268. Puzzles For Puzzle Enjoyers

Lords:

• James
  • https://pounced-on.me/@Triplefox
• Kev
  • https://kevzettler.com/
  • https://www.youtube.com/@MikeMotion83

Topics:

• Copyparty
• Egg punk vs. chain punk
• Going geocaching three times
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/ugJWqQdP.jpg
• Septic Tanks
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/q0tW8KtD.jpg
• Certain kinds of trash you don't see any more
• Mosquito bites

Microtopics:

• Multiple recurring lords.
• Going back to an earlier episode to listen to the plugs.
• Agreeing to a copy party without knowing what it is.
• Multi-part RARs.
• Putting together educational material for your hypothetical younger self.
• Manually extracting files over a physical USB connection.
• Org-mode.
• A collection of ogg vorbis music.
• Your personal learning mind-map for learning how to draw.
• The bottom end of expertise.
• Two contrasting branches of the punk community.
• Nerdy; dancey; influenced by Devo.
• Musical genres refusing to converge no matter how close they get.
• genres refusing to converge no matter how close they get.
• How old you have to be to know about My Bloody Valentine.
• Finally getting your act together and installing the right app and logging into the right web site.
• Finding excuses to be more engaged with nature.
• Having conversations, like you do with friends in a park.
• Finding an Altoids tin where you would expect to find a bunch of spider webs.
• Walking through half-nature in near-complete darkness.
• Climbing down a rocky embankment in near-complete darkness with your phone in one hand.
• Caches getting muggled.
• Null Island.
• Realizing that you're about to go on the bad kind of adventure.
• A passing wizard complimenting you on your ironic orc-detecting sword.
• A stuffed BB-8 that you use for photo opportunities.
• Leaving one line of your toilet poem blank in case you think of a good rhyme for "too."
• The kind of poem you put in your bathroom.
• A pithy way to say what to put in the toilet.
• Telling the restaurant's poet laureate that he really nailed that septic tank poem.
• Using a black marker to redact the line about cigarette butts from your poem.
• A book that reads like browsing Reddit.
• Taking your mind off of your butt for five minutes.
• Whether Law and Order was ever an accurate depiction of police procedure.
• How they convicted or didn't convict the latest perp.
• Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
• TV Guides lying on the street.
• The genre of children's craft made from newspaper.
• Archaeologists finding a thousand year old USB drive and finding a bunch of PDFs and videos about how to learn to draw.
• FAT16 vs. FAT32.
• Multi-volume ARJ files.
• Putting together dual-purpose CDs for punk banks.
• CD-ROMs shaped like a business card.
• Inserting mini-CDs into a slot loading CD drive.
• What it takes to make an indie Gamecube game.
• Side-factoids about Luigi's Mansion.
• Luigi's Mansion counting the volume of dust you've vacuumed through the whole playthrough.
• The new Duck Tales game modeling the physics of every treasure you can collect so you can swim in them.
• Mosquito activity in the midwest.
• Hanging out around mosquito predators.
• Mosquitos waking up for the gloaming and then going back to bed.
• Finding the one high-altitude spot in the Panhandle to avoid the mosquitos.
• Feeling bad about killng mosquitos after playing Hollow Knight.
• Your favorite mind control force.
• Golfers hitting that ball to make the number go down when they could just play less and it'd stay at 0 forever.