217. Rotate Your Plate Breakage
December 18th, 2023
1 hr 7 mins
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Lords:
- Maxx
- Nick
Topics:
- Puzzmo
- I'm worried about my tableware rotation strategy
- Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum
- It Was A Coffin That Sang, by Olena Davis
Microtopics:
- Instead of giving someone a business card, stamping your information on them so they have to call you before they take a shower.
- Where's George?
- George isn't here. George was never here.
- Canadians looking forward to when they can walk around with King Charles' face in their pocket.
- Giving the barista a coupla chucks for a cup of coffee.
- Money with RadarSat on it.
- inaturalist dot org.
- Taking a photo of a weird plant with a weird seed pod.
- The fantasy of collecting information.
- The game where you try to name every street in San Francisco.
- Running all the streets in your city over the course of a decade.
- Games Genie.
- Lexicographic Ordering and Time Travel.
- A sanctioned topic. (It's on the list.)
- Wario Ware presenting you with a full sized crossword and giving you six seconds to solve it.
- A fun little histogram.
- Finally implementing the letter T.
- Doing the crossword on paper and making your daughter enter your answers into the app.
- Will Shortz coming out of his orb to carry out a hit on a competing puzzle.
- Fugue Orbs.
- Comparing the interface design of Connections and Red Herring.
- Things Relating to Wonder Woman.
- Extremely well SEO'd pestilences.
- Arranging your dinner plates in a stack vs. in a queue.
- Using all your plates evenly so they all break at the same time.
- Rotating the Stock.
- The dangers of Low-Sodium Perpetual Stew.
- Default plates from the food service factory.
- Airplane boarding algorithms and how to convince everyone in the terminal to follow yours.
- Plates that are made for using.
- A whole Jefferson, in your Republic dollars.
- The urge to queue.
- Lanesplitting your backpack.
- History: it's a lot older than we think
- Ancient cash registers.
- Pranksters organizing the topic bucket.
- How many museums deep are we?
- The human wife.
- Efficient.. Successful. Human.
- Top five lists of your life.
- How small a flavoring agent has to be to be considered a spice.
- A twelve foot tall statue of either Zeus or Poseidon.
- Myth- and Nationhood- Making.
- A museum where you can feel wood cut with various tools.
- Hearing about a cool metalworking museum but fixating on how the bathroom works.
- Cool Bathroom Ghost.
- The toilet commenting on your performance.
- Piping bookshop noises into your bathroom.
- Robert Stack's Solved Mysteries.
- Being sad and trying to have a good sadness.
- Michael Brough talking about his design process.
- Fun exercise vs. shitty boring exercise.
- What to do about the world ending.
- Driving in circles around the McDonald's drive-thru ordering more and more coffee until they catch on.
- Telling a joke on Twitter and an archaeologist getting it 1000 years from now.
- The world's oldest joke.
- A fart joke from 1900 BCE.
- Reconstructive historical linguistics.
- The linguistics of swearing and taboo.
- Eater of bees.
- Top five stanzas.