Lords:

• Ben


• Andrew

Topics:

• Baking: precise science of measurement or do it all by feel? (People have very different philosophies of muffins)


• I've gotten into making crosswords this year and recently had the idea to start putting them on postcards and leaving them in public places for people to find. Am I becoming the Riddler? Is this fine?


• I just found out that there aren't exactly 52 weeks in a year


• The Rules, Leila Chatti
  
  
  
  
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• Building fidgeting into a Zoom lecture


• Things of Science. (Subscription science toy service that I got when I was a kid)

Microtopics:

• Posting pictures of pottery to social media.


• The Hopefully Year of Layoffs.


• Teaching game development as a hobby.


• The interactive comic books of Jason Shiga.


• Lies and truth and sea monsters.


• Waiting for half an hour to find out if you fucked it up.


• Baking intuitively.


• Skimming a recipe and thinking "hmm yes, I've made food before"


• Voronoi cookies.


• Keeping separate baking notebooks for each season.


• Having units that are divisible by two.


• Putting it in a Gas 4 Oven.


• How to pronounce "tare."


• Sneaking into Grandma's kitchen and weighing all the ingredients.


• Cruciverbalism.


• Where to post the crosswords you've constructed.


• A Lord's Puzzle.


• Giving people a little bit of joy and avoiding hearing any feedback about it.


• Living in the puzzle capital of the world.


• Constructing a crossword puzzle for every party you attend.


• The MIT Mystery Hunt.


• Making art for a really small group of people.


• Crosswordese.


• Designing themed vs. themeless crossword puzzles.


• How many weeks are in a leap year.


• Yet another ratio that doesn't work out.


• Calendrical systems you could use.


• Things that you know that are wrong.


• What's your favorite thing you don't know that you don't know?


• Finding a drawer full of narwhal tusks in a bone shop and thinking "hm, sixty unicorns died here"


• NASA's antigravity room.


• Why doesn't the Mars habitat work out?


• Multiple digressions on horse urine.


• Refining horse urine into progesterone on Mars.


• Suddenly realizing that you've been dead all along.


• Cicadas doing whatever they do in the trees.


• Acknowledging the expectations of what a poem is.


• Why you always turn out to have been dead at the end.


• Who is out there still making games about guns?


• Adding line breaks to make your essay look like a poem.


• Innominateness.


• Garden path level design.


• Reading aloud etudes.


• Mavis Beacon Teaches Elocution.


• Replacing your Zoom background with a video of yourself.


• Brain massaging video of cutting sand.


• The calming effect of amphetamines.


• Fidgeting incessantly during Zoom calls.


• Fidgeting for people so they don't have to.


• Bubbling noises and space harps.


• Remote testing protocols.


• Plagiarism detector snake oil.


• Doing homework to get used to the idea of doing homework.


• Mass-production of adults.


• Paperwork as a method of crowd control.


• Homework as a barrier to family time vs. homework that facilitates family time.


• Mailing people little bits of science.


• Aerogel vs. Superslurper.


• Growing mold in your oobleck.


• Sending 1940s children asbestos in the mail.


• Using every sense to explore the world.


• A dog sniffing your hand and walking away.


• Throwing away all the business cards that just have your Twitter handle on them.

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