242. Malware For Labyrinths

Lords:

• Maxx
• JP

Topics:

• The different kinds of "changing your mind" in creative work
• What texture did you think clouds were as a kid?
• Infinity Island
• Sleep, by Jorge Luis Borges
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=38645
• Chippendale Mupps and the slowest nerves

Microtopics:

• Knowing the names of zero outdoor cats in your neighborhood.
• Canny outdoor cats who are adapted to city life and don't need your plugs.
• Obi like the belt or like the Star Wars guy?
• Loosey goosey versions
• Changing your mind while making a creative work.
• Moving a door or a window in an existing wall.
• Bigger creative decisions being composed of many smaller creative decisions.
• Retaining maximum flexibility at every point in the process.
• A workflow that reflects the spectrum of flexibility.
• Flexibility Lost is Sturdiness Gained.
• Tweaking the value of pi to suit your needs.
• A system where a bunch of things depend on a bunch of other things.
• Axes of flexibility that you don't end up using.
• More specific categories of types of changing your mind.
• Going down a deep dark hole and finding the glittering prize but not being sure whether it's worth anything.
• A loop that spirals, oscillating, into the middle.
• Putting a branch into a meditation labyrinth and changing its theological meaning.
• Rewriting your novel in second person, present tense, just to see how it feels.
• The Citation Needed guy doubting that mazes can be built with snow.
• The ongoing Corn vs. Maize Wikipedia war.
• The marine layer rolling in.
• Looking at clouds and totally seeing the ice cream.
• Buying aerogel samples on eBay.
• What stuffed animals are stuffed with.
• Going to the sky island and it's sort of rubbery.
• Walkable clouds in the Mario series.
• Cloudjacking.
• Yanking Lakitu out onto the pavement and going on a joyride until the LoJack system kicks in.
• Super Mario Bros. redubbed with Quake and Half-Life sounds.
• Super Mario Bros. Next Gen AAA
• What clouds taste like.
• Fizzy Lifting Drinks.
• The soda with the glass ball.
• Ordering something red hoping for cherry, watermelon or strawberry flavor, but it's cinnamon flavored.
• Eating Red Hots for the first time and realizing you've been Halloween poisoned.
• Your first bitey cinnamon food.
• A little poison, as a treat.
• Filling your mouth with tree bark.
• Games with saved progress feeling like you're participating in a responsible activity than games where you start over every time.
• Deliberate mechanical whimsy.
• Making a complicated game and failing to teach the player how to play it.
• For a Change, by Dan Schmidt.
• An infinite variety of forms of confusion.
• Playing Frog Fractions all the way through and being like "what twist??"
• Why Jorge Luis Borges gets annoyed when people wake him up.
• Semi-routinely yelling in your sleep.
• Being asleep is the inside time.
• Citing Borges as a vibe.
• A mid-pod plug.
• The works of Ted Chiang.
• Internalizing the idea that you need sleep to function.
• Stepping stones of self-reflection.
• Waking up feeling the vague sensations of having dreamt.
• Sleeping with your eyes open.
• Integration of your environment into your dreams.
• Biting your tail before you go to sleep and not feeling it until you wake up.
• Putting keys in your toast.
• Repurposing the Chippendale Mupp's nervous system to make a vintage delay pedal.
• Esports competitors putting the left mouse button between their teeth to improve reaction time, because it's closer to the brain.
• Brains evolving to process whatever whenever and assembling the timeline later.
• Kuratas Heavy Industries.
• Smiling to fire the heavy machine guns.
• Gripens.
• Subway ads exhorting Maximum Lethality!
• The airport nearest to all of the oil fields in the Permean Basin.
• Billboards for enterprise services.
• Wasting eyeballs.
• A couple of active web presences.