Lords:
* Elena
* https://www.gouletpens.com/blogs/fountain-pen-blog/sailor-shikiori-tokiwa-matsu-ink-review
* Nathalie
* https://alienmelon.itch.io/ [cw:flashing lights]
Topics:
* Fish-based screensavers
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQpCcQhNfxM
* https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams
* Fire safety
* https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheThingThatGoesDoink
* https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/8/644/files/2017/08/Chiang-Lifecycle-of-Software-Objects-q3tsuw.pdf
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Qxqmhqj1A
* The Aquarium and the Glass Harmonica
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOx7zmO5ppw
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FAc3HmfoSY
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSzTPGlNa5U
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA3sA3ncX44&start=103
* I Am Running Into A New Year by Lucille Clifton
* https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/738271770264600576
* I went to Japan
* https://nerdparadise.com/mspaint/stereogram
* https://twitter.com/mischiefanimals/status/1704934776421913018
Microtopics:
* Shikiori Ink.
* The Computer Museum in Berlin.
* Back when you saw fish-based screen savers everywhere.
* The Roku app fish screen saver.
* A rock in the aquarium that says "Roku"
* 11 hours of fish content.
* Fish nerds sitting in a small box at the bottom of the ocean getting hype over seeing a small worm.
* An animated gif of fish nerds getting hype.
* A live jellyfish web cam that is just in principle.
* A web cam of the thing that goes donk and everyone cheers when it goes donk.
* The fish screen saver where you need to keep buying floppy disks with fish food on it or the fish die.
* Don't copy that fish food!
* The startup selling digital rabbit food going out of business so all the digital rabbits go into hibernation.
* The Life Cycle of Software Objects.
* Being unable to open your front door because the smart lock ran out of batteries.
* Everybody congratulating you on the infuriating guy you made up to get mad at.
* Fire safety anecdotes.
* Glass top electric stoves that look just like induction stoves, as a prank.
* How fire extinguishers taste.
* Looking at fire extinguisher dust and thinking "let's get the blood brain barrier involved."
* Leaving the stove on.
* Broiling a sandwich and the whole sandwich catches fire.
* A five year old doing science experiments with a lit candle.
* The UX design of grease fires.
* The William Shatner song about the dangers of deep frying a turkey.
* Relating to the teens coming into fashion for like a week and then the next week the teens are like "You're still trying to relate? That's cheugy AF."
* Self-moistening fingertips.
* Soaking your fingertips in water for eight minutes to get them pruny.
* The Canon of harmonica virtuoso music.
* Ethereal floating tones that fade in and out of existence.
* The Flat Bells.
* The Mellotron as a slightly more physical sampler.
* Clara Rockmore playing "The Swan" on Theremin.
* Bit-doers playing "The Swan" on Otamatone.
* Letting go of what you said to yourself about yourself when you were 16, 26, even 36.
* The assumption that you need to be forgiven for something.
* The sun coming up on this episode of Topic Lords.
* Working up the courage to climb the mountain you see every day from your back yard.
* Really tall hills you can walk up.
* What it's like to not hear cars constantly.
* Designing a building to sound good – even if it isn't a concert hall.
* Car-free cities.
* Biking in a bike-centric environment.
* Throwing your body into traffic and hoping drivers care about the legal liability of running someone over.
* The intersection where you always see the skid marks from kids doing donuts.
* Doing watercolors but with ink.
* Buying a bunch of art supplies and never using them because you're afraid to waste them.
* How do you get your paintbrush to do what you want?
* How watercolors behave depending on how wet the painting is and how wet the paintbrush is.
* Scraping your knife on the painting and it just looks like a shed.
* Is it a bunch of cats or is it the word "gay"?
* Images that look like stereograms but aren't.
* The blank canvas stereogram.
* Crowds staring at the enormous stereograms hanging up in the Mall of America.
* Stereogram artists accounting for pupillary distance.
* Making a stereogram in MS Paint.
