154. QWERTY In The Streets, Colemak In The Sheets

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Lords:

• Tyriq
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• Stevie
  • codroid@gmail.com

Topics:

• Striped humans
• Alternative keyboard layouts: teaching yourself to type in new horrible ways
• Where did I get these floppy disks?
• The floppy disk poems
• How do I give a tech talk?
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  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59hwI9Ae1qU
  • http://paperdino.com/save-the-date/

Microtopics:

• The extent of Jim's patience vis-a-vis delayed plugging.
• Wishing you didn't make things so you could talk about the things you didn't make.
• Plugging the small random things in life, like bugs.
• Sitting in a chair right now.
• Trying desperately for forty years to never use Bluetooth.
• George Michael's "Faith"
• George Michael rehearsing a Queen song.
• A Faith listening party.
• The etymology of "Lobster."
• Plugging bugs and unplugging crustaceans.
• Invisible stripes along one's epidermis.
• Mosaicism (as distinct from Chimerism.)
• Blaschko Lines.
• A secret invisible power to be striped.
• The show where nobody knows anything.
• Spiraling outward from a central point.
• A thing that is a fact if you believe Wikipedia.
• Describing an egg as ovoid because it is similar to an ovum, i.e. an egg.
• Whether a factoid is bullshit.
• Whether humans are humanoid.
• The distinction between a fact and a factoid and how it has changed over time.
• Being slightly hungry and eating a single macaronus.
• Batman training his successor in the sci-fi future.
• Joining the villain faction because they get the cool hooves and horns.
• Turning 90 and getting your internal organs tattooed.
• Check it out, here's my solar plexus. Enjoy.
• An injection that makes your bones glow in the dark.
• Cold-Turkey Colemak Switchin'.
• Holding your left pinky on the tab key to keep your place.
• Iterating until you find the episode title.
• Typing without twerking.
• Being able to get your hands to do what you want without hurting.
• Getting a split keyboard so your hands keep working.
• The ease and laziness of the Wiimote and nunchuk allowing you to put your hands anywhere you want.
• Twitchy aim dominating the PC FPS design space regardless of what the game designer wants.
• Making poem floppy disks and using them as drinking coasters.
• Cleaning out your mouse.
• Disassembling a floppy disk and folding it into the shape of the Starship Enterprise.
• Remembering where the USB floppy drive might stuff.
• Whether cursed demoscene executables still curse you if you run them in DosBox.
• Whether the Ring video still cursed you after it's digitized to DVD.
• Maybe'm or maybe'm not.
• A pretty cool knick knack.
• A human head like pancake batter.
• Bread that you put in a blender.
• The old good lord, bad lord routine.
• Picking a god and channeling its power into your tech talk.
• A community of people that you want to like and respect you.
• Various ways to prepare to give a talk, and why Tyriq always does it the wrong way.
• Going to a talk and thereby consenting to be lectured by the person giving the talk.
• Blaming the audience for picking the wrong talk if they don't like your talk.
• How to run an ARG for no money.
• Deconstructing the idea that canon and headcanon are in any way different.
• Re-telling the same story over and over again.
• Same bullshit, different number of dimensions.
• A movie that was cooler when it was just a throwaway line in another movie.
• Depicting the same overarching event but with details changed.
• Games that require you to make a choice that you can't take back.