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Lords:
* Elena
* Joël
Topics:
* The Luck Factor:
* http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/TheLuckFactor.pdf
* Dual pilgrim certificate
* The return of PicoSteveMo
* https://itch.io/jam/picostevemo-3
* Every poem, by every human
* https://www.tumblr.com/nextworldover/793694487879827456/animatedamerican-atamascolily
Microtopics:
* Packing cubes.
* The Rolling Method.
* Modular backpacks.
* Camera people: a different type of people.
* Nested zippered envelopes labeled one through five.
* Why does your purse say "three" on it??
* Tool user opinions.
* Getting ready for fiction to incorporate our new conception of what AI is.
* Running experiments on people who self-identify as lucky or unlucky.
* Gladstone Gander.
* Paying your put-upon nephew a dime to accompany you on a trip to Zazu-Zazu.
* Stan Connery's terrible taste in roles.
* Natalie Portman's Tom Scott number.
* Systems that are gamable but not trivially gamable.
* Rick Rubin numbers vs. Sabbath Numbers.
* The Kumano Kodo Trail's trail adjudicators ringing a bell and giving you a certificate to certify that you've walked their trail.
* A terrible time of year to hike the Camino de Santiago.
* Taking a wrong turn while hiking the Camino de Santiago and ending up on France.
* All the school children running over to high five the pilgrims.
* Feral Eucalyptus plantation.
* Peeking into all the ancient mills.
* Shrine tossing tricks.
* Passing bones from chopstick to chopstick.
* The three major sources of ritual pollution.
* Getting sick of climbing the hill all the time so you write a poem explaining that the gods don't want the shrine to be at the top of the hill any more.
* Harassment prevention for non-supervisors.
* Printing and framing the certificate you got after taking the class on filling out your timecard.
* The uncle so otherwise never contacts you sending you a happy birthday message on LinkedIn every year.
* Endorsing your friend on LinkedIn for being a git.
* Balloons in the sewer.
* Sokoban mechanics that could apply Stephen King's It.
* A tricycle kart racer set in the Overlook hotel.
* NanoSteveMo.
* The scruffy guy the hotel manager doesn't want around.
* Singlehandedly supplying the fanbase for this Mo.
* Hoarding Pico-8 cartridges on you desktop.
* The Spore creature creator exporting your creature as a PNG.
* A topic for another Topic Lords.
* Concatenating a zip file to the end of a different file.
* Here's this artifact. Please try it out.
* Saving PNGs to Starlings.
* Storing your Pico-8 game in a bird.
* Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme.
* Pirating software on Usenet.
* Catching 50 out of 100 birds to extract the Pico-8 game from them.
* Realizing that it's a plums in a refrigerator thing and moving on.
* Helping a stranger grieve using your well-honed crossword skills.
* Approaching classical literature as a collection of in-jokes and wanting to be in on the joke.
* A book with a serrated edge.
* How to read a book vs. how to read a poem.