216. I Forget What We Do But We're About To Do It
December 11th, 2023
1 hr 13 mins 42 secs
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Lords:
- Tyriq
- Jay
Topics:
- I recently moved and I think I understand Having Stuff more now.
- Teaching my 3-year-old to use a mouse and keyboard. Kids learning software being a ghost of its former self.
- Interface traps
- Yelp! Review for God by Willow James Claire
- Starting a YouTube Channel for kids and the lack of useful information on the topic.
Microtopics:
- Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream.
- Washing the ice cream off of the cookie dough ice cream and baking cookies.
- Snacking dough.
- Living on your own and owning silverware for the first time.
- Losing a fork that they don't make any more and having mismatched forks forever.
- A hodgepodge of styles.
- Different spaces each with their own internal consistency.
- Going to your ex-roommate's Halloween party as a guest for the first time.
- Parties that you can leave.
- Finding out you were right about what you thought you'd like.
- Moving house in an hour.
- Your kid banging on the keyboard to write nonsense messages in discord but he forgets to hit enter to send so you have to do it for him.
- Teaching kids to read by giving them a Kindle tablet.
- Typing "stop" fifty times in notepad.
- Dell Rugged.
- What Mavis Beacon is up to nowadays.
- Computers as the exciting future vs. computers as the boring shitty present.
- Getting a laptop without a touch screen so your kid can learn to use the mouse.
- Different ways to not understand folders.
- Whether the problem is that Gen Z doesn't know what a folder is or whether it's that they sometimes still need to know what a folder is.
- Apps that appear to be native apps but they're secretly running in a web browser.
- Coming into possession of a child.
- An overworld where you can walk in 8 directions and bump into NPCs.
- Boots Quest.
- Auto Shooting Survival.
- Roguelike Turn-Based Auto Shooting Survival.
- Mini Yoto.
- Using the insert key on purpose.
- The Jay's Wife of Scroll Lock.
- The two Smush tracks on the Hypnospace Outlaw soundtrack.
- Why there are separate shift and caps lock keys but no separate toggle insert and hold to insert keys.
- Sticky Keys.
- Caps lock keys that physically toggle.
- Toon Boom Harmony and other way too expensive subscription software.
- Can't draw can't see pencil in toon boom reddit
- Lock the taskbar, lock the taskbar.
- The pros and cons of different start menu orientations.
- Getting kissed in the vegetable aisle, so to speak.
- Talking about dungeons and dragons and getting something slightly wrong about dungeons or dragons.
- The laws of physics preventing you from kidding boys.
- On the one hand growing up as a trans poet in Arizona. On the other, drinking a whole lot of strawberry kiwi kombucha.
- Four out of five stars for inventing an extremely dry mouth.
- A dry, scratchy, sandpaper cat tongue.
- A song about a ghost eating toast.
- Watching your kid watch things.
- Where to put video content on the internet.
- Ideas that are occluded by ideas that are better search-engine optimized.
- Whether librarians are scarier in Germany.
- Combining three people with social anxiety to make one really big person with social anxiety.
- Fixing kids software for 100 people because it's too hard to fix it for the whole world.
- X for Extreme.