web01.fireside.fm Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:53:45 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Casey” https://topiclords.com/tags/casey Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0800 Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week. en-us episodic The only place on the internet you can hear topics discussed! Jim Stormdancer Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week. yes Jim Stormdancer jim@goombas.org 280. How to Start an Ice Cream Shop (Probably) https://topiclords.com/how-to-start-an-ice-cream-shop-probably f1490691-1726-4913-950d-30cd1c8c48ce Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Andi and Casey. We discuss life hacks as communion with the divine, firing your computer, and childhood amnesia. 1:21:58 yes Lords: * Andi * Casey Topics: * Lifehacks as communion with the divine * I decided to fire my computer * Winston is starting to forget things Microtopics: * A Star Trek watchalong podcast that doesn't exist yet. * Positing that what you said is no longer an NDA violation by the time this episode comes out. * Plugging a fake game that you worked on. * Astrobot. * Horror movie clinky noises that you can't hear over the PS4 fan noises. * Caffeine-infused mints with Tux the Penguin branding on Think Geek dot com. * The pre-eminent source for Life Hacks. * Using a hotel shower cap to bake bread. * Anime girls that are happy to see you. * That one time Film Crit Hulk broke character. * The joy of moving efficiently through the world. * More efficient ways to set the microwave timer. * Hotel rooms that you can bake bread in. * Whether bread should contain hair. * Tricking yourself into not being bored while doing something you have to do. * Reading 50 life hacks and applying none of them because. * Viral Life Hack that's killed 33 people. * A life hack that already had a body count in the double digits before someone made a TikTok about it. * Getting really fed up with computers. * Cryptographic signing processes that you can't participate in. * The HDCP certification board taking steps to ensure nobody can take a screen shot of their Crunchy Roll anime. * The analog hole. * Open source web browsers that can't see DRM content. * Microsoft-authenticated Linux installations. * Designing a circuit that solves a math problem. * Stamping a circuit onto your circuit clay. * An independent circuit re-implementation of video game hardware. * Should you use FPGA to do a thing? * Ridiculous multi-level memory caching systems. * Bootstrapping an FPGA design tool that runs on an FPGA device. * Every single circuit doing something on every single cycle. * Voltages going high and/or low. * Making a bunch of CPUs and testing them afterwards to see how many GHz they have. * Why the PS3 Cell processor had 7 SPUs * The industrial uses of the Cell processor. * A GLSL compiler that outputs FPGA circuits. * Mr. MiSTer. * Open-hardware laptops. * Inventing an open-source GPU. * Multics or Minix. * Writing a Breakout clone in Rust targeting the weird CPU your friend just invented. * Making a terrible first effort that is the right kind of good enough. * A laptop that has a FPGA where the CPU/GPU usually goes. * 1970s-era TV games. * The Epoch Cassette Vision. * A game console with interchangeable cartridges where the CPU is on the cartridge. * The Glasgow Interface Explorer. * Describing your FPGA circuit in Python. * Manufacturing homebrew Cassette Vision Homebrew cartridges for the audience of zero Cassette Vision owners. * Making art just for you, in the most overly elaborate and overly complicated way possible. * The programmer equivalent of going to swim with the dolphins. * Diagonal pixels. * Childhood amnesia. * Remembering your memories. * Using 10% of your brain. (And also the other 90%.) * Knowing things about stuff. * When one brother dies, the other brother gets their memories. * Memories that are formed before vs. after you learn to talk. * Being persecuted for being friends with a girl. * Rules of heteronormativity being enforced by three year olds. * Getting off of Wordpress. Lords:

  • Andi
  • Casey

Topics:

  • Lifehacks as communion with the divine
  • I decided to fire my computer
  • Winston is starting to forget things

Microtopics:

  • A Star Trek watchalong podcast that doesn't exist yet.
  • Positing that what you said is no longer an NDA violation by the time this episode comes out.
  • Plugging a fake game that you worked on.
  • Astrobot.
  • Horror movie clinky noises that you can't hear over the PS4 fan noises.
  • Caffeine-infused mints with Tux the Penguin branding on Think Geek dot com.
  • The pre-eminent source for Life Hacks.
  • Using a hotel shower cap to bake bread.
  • Anime girls that are happy to see you.
  • That one time Film Crit Hulk broke character.
  • The joy of moving efficiently through the world.
  • More efficient ways to set the microwave timer.
  • Hotel rooms that you can bake bread in.
  • Whether bread should contain hair.
  • Tricking yourself into not being bored while doing something you have to do.
  • Reading 50 life hacks and applying none of them because.
  • Viral Life Hack that's killed 33 people.
  • A life hack that already had a body count in the double digits before someone made a TikTok about it.
  • Getting really fed up with computers.
  • Cryptographic signing processes that you can't participate in.
  • The HDCP certification board taking steps to ensure nobody can take a screen shot of their Crunchy Roll anime.
  • The analog hole.
  • Open source web browsers that can't see DRM content.
  • Microsoft-authenticated Linux installations.
  • Designing a circuit that solves a math problem.
  • Stamping a circuit onto your circuit clay.
  • An independent circuit re-implementation of video game hardware.
  • Should you use FPGA to do a thing?
  • Ridiculous multi-level memory caching systems.
  • Bootstrapping an FPGA design tool that runs on an FPGA device.
  • Every single circuit doing something on every single cycle.
  • Voltages going high and/or low.
  • Making a bunch of CPUs and testing them afterwards to see how many GHz they have.
  • Why the PS3 Cell processor had 7 SPUs
  • The industrial uses of the Cell processor.
  • A GLSL compiler that outputs FPGA circuits.
  • Mr. MiSTer.
  • Open-hardware laptops.
  • Inventing an open-source GPU.
  • Multics or Minix.
  • Writing a Breakout clone in Rust targeting the weird CPU your friend just invented.
  • Making a terrible first effort that is the right kind of good enough.
  • A laptop that has a FPGA where the CPU/GPU usually goes.
  • 1970s-era TV games.
  • The Epoch Cassette Vision.
  • A game console with interchangeable cartridges where the CPU is on the cartridge.
  • The Glasgow Interface Explorer.
  • Describing your FPGA circuit in Python.
  • Manufacturing homebrew Cassette Vision Homebrew cartridges for the audience of zero Cassette Vision owners.
  • Making art just for you, in the most overly elaborate and overly complicated way possible.
  • The programmer equivalent of going to swim with the dolphins.
  • Diagonal pixels.
  • Childhood amnesia.
  • Remembering your memories.
  • Using 10% of your brain. (And also the other 90%.)
  • Knowing things about stuff.
  • When one brother dies, the other brother gets their memories.
  • Memories that are formed before vs. after you learn to talk.
  • Being persecuted for being friends with a girl.
  • Rules of heteronormativity being enforced by three year olds.
  • Getting off of Wordpress.

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]]> Lords:

  • Andi
  • Casey

Topics:

  • Lifehacks as communion with the divine
  • I decided to fire my computer
  • Winston is starting to forget things

Microtopics:

  • A Star Trek watchalong podcast that doesn't exist yet.
  • Positing that what you said is no longer an NDA violation by the time this episode comes out.
  • Plugging a fake game that you worked on.
  • Astrobot.
  • Horror movie clinky noises that you can't hear over the PS4 fan noises.
  • Caffeine-infused mints with Tux the Penguin branding on Think Geek dot com.
  • The pre-eminent source for Life Hacks.
  • Using a hotel shower cap to bake bread.
  • Anime girls that are happy to see you.
  • That one time Film Crit Hulk broke character.
  • The joy of moving efficiently through the world.
  • More efficient ways to set the microwave timer.
  • Hotel rooms that you can bake bread in.
  • Whether bread should contain hair.
  • Tricking yourself into not being bored while doing something you have to do.
  • Reading 50 life hacks and applying none of them because.
  • Viral Life Hack that's killed 33 people.
  • A life hack that already had a body count in the double digits before someone made a TikTok about it.
  • Getting really fed up with computers.
  • Cryptographic signing processes that you can't participate in.
  • The HDCP certification board taking steps to ensure nobody can take a screen shot of their Crunchy Roll anime.
  • The analog hole.
  • Open source web browsers that can't see DRM content.
  • Microsoft-authenticated Linux installations.
  • Designing a circuit that solves a math problem.
  • Stamping a circuit onto your circuit clay.
  • An independent circuit re-implementation of video game hardware.
  • Should you use FPGA to do a thing?
  • Ridiculous multi-level memory caching systems.
  • Bootstrapping an FPGA design tool that runs on an FPGA device.
  • Every single circuit doing something on every single cycle.
  • Voltages going high and/or low.
  • Making a bunch of CPUs and testing them afterwards to see how many GHz they have.
  • Why the PS3 Cell processor had 7 SPUs
  • The industrial uses of the Cell processor.
  • A GLSL compiler that outputs FPGA circuits.
  • Mr. MiSTer.
  • Open-hardware laptops.
  • Inventing an open-source GPU.
  • Multics or Minix.
  • Writing a Breakout clone in Rust targeting the weird CPU your friend just invented.
  • Making a terrible first effort that is the right kind of good enough.
  • A laptop that has a FPGA where the CPU/GPU usually goes.
  • 1970s-era TV games.
  • The Epoch Cassette Vision.
  • A game console with interchangeable cartridges where the CPU is on the cartridge.
  • The Glasgow Interface Explorer.
  • Describing your FPGA circuit in Python.
  • Manufacturing homebrew Cassette Vision Homebrew cartridges for the audience of zero Cassette Vision owners.
  • Making art just for you, in the most overly elaborate and overly complicated way possible.
  • The programmer equivalent of going to swim with the dolphins.
  • Diagonal pixels.
  • Childhood amnesia.
  • Remembering your memories.
  • Using 10% of your brain. (And also the other 90%.)
  • Knowing things about stuff.
  • When one brother dies, the other brother gets their memories.
  • Memories that are formed before vs. after you learn to talk.
  • Being persecuted for being friends with a girl.
  • Rules of heteronormativity being enforced by three year olds.
  • Getting off of Wordpress.

Support Topic Lords

]]> 251. Organs Experiencing Red Shift https://topiclords.com/organs-experiencing-red-shift ee254511-69d4-4b69-be1a-81f9008fb45c Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Erica and Casey. We discuss coeloms, solving problems by experiencing a bigger problem, mammals learning to eat cephalopods, A Narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson, and personal project retrospectives. 1:11:19 yes Lords: * Erica * Casey Topics: * Isn't it great to have a coelom? * Solving problems by waiting for another bigger problem to occur and override the previous problem * Mammals learning to eat cephalopods * https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/16/occasional-paper-when-armor-met-lips/ * A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, by Emily Dickinson * https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a-narrow-fellow-in-the-grass-1096/ * Personal project retrospectives Microtopics: * That thing you just heard. * Assigning your new hire an office. * Plugging over a million leaking gas and oil wells in West Texas. * The Topic Lords Promise. * A bag that your organs sit in. * Undifferentiated tissues. * How dissecting an earthworm is different from dissecting a gummy worm. * Inflating your coelom in order to take out your spleen. * Organisms with high diseectability. * The anti-coelom lobby. * Undifferentiated tubes of goo that get depression. * The gummy worm future we're all looking forward to. * Fluid things going on in the organism. * A car that has a huge dent in it and it doesn't matter because the car still gets around no problem. * Good car ideas. * A bad thing happening but it's not your fault. * Buying your house in a point and clock adventure online. * Rediscovering all the things you have stored at your parent's house. * Multi-episode Topic Lords story arcs. * Which colored stripes are on Wikipedia's Non-Notable Flag. * The Topic Lords explainer episode where everyone finds out what this show is about. * Serial Podcast Monogamy. * Podcast guilt. * Discussing all the same topics as the last episode with no self-awareness. * Non-Stop Coelom Celebration. * My own very special walking bag of guts. * Evolving cheek muscles to suck meat out of a spiral shell. * Losing your baby lips. * What it's like to eat a planarian. * Cephalopods that have evolved to eat mammals. * The giant squid that have never been seen alive. * The colossal squid vs. the giant squid. * Finding a mobius strip solution so borh your flag and your neighbor'a flag can be biggest. * Our flag that represents limpness will be your downfall. * Non-stop sensationalized documentaries about North Korea. * Opening the border to North Korea so we can finally interview the people about the colossal squid. * Emily Dickinson slipping into Yoda Speak. * Being too busy reading to understand what you're reading. * Whether the Emily Dickinson poem about the snake is actually about a snake or about a dick or both. * It's coming at your feet! It likes a boggy acre! * A polysexual attitude towards nature. * Emily Dickinson making thousands of attempts to fix the Gilligan's Island theme. * Herman Melville describing Moby Dick as "the Ebon Whale" because he didn't have Wikipedia. * Moby Dick annotated by biologists who explain why all the whale facts are wrong. * Game Developers doing a "post-mortem" of projects that are ongoing. * Befunge. * Clojure and other Lisps. * Watching your own programming livestreams to learn how to learn better. * A huge block of text off to the side that tells you how to play the game. * Fine-grained tactical mistakes. * Why people keep telling game developers to learn to ship a game. * The most significant barrier between you and putting a work of art out in the world. * Inventing metrics for success for game engines that never ship. * Rewriting your game engine to have cooler tech but be way harder to make levels for. * Modern Jim-Style Content. * Artists trash talking their own work while they're showing it to you. * A sign on your forehead reading "ask me about my severely negative feedback." * The George W. Bush childhood home. * A community built on everyone's shared desire to leave. * The ethic of owning a shotgun. * The last of the Midland Odessa complaining. * Big Bend and Carlsbad Caverns. * An airport full of ads for oil wells and oil well accessories. * The Chris Kyle American Sniper Memorial. * A plaque on a sculpture explaining whether the flag represents a penis. * Everything's a dick if you squint hard enough. * An assassin of federal judges. Lords:

  • Erica
  • Casey

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • That thing you just heard.
  • Assigning your new hire an office.
  • Plugging over a million leaking gas and oil wells in West Texas.
  • The Topic Lords Promise.
  • A bag that your organs sit in.
  • Undifferentiated tissues.
  • How dissecting an earthworm is different from dissecting a gummy worm.
  • Inflating your coelom in order to take out your spleen.
  • Organisms with high diseectability.
  • The anti-coelom lobby.
  • Undifferentiated tubes of goo that get depression.
  • The gummy worm future we're all looking forward to.
  • Fluid things going on in the organism.
  • A car that has a huge dent in it and it doesn't matter because the car still gets around no problem.
  • Good car ideas.
  • A bad thing happening but it's not your fault.
  • Buying your house in a point and clock adventure online.
  • Rediscovering all the things you have stored at your parent's house.
  • Multi-episode Topic Lords story arcs.
  • Which colored stripes are on Wikipedia's Non-Notable Flag.
  • The Topic Lords explainer episode where everyone finds out what this show is about.
  • Serial Podcast Monogamy.
  • Podcast guilt.
  • Discussing all the same topics as the last episode with no self-awareness.
  • Non-Stop Coelom Celebration.
  • My own very special walking bag of guts.
  • Evolving cheek muscles to suck meat out of a spiral shell.
  • Losing your baby lips.
  • What it's like to eat a planarian.
  • Cephalopods that have evolved to eat mammals.
  • The giant squid that have never been seen alive.
  • The colossal squid vs. the giant squid.
  • Finding a mobius strip solution so borh your flag and your neighbor'a flag can be biggest.
  • Our flag that represents limpness will be your downfall.
  • Non-stop sensationalized documentaries about North Korea.
  • Opening the border to North Korea so we can finally interview the people about the colossal squid.
  • Emily Dickinson slipping into Yoda Speak.
  • Being too busy reading to understand what you're reading.
  • Whether the Emily Dickinson poem about the snake is actually about a snake or about a dick or both.
  • It's coming at your feet! It likes a boggy acre!
  • A polysexual attitude towards nature.
  • Emily Dickinson making thousands of attempts to fix the Gilligan's Island theme.
  • Herman Melville describing Moby Dick as "the Ebon Whale" because he didn't have Wikipedia.
  • Moby Dick annotated by biologists who explain why all the whale facts are wrong.
  • Game Developers doing a "post-mortem" of projects that are ongoing.
  • Befunge.
  • Clojure and other Lisps.
  • Watching your own programming livestreams to learn how to learn better.
  • A huge block of text off to the side that tells you how to play the game.
  • Fine-grained tactical mistakes.
  • Why people keep telling game developers to learn to ship a game.
  • The most significant barrier between you and putting a work of art out in the world.
  • Inventing metrics for success for game engines that never ship.
  • Rewriting your game engine to have cooler tech but be way harder to make levels for.
  • Modern Jim-Style Content.
  • Artists trash talking their own work while they're showing it to you.
  • A sign on your forehead reading "ask me about my severely negative feedback."
  • The George W. Bush childhood home.
  • A community built on everyone's shared desire to leave.
  • The ethic of owning a shotgun.
  • The last of the Midland Odessa complaining.
  • Big Bend and Carlsbad Caverns.
  • An airport full of ads for oil wells and oil well accessories.
  • The Chris Kyle American Sniper Memorial.
  • A plaque on a sculpture explaining whether the flag represents a penis.
  • Everything's a dick if you squint hard enough.
  • An assassin of federal judges.

Support Topic Lords

]]> Lords:

  • Erica
  • Casey

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • That thing you just heard.
  • Assigning your new hire an office.
  • Plugging over a million leaking gas and oil wells in West Texas.
  • The Topic Lords Promise.
  • A bag that your organs sit in.
  • Undifferentiated tissues.
  • How dissecting an earthworm is different from dissecting a gummy worm.
  • Inflating your coelom in order to take out your spleen.
  • Organisms with high diseectability.
  • The anti-coelom lobby.
  • Undifferentiated tubes of goo that get depression.
  • The gummy worm future we're all looking forward to.
  • Fluid things going on in the organism.
  • A car that has a huge dent in it and it doesn't matter because the car still gets around no problem.
  • Good car ideas.
  • A bad thing happening but it's not your fault.
  • Buying your house in a point and clock adventure online.
  • Rediscovering all the things you have stored at your parent's house.
  • Multi-episode Topic Lords story arcs.
  • Which colored stripes are on Wikipedia's Non-Notable Flag.
  • The Topic Lords explainer episode where everyone finds out what this show is about.
  • Serial Podcast Monogamy.
  • Podcast guilt.
  • Discussing all the same topics as the last episode with no self-awareness.
  • Non-Stop Coelom Celebration.
  • My own very special walking bag of guts.
  • Evolving cheek muscles to suck meat out of a spiral shell.
  • Losing your baby lips.
  • What it's like to eat a planarian.
  • Cephalopods that have evolved to eat mammals.
  • The giant squid that have never been seen alive.
  • The colossal squid vs. the giant squid.
  • Finding a mobius strip solution so borh your flag and your neighbor'a flag can be biggest.
  • Our flag that represents limpness will be your downfall.
  • Non-stop sensationalized documentaries about North Korea.
  • Opening the border to North Korea so we can finally interview the people about the colossal squid.
  • Emily Dickinson slipping into Yoda Speak.
  • Being too busy reading to understand what you're reading.
  • Whether the Emily Dickinson poem about the snake is actually about a snake or about a dick or both.
  • It's coming at your feet! It likes a boggy acre!
  • A polysexual attitude towards nature.
  • Emily Dickinson making thousands of attempts to fix the Gilligan's Island theme.
  • Herman Melville describing Moby Dick as "the Ebon Whale" because he didn't have Wikipedia.
  • Moby Dick annotated by biologists who explain why all the whale facts are wrong.
  • Game Developers doing a "post-mortem" of projects that are ongoing.
  • Befunge.
  • Clojure and other Lisps.
  • Watching your own programming livestreams to learn how to learn better.
  • A huge block of text off to the side that tells you how to play the game.
  • Fine-grained tactical mistakes.
  • Why people keep telling game developers to learn to ship a game.
  • The most significant barrier between you and putting a work of art out in the world.
  • Inventing metrics for success for game engines that never ship.
  • Rewriting your game engine to have cooler tech but be way harder to make levels for.
  • Modern Jim-Style Content.
  • Artists trash talking their own work while they're showing it to you.
  • A sign on your forehead reading "ask me about my severely negative feedback."
  • The George W. Bush childhood home.
  • A community built on everyone's shared desire to leave.
  • The ethic of owning a shotgun.
  • The last of the Midland Odessa complaining.
  • Big Bend and Carlsbad Caverns.
  • An airport full of ads for oil wells and oil well accessories.
  • The Chris Kyle American Sniper Memorial.
  • A plaque on a sculpture explaining whether the flag represents a penis.
  • Everything's a dick if you squint hard enough.
  • An assassin of federal judges.

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]]> 225. Showers: It's Wet in There https://topiclords.com/showers-its-wet-in-there 7642077f-83d1-4974-901c-7d65abeeb1f1 Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: CisHetKayfaber and BaseCase. We discuss raising third culture kids, how to do creative projects that take longer than a weekend, Venmo having your money and having to sign up for Venmo, Farmyard Song, and Universal Yums sweet vs. savory snacks. 1:19:36 yes Lords: * CisHetKayfaber * BaseCase Topics: * Raising third cultural kids as a second cultural individual * Figuring out how to do creative projects that take longer than a weekend when you aren't getting paid for them. * Someone sent me money on Venmo and now I need to sign up for Venmo if I want to have the money * Farmyard Song * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmyard_Song * https://www.elyrics.net/read/a/aaron-copland-lyrics/i-bought-me-a-cat-lyrics.html * We've been subscribed to Universal Yums for over a year now, and the sweet snacks range from "unremarkable" to "unbelievably great" to "not my cup of tea but interesting", whereas the savory snacks are mostly bad. What's going on there? Microtopics: * Not being permitted to plug anything. * A unique situation in which you are gendered a lot less. * Australian Treat Arnott's Mint Slice. * Crossover of snacks from Australia to Japan. * Gentleman's agreements among cookie manufacturers. * Patenting your cookie recipe. * Touring school administrators. * Being friends with a lot of Coca Cola people. * Really enjoying multiculturalism. * Producing a good person. * Taking credit for the time your daughter didn't play Mario for six months. * Focusing on the aspects of the situation that you find meaningful. * What does and doesn't count as a childhood development milestone. * Being good at the work people are expecting you to do. * Doing worksheets outside. * What children report back from their experience at school. * Attempting to pirate the Montessori curriculum. * A really fun month. * Projects you can accomplish in a weekend. * Why you don't have more to show for all your free time. * Refusing to call someone stupid or lazy and having to figure out why they're actually failing. * Coping strategies to get things done. * Advice that is not helpful for neurodivergent people. * Breaking a task into subtasks and putting them on a schedule. * The first time you encountered the concept of a to-do list. * Brain tech. * Hammock time. (Or shower time.) * Showers: It's Wet In There. * Exultation of showers. * Watching someone start a hobby and immediately excel at it. * Finding a good community to learn how to do a thing. * Joining a discord with experts in many things. * Learning how to program and realizing that this makes you good at everything because programming is the hardest thing humans do. * Sending money to a phone number vs. sending money to an email address. * Canadians wishing each other money. * Nice things to do when you don't want to defraud people. * Opening a whole raft of phishing opportunities. * Visa getting a cut of every transaction that happens ever. * Whether every person in the world could live in Canada. * The Cocaine Mayor. * A traditional that is credited to Aaron Copeland. * Cats saying "fiddle-eye-fee." * Not being a raging misogynist but engaging in raging misogyny anyway. * The era when the onomatopoeia for a dog barking was "bow wow." * Onomatopoeia that is literal like "bang" vs. onomatopoeia that is more of a stretch like "shimmy shack shimmy shack." * Riffing on Aaron Copeland's sexuality. * Trying to shit enough to keep up with your toilet paper subscription. * A product built for people who have kids but do not have kids. * The mechanism by which the "Launch Frog Fractions 2" button launched Frog Fractions 2. * The great Loot Box crash of 2019. * Snacks that come with an instruction manual. * Ketchup flavored potato chips. * What you reach for when you're feeling snacky. * A potato chip palate that is just far too sophisticated. * Smoked ham potato chips. * Harry Potter jelly beans ruining snacks forever. * Only liking eating things that taste good. * This is bad, but is it bad in a new, interesting way? * The worst kind of bad. * Observing a terrible sprawling work and thinking "wow, you really did a thing here." * The recontextualization of earlier elements based on later knowledge. * Discord Lords. * Listening to ads because you have gloves on. * How to join the Topic Lords discord. * A recently minted lord who edits the show. * Lords Eat Free. Lords:

  • CisHetKayfaber
  • BaseCase

Topics:

  • Raising third cultural kids as a second cultural individual
  • Figuring out how to do creative projects that take longer than a weekend when you aren't getting paid for them.
  • Someone sent me money on Venmo and now I need to sign up for Venmo if I want to have the money
  • Farmyard Song
  • We've been subscribed to Universal Yums for over a year now, and the sweet snacks range from "unremarkable" to "unbelievably great" to "not my cup of tea but interesting", whereas the savory snacks are mostly bad. What's going on there?

Microtopics:

  • Not being permitted to plug anything.
  • A unique situation in which you are gendered a lot less.
  • Australian Treat Arnott's Mint Slice.
  • Crossover of snacks from Australia to Japan.
  • Gentleman's agreements among cookie manufacturers.
  • Patenting your cookie recipe.
  • Touring school administrators.
  • Being friends with a lot of Coca Cola people.
  • Really enjoying multiculturalism.
  • Producing a good person.
  • Taking credit for the time your daughter didn't play Mario for six months.
  • Focusing on the aspects of the situation that you find meaningful.
  • What does and doesn't count as a childhood development milestone.
  • Being good at the work people are expecting you to do.
  • Doing worksheets outside.
  • What children report back from their experience at school.
  • Attempting to pirate the Montessori curriculum.
  • A really fun month.
  • Projects you can accomplish in a weekend.
  • Why you don't have more to show for all your free time.
  • Refusing to call someone stupid or lazy and having to figure out why they're actually failing.
  • Coping strategies to get things done.
  • Advice that is not helpful for neurodivergent people.
  • Breaking a task into subtasks and putting them on a schedule.
  • The first time you encountered the concept of a to-do list.
  • Brain tech.
  • Hammock time. (Or shower time.)
  • Showers: It's Wet In There.
  • Exultation of showers.
  • Watching someone start a hobby and immediately excel at it.
  • Finding a good community to learn how to do a thing.
  • Joining a discord with experts in many things.
  • Learning how to program and realizing that this makes you good at everything because programming is the hardest thing humans do.
  • Sending money to a phone number vs. sending money to an email address.
  • Canadians wishing each other money.
  • Nice things to do when you don't want to defraud people.
  • Opening a whole raft of phishing opportunities.
  • Visa getting a cut of every transaction that happens ever.
  • Whether every person in the world could live in Canada.
  • The Cocaine Mayor.
  • A traditional that is credited to Aaron Copeland.
  • Cats saying "fiddle-eye-fee."
  • Not being a raging misogynist but engaging in raging misogyny anyway.
  • The era when the onomatopoeia for a dog barking was "bow wow."
  • Onomatopoeia that is literal like "bang" vs. onomatopoeia that is more of a stretch like "shimmy shack shimmy shack."
  • Riffing on Aaron Copeland's sexuality.
  • Trying to shit enough to keep up with your toilet paper subscription.
  • A product built for people who have kids but do not have kids.
  • The mechanism by which the "Launch Frog Fractions 2" button launched Frog Fractions 2.
  • The great Loot Box crash of 2019.
  • Snacks that come with an instruction manual.
  • Ketchup flavored potato chips.
  • What you reach for when you're feeling snacky.
  • A potato chip palate that is just far too sophisticated.
  • Smoked ham potato chips.
  • Harry Potter jelly beans ruining snacks forever.
  • Only liking eating things that taste good.
  • This is bad, but is it bad in a new, interesting way?
  • The worst kind of bad.
  • Observing a terrible sprawling work and thinking "wow, you really did a thing here."
  • The recontextualization of earlier elements based on later knowledge.
  • Discord Lords.
  • Listening to ads because you have gloves on.
  • How to join the Topic Lords discord.
  • A recently minted lord who edits the show.
  • Lords Eat Free.

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Topics:

  • Raising third cultural kids as a second cultural individual
  • Figuring out how to do creative projects that take longer than a weekend when you aren't getting paid for them.
  • Someone sent me money on Venmo and now I need to sign up for Venmo if I want to have the money
  • Farmyard Song
  • We've been subscribed to Universal Yums for over a year now, and the sweet snacks range from "unremarkable" to "unbelievably great" to "not my cup of tea but interesting", whereas the savory snacks are mostly bad. What's going on there?

Microtopics:

  • Not being permitted to plug anything.
  • A unique situation in which you are gendered a lot less.
  • Australian Treat Arnott's Mint Slice.
  • Crossover of snacks from Australia to Japan.
  • Gentleman's agreements among cookie manufacturers.
  • Patenting your cookie recipe.
  • Touring school administrators.
  • Being friends with a lot of Coca Cola people.
  • Really enjoying multiculturalism.
  • Producing a good person.
  • Taking credit for the time your daughter didn't play Mario for six months.
  • Focusing on the aspects of the situation that you find meaningful.
  • What does and doesn't count as a childhood development milestone.
  • Being good at the work people are expecting you to do.
  • Doing worksheets outside.
  • What children report back from their experience at school.
  • Attempting to pirate the Montessori curriculum.
  • A really fun month.
  • Projects you can accomplish in a weekend.
  • Why you don't have more to show for all your free time.
  • Refusing to call someone stupid or lazy and having to figure out why they're actually failing.
  • Coping strategies to get things done.
  • Advice that is not helpful for neurodivergent people.
  • Breaking a task into subtasks and putting them on a schedule.
  • The first time you encountered the concept of a to-do list.
  • Brain tech.
  • Hammock time. (Or shower time.)
  • Showers: It's Wet In There.
  • Exultation of showers.
  • Watching someone start a hobby and immediately excel at it.
  • Finding a good community to learn how to do a thing.
  • Joining a discord with experts in many things.
  • Learning how to program and realizing that this makes you good at everything because programming is the hardest thing humans do.
  • Sending money to a phone number vs. sending money to an email address.
  • Canadians wishing each other money.
  • Nice things to do when you don't want to defraud people.
  • Opening a whole raft of phishing opportunities.
  • Visa getting a cut of every transaction that happens ever.
  • Whether every person in the world could live in Canada.
  • The Cocaine Mayor.
  • A traditional that is credited to Aaron Copeland.
  • Cats saying "fiddle-eye-fee."
  • Not being a raging misogynist but engaging in raging misogyny anyway.
  • The era when the onomatopoeia for a dog barking was "bow wow."
  • Onomatopoeia that is literal like "bang" vs. onomatopoeia that is more of a stretch like "shimmy shack shimmy shack."
  • Riffing on Aaron Copeland's sexuality.
  • Trying to shit enough to keep up with your toilet paper subscription.
  • A product built for people who have kids but do not have kids.
  • The mechanism by which the "Launch Frog Fractions 2" button launched Frog Fractions 2.
  • The great Loot Box crash of 2019.
  • Snacks that come with an instruction manual.
  • Ketchup flavored potato chips.
  • What you reach for when you're feeling snacky.
  • A potato chip palate that is just far too sophisticated.
  • Smoked ham potato chips.
  • Harry Potter jelly beans ruining snacks forever.
  • Only liking eating things that taste good.
  • This is bad, but is it bad in a new, interesting way?
  • The worst kind of bad.
  • Observing a terrible sprawling work and thinking "wow, you really did a thing here."
  • The recontextualization of earlier elements based on later knowledge.
  • Discord Lords.
  • Listening to ads because you have gloves on.
  • How to join the Topic Lords discord.
  • A recently minted lord who edits the show.
  • Lords Eat Free.

Support Topic Lords

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