329. Who Made Tigers?

Lords:

• Tyriq
• Watson

Topics:

• My sleep experience over the holiday
  • Esper says: "Cannabis can definitely help one get into a sleep state, but actually degrades the quality of sleep quite a bit. From personal experience my guess is this has to do with how it affects dreams, often precluding them from happening to begin with."
• Conlanging taught me how to judge good art
• Tate mode
• The Tyger, by William Blake
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger

Microtopics:

• Scrubbin' Trubble
• The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Leguin.
• Changing history by dreaming about it and having a hypnotherapist that's trying to change your dreams.
• Telling artists that you like them vs. telling them that you like your work.
• Learning how to take compliments.
• Three people who could have opinions.
• Spoilers for early January.
• Trying to sleep on an airplane and training yourself to be unable to sleep at all.
• A highly suboptimal experience.
• Untraining the fear of falling asleep on planes from your body.
• How to wear a neck pillow, maybe.
• Sleeping sitting up and your head nodding forward as you fall asleep.
• Neck pillow instructions dot PDF.
• How to transport a neck pillow.
• Hyperfixation on sleep and the consequences of not getting it.
• Mythbusters Mode.
• If you can't sleep, how helpful is it to pretend to be asleep?
• Being woken up by the sensation of all your senses shutting down as you fall asleep.
• Skipping your consciousness off of the surface of sleep.
• Getting super stoked when you're about to fall asleep and waking yourself up because you're so excited.
• Problems solved with more coffee vs. problems solved with more coffee tables.
• Lingthusiasm.
• Cursing yourself to hate a beloved movie series by watching it on a plane.
• Psychosomatic self-curses.
• Linguistics and conlangs.
• The guy everyone hires to con a lang for a movie.
• Judging things based on whether you like it vs. judging things based on whether it achieved the creator's goals.
• Learning a new framing and applying it to everything.
• Being aware of your frame and communicating your frame to the listener.
• Lojban.
• Lojban as a wholly unnatural way to speak in the same way that ballet is a wholly unnatural way to move.
• Decent and not unaesthetic.
• Trying to draw a picture without knowing how to hold a pencil.
• Birds with extra vocal tracts.
• Birdlangs.
• What if parrots evolved to be sentient, except in a fantasy world, because reasons.
• Ascertaining the borders of your caring.
• Brandon Sanderson doing Brandon Sanderson things.
• The IPA of sounds a human can perform live on a modular synthesizer.
• To create Hatsune Miku, you must first invent the universe.
• Horizontal vs. vertical scanlines.
• Designing a CRT that can scan either horizontally or vertically.
• Delta gun tubes with a triad of phosphor dots.
• Having a vertical monitor to display tall things.
• Page-shaped-pages.
• Games that ship as a rectangle on a web site.
• Black frame insertion.
• Do modern LCD displays have ghosting?
• A very intimidating challenge.
• A very fun nexus of art and programming.
• Tate Mode vs. Tate Modern.
• Tate your owl for science.
• Whether this poem predates the Great Vowel Shift.
• Mixing ands and ampersands.
• Capital Ampersand.
• Seeing an animal and realizing that this is it, this is the one that's meant to eat me.
• A glowing golden perfect human that everyone instantly hates and wants to eat.
• Whether you can invent a tiger in Dwarf Fortress.