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Lords:
* Tyriq
* https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday
* https://frror.bandcamp.com/
* Stevie
* codroid@gmail.com
Topics:
* Striped humans
* Alternative keyboard layouts: teaching yourself to type in new horrible ways
* Where did I get these floppy disks?
* The floppy disk poems
* How do I give a tech talk?
* https://vimeo.com/91436410
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59hwI9Ae1qU
* http://paperdino.com/save-the-date/
Microtopics:
* The extent of Jim's patience vis-a-vis delayed plugging.
* Wishing you didn't make things so you could talk about the things you didn't make.
* Plugging the small random things in life, like bugs.
* Sitting in a chair right now.
* Trying desperately for forty years to never use Bluetooth.
* George Michael's "Faith"
* George Michael rehearsing a Queen song.
* A Faith listening party.
* The etymology of "Lobster."
* Plugging bugs and unplugging crustaceans.
* Invisible stripes along one's epidermis.
* Mosaicism (as distinct from Chimerism.)
* Blaschko Lines.
* A secret invisible power to be striped.
* The show where nobody knows anything.
* Spiraling outward from a central point.
* A thing that is a fact if you believe Wikipedia.
* Describing an egg as ovoid because it is similar to an ovum, i.e. an egg.
* Whether a factoid is bullshit.
* Whether humans are humanoid.
* The distinction between a fact and a factoid and how it has changed over time.
* Being slightly hungry and eating a single macaronus.
* Batman training his successor in the sci-fi future.
* Joining the villain faction because they get the cool hooves and horns.
* Turning 90 and getting your internal organs tattooed.
* Check it out, here's my solar plexus. Enjoy.
* An injection that makes your bones glow in the dark.
* Cold-Turkey Colemak Switchin'.
* Holding your left pinky on the tab key to keep your place.
* Iterating until you find the episode title.
* Typing without twerking.
* Being able to get your hands to do what you want without hurting.
* Getting a split keyboard so your hands keep working.
* The ease and laziness of the Wiimote and nunchuk allowing you to put your hands anywhere you want.
* Twitchy aim dominating the PC FPS design space regardless of what the game designer wants.
* Making poem floppy disks and using them as drinking coasters.
* Cleaning out your mouse.
* Disassembling a floppy disk and folding it into the shape of the Starship Enterprise.
* Remembering where the USB floppy drive might stuff.
* Whether cursed demoscene executables still curse you if you run them in DosBox.
* Whether the Ring video still cursed you after it's digitized to DVD.
* Maybe'm or maybe'm not.
* A pretty cool knick knack.
* A human head like pancake batter.
* Bread that you put in a blender.
* The old good lord, bad lord routine.
* Picking a god and channeling its power into your tech talk.
* A community of people that you want to like and respect you.
* Various ways to prepare to give a talk, and why Tyriq always does it the wrong way.
* Going to a talk and thereby consenting to be lectured by the person giving the talk.
* Blaming the audience for picking the wrong talk if they don't like your talk.
* How to run an ARG for no money.
* Deconstructing the idea that canon and headcanon are in any way different.
* Re-telling the same story over and over again.
* Same bullshit, different number of dimensions.
* A movie that was cooler when it was just a throwaway line in another movie.
* Depicting the same overarching event but with details changed.
* Games that require you to make a choice that you can't take back.
