140. The Most Edible Petrochemical

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Lords:

• Kevin
  • https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ or http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/nircam/
  • https://youtu.be/in6RZzdGki8
  • https://youtu.be/lrY04VPDg8I
• John

Topics:

• Reading the other headlines/articles on newspapers in films that flash on screen solely for the headline
  • http://www.chess-in-the-cinema.de/
• The Game Boy Camera/revisiting the PXL-2000 topic and other toy cameras/tech
• Best Halloween candy: candy corn or pumpkin-shaped candy corn?
• Icarus, by Edward Field
  • https://genius.com/Edward-field-icarus-annotated
• Douglas Hofstadter

Microtopics:

• The James Webb Space Telescope.
• The thing you get the most DMs about.
• Recording a fan's answering machine message in the Mario Frustration voice.
• The guy who "fixed" the NES triangle wave.
• Bandlimiting your oscillators.
• What the real Lordheads know.
• Another place to shitpost.
• 3D entertainment.
• Deku momentum problems.
• The analog stick mod for Mario 64 DS.
• A remaster that is in direct conversation with what it's remastering.
• The pros and cons of Mario 64 DS.
• Abandoned let's-plays.
• Waterworld for the Virtual Boy.
• Wario Ware and Rhythm Heaven.
• How to give Nintendo money in 2022.
• Prodigy Child Wins Every Award Given.
• Pausing movies to read the nonsense headlines that the prop designers didn't expect you to read.
• Pausing the movie to complain about the nonsensical Scrabble game depicted.
• A movie about people who don't know how to play Clue.
• A mahjongg game that is a literary microcosm of the players' lives.
• Leaning across the couch to your girlfriend and saying "that's Chappie's chess game."
• Playing Super Mario Bros. with the Power Glove.
• The Steam reviews for the 8-bit wrestling game that appears for three seconds in The Wrestler.
• The only digital camera that was under $100 in the 90s.
• How to get images off of the Game Boy Camera.
• Hooking together a TV, VCR, SNES, Super Game Boy and Game Boy Camera and plugging it in with a very long extension cord so you can shoot a movie outdoors.
• An in-your-face student film about what happens when computers can detect emotion.
• Using your Game Boy Camera as a webcam on Twitch.
• The Game Boy Camera's music sequencer.
• The Game Boy Camera asking ROM hackers if they are feeling ok.
• The Gold Zelda Camera.
• The gold Breath of the Wild cartridge that tastes like the Master Sword.
• The Cool Cam.
• The Lefty RX.
• Ranking candy by its volume to surface area ratio.
• Getting sick of candy corn naysayers.
• Wax Lips: Ya Gotta Eat 'Em!
• A powder that's been glued into a little puck.
• What the American Oil and Gas Historical Society has to say about wax lips.
• The oleaginous history of wax lips.
• Edible dinosaur bones.
• Bananasaurus Rex-flavored string cheese.
• The Genius of the Hero falling to the Middling Stature of the Merely Talented.
• Looking back on your best work and knowing you'll probably never best it but still liking your life more now.
• A short story with extra line breaks.
• Turning any text into a poem by resizing the window so there are extra line breaks.
• Robert Altman's follow-up to MASH.
• A retelling of Icarus featuring the wicked witch saying a slur.
• What it means to be conscious.
• Godel, Escher, Bach: I am a Strange Loop except more confusing.
• Writing a book for the general public and having to figure out how to make your ideas fun.
• Searching YouTube for "Crab Cannon" and only finding music for weirdos and no cannons of any kind.
• Martin Gardner's column about math games in Scientific American.
• Metamagical Themas.
• Using math to do fun space stuff.
• Stream Frasier Online Free.
• Rubik's Cube except spelled like an asshole.