354. Peer-To-Peer Edible Arrangements

Jim Stormdancer — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0700

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Building your own synthesizer will not save you any money
Clipboard proprioception
The latest podcast description length drama
Fig, 6. “I I I Strong Stronger Strongest” Braggadocio Rap Rerebrace, by Douglas Kearney
- https://poems.com/poem/fig-6-i-i-i-strong-stronger-strongest-braggadocio-rap-rerebrace/
- Esper says: "Comic lettering is certainly done digitally these days, but there's a lot of traditional and even hybrid lettering too. A whole world out there."
Conversations in real life vs. discord
Having “over a decade of experience in the interior design industry”

Microtopics:

Gabe's Action Arcade Roguelike.
Spelunky with less secrets and more upgrades.
Randomized item behavior.
Tasteful Pranking.
Using earbuds as earplugs in a pinch.
The short but wrong description.
Timed Mashing Games.
A building that exists continuously.
Why would you pay someone else to do something that you can do yourself?
A 70%-complete noise maker.
Deliberately building your modular synthesizer to be incompatible with every modular standard so you're not tempted to buy any modules.
Synthesizers as folk instruments, every one unique and owned by a weird uncle.
SDL taking your sine wave and making it pretty.
An online MIDI thing which is pretty annoying.
Video: it has so much more data than audio.
How to make your audio engine samples play at the right time.
Electricity: it just happens.
Hitting undo on the breadboard when you blow up some capacitors.
Making a synthesizer by drawing a circuit with a graphite pencil.
Being old enough to have once seen a PCB that was laid out by hand.
Having something important in your clipboard and knowing you'd better put it somewhere soon before it's lost.
Sending files to your phone over the local Wi-Fi.
Parts of your body you doing trust.
Prodding the clipboard until it reluctantly copies the text like a surely teenager.
Emailing support and slowly realizing that support is actually the guy who makes the decisions.
What life could be like if venture capital didn't exist.
Putting a warning on the 4001st M&M.
How to send an edible arrangement without knowing someone's address.
Inventing something that already exists.
Inventing a process and thinking "that's too simple to work" but later you find out it does and has a name.
Getting sick of using a rhyming dictionary to write poems so you just cut and paste a list of rhyming words right into the poem.
A poem that it feels wrong to read aloud.
What is a line break but moving to a new place where the next word starts?
A poem that is approved by the Comics Code Authority.
How all the comic book letterers came to have the exact same handwriting.
A word that starts with a through e and ends with song.
Talking online vs. talking in person.
Trying to quietly talk to your neighbor in discord voice chat.
Why Discord doesn't allow you to place voice chats participants in Dolby 7.1 space.
Tuning your proximity happening settings.
Three people pairing off and having two conversations at once.
The next talk show guest coming out and everybody moving one chair over.
That time Andy Richter tried to have a side conversation with Norm MacDonald while Conan O'Brien was talking to the next guest.
That thing where two people are hard to tell apart because their voices are similar to each other.
Your e-commerce platform giving your image a random four digit number.
Choosing guests based on whose voice compliments yours.
Being on a weekly video game podcast and realizing you'd better play some goddamn video games this week or you won't have anything to talk about.
Changing topics when there are three minutes left on the show.
Trying to finish recording the show when your laptop is at 7% battery life.
An incredible way to pull rank.
Telling the airline employee that you work in aerospace and you deserve more leg room.
Promising your Kickstarter backers to go to Denny's for lunch.
Bluesky handles that are a palindrome of themselves.

Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Gabe”

354. Peer-To-Peer Edible Arrangements