209. Do Caterpillars Anticipate?

Lords:

• Will
• Chris

Topics:

• Canoes
• Blowing soap bubbles with your hands, making cricket noises, "party tricks"
• nissan.com
• Nothing Is Too Small Not To Be Wondered About, by Mary Oliver
  • https://thevalueofsparrows.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/poetry-nothing-is-too-small-not-to-be-wondered-about-by-mary-oliver/
• Would zombies try to hide the fact that they were zombies?
• Magic

Microtopics:

• Soda Drinker Pro for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
• Finding someone to port your game to NES via LinkedIn.
• The Vivian Clark Experience.
• Making certain contortions slightly easier.
• Rock climbing. (Not a topic.)
• The Phantom Lapboard.
• The Only Viable Product. (OVP.)
• What if you could mouse and keyboard on the couch?
• Growing up in a canoe family.
• Paddling vs. rowing.
• Carbon fiber paddles for canoe racing.
• Waterwalker by Bill Mason.
• Your favorite memories of a kayak.
• Waking up in your kayak to see a snapping turtle staring at you.
• Floating up and wiggling all over the place.
• Kayaking to lunch from your office.
• Living in a ski cabin and your office is at the bottom of the mountain.
• Living at a Lagrange point and your office is at the bottom of the zipline.
• Boston Unity Knights.
• Doing a game jam every month for four years.
• Knowing enough people in your field that you no longer need to network.
• Five really worthy zero-hour games.
• Making a therapeutic horror game.
• Going to a terrifying party in an abandoned train tunnel and finding a burned-out police car.
• Questionable poisonous air filled with unknown tunnel organisms.
• Doing mouth stuff in VR.
• Making the soda line up with your mouth.
• The Ferris Bueller water drop noise.
• The thing where you play a blade of grass like a reed instrument.
• Cheek-flapping noises.
• Magic tricks vs. Party Tricks.
• Inhaler magic.
• Twenty levels of spinning pens.
• A different horrible knife game.
• A game about chopping off fingers named "Chop the Finger."
• Shooting arrows in the air while your friend run away.
• The keyboard shortcut for finding someone to port your game to NES.
• A web site where you endorse people as thought leaders.
• Entering the LinkedIn cheat code on Xbox 360.
• Porting your video game to a robotic arm.
• Making it move when you think about it.
• Uzi Nissan v. Nissan Motors.
• It can happen to you or someone you know!
• Picturing conceptual rabbit holes in your head.
• Sylvester Stallone's Mom's web site.
• Sylvester Stallone's mom doing palm readings of your ass.
• All our favorite apps, such as buffalo wings and boneless spare ribs.
• Thinking about a cricket's interiority.
• Putting some nature in your poem.
• Using cricket noises to tell what temperature it is.
• Having the same number of wings you've always had.
• Do any bugs make a plan.
• Leaving "I gave up" pheromones
• Leaving a map of a physical space in the space.
• Sizable ants.
• Fewer scorpions than you'd expect.
• Putting a bug into your awareness.
• Pseudoscorpions hanging out on old stuff.
• Little guys in random places very occasionally.
• Zombies going to Whole Foods.
• Going quiescent until a dude walks by with a tasty-looking scalp.
• Painting a brain on your helmet to fool the zombies.
• A short-hair wig taped to your grandfather's basketball.
• Dropping your scalp like a lizard tail and the zombie shakes your scalp back and forth in its teeth.
• An analyst commissioned by a think tank to write a book explicating how to deal with the zombie apocalypse.
• Sound Reading Trainer.
• Having a bunch of magic props that you never show anyone how to use.
• The casino OJ got arrested at.
• Tommy Wonder.
• Reviewing a product on YouTube without ever showing it or saying what it does.
• How stage hypnosis works.