314. Gotta Catch Half Of 'Em!

Lords:

• Elena
• Joël

Topics:

• The Luck Factor:
  • http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/The_Luck_Factor.pdf
• Dual pilgrim certificate
• The return of PicoSteveMo
  • https://itch.io/jam/picostevemo-3
• Every poem, by every human
  • https://www.tumblr.com/nextworldover/793694487879827456/animatedamerican-atamascolily

Microtopics:

• Packing cubes.
• The Rolling Method.
• Modular backpacks.
• Camera people: a different type of people.
• Nested zippered envelopes labeled one through five.
• Why does your purse say "three" on it??
• Tool user opinions.
• Getting ready for fiction to incorporate our new conception of what AI is.
• Running experiments on people who self-identify as lucky or unlucky.
• Gladstone Gander.
• Paying your put-upon nephew a dime to accompany you on a trip to Zazu-Zazu.
• Stan Connery's terrible taste in roles.
• Natalie Portman's Tom Scott number.
• Systems that are gamable but not trivially gamable.
• Rick Rubin numbers vs. Sabbath Numbers.
• The Kumano Kodo Trail's trail adjudicators ringing a bell and giving you a certificate to certify that you've walked their trail.
• A terrible time of year to hike the Camino de Santiago.
• Taking a wrong turn while hiking the Camino de Santiago and ending up on France.
• All the school children running over to high five the pilgrims.
• Feral Eucalyptus plantation.
• Peeking into all the ancient mills.
• Shrine tossing tricks.
• Passing bones from chopstick to chopstick.
• The three major sources of ritual pollution.
• Getting sick of climbing the hill all the time so you write a poem explaining that the gods don't want the shrine to be at the top of the hill any more.
• Harassment prevention for non-supervisors.
• Printing and framing the certificate you got after taking the class on filling out your timecard.
• The uncle so otherwise never contacts you sending you a happy birthday message on LinkedIn every year.
• Endorsing your friend on LinkedIn for being a git.
• Balloons in the sewer.
• Sokoban mechanics that could apply Stephen King's It.
• A tricycle kart racer set in the Overlook hotel.
• NanoSteveMo.
• The scruffy guy the hotel manager doesn't want around.
• Singlehandedly supplying the fanbase for this Mo.
• Hoarding Pico-8 cartridges on you desktop.
• The Spore creature creator exporting your creature as a PNG.
• A topic for another Topic Lords.
• Concatenating a zip file to the end of a different file.
• Here's this artifact. Please try it out.
• Saving PNGs to Starlings.
• Storing your Pico-8 game in a bird.
• Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme.
• Pirating software on Usenet.
• Catching 50 out of 100 birds to extract the Pico-8 game from them.
• Realizing that it's a plums in a refrigerator thing and moving on.
• Helping a stranger grieve using your well-honed crossword skills.
• Approaching classical literature as a collection of in-jokes and wanting to be in on the joke.
• A book with a serrated edge.
• How to read a book vs. how to read a poem.