330. Tip Extra To See the Nuns

Lords:

• Alex
• Shannon

Topics:

• Japan in summer is too hot, but there's lots of cool festivals
• Why can't I have marzipan made by nuns in California?
• Podcast playlist problems
• Considering the Snail, by Thom Gunn
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52887/considering-the-snail

Microtopics:

• Traveling.
• If you need a lot of stuff, or if that stuff needs you.
• Real Topic Aficionados.
• Last Life and other lives.
• Watching a TV series you like and then going back and watching the same episodes again from a different character's perspective.
• Napping all day and seeing street festivals at night.
• Walking around with a tower of flaming candles on your head that keep getting tangled in power lines.
• Why aren't the modern World's Fairs as exciting as the ones from 150 years ago?
• Making a couple weeks vanish in lieu of a millennium and a half of leap days.
• Naming your baby Person Who Packs For Themselves.
• Naming your baby "Supplanter"
• The littlest bean that's currently born.
• Growing up enough to realize that everybody is named Luke now.
• How Bob used to be the funny fake name but now it's Jeremy.
• The Bob Emergency.
• The guy you call Baker because he's a baker.
• The canonical order of ore value in video games.
• Hacking your save file at home, just like in the good old days.
• Selling marzipan in a dark room with a turntable and a bell.
• Things you can eat in some parts of the world that you can't eat in others.
• San Diego's Best Seattle Burrito.
• The essence of fine Mexican foods.
• Australians telling candy companies "stop trying to make Halloween happen"
• That friend who has digestive issues eating salmon, but only in specific countries.
• The politics of buying Girl Scout cookies.
• The best place to sell a Girl Scout cookies on UCSD campus.
• Boy Scouts trying to sell popcorn, with seemingly no awareness that popcorn is not remotely as good as Girl Scout Cookies.
• Kobey's Swap Meet.
• Getting an old timey surgical mannequin at a swap meet so you can practice your surgery.
• Kids today trying to figure out how to operate a VCR like they're playing Myst.
• What happens if you put a VHS tape in backwards?
• Netflix's "continue watching" category, for movies you didn't like enough to finish.
• We don't want to hear your bra podcasts!
• The Stanford professor you're gardening for asking you what podcast you're listening to and now you have to explain your weird hobby to your employer.
• How to listen to podcasts without your boss sneaking up on you.
• The first time you've been to the dentist without headphones this millennium.
• Introvert Dentists.
• Tooth care advice that you forget immediately.
• Extremely symmetrical knots in a power cable.
• Climbing, sailing and caving knots.
• What is a snail's fury? Why is this snail so mad?
• A turtle that's decided it's go time.
• Getting really excited about the turtle races at the Renaissance Fair.
• Watching a carnival game where four people throw five spears each at targets attached to a wall of hay, and none of them manage to hit the wall.
• Axe throwing bars, where you have a beer and throw axes.
• Taking up axe throwing as a hobby because whenever someone gets killed with an axe, the police will be sad if they don't have any suspects.
• Axe throwing failure modes.
• Dominant javelin throwing strategies.
• Throwing a javelin further by spinning around like a discus thrower.
• Bullets: they go where they want.