326. A Dead Quarterback Can Still Score

Lords:

• Cort
• Ben

Topics:

• Oh man, remember the Geek Code?
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code
• I discovered a fun fact about my neighborhood
• Every 5x6 Nonogram
  • https://puzzarium.com/every-5x6-nonogram
• The Calf Path by Sam Foss
  • https://poets.org/poem/calf-path
• Phillip Rivers

Microtopics:

• Secret Playstation Things.
• Transposing a matrix in SIMD.
• Reclaiming your plug.
• Trying and failing to use Libby.
• Failing to check out library books from your toilet.
• State-sanctioned piracy.
• The restaurant where you had the dinner for your wedding.
• The "my wife" voice.
• Suddenly having nieces.
• Hadad and Barney on Black Square Day.
• The Talos Principal DLC.
• The Geek Code Era.
• VMS or OS/2 as a defining feature of your personality.
• Dilbert, Perl, Doom, and X-Files: all equally culturally relevant to this day.
• The Natural Bears Classification System for Gay Men.
• The Human Code.
• Your favorite grocery store's end-of-year recap.
• The story of a Venezuelan woman between age 30 and 55, and her top 2000 interests.
• Your favorite vowel in text messages you've sent this year.
• What they call that AE vowel.
• Speedrunning your entire email history in a weekend.
• The Miracle Mile, where all the tar pits are.
• Noted monster Sean "Diddy" Combs.
• Two hip hop producers getting mad at each other.
• Putting a plaque at your hotel explaining that Jim Morrison did not die at this hotel.
• Being the plaque you want to see in the world.
• Whether the Museum of Jurassic Technology has reopened after the fire.
• A very earnest museum about a history that never was.
• Wandering around dazed after every 5x5 nonogram is solved.
• Doing your part to serve humanity by solving nonograms.
• Do you remember where you were when Every 5x5 Nonogram Section 303 was finished?
• Why a dippy bird can't keep you online.
• Gesturing at the idea of collectively solving a problem.
• Why we haven't heard from Peter Molyneux in a while.
• What three digit numbers nonogram solvers think are interesting.
• Sending 96 million solved nonograms into space as proof to alien life that humans are still capable of collective action.
• Feeling bad about having installed an ad blocker and loading up a four hour block of ads from 80s TV.
• Being prosecuted for use of ad blockers.
• Look at that smirk. That's a man who knows he's preaching but getting away with it.
• Getting a deck of flash cards to learn all of the pentameters.
• Three iambs and a reverse iamb.
• Your favorite good poems and your favorite shitpost poems.
• Tony Gang Flame War.
• Refusing to tackle the 40 year old quarterback after his wallet falls out on the field and the photos of his ten children unfold.
• The median age of football players rising into retirement age as teenagers learn about the health risks and refuse to participate.
• Using NBA 2K as a metaphor for the decline of civilization.
• LA finally getting a football team again. (They have two now.)
• Whether they're still playing Starcraft.
• Broken 19 year olds who can't play Starcraft any more because their APMs are too low.
• The experience of attending a live e-Sports event.
• Whether they sell hot dogs and beer to the crowd at the live League of Legends event or if it's all GamerGrub and Feastables.
• A Youtube shitpost made in Garry's Mod.
• Channing Tatum playing the toilet in the Skibidi Toilet movie.
• Al Gore: still alive?
• Whether Wilford Brimley got plastic surgery to look that old.