211. Window-Peering Jim Checking Out Your Cats

Lords:

• Cort
  • https://a.co/d/iRrEZcy
• Elena

Topics:

• My due date is literally tomorrow
• Dogme 95 for web development
• Visits from the neighborhood cats
• Potato, by Jane Kenyon
  • https://poets.org/poem/potato-0
• Cooperative board games are hard to design
  • Space themed coop trick-taking card game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284083/crew-quest-planet-nine
• Building a conlang generator from the phonology up
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonority_hierarchy
  • Linear algebra cursed conlang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze5i_e_ryTk

Microtopics:

• The Be Real App.
• Posting your mortifying skin condition for all the internet to see.
• Being born.
• The Dance Dance Revolution song "20,November," by Earth Wind and Fire.
• PiCoSteveMo.
• Tossing around hastily drawn concept art with your team.
• Being born, again.
• Having a kid for someone else.
• Eating cigarettes off of the sidewalk.
• A grab bag of thousands of possible pregnancy symptoms.
• Literacy as a symptom of pregnancy.
• A visceral reminder that you are part of a long chain of humans.
• Which came first, humans or birth?
• The comfort of the humans who are still around having individual experiences even after you die.
• Tips n Tricks for dealing with fear of death.
• Inviting dead people onto the show.
• Asking for more pro-death art so you can feel better about death.
• Pro-life, in the literal sense.
• Flowers and mushrooms growing up through the bones.
• Returning to the universe to nurture it.
• Dumb Ways to Die.
• Sum: 40 Tales from the Afterlives.
• Thought experiments about something weird that could happen.
• The Egg by Andy Weir.
• Covering birth and death in the same topic.
• Looking at photos of yourself from five years ago and thinking "oh shit!"
• I am choosing to no longer have conscious experience, mom. You wouldn't understand, mom.
• Swedish with a mouthful of potatoes.
• Dogme 95.
• Enpoopification.
• A protocol for exchanging information on a computer.
• Rewinding to a kinder, simpler web.
• Avoiding all this gestures at the world
• New rule: no web servers more powerful than a Raspberry Pi.
• The cool thing that was on the web in the mid-90s.
• Making art and putting it on the internet and getting a fan base.
• The teenage gamer comic series making a comic about prostate exams.
• Sharding the internet.
• El Goonish Shive.
• Anime hammers that you do when someone is being a pervert.
• Coming to personal revelations regarding your neurodivergence or gender situation.
• How to be a successful artist.
• Not knowing if your favorite webcomic had ads because you use an adblocker.
• Working at your parents animation studio as an inbetweener.
• Merging your cats into one cat.
• Neighborhood coyotes.
• Cats beyond the reach of fear.
• Window-peering Jim: he's just checking out your remodel.
• Putting a GoPro on your neighbor's cat and livestreaming the inside of their house.
• Cats with amazing life stories that they'll never tell you.
• The consort of coffee grounds.
• Making shepherd's pie for an entire hamlet.
• A possibly accidental double line break.
• A line break corresponding to a conceptual boundary.
• The Story of Mel: a Real Programmer.
• Adding left angle brackets to the start of every line until word wrap makes it a poem.
• Blackout poetry.
• Pumping gas as an element of Cottagecore.
• A hamlet is just a city in New Jersey.
• The fireworks on your forehead game.
• A game where everyone stops talking.
• The Yelling Game.
• A dedicated period of yelling.
• Space-themed trick taking games.
• The Spaceteam card game.
• Coming up with a set of place names that sound like they're from the same culture.
• Assigning syllable groups to a morpheme.
• Asking Claude.
• Interpolating the obvious things.
• The Sonority Hierarchy.
• A gradient from less vowel-like to more vowel-like.
• Cursed Conlangs.
• Generating syllables and mushing them together.