267. Unburying The Duck

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December 2nd, 2024

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Lords:

  • John
  • Erica

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • The waiting list to get into the Topic Lords discord.
  • What goes on the lords-only channel.
  • The first rule of being a lord.
  • It's the end of the show somewhere in the world.
  • Frog Fractions Royalty.
  • Topic Lords Con East.
  • Choosing pairs of lords.
  • What lords have been on the show least recently.
  • Mystery with a B.
  • Responsibility to the lords.
  • ARG goings-on.
  • Maze of Games.
  • Rubber hose ARG solving
  • Digging up the golden owl and replacing it with a duck.
  • The minimum number of golden owls you are allowed to cast in France.
  • The History of the Owl Stuff.
  • Commemorating your love of the Golden Owl by purchasing this commemorative Golden Owl.
  • The Mystery of the Golden Owl that nobody wanted solved.
  • It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
  • Going and burying a duck
  • Unburying the Duck and putting the Owl back.
  • Looking through the Heart of France.
  • Another cursed treasure hunt in the can.
  • Ancient alternatives to zip files.
  • Re-scoping your puzzle hunt on the fly.
  • Telling twins apart using phrenology.
  • Twin identification strategies.
  • Let me see your flecks!
  • Checking your placental mammals for belly buttons.
  • Platypodes.
  • Jock twin/nerd twin.
  • Having children as a way to practice solving problems together.
  • Who forgot to take a nap today? (Everyone on the show.)
  • Flailing limbs kicking your bedmate all night.
  • Rocking your kid to sleep and then depositing them in the crib like Indy swapping out the golden idol.
  • How to teach babies to sleep.
  • Wearing children until the children no longer tolerate it.
  • A good selection of kid-friendly music.
  • A guy with a soothing British voice saying interesting things for ten minutes.
  • How much coffee to give a six year old right before bed.
  • Waiting for your kid to realize that when it's 1am he doesn't have to ask you if he can watch TV.
  • Just show me the byte order marker!
  • Adding tabs to Notepad.
  • Everyone agreeing to go back to WordStar.
  • What software developers do once a program is finished and perfect.
  • Loading CSV files into R.
  • Accidentally updating Excel.
  • The kind of person who is passionate about the latest cutting edge version of all software, who works in tech and is in charge of all update systems.
  • Adobe Premiere updates that ruin your team's entire workflow.
  • Why JWZ is no longer rich.
  • Seeing all the trailing spaces at the end of the line.
  • Jobs that require you to be able to distinguish between a tab character and the equivalent number of spaces.
  • How Unity handles upgrades and versioning.
  • The 75th anniversary of Goodnight Moon.
  • Why the New York Times's list of most borrowed children's library books of all time doesn't contain Goodnight Moon.
  • When Goodnight Moon says "Goodnight Nobody" and you immediately assume that the old lady died.
  • The calming effect of going over an inventory of really nice soothing things.
  • The Margaret Wise Brown ouevre.
  • Goodnight Dune.
  • Good night, shai-hulud bursting out of the dune.
  • Good night, Bene Gesserit witch whispering "they tried and died."
  • Too much of every character giving their internal monologue in italics.
  • Virginia Facebook's extremely cheap antiques.
  • Floating in the No-Room.
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