292. A Dewey Decimal System, But For Libraries

Lords:

• Alexander
  • https://youtube.com/@L4MPLIGHT
• Chall

Topics:

• Having an address after not having an address
• Slopsquatting
• Book curses
• This boke ys myne, Eleanor Worcester
  • https://15thcfeminist.substack.com/p/the-preservation-of-womens-words
• The David Lynch random number generator
  • Esper says: My personal favorite use of numbers stations is the brief “station ID” type messages on Secret Agent Radio, a radio station that plays funky groovy Bond soundtrack-type music. Every now and then between songs, you’ll get a brief clip of creepy French-accented actual number station recordings, which really sells the vibe: https://somafm.com/player24/station/secretagent
• Do game designers ever go into public policy or vice-versa?

Microtopics:

• Math.
• An incredible youtube channel you don't know how to search for.
• Lamplight but with a four.
• Making art that only a tetrachromat could appreciate and then finding a tetrachromat to appreciate it.
• The secret color: yellow.
• Crashlands 2.
• Watching X-Files until you've already seen all the Darin Morgan episodes.
• Having twenty shirts to choose from and the same place to sit every day.
• How long it takes to tire off the non-stop stream of novelty.
• Working for yourself vs. working for someone else.
• How to stop feeling like life is rushing past you.
• Running a Kickstarter to get chores done around the house.
• How to get your ADHD brain to do work in purpose.
• Trying to get past the gauntlet of open browser tabs to the one where you get work done.
• Running 100 times.
• Productivity!
• Buying a productivity calendar and then glaring at the calendar and saying "you can't trick me, calendar"
• Nefarious NPM packages really popping off in the past few years.
• Cool pens dot com.
• Kazaam vs. Shazaam.
• What people knew before they could search things on the Internet.
• Dog bone facts.
• The apocryphal things that LLMs like to say.
• Lost books that we know about because they were mentioned in less old books.
• The Actual Monster Mash.
• Jeff Minter's Polybius.
• Nobody ever releasing a fake Frog Fractions 2 even though Jim could never disavow it.
• Hash tag relatable stories about medieval scribes.
• Laws about book mishandling.
• Dukes collecting books like treasures.
• Putting a curse in your book to make sure nobody steals it.
• The Falling Disease.
• Irascibly Incoherent Book Curses.
• May your NPM packages be infected with the falling disease.
• A curse that can only curse people who can read.
• Young people getting their grubby fingers dirty in the yard and leaving fingerprints in your books.
• Someone left their bookmark in my book and the bookmark rotted again.
• Cursing podcast bootleggers with the affliction where they always put their headphones on backwards.
• The cheat code to unlock Nukey.
• May your X button get stuck.
• The wildest spelling that could possibly make sense.
• A book that once belonged to a library.
• Borrowing a book about space from your first grade teacher and forgetting to return it and learning about the ADHD shame procrastination spiral.
• Blessed be he who steals this book.
• Walking into a library and instantly being completely overwhelmed.
• Giving your child the talk about where Little Free Libraries come from.
• David Lynch giving you the weather in his all caps voice.
• Why David Lynch never draws a 7.
• The Reproducibility Crisis.
• The Law of the Iterated Logarithm.
• All the ways we make mistakes.
• Coded drug drop messages on Britney Spears' Insagram.
• The 485.152nd Amendment.
• A great source of puns that must've existed for thousands of years.
• How to predict whether your idea will work and then how to test whether it worked.
• The Double Crossover Diamond Interchange.