267. Unburying The Duck
Update: 2024-12-02
Description
Lords:
- John
- Erica
Topics:
- Golden owl pre-post-mortem
- Twin update: one year later
- Notepad has support for alternative line endings now
- Goodnight Moon (And/or Goodnight Dune?)
Microtopics:
- The waiting list to get into the Topic Lords discord.
- What goes on the lords-only channel.
- The first rule of being a lord.
- It's the end of the show somewhere in the world.
- Frog Fractions Royalty.
- Topic Lords Con East.
- Choosing pairs of lords.
- What lords have been on the show least recently.
- Mystery with a B.
- Responsibility to the lords.
- ARG goings-on.
- Maze of Games.
- Rubber hose ARG solving
- Digging up the golden owl and replacing it with a duck.
- The minimum number of golden owls you are allowed to cast in France.
- The History of the Owl Stuff.
- Commemorating your love of the Golden Owl by purchasing this commemorative Golden Owl.
- The Mystery of the Golden Owl that nobody wanted solved.
- It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
- Going and burying a duck
- Unburying the Duck and putting the Owl back.
- Looking through the Heart of France.
- Another cursed treasure hunt in the can.
- Ancient alternatives to zip files.
- Re-scoping your puzzle hunt on the fly.
- Telling twins apart using phrenology.
- Twin identification strategies.
- Let me see your flecks!
- Checking your placental mammals for belly buttons.
- Platypodes.
- Jock twin/nerd twin.
- Having children as a way to practice solving problems together.
- Who forgot to take a nap today? (Everyone on the show.)
- Flailing limbs kicking your bedmate all night.
- Rocking your kid to sleep and then depositing them in the crib like Indy swapping out the golden idol.
- How to teach babies to sleep.
- Wearing children until the children no longer tolerate it.
- A good selection of kid-friendly music.
- A guy with a soothing British voice saying interesting things for ten minutes.
- How much coffee to give a six year old right before bed.
- Waiting for your kid to realize that when it's 1am he doesn't have to ask you if he can watch TV.
- Just show me the byte order marker!
- Adding tabs to Notepad.
- Everyone agreeing to go back to WordStar.
- What software developers do once a program is finished and perfect.
- Loading CSV files into R.
- Accidentally updating Excel.
- The kind of person who is passionate about the latest cutting edge version of all software, who works in tech and is in charge of all update systems.
- Adobe Premiere updates that ruin your team's entire workflow.
- Why JWZ is no longer rich.
- Seeing all the trailing spaces at the end of the line.
- Jobs that require you to be able to distinguish between a tab character and the equivalent number of spaces.
- How Unity handles upgrades and versioning.
- The 75th anniversary of Goodnight Moon.
- Why the New York Times's list of most borrowed children's library books of all time doesn't contain Goodnight Moon.
- When Goodnight Moon says "Goodnight Nobody" and you immediately assume that the old lady died.
- The calming effect of going over an inventory of really nice soothing things.
- The Margaret Wise Brown ouevre.
- Goodnight Dune.
- Good night, shai-hulud bursting out of the dune.
- Good night, Bene Gesserit witch whispering "they tried and died."
- Too much of every character giving their internal monologue in italics.
- Virginia Facebook's extremely cheap antiques.
- Floating in the No-Room.
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