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Topics:

• My sleep experience over the holiday
  
  
  
  
  • Esper says: "Cannabis can definitely help one get into a sleep state, but actually degrades the quality of sleep quite a bit. From personal experience my guess is this has to do with how it affects dreams, often precluding them from happening to begin with."
  
  


• Conlanging taught me how to judge good art


• Tate mode


• The Tyger, by William Blake
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger
  
  

Microtopics:

• Scrubbin' Trubble


• The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Leguin.


• Changing history by dreaming about it and having a hypnotherapist that's trying to change your dreams.


• Telling artists that you like them vs. telling them that you like your work.


• Learning how to take compliments.


• Three people who could have opinions.


• Spoilers for early January.


• Trying to sleep on an airplane and training yourself to be unable to sleep at all.


• A highly suboptimal experience.


• Untraining the fear of falling asleep on planes from your body.


• How to wear a neck pillow, maybe.


• Sleeping sitting up and your head nodding forward as you fall asleep.


• Neck pillow instructions dot PDF.


• How to transport a neck pillow.


• Hyperfixation on sleep and the consequences of not getting it.


• Mythbusters Mode.


• If you can't sleep, how helpful is it to pretend to be asleep?


• Being woken up by the sensation of all your senses shutting down as you fall asleep.


• Skipping your consciousness off of the surface of sleep.


• Getting super stoked when you're about to fall asleep and waking yourself up because you're so excited.


• Problems solved with more coffee vs. problems solved with more coffee tables.


• Lingthusiasm.


• Cursing yourself to hate a beloved movie series by watching it on a plane.


• Psychosomatic self-curses.


• Linguistics and conlangs.


• The guy everyone hires to con a lang for a movie.


• Judging things based on whether you like it vs. judging things based on whether it achieved the creator's goals.


• Learning a new framing and applying it to everything.


• Being aware of your frame and communicating your frame to the listener.


• Lojban.


• Lojban as a wholly unnatural way to speak in the same way that ballet is a wholly unnatural way to move.


• Decent and not unaesthetic.


• Trying to draw a picture without knowing how to hold a pencil.


• Birds with extra vocal tracts.


• Birdlangs.


• What if parrots evolved to be sentient, except in a fantasy world, because reasons.


• Ascertaining the borders of your caring.


• Brandon Sanderson doing Brandon Sanderson things.


• The IPA of sounds a human can perform live on a modular synthesizer.


• To create Hatsune Miku, you must first invent the universe.


• Horizontal vs. vertical scanlines.


• Designing a CRT that can scan either horizontally or vertically.


• Delta gun tubes with a triad of phosphor dots.


• Having a vertical monitor to display tall things.


• Page-shaped-pages.


• Games that ship as a rectangle on a web site.


• Black frame insertion.


• Do modern LCD displays have ghosting?


• A very intimidating challenge.


• A very fun nexus of art and programming.


• Tate Mode vs. Tate Modern.


• Tate your owl for science.


• Whether this poem predates the Great Vowel Shift.


• Mixing ands and ampersands.


• Capital Ampersand.


• Seeing an animal and realizing that this is it, this is the one that's meant to eat me.


• A glowing golden perfect human that everyone instantly hates and wants to eat.


• Whether you can invent a tiger in Dwarf Fortress.

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