234. Plunge Correctly For High Score
April 15th, 2024
1 hr 10 mins 3 secs
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Lords:
- JohnB
- Kevin
- JADES data: https://jades.idies.jhu.edu/public/
Topics:
- Thoughts on approximately 5/12 of Don Quixote
- The Time Life "Mysteries of the Unknown" Series (1987-1991) and its impact on a generation of young nerds
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysteries_of_the_Unknown
- https://www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/comments/r487u4/distant_astronomical_objects_iceberg/
- https://www.slideshare.net/DirkTheDaring11/timelife-mysteries-of-the-unknown-the-ufo-phenomenon
- https://archive.org/details/DreamsAndDreaming_201809/page/n33/mode/2up
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lal0aWAys0k
- Thomas Edison didn't think telephones needed to ring. He figured the caller could just start yelling "hello" at you even before you answered the phone
- Desiderata
- Is pinball meant to be fun? Can you lose a quarter at an arcade faster in a game cabinet or in a pinball machine?
Microtopics:
- Dog ownership.
- A living creature that just wanders around the house.
- Picking up warm soft weird thing.
- Cracking open a cold one.
- Computers flush with science data.
- The deepest images humans have ever taken.
- Finding distances to individual galaxies.
- Listicles you can peruse.
- Picking a galaxy and naming it after yourself.
- Bug Mars 2.
- The Glass Universe.
- Hiring women and calling them computers.
- A guy with a lot of free time and a gold nose.
- Some public domain books being more readable than others.
- Pun localization.
- North American otaku tilting at windmills with their katanas.
- How people pronounce quixotic and how they ought to pronounce quixotic.
- Whether we respect English majors on this show.
- Naming a character something weird and hoping nobody argues about the pronunciation hundreds of years from now.
- Butthead as Don Quixote and Beavis as Sancho Panza.
- The Great Cornholio tilting at windmills.
- The era of translations that don't realize Don Quixote is a parody.
- Part II of Don Quixote responding to Don Quixote fan fiction.
- Don Coyote.
- Sending Mario Maker back to Miguel Cervantes to see what he would make.
- The kinds of books your parents would have on their shelf, back when that was the only thing available to read.
- The 80s resurgence of New Age thought.
- Mystic Places.
- The Shin Megami Tensei section in the library.
- Where to find the books that teach you magic in the public library.
- The canonical map of reported UFO sightings worldwide.
- Books for the kind of person who thinks Aleister Crowley is cool.
- The Spaceships of Ezekiel.
- The JWST iceberg.
- The Distant Astronomical Objects iceberg.
- A tin can and a string with a battery attached.
- Hello, fellow phone owner.
- A phone call asking you to log into a web site and read a message.
- Funny ways to answer the phone.
- E.B. Games, where you can get F-Zero for Zero.
- The size of fortune cookies in the 1920s.
- Nice things to do and be.
- Desiderata vs. Deteriorata.
- Advice giving poems.
- Skin cancer is mid.
- Casey Kasem quitting Transformers after they wrote an episode featuring Abdul, king of Carbombya.
- Avoiding loud and aggressive persons.
- Pinball getting harder and more complex over the course of a century.
- Baffleball.
- Pinball features to make things easier for beginners.
- The quickest way to lose money on an arcade game.
- Tilt-sensing plum bobs.
- A weird kinetic sculpture that exists just for your entertainment.
- The Black Hole for Personal Reasons.
- A boring and easy pinball cabinet that you can play for an hour when you want to get sick of pinball.
- Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball.
- Multidisc!
- Pinball tables by George Gomez.
- Pinball: not actually fun, but they did their best.
- Free play skee-ball.
- Pacific Pinball Museum and Musee Mecanique.
- Twitter forgiveness.