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Lords:
* Elena
* Alexander plugs https://www.constantpodcast.com/
Topics:
* Hosting a party is way better than going to a party
* The Pearl Jam Liner Notes method of writing first drafts
* Lagrange Point Lasagna
* Jonathan Swift, "Ode on the Longitude"
* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/TheWorksoftheRev.JonathanSwift/Volume17/OdeontheLongitude
* The theory of spontaneous generation
* It turns out Sunday Roasts are a whole Deal
* Diagnose my tongue!
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI3yD3WAcz4
* https://www.buzzfeed.com/danielralston/the-true-story-of-the-fake-zombies-the-strangest-con-in-rock
Microtopics:
* Unfindable Lords.
* The Constant: a History of Getting Things Wrong.
* Continuous vs. discontinuous weighted blankets.
* People asking you about your life so you have to give them all the necessary context on your life so they'll understand.
* A masquerade ball where you receive a quest to find someone wearing a dog mask and talk to them about topology.
* The smallest of talk.
* A continuous unplanned unstructured talking with each other that you expect to just happen by itself.
* Bringing a cheeseboard to a party so you can go sort it whenever the conversation gets awkward
* Sorting the cheeseboard from sharp to mild and then sorting the cheese by color but nobody at the party is allowed to actually eat any.
* From Infracheddar to Ultrableu.
* A sorting algorithm gaining intelligence and trying to understand itself.
* Teaching your friends sign language so they'll be quieter at parties.
* The weirdness of reading aloud.
* Writing while talking.
* A species of alien that can follow two conversations at once.
* Balancing the complexity of your word choices so your sentence flows nicely.
* Writing the most important word of each sentence first and then going back and filling in the rest of the sentence.
* Worrying about commas later.
* Taking so long to implement the core of your idea that you've forgotten the details.
* How to bake brownies that are all edge pieces.
* How to bake brownies that's all center pieces.
* Sous vide brownies.
* People who only like the center of the falafel.
* The perfect solution for the person who prefers the grossest part of the brownie.
* Opening a portal to the lasagna dimension and scooping some out and feeling safe because there's no e. coli in the lasagna dimension, just lasagna.
* Tectonic plates in the lasagna dimension.
* Subduction lasagna.
* The asteroid equivalent of brownie soup.
* Forming trade alliances with the people who live in the air pockets of the lasagna dimension.
* Lasagna creationists.
* The Earth is a rock lasagna.
* Whether lasagna or baked ziti is more likely to be naturally occurring.
* Bepst and besht.
* A long-standing problem in navigation.
* Figuring out how to determine longitude in the Age of Navigation.
* Getting kicked out of Cambridge because you don't accept the Trinity.
* Firing a cannon at noon so everyone knows what time it is.
* Such explosive ships, in such known locations.
* A new method for discovering longitude both at sea and land, humbly proposed for the consideration of the public.
* The Jewish Space Lasers of the 1700s.
* The sense in which GPS is extremely loud.
* Putting a log on the fire and salamanders come out.
* The riddle where to understand the answer you have to know that bees come from lion carcasses.
* How earth used to have enough energy to spawn humans out of clay but now it only has enough juice left to make bugs and snails.
* A recipe for scorpions.
* The Tragedy of the Sunday Roast.
* The St. Tuppensday Brouhaha.
* Million Shilling Idea: serving Sunday Roast all week.
* Victorian orphans mining for Bitcoin (or "bittums") out on the Playa.
* Eating a Yorkshire pudding at a Lagrange point and sopping up gravy from the gravy dimension.
* Via Gravia.
* Nega-scurvy, where you eat too much fruit and grow extra teeth.
* The Yes Ship of Theseus.
* That time the Zombies broke up and then had a hit record and then fake Zombies started touring the US until someone from the real band noticed.
* The Caramelldansen saga.
