247. Fish That Scrutinize; Fish That Rubberneck
July 15th, 2024
1 hr 15 mins 40 secs
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Lords:
- Alex
- Shannon
Topics:
- The less you spend on food, the better it tastes
- The jizz of a bird
- The Cosmic Call
- Line Fishing by Daniel Kahaulelio
- How to order coffee in Malaysia
- Dice, and physically rolling them
Microtopics:
- Paleo animators.
- Malaysia as a vacation destination.
- Restaurants that are just in s guy's house.
- The best whole fried catfish you've ever had.
- Eating mixed whole livers.
- Striving to get a B rating from the food safety inspectors because the A rating is too bougie.
- Starch and grease.
- The shape of the price to deliciousness correlation graph.
- If you're here to buy cake, ring the doorbell.
- You can talk to the cops or you can have cake. You can't have both.
- Whether Americans can drink the water in Malaysia.
- Being so desperate for fresh vegetables that you wash them with tap water.
- Butterfly Pee Flour.
- Jizz (birding)
- The practice of just getting the vibe of a bird.
- I don't know, it had the jizz of a bird.
- Zooniverse.
- Going through the still images on a nature webcam and trying to identify local animals.
- Trying to tell the difference between a wood rat and a deer mouse.
- Reclassifying all the animals in the world based not on their actual genetics or but based on what people think they are by looking at them.
- Small, Brown and On the Ground.
- Submitting a picture of a pair of brown wood owls to a bird study app and two hours later an angry ecologist is knocking on your tent to ask if you meant a spotted wood owl.
- An extremely high-stress app.
- Asking an albatross which of the twelve species is albatross it is.
- Walking around in the woods until you spot a kiwi.
- Major gaffes in interstellar communication that future aliens will be very confused about.
- Massively synesthetic dog brains.
- Receiving a sequence of bits and deciding to arrange them in a grid.
- The other book with the spiders.
- Humans interacting with a spider-based society.
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
- Expecting monkeys to become the dominant intelligent species on a terraformed planet seeded with Earth animals.
- Adventuring into a dungeon built by the ancients and admiring the signage.
- Opening an oil drum full of concrete and tubes and being like "where's the treasure that's supposed to be in here!"
- Writing a song about how being near glowing cats is very dangerous.
- Public serving meme songs.
- Engineering earworms for the public good.
- The Museum of Hawaiian Culture in Oahu.
- Fish that watch. Fish that look.
- Get those fish hungry.
- It's just a lookin' fish.
- Sleeping the lobes of your brain in shifts.
- The lobes of your brain playing pranks on each other.
- How can fish get some shuteye if they don't have eyelids??
- How can fish rubberneck if they don't even have necks??
- The Star Trek replicator except instead of materializing your food it prints a piece of paper with the words that you need to say to the tired-looking guy who then goes to cook your meal.
- Ais krim.
- What languages are hardest to spell in.
- Are there four silent letters at the end, and if so which ones?
- Cofftea.
- Rolling all them bones.
- Owning more sets of dice than you have played actual D&D sessions.
- A big pile of dice rattling around in your phone.
- Rolling the dice off of the table every single time.
- A switch that goes ka-chonk.
- Actively seeking out hobbies where you touch things.
- Ways that continuous deployment sucks.
- Text classifiers flagging your sexuality as photographic.
- Image classifiers flagging your medical photos as pornographic.
- Which photos encapsulate what you're trying to remember and discuss.
- How to get your life off of a corporation's hard drive.
- Unsearchable Tumblrs.
- Get out there and jizz a bird!