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.