web01.fireside.fm Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:11:11 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Jason” https://topiclords.com/tags/jason Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 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 336. The Four Colonoscopies https://topiclords.com/the-four-colonoscopies 0a86855a-0353-4f5b-9908-aa57ab938d8d Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Jason and Ben. We discuss colonoscopy prep, how to do things you're bad at, the Trustworthy Shirts Tournament, and Do not go gentle into that good night, by Dylan Thomas 1:07:29 yes Lords: * Jason * https://bumpyskies.com/ * Ben * https://www.zerofiftyone.net/ Topics: * Prepping for a colonsocopy, the jmac way! * https://fogknife.com/2023-12-31-my-colonoscopy-strategies.html * How to do things you're bad at * The Trustworthy Shirts Tournament * https://eldritch.cafe/@cassolotl/116156921111844432 * Do not go gentle into that good night, by Dylan Thomas * https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night Microtopics: * The Wordle Puzzmo and Dall-E shitposts channel. * Plugging your turbulence forecasting web site at both ends. * Kids picking a name for themselves at age 8 and then being stuck with it forever. * Going to court and the judge is named "velociraptor#1993" and that's just normal. * Trying to pick a baby name and suggesting the name of your great grandmother whom you never met, velociraptor1993. * People still being named Baker even though nobody bakes any more. * Ripped off vs. stolen. * Colonoscopy Strategies. * Poorly understood advice from well meaning friends. * Drinking squid ink the day before your colonoscopy. * A power-blasted clean empty warehouse of a colon. * Why are you still listening to these colonoscopy stories? Skip to the end of the episode where I ask you to give money to the patreon. * The tattoo on the inside of your colon of an arrow indicating "this polyp right here" * Staying up until 3 AM drinking an entire jerry can of mineral wax. * Referring to the COVID pandemic as "the pandy" * The colonoscopy robot's tattoo gun. * Knowing all the names of parts of the intestines because of the difficult boss fight inside an intestine at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. * Hideo Kojima setting out to design a game to force people to write strategy guides about traversing the human rectum. * What Google searches Hideo Kojima was trying to inspire when he designed Snatcher. * Writing a strategy guide for drinking a five gallon can of lemon-flavored gym socks. * Slightly chewy boiled sweets. * Whether Jim should already have had a colonoscopy by now. * Getting your colon cancer screening kit in the mail and it swishes when you shake the box. * The tattoo scissor robot: it's out there waiting for you. * Getting an image of someone else's intestines tattooed on the inside of your intestines. * Getting "how's my driving" or "if you can read this you're too close" or "we bought this before we realized Elon was a fascist" tattooed on the inside of your intestines. * Striving to be more comfortable with being bad at skills. * All the ways you can fail at throwing pottery. * Learning to enjoy being bad at the piano. * The doodle that Bach drew on the cover of Well Tempered Clavier. * Flanderizing yourself because nobody else will. * Art forms where you accumulate physical evidence of your skill progression. * Recording three audio books and observing yourself getting better at recording audio books. * Audible's gig economy thing. * Never studying piano because you get too much done when you procrastinate studying piano. * Converted telephone microphones. * Trying to learn to play piano with a broken digital piano and really getting into electronics repair. * Playing live music and being completely at the mercy of time passing. * The Moogseum in Asheville, North Carolina. * The aspect of human existence that you're most missing out on. * Sitting there watching people play music and wishing you could also play music. * Learning to play the Final Countdown riff or the Axel F riff and being set for life. * Following a tutorial to create a convincing cover of Satisfaction by Benny Benassi. * Rip it Up, by Orange Juice. * Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat. * The Lesser Trolley Problems. * Whether viewers of The Good Place are more likely to value moral philosophy. * MASH vs. Moomins. * Who would go around wearing a MASH shirt in 2026? * Deciding how much to trust a Moomins aficionado without knowing how old they are. * Identifying Moomins on sight. * Owl House vs. Owl City. * People who go around wearing Owl House shirts without thinking about all the passers by assuming that they mean the Fireflies band. * What the characters in Interstellar think of Dylan Thomas. * The last wave by soaking in the green bay. * Whether you should get mad before you die. * Breathing life and fire into those who yet live. * Showing people an argument for losing so that they get mad and win instead. * Charitable Reads Book Club, LLC. * Production values that are way too high for this bit. * Soupertasters 15, with guest star Michael Caine. * Corn poems vs. carrot poems. 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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • The Wordle Puzzmo and Dall-E shitposts channel.
  • Plugging your turbulence forecasting web site at both ends.
  • Kids picking a name for themselves at age 8 and then being stuck with it forever.
  • Going to court and the judge is named "velociraptor#1993" and that's just normal.
  • Trying to pick a baby name and suggesting the name of your great grandmother whom you never met, velociraptor1993.
  • People still being named Baker even though nobody bakes any more.
  • Ripped off vs. stolen.
  • Colonoscopy Strategies.
  • Poorly understood advice from well meaning friends.
  • Drinking squid ink the day before your colonoscopy.
  • A power-blasted clean empty warehouse of a colon.
  • Why are you still listening to these colonoscopy stories? Skip to the end of the episode where I ask you to give money to the patreon.
  • The tattoo on the inside of your colon of an arrow indicating "this polyp right here"
  • Staying up until 3 AM drinking an entire jerry can of mineral wax.
  • Referring to the COVID pandemic as "the pandy"
  • The colonoscopy robot's tattoo gun.
  • Knowing all the names of parts of the intestines because of the difficult boss fight inside an intestine at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
  • Hideo Kojima setting out to design a game to force people to write strategy guides about traversing the human rectum.
  • What Google searches Hideo Kojima was trying to inspire when he designed Snatcher.
  • Writing a strategy guide for drinking a five gallon can of lemon-flavored gym socks.
  • Slightly chewy boiled sweets.
  • Whether Jim should already have had a colonoscopy by now.
  • Getting your colon cancer screening kit in the mail and it swishes when you shake the box.
  • The tattoo scissor robot: it's out there waiting for you.
  • Getting an image of someone else's intestines tattooed on the inside of your intestines.
  • Getting "how's my driving" or "if you can read this you're too close" or "we bought this before we realized Elon was a fascist" tattooed on the inside of your intestines.
  • Striving to be more comfortable with being bad at skills.
  • All the ways you can fail at throwing pottery.
  • Learning to enjoy being bad at the piano.
  • The doodle that Bach drew on the cover of Well Tempered Clavier.
  • Flanderizing yourself because nobody else will.
  • Art forms where you accumulate physical evidence of your skill progression.
  • Recording three audio books and observing yourself getting better at recording audio books.
  • Audible's gig economy thing.
  • Never studying piano because you get too much done when you procrastinate studying piano.
  • Converted telephone microphones.
  • Trying to learn to play piano with a broken digital piano and really getting into electronics repair.
  • Playing live music and being completely at the mercy of time passing.
  • The Moogseum in Asheville, North Carolina.
  • The aspect of human existence that you're most missing out on.
  • Sitting there watching people play music and wishing you could also play music.
  • Learning to play the Final Countdown riff or the Axel F riff and being set for life.
  • Following a tutorial to create a convincing cover of Satisfaction by Benny Benassi.
  • Rip it Up, by Orange Juice.
  • Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat.
  • The Lesser Trolley Problems.
  • Whether viewers of The Good Place are more likely to value moral philosophy.
  • M*A*S*H vs. Moomins.
  • Who would go around wearing a M*A*S*H shirt in 2026?
  • Deciding how much to trust a Moomins aficionado without knowing how old they are.
  • Identifying Moomins on sight.
  • Owl House vs. Owl City.
  • People who go around wearing Owl House shirts without thinking about all the passers by assuming that they mean the Fireflies band.
  • What the characters in Interstellar think of Dylan Thomas.
  • The last wave by soaking in the green bay.
  • Whether you should get mad before you die.
  • Breathing life and fire into those who yet live.
  • Showing people an argument for losing so that they get mad and win instead.
  • Charitable Reads Book Club, LLC.
  • Production values that are way too high for this bit.
  • Soupertasters 15, with guest star Michael Caine.
  • Corn poems vs. carrot poems.

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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • The Wordle Puzzmo and Dall-E shitposts channel.
  • Plugging your turbulence forecasting web site at both ends.
  • Kids picking a name for themselves at age 8 and then being stuck with it forever.
  • Going to court and the judge is named "velociraptor#1993" and that's just normal.
  • Trying to pick a baby name and suggesting the name of your great grandmother whom you never met, velociraptor1993.
  • People still being named Baker even though nobody bakes any more.
  • Ripped off vs. stolen.
  • Colonoscopy Strategies.
  • Poorly understood advice from well meaning friends.
  • Drinking squid ink the day before your colonoscopy.
  • A power-blasted clean empty warehouse of a colon.
  • Why are you still listening to these colonoscopy stories? Skip to the end of the episode where I ask you to give money to the patreon.
  • The tattoo on the inside of your colon of an arrow indicating "this polyp right here"
  • Staying up until 3 AM drinking an entire jerry can of mineral wax.
  • Referring to the COVID pandemic as "the pandy"
  • The colonoscopy robot's tattoo gun.
  • Knowing all the names of parts of the intestines because of the difficult boss fight inside an intestine at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
  • Hideo Kojima setting out to design a game to force people to write strategy guides about traversing the human rectum.
  • What Google searches Hideo Kojima was trying to inspire when he designed Snatcher.
  • Writing a strategy guide for drinking a five gallon can of lemon-flavored gym socks.
  • Slightly chewy boiled sweets.
  • Whether Jim should already have had a colonoscopy by now.
  • Getting your colon cancer screening kit in the mail and it swishes when you shake the box.
  • The tattoo scissor robot: it's out there waiting for you.
  • Getting an image of someone else's intestines tattooed on the inside of your intestines.
  • Getting "how's my driving" or "if you can read this you're too close" or "we bought this before we realized Elon was a fascist" tattooed on the inside of your intestines.
  • Striving to be more comfortable with being bad at skills.
  • All the ways you can fail at throwing pottery.
  • Learning to enjoy being bad at the piano.
  • The doodle that Bach drew on the cover of Well Tempered Clavier.
  • Flanderizing yourself because nobody else will.
  • Art forms where you accumulate physical evidence of your skill progression.
  • Recording three audio books and observing yourself getting better at recording audio books.
  • Audible's gig economy thing.
  • Never studying piano because you get too much done when you procrastinate studying piano.
  • Converted telephone microphones.
  • Trying to learn to play piano with a broken digital piano and really getting into electronics repair.
  • Playing live music and being completely at the mercy of time passing.
  • The Moogseum in Asheville, North Carolina.
  • The aspect of human existence that you're most missing out on.
  • Sitting there watching people play music and wishing you could also play music.
  • Learning to play the Final Countdown riff or the Axel F riff and being set for life.
  • Following a tutorial to create a convincing cover of Satisfaction by Benny Benassi.
  • Rip it Up, by Orange Juice.
  • Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat.
  • The Lesser Trolley Problems.
  • Whether viewers of The Good Place are more likely to value moral philosophy.
  • M*A*S*H vs. Moomins.
  • Who would go around wearing a M*A*S*H shirt in 2026?
  • Deciding how much to trust a Moomins aficionado without knowing how old they are.
  • Identifying Moomins on sight.
  • Owl House vs. Owl City.
  • People who go around wearing Owl House shirts without thinking about all the passers by assuming that they mean the Fireflies band.
  • What the characters in Interstellar think of Dylan Thomas.
  • The last wave by soaking in the green bay.
  • Whether you should get mad before you die.
  • Breathing life and fire into those who yet live.
  • Showing people an argument for losing so that they get mad and win instead.
  • Charitable Reads Book Club, LLC.
  • Production values that are way too high for this bit.
  • Soupertasters 15, with guest star Michael Caine.
  • Corn poems vs. carrot poems.

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]]> 224. Following a Garden Hose Around in the Dark https://topiclords.com/following-a-garden-hose-around-in-the-dark 0f6c713d-f900-4a73-aa83-4a9c67054140 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Jason and Nathan. We discuss painting your nails, jukebox griefing, the team that developed Donkey Kong, Hypothetical Explanations for the Paradox, how color happens on monitors, and Bach's looping doodle. 1:10:21 yes Lords: * Jason * https://jmac.org/ * https://masto.nyc/@jmac * Nathan * Mommy's Best Games Everywhere Topics: * When I paint my nails I don't paint my thumbnails. This is because I see my thumbnails all day long but I don't see my other fingernails nearly as often, and so every time I do I'm like "Whoa!!!!" * Jukebox griefing * Nintendo farmed out the development of Donkey Kong to an outside dev team, because they didn't have an in-house video game team yet. Donkey Kong was that team's first game. Their second game was Zaxxon. * Hypothetical explanations for the paradox * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/bZmUoKct.png * Thinking about RGB color programming for games, then wondering about how the color actually happens on monitors. * Bach drew a loopy doodle at the top of the cover of his original manuscript of "The Well Tempered Clavier". It looks like he was just warming up his pen-hand, but scholars have been arguing for years that it contains secret codes about how to well-temper a clavier Microtopics: * Interactive Fiction Land. * Panoptikum Budapest. * Bumpy Grumpy's emotional arc. * Frantic Frank. * Men and male-presenting persons with painted nails. * Painting just one fingernail dark green and wondering whether that's a hankie code thing. * What's going on with my thumbs? * Your non-thumb fingernails. * Painting your nails and repeatedly rediscovering them. * Looking like an android. (But in a cool way.) * Forehead loaves. * Starting to pay attention to where your fingers are. * Why not to wear a magnetic nose stud. * Being old enough to remember when you had to walk up to the jukebox to queue up Beat It by Michael Jackson ten times in a row. * Getting into a jukebox griefing war with someone you've never met. * Walking up to the jukebox and typing in the binary code of the WAV file you want to play. * Binary data played back at audio rates. * The math describing Mario's jump arc. * Making the first racing video game and thinking "well that's racing games sorted." * Satoru Iwata's understanding of Mario's last name. * Mario: a weird little dude. * Drill Dozer. * How to run a video game business when games are sold on cassette tape for six pounds which is way too heavy for a video game. * Platformers where you go off the edge of the screen and end up on another screen and each screen has a name. * Inflation hypothesis and the youngness argument. * Earth is purposefully isolated. (Planetarium hypothesis.) * They are here undetected vs. they are here unacknowledged. * Arguing about a sexy robot. * Ironically Sexy Robots * The Fudd Paradox, by Ray Bradbury. * People who just want to toss salad and don't want to know about your weird slang. * Gender-expansive anthropomorphic rabbits. * Blank verse vs. free verse. * Burning Monkey Solitaire. * What your cat sees when he's swatting at Kratos. * How blue is blue? * Watching old episodes of Bob Ross and you can't follow along any more because they don't make Mummy Brown anymore. * The Opaque See-Through TV. * Seeing a see-through TV at CES and asking the guy at the booth what use case is of a see-through TV and he's like "to look cool at CES." * Ribbed monitors. * The secret textures of the Nintendo 3DS. * All kinds of words that you don't know how to pronounce. * The Moogseum. * Bach's looping doodle. * The structure of the J.S. Bach speedrunning community. * A community obsessing over minutia and never worrying about whether it's true or important because it's just some bullshit you made up and agreed to care about. * Hungry music theorists who need human connection. * Sponsoring AGDQ with your clavier etudes. * Black MIDI. * Using up all the claviers in the world during your clavier speedrunning event. * The Fetaverse. * Making an arcade cabinet. Lords:

Topics:

  • When I paint my nails I don't paint my thumbnails. This is because I see my thumbnails all day long but I don't see my other fingernails nearly as often, and so every time I do I'm like "Whoa!!!!"
  • Jukebox griefing
  • Nintendo farmed out the development of Donkey Kong to an outside dev team, because they didn't have an in-house video game team yet. Donkey Kong was that team's first game. Their second game was Zaxxon.
  • Hypothetical explanations for the paradox
  • Thinking about RGB color programming for games, then wondering about how the color actually happens on monitors.
  • Bach drew a loopy doodle at the top of the cover of his original manuscript of "The Well Tempered Clavier". It looks like he was just warming up his pen-hand, but scholars have been arguing for years that it contains secret codes about how to well-temper a clavier

Microtopics:

  • Interactive Fiction Land.
  • Panoptikum Budapest.
  • Bumpy Grumpy's emotional arc.
  • Frantic Frank.
  • Men and male-presenting persons with painted nails.
  • Painting just one fingernail dark green and wondering whether that's a hankie code thing.
  • What's going on with my thumbs?
  • Your non-thumb fingernails.
  • Painting your nails and repeatedly rediscovering them.
  • Looking like an android. (But in a cool way.)
  • Forehead loaves.
  • Starting to pay attention to where your fingers are.
  • Why not to wear a magnetic nose stud.
  • Being old enough to remember when you had to walk up to the jukebox to queue up Beat It by Michael Jackson ten times in a row.
  • Getting into a jukebox griefing war with someone you've never met.
  • Walking up to the jukebox and typing in the binary code of the WAV file you want to play.
  • Binary data played back at audio rates.
  • The math describing Mario's jump arc.
  • Making the first racing video game and thinking "well that's racing games sorted."
  • Satoru Iwata's understanding of Mario's last name.
  • Mario: a weird little dude.
  • Drill Dozer.
  • How to run a video game business when games are sold on cassette tape for six pounds which is way too heavy for a video game.
  • Platformers where you go off the edge of the screen and end up on another screen and each screen has a name.
  • Inflation hypothesis and the youngness argument.
  • Earth is purposefully isolated. (Planetarium hypothesis.)
  • They are here undetected vs. they are here unacknowledged.
  • Arguing about a sexy robot.
  • Ironically Sexy Robots
  • The Fudd Paradox, by Ray Bradbury.
  • People who just want to toss salad and don't want to know about your weird slang.
  • Gender-expansive anthropomorphic rabbits.
  • Blank verse vs. free verse.
  • Burning Monkey Solitaire.
  • What your cat sees when he's swatting at Kratos.
  • How blue is blue?
  • Watching old episodes of Bob Ross and you can't follow along any more because they don't make Mummy Brown anymore.
  • The Opaque See-Through TV.
  • Seeing a see-through TV at CES and asking the guy at the booth what use case is of a see-through TV and he's like "to look cool at CES."
  • Ribbed monitors.
  • The secret textures of the Nintendo 3DS.
  • All kinds of words that you don't know how to pronounce.
  • The Moogseum.
  • Bach's looping doodle.
  • The structure of the J.S. Bach speedrunning community.
  • A community obsessing over minutia and never worrying about whether it's true or important because it's just some bullshit you made up and agreed to care about.
  • Hungry music theorists who need human connection.
  • Sponsoring AGDQ with your clavier etudes.
  • Black MIDI.
  • Using up all the claviers in the world during your clavier speedrunning event.
  • The Fetaverse.
  • Making an arcade cabinet.

Support Topic Lords

]]> Lords:

Topics:

  • When I paint my nails I don't paint my thumbnails. This is because I see my thumbnails all day long but I don't see my other fingernails nearly as often, and so every time I do I'm like "Whoa!!!!"
  • Jukebox griefing
  • Nintendo farmed out the development of Donkey Kong to an outside dev team, because they didn't have an in-house video game team yet. Donkey Kong was that team's first game. Their second game was Zaxxon.
  • Hypothetical explanations for the paradox
  • Thinking about RGB color programming for games, then wondering about how the color actually happens on monitors.
  • Bach drew a loopy doodle at the top of the cover of his original manuscript of "The Well Tempered Clavier". It looks like he was just warming up his pen-hand, but scholars have been arguing for years that it contains secret codes about how to well-temper a clavier

Microtopics:

  • Interactive Fiction Land.
  • Panoptikum Budapest.
  • Bumpy Grumpy's emotional arc.
  • Frantic Frank.
  • Men and male-presenting persons with painted nails.
  • Painting just one fingernail dark green and wondering whether that's a hankie code thing.
  • What's going on with my thumbs?
  • Your non-thumb fingernails.
  • Painting your nails and repeatedly rediscovering them.
  • Looking like an android. (But in a cool way.)
  • Forehead loaves.
  • Starting to pay attention to where your fingers are.
  • Why not to wear a magnetic nose stud.
  • Being old enough to remember when you had to walk up to the jukebox to queue up Beat It by Michael Jackson ten times in a row.
  • Getting into a jukebox griefing war with someone you've never met.
  • Walking up to the jukebox and typing in the binary code of the WAV file you want to play.
  • Binary data played back at audio rates.
  • The math describing Mario's jump arc.
  • Making the first racing video game and thinking "well that's racing games sorted."
  • Satoru Iwata's understanding of Mario's last name.
  • Mario: a weird little dude.
  • Drill Dozer.
  • How to run a video game business when games are sold on cassette tape for six pounds which is way too heavy for a video game.
  • Platformers where you go off the edge of the screen and end up on another screen and each screen has a name.
  • Inflation hypothesis and the youngness argument.
  • Earth is purposefully isolated. (Planetarium hypothesis.)
  • They are here undetected vs. they are here unacknowledged.
  • Arguing about a sexy robot.
  • Ironically Sexy Robots
  • The Fudd Paradox, by Ray Bradbury.
  • People who just want to toss salad and don't want to know about your weird slang.
  • Gender-expansive anthropomorphic rabbits.
  • Blank verse vs. free verse.
  • Burning Monkey Solitaire.
  • What your cat sees when he's swatting at Kratos.
  • How blue is blue?
  • Watching old episodes of Bob Ross and you can't follow along any more because they don't make Mummy Brown anymore.
  • The Opaque See-Through TV.
  • Seeing a see-through TV at CES and asking the guy at the booth what use case is of a see-through TV and he's like "to look cool at CES."
  • Ribbed monitors.
  • The secret textures of the Nintendo 3DS.
  • All kinds of words that you don't know how to pronounce.
  • The Moogseum.
  • Bach's looping doodle.
  • The structure of the J.S. Bach speedrunning community.
  • A community obsessing over minutia and never worrying about whether it's true or important because it's just some bullshit you made up and agreed to care about.
  • Hungry music theorists who need human connection.
  • Sponsoring AGDQ with your clavier etudes.
  • Black MIDI.
  • Using up all the claviers in the world during your clavier speedrunning event.
  • The Fetaverse.
  • Making an arcade cabinet.

Support Topic Lords

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