318. Fast Thick Pants

Lords: * Mitch * Kory Topics: * The Nintendo 64DD * Wristwatch repair videos * How to switch to Linux?? * Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan * The ICZN's recommended method of determining the Latin grammatical gender of a word that isn't Latin Microtopics: * Being a fledgling your whole life. * Mitch from the Super Mario Wiki. * The episode of Topic Lords where we specifically didn't discuss what's happening in Washington DC. * A show with nobody on it discussing nothing. * Putting money in the jukebox to have three minutes of peace and quiet. * A noise cancellation podcast that guesses what noise you'll probably be surrounded by when you listen. * The least notable of Nintendo's major failures. * What if we added a floppy disk reader to compete with the Playstation? * In retrospect, it sounds like a bad idea, but at the time, it also sounded like a bad idea. * Paying $100 for a plastic replica of a Virtual Boy to play Virtual Boy games on your Switch. * The rich tapestry of homebrew games for the Virtual Boy. * Why isn't the Nintendo 64DD in Super Smash Bros. Brawl? * Animal Crossing for the Nintendo 64DD. * People writing very politely worded letters to Nintendo and getting Mother 3 released. * Playing with the 3D sculpture mini game on the title screen of Donkey Kong Bananza and thinking "I bet I could do something cool with this if I was an artist" * Mario Artist Polygon Studio. * Wario Ware as a spinoff of the Mario Paint series. * Family BASIC for the Famicom Disk System. * The Tonkachi Editor. * Mario 64 2 for the Game Boy Advance. * Vegging out by binging wristwatch repair videos. * Jewels on the movement that you ambiently know of. * Using a ruby or sapphire as a bearing for a mechanical device. * Synthetic corundum. * Why the little work is going back and forth. * Solving a very particular problem at a very micro scale. * Transistor radios advertising how many transistors are in there. * The World's First 128-Bit Web Site! * What 1990s video game enthusiasts knew about numbers of bits. * 1.21 Gigaflops! * The sad state of Nintendo 64 emulation. * Nintendo Classics – Nintendo Switch Online. * Migrating all the executables you use to the inside of virtual machines running Windows XP. * Winboat. * Linux distributions with as much or as little configuration as you want * How they made Linux good. * The year of Linux on the Desktop. * Attaching an IR transceiver to the GPIO pins. * Setting the oven via PHP script. * Getting an ancient Thinkpad to install Linux on. * The red nub in the middle of the keyboard. * Whether there's any possible way this $50 Thinkpad doesn't run Pico-8. * A stately pleasure dome decreed. * Women wailing for their demon lovers. * Five miles meandering with a mazy motion. * Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a native speaker of early modern English, or he's Just Like That? * A poem that starts with a real Rubik's Cube of a sentence. * How Adam Saltzman does it. * Procrastinating game development by installing Linux on everything. * The Zoologist with naming dibs. * Finally getting to name a beetle and choosing to name it a word borrowed from Serbo-Croatian just to piss people off. * The ICZN's stance on Serbo-Croatian.