204. Defrag My Colon

Lords:
* JohnB
* CisHetKayFaber
Topics:
* The human body is more similar than I'd like to shitty software (humans have chitinase in our DNA, immune system works like an antivirus)
* The origin of hiccups
* https://derinthescarletpescatarian.tumblr.com/post/723161770948231168/okay-so-the-thing-about-hiccups-is-that-you-have
* Twenty years ago there were like three real books about videogames that weren't strategy guides and now there are hundreds.
* "untitled" by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz
* https://allpoetry.com/poem/13310612-Prostetnic-Vogon-Jeltz-by-Bollox
* TV shows that have inspired original mathematics - yes, it has happened more than once
Microtopics:
* Whether it's okay to catch up.
* Air conditioning on hot days.
* A steel mill catching fire and the whole east bay smells like the back of a cathode ray tube.
* Shaking yellow sand out of your laundry.
* Importing brushfire smoke from Canada.
* Using bad metaphors to explain RAM.
* Stochastic immunology.
* Alphabetizing all your gut bacteria.
* Whitman's Anal Sampling Mechanism.
* The Bonzi Buddy of the human body.
* Your inkjet printer waking up at 5am to cycle some ink.
* The optimal humidity to reflow your ink cartridges.
* Norton Commander.
* Selecting files with the arrow keys and viewing them with F3.
* How Thunking ruined Jim's Norton Commander clone.
* Your fish nervous system trying to be a fish again.
* Reciting the anti-hiccup poem to cure your hiccups.
* Fish reminding each other to not take ten small sips of water or they'll stop breathing.
* Scaly swimmers.
* Working in a shark lab.
* Whether a fish sandwich is a fish or a sandwich.
* Offering people a "tuna roll" and when they say yes guessing whether they think you mean the sushi or tuna salad on a bready roll.
* Meditating on the concept of hiccups.
* Congratulations, you won the game!
* How to Beat the Atari Home Video Games.
* Where a library would shelve those books of type-in BASIC programs.
* Dave (2018) and Dave Demo (2018)
* Which Boss Fight Books are good.
* Starting your kid on Mario Maker.
* Game Engine Black Book: Doom and Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D.
* Mario Galaxy's camera-oriented level design.
* Your body telling you when it's time to drink water.
* Using Final Fantasy 4 as a bridge to talk about localization.
* Developing a light gun game to install in all the bowling alleys now that the bowling fad has faded.
* The Countdown to Irrelevance.
* Books that used to be blogs.
* Inventing criteria for how you beat Galaga.
* Learning what micturations are twenty years after reading that Vogon poem and wondering which seeming nonsense words you'll learn in the next twenty years.
* The BBC TV Hitchhiker's Guide series.
* The second-worst poetry in the galaxy.
* Red Dwarf airing on Dave.
* A better way to think about it. (If you are a math person.)
* Drive-by Mathematics.
* Nesting your watch orders.
* Watching every episode in every possible order to get the maximum possible amount of context for every scene.
* Marylin vos Savant.
* The Monty Hall Problem.
* A game design that presumes the player does not want a goat.
* Whether you want to switch to the other goat.
* Opening 98 doors, revealing goats behind each one.
* Pushing limits and talking about calculus.
* Learning Japanese because you want to read the smutty manga.
* X: The Everything App.

Lords:

JohnB
CisHetKayFaber

Topics:

The human body is more similar than I'd like to shitty software (humans have chitinase in our DNA, immune system works like an antivirus)
The origin of hiccups

https://derinthescarletpescatarian.tumblr.com/post/723161770948231168/okay-so-the-thing-about-hiccups-is-that-you-have

Twenty years ago there were like three real books about videogames that weren't strategy guides and now there are hundreds.
"untitled" by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz

https://allpoetry.com/poem/13310612-Prostetnic-Vogon-Jeltz-by-Bollox

TV shows that have inspired original mathematics - yes, it has happened more than once

Microtopics:

Whether it's okay to catch up.
Air conditioning on hot days.
A steel mill catching fire and the whole east bay smells like the back of a cathode ray tube.
Shaking yellow sand out of your laundry.
Importing brushfire smoke from Canada.
Using bad metaphors to explain RAM.
Stochastic immunology.
Alphabetizing all your gut bacteria.
Whitman's Anal Sampling Mechanism.
The Bonzi Buddy of the human body.
Your inkjet printer waking up at 5am to cycle some ink.
The optimal humidity to reflow your ink cartridges.
Norton Commander.
Selecting files with the arrow keys and viewing them with F3.
How Thunking ruined Jim's Norton Commander clone.
Your fish nervous system trying to be a fish again.
Reciting the anti-hiccup poem to cure your hiccups.
Fish reminding each other to not take ten small sips of water or they'll stop breathing.
Scaly swimmers.
Working in a shark lab.
Whether a fish sandwich is a fish or a sandwich.
Offering people a "tuna roll" and when they say yes guessing whether they think you mean the sushi or tuna salad on a bready roll.
Meditating on the concept of hiccups.
Congratulations, you won the game!
How to Beat the Atari Home Video Games.
Where a library would shelve those books of type-in BASIC programs.
Dave (2018) and Dave Demo (2018)
Which Boss Fight Books are good.
Starting your kid on Mario Maker.
Game Engine Black Book: Doom and Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D.
Mario Galaxy's camera-oriented level design.
Your body telling you when it's time to drink water.
Using Final Fantasy 4 as a bridge to talk about localization.
Developing a light gun game to install in all the bowling alleys now that the bowling fad has faded.
The Countdown to Irrelevance.
Books that used to be blogs.
Inventing criteria for how you beat Galaga.
Learning what micturations are twenty years after reading that Vogon poem and wondering which seeming nonsense words you'll learn in the next twenty years.
The BBC TV Hitchhiker's Guide series.
The second-worst poetry in the galaxy.
Red Dwarf airing on Dave.
A better way to think about it. (If you are a math person.)
Drive-by Mathematics.
Nesting your watch orders.
Watching every episode in every possible order to get the maximum possible amount of context for every scene.
Marylin vos Savant.
The Monty Hall Problem.
A game design that presumes the player does not want a goat.
Whether you want to switch to the other goat.
Opening 98 doors, revealing goats behind each one.
Pushing limits and talking about calculus.
Learning Japanese because you want to read the smutty manga.
X: The Everything App.

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