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Lords:
* Kevin
* https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ or http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/nircam/
* https://youtu.be/in6RZzdGki8
* https://youtu.be/lrY04VPDg8I
* John
Topics:
* Reading the other headlines/articles on newspapers in films that flash on screen solely for the headline
* http://www.chess-in-the-cinema.de/
* The Game Boy Camera/revisiting the PXL-2000 topic and other toy cameras/tech
* Best Halloween candy: candy corn or pumpkin-shaped candy corn?
* Icarus, by Edward Field
* https://genius.com/Edward-field-icarus-annotated
* Douglas Hofstadter
Microtopics:
* The James Webb Space Telescope.
* The thing you get the most DMs about.
* Recording a fan's answering machine message in the Mario Frustration voice.
* The guy who "fixed" the NES triangle wave.
* Bandlimiting your oscillators.
* What the real Lordheads know.
* Another place to shitpost.
* 3D entertainment.
* Deku momentum problems.
* The analog stick mod for Mario 64 DS.
* A remaster that is in direct conversation with what it's remastering.
* The pros and cons of Mario 64 DS.
* Abandoned let's-plays.
* Waterworld for the Virtual Boy.
* Wario Ware and Rhythm Heaven.
* How to give Nintendo money in 2022.
* Prodigy Child Wins Every Award Given.
* Pausing movies to read the nonsense headlines that the prop designers didn't expect you to read.
* Pausing the movie to complain about the nonsensical Scrabble game depicted.
* A movie about people who don't know how to play Clue.
* A mahjongg game that is a literary microcosm of the players' lives.
* Leaning across the couch to your girlfriend and saying "that's Chappie's chess game."
* Playing Super Mario Bros. with the Power Glove.
* The Steam reviews for the 8-bit wrestling game that appears for three seconds in The Wrestler.
* The only digital camera that was under $100 in the 90s.
* How to get images off of the Game Boy Camera.
* Hooking together a TV, VCR, SNES, Super Game Boy and Game Boy Camera and plugging it in with a very long extension cord so you can shoot a movie outdoors.
* An in-your-face student film about what happens when computers can detect emotion.
* Using your Game Boy Camera as a webcam on Twitch.
* The Game Boy Camera's music sequencer.
* The Game Boy Camera asking ROM hackers if they are feeling ok.
* The Gold Zelda Camera.
* The gold Breath of the Wild cartridge that tastes like the Master Sword.
* The Cool Cam.
* The Lefty RX.
* Ranking candy by its volume to surface area ratio.
* Getting sick of candy corn naysayers.
* Wax Lips: Ya Gotta Eat 'Em!
* A powder that's been glued into a little puck.
* What the American Oil and Gas Historical Society has to say about wax lips.
* The oleaginous history of wax lips.
* Edible dinosaur bones.
* Bananasaurus Rex-flavored string cheese.
* The Genius of the Hero falling to the Middling Stature of the Merely Talented.
* Looking back on your best work and knowing you'll probably never best it but still liking your life more now.
* A short story with extra line breaks.
* Turning any text into a poem by resizing the window so there are extra line breaks.
* Robert Altman's follow-up to MASH.
* A retelling of Icarus featuring the wicked witch saying a slur.
* What it means to be conscious.
* Godel, Escher, Bach: I am a Strange Loop except more confusing.
* Writing a book for the general public and having to figure out how to make your ideas fun.
* Searching YouTube for "Crab Cannon" and only finding music for weirdos and no cannons of any kind.
* Martin Gardner's column about math games in Scientific American.
* Metamagical Themas.
* Using math to do fun space stuff.
* Stream Frasier Online Free.
* Rubik's Cube except spelled like an asshole.
