• Ben
• Andrew

Topics:

• Baking: precise science of measurement or do it all by feel? (People have very different philosophies of muffins)
• I've gotten into making crosswords this year and recently had the idea to start putting them on postcards and leaving them in public places for people to find. Am I becoming the Riddler? Is this fine?
• I just found out that there aren't exactly 52 weeks in a year
• The Rules, Leila Chatti
  • https://poets.org/poem/rules
• Building fidgeting into a Zoom lecture
• Things of Science. (Subscription science toy service that I got when I was a kid)

Microtopics:

• Posting pictures of pottery to social media.
• The Hopefully Year of Layoffs.
• Teaching game development as a hobby.
• The interactive comic books of Jason Shiga.
• Lies and truth and sea monsters.
• Waiting for half an hour to find out if you fucked it up.
• Baking intuitively.
• Skimming a recipe and thinking "hmm yes, I've made food before"
• Voronoi cookies.
• Keeping separate baking notebooks for each season.
• Having units that are divisible by two.
• Putting it in a Gas 4 Oven.
• How to pronounce "tare."
• Sneaking into Grandma's kitchen and weighing all the ingredients.
• Cruciverbalism.
• Where to post the crosswords you've constructed.
• A Lord's Puzzle.
• Giving people a little bit of joy and avoiding hearing any feedback about it.
• Living in the puzzle capital of the world.
• Constructing a crossword puzzle for every party you attend.
• The MIT Mystery Hunt.
• Making art for a really small group of people.
• Crosswordese.
• Designing themed vs. themeless crossword puzzles.
• How many weeks are in a leap year.
• Yet another ratio that doesn't work out.
• Calendrical systems you could use.
• Things that you know that are wrong.
• What's your favorite thing you don't know that you don't know?
• Finding a drawer full of narwhal tusks in a bone shop and thinking "hm, sixty unicorns died here"
• NASA's antigravity room.
• Why doesn't the Mars habitat work out?
• Multiple digressions on horse urine.
• Refining horse urine into progesterone on Mars.
• Suddenly realizing that you've been dead all along.
• Cicadas doing whatever they do in the trees.
• Acknowledging the expectations of what a poem is.
• Why you always turn out to have been dead at the end.
• Who is out there still making games about guns?
• Adding line breaks to make your essay look like a poem.
• Innominateness.
• Garden path level design.
• Reading aloud etudes.
• Mavis Beacon Teaches Elocution.
• Replacing your Zoom background with a video of yourself.
• Brain massaging video of cutting sand.
• The calming effect of amphetamines.
• Fidgeting incessantly during Zoom calls.
• Fidgeting for people so they don't have to.
• Bubbling noises and space harps.
• Remote testing protocols.
• Plagiarism detector snake oil.
• Doing homework to get used to the idea of doing homework.
• Mass-production of adults.
• Paperwork as a method of crowd control.
• Homework as a barrier to family time vs. homework that facilitates family time.
• Mailing people little bits of science.
• Aerogel vs. Superslurper.
• Growing mold in your oobleck.
• Sending 1940s children asbestos in the mail.
• Using every sense to explore the world.
• A dog sniffing your hand and walking away.
• Throwing away all the business cards that just have your Twitter handle on them.

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