251. Organs Experiencing Red Shift

Topic Lords

Lords:

• Erica
• Casey

Topics:

• Isn't it great to have a coelom?
• Solving problems by waiting for another bigger problem to occur and override the previous problem
• Mammals learning to eat cephalopods
  • https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/16/occasional-paper-when-armor-met-lips/
• A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, by Emily Dickinson
  • https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a-narrow-fellow-in-the-grass-1096/
• Personal project retrospectives

Microtopics:

• That thing you just heard.
• Assigning your new hire an office.
• Plugging over a million leaking gas and oil wells in West Texas.
• The Topic Lords Promise.
• A bag that your organs sit in.
• Undifferentiated tissues.
• How dissecting an earthworm is different from dissecting a gummy worm.
• Inflating your coelom in order to take out your spleen.
• Organisms with high diseectability.
• The anti-coelom lobby.
• Undifferentiated tubes of goo that get depression.
• The gummy worm future we're all looking forward to.
• Fluid things going on in the organism.
• A car that has a huge dent in it and it doesn't matter because the car still gets around no problem.
• Good car ideas.
• A bad thing happening but it's not your fault.
• Buying your house in a point and clock adventure online.
• Rediscovering all the things you have stored at your parent's house.
• Multi-episode Topic Lords story arcs.
• Which colored stripes are on Wikipedia's Non-Notable Flag.
• The Topic Lords explainer episode where everyone finds out what this show is about.
• Serial Podcast Monogamy.
• Podcast guilt.
• Discussing all the same topics as the last episode with no self-awareness.
• Non-Stop Coelom Celebration.
• My own very special walking bag of guts.
• Evolving cheek muscles to suck meat out of a spiral shell.
• Losing your baby lips.
• What it's like to eat a planarian.
• Cephalopods that have evolved to eat mammals.
• The giant squid that have never been seen alive.
• The colossal squid vs. the giant squid.
• Finding a mobius strip solution so borh your flag and your neighbor'a flag can be biggest.
• Our flag that represents limpness will be your downfall.
• Non-stop sensationalized documentaries about North Korea.
• Opening the border to North Korea so we can finally interview the people about the colossal squid.
• Emily Dickinson slipping into Yoda Speak.
• Being too busy reading to understand what you're reading.
• Whether the Emily Dickinson poem about the snake is actually about a snake or about a dick or both.
• It's coming at your feet! It likes a boggy acre!
• A polysexual attitude towards nature.
• Emily Dickinson making thousands of attempts to fix the Gilligan's Island theme.
• Herman Melville describing Moby Dick as "the Ebon Whale" because he didn't have Wikipedia.
• Moby Dick annotated by biologists who explain why all the whale facts are wrong.
• Game Developers doing a "post-mortem" of projects that are ongoing.
• Befunge.
• Clojure and other Lisps.
• Watching your own programming livestreams to learn how to learn better.
• A huge block of text off to the side that tells you how to play the game.
• Fine-grained tactical mistakes.
• Why people keep telling game developers to learn to ship a game.
• The most significant barrier between you and putting a work of art out in the world.
• Inventing metrics for success for game engines that never ship.
• Rewriting your game engine to have cooler tech but be way harder to make levels for.
  
• Modern Jim-Style Content.
• Artists trash talking their own work while they're showing it to you.
• A sign on your forehead reading "ask me about my severely negative feedback."
• The George W. Bush childhood home.
• A community built on everyone's shared desire to leave.
• The ethic of owning a shotgun.
• The last of the Midland Odessa complaining.
• Big Bend and Carlsbad Caverns.
• An airport full of ads for oil wells and oil well accessories.
• The Chris Kyle American Sniper Memorial.
• A plaque on a sculpture explaining whether the flag represents a penis.
• Everything's a dick if you squint hard enough.
• An assassin of federal judges.

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