Lords:
- Ben
- Andrew
Topics:
- Baking: precise science of measurement or do it all by feel? (People have very different philosophies of muffins)
- I've gotten into making crosswords this year and recently had the idea to start putting them on postcards and leaving them in public places for people to find. Am I becoming the Riddler? Is this fine?
- I just found out that there aren't exactly 52 weeks in a year
- The Rules, Leila Chatti
- Building fidgeting into a Zoom lecture
- Things of Science. (Subscription science toy service that I got when I was a kid)
Microtopics:
- Posting pictures of pottery to social media.
- The Hopefully Year of Layoffs.
- Teaching game development as a hobby.
- The interactive comic books of Jason Shiga.
- Lies and truth and sea monsters.
- Waiting for half an hour to find out if you fucked it up.
- Baking intuitively.
- Skimming a recipe and thinking "hmm yes, I've made food before"
- Voronoi cookies.
- Keeping separate baking notebooks for each season.
- Having units that are divisible by two.
- Putting it in a Gas 4 Oven.
- How to pronounce "tare."
- Sneaking into Grandma's kitchen and weighing all the ingredients.
- Cruciverbalism.
- Where to post the crosswords you've constructed.
- A Lord's Puzzle.
- Giving people a little bit of joy and avoiding hearing any feedback about it.
- Living in the puzzle capital of the world.
- Constructing a crossword puzzle for every party you attend.
- The MIT Mystery Hunt.
- Making art for a really small group of people.
- Crosswordese.
- Designing themed vs. themeless crossword puzzles.
- How many weeks are in a leap year.
- Yet another ratio that doesn't work out.
- Calendrical systems you could use.
- Things that you know that are wrong.
- What's your favorite thing you don't know that you don't know?
- Finding a drawer full of narwhal tusks in a bone shop and thinking "hm, sixty unicorns died here"
- NASA's antigravity room.
- Why doesn't the Mars habitat work out?
- Multiple digressions on horse urine.
- Refining horse urine into progesterone on Mars.
- Suddenly realizing that you've been dead all along.
- Cicadas doing whatever they do in the trees.
- Acknowledging the expectations of what a poem is.
- Why you always turn out to have been dead at the end.
- Who is out there still making games about guns?
- Adding line breaks to make your essay look like a poem.
- Innominateness.
- Garden path level design.
- Reading aloud etudes.
- Mavis Beacon Teaches Elocution.
- Replacing your Zoom background with a video of yourself.
- Brain massaging video of cutting sand.
- The calming effect of amphetamines.
- Fidgeting incessantly during Zoom calls.
- Fidgeting for people so they don't have to.
- Bubbling noises and space harps.
- Remote testing protocols.
- Plagiarism detector snake oil.
- Doing homework to get used to the idea of doing homework.
- Mass-production of adults.
- Paperwork as a method of crowd control.
- Homework as a barrier to family time vs. homework that facilitates family time.
- Mailing people little bits of science.
- Aerogel vs. Superslurper.
- Growing mold in your oobleck.
- Sending 1940s children asbestos in the mail.
- Using every sense to explore the world.
- A dog sniffing your hand and walking away.
- Throwing away all the business cards that just have your Twitter handle on them.
