get an office job.
* Choosing a comma as one of your hills.
* A unit of sound and meaning that you use to modify another unit of sound and meaning.
* How to pronounce Warwick Davis.
* A Jib Jab.
* A Tamagotchi Situation.
* Boatswains and forecastles.
* Adding redundancy for clarity and also removing it for efficiency.
* If you still have a Jaz disk, what do you even do with it?
* Going to MagFest to see a chip metal band called Master Boot Record and he's throwing floppy disks with Deluxe Paint on them into the crowd.
* Sharing a birthday with a Kentucky Derby winner but not being sure if he's a person or a horse.
* The Friendliest Friend!
* Stu Sutcliffe, the sixth Beatle.
* International Snooker 2012 and Seven Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover.
* Fantasy consoles that only run Final Fantasy games.
* If it's your first time at Nice Club, you have to Nice.
* Seeing a generation grow up using automation to do a task that you had to do by hand and feeling one way or another about it.
* How to tell whether somebody can reason about a topic and express their thoughts clearly.
* Underpants Gnome Plans.
* Polishing your thought processes until you find one that you agree with.
* Defending Your Thesis, directed by Al Brooks.
* The only place on the Internet you can hear advice about going to college.
* Colma Secrets.
* Noone ever stops in Colma (on purpose)
* Everyone who came to San Francisco and died.
* Go By Train.
* Calling the Colma Historical Society to see if they have a living volunteer there that day.
* Calling a song "Going to Colma" and hoping that the phrase catches on as a euphemism for Kicking the Bucket.
* The Joy of Actual Citizens and People Involved in Government.
* Encyclopedia Briannica.