247. Fish That Scrutinize; Fish That Rubberneck

Topic Lords

Lords:

• Alex
• Shannon

Topics:

• The less you spend on food, the better it tastes
• The jizz of a bird
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_(birding)
• The Cosmic Call
  • https://blog.plover.com/2024/04/15/
• Line Fishing by Daniel Kahaulelio
  • https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/rWuOwlpV.png
• How to order coffee in Malaysia
  • https://kopi.guide/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6mv7VY8YLA
• Dice, and physically rolling them
  • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.com.tann.dice

Microtopics:

• Paleo animators.
• Malaysia as a vacation destination.
• Restaurants that are just in s guy's house.
• The best whole fried catfish you've ever had.
• Eating mixed whole livers.
• Striving to get a B rating from the food safety inspectors because the A rating is too bougie.
• Starch and grease.
• The shape of the price to deliciousness correlation graph.
• If you're here to buy cake, ring the doorbell.
• You can talk to the cops or you can have cake. You can't have both.
• Whether Americans can drink the water in Malaysia.
• Being so desperate for fresh vegetables that you wash them with tap water.
• Butterfly Pee Flour.
• Jizz (birding)
• The practice of just getting the vibe of a bird.
• I don't know, it had the jizz of a bird.
• Zooniverse.
• Going through the still images on a nature webcam and trying to identify local animals.
• Trying to tell the difference between a wood rat and a deer mouse.
• Reclassifying all the animals in the world based not on their actual genetics or but based on what people think they are by looking at them.
• Small, Brown and On the Ground.
• Submitting a picture of a pair of brown wood owls to a bird study app and two hours later an angry ecologist is knocking on your tent to ask if you meant a spotted wood owl.
• An extremely high-stress app.
• Asking an albatross which of the twelve species is albatross it is.
• Walking around in the woods until you spot a kiwi.
• Major gaffes in interstellar communication that future aliens will be very confused about.
• Massively synesthetic dog brains.
• Receiving a sequence of bits and deciding to arrange them in a grid.
• The other book with the spiders.
• Humans interacting with a spider-based society.
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
• Expecting monkeys to become the dominant intelligent species on a terraformed planet seeded with Earth animals.
• Adventuring into a dungeon built by the ancients and admiring the signage.
• Opening an oil drum full of concrete and tubes and being like "where's the treasure that's supposed to be in here!"
• Writing a song about how being near glowing cats is very dangerous.
• Public serving meme songs.
• Engineering earworms for the public good.
• The Museum of Hawaiian Culture in Oahu.
• Fish that watch. Fish that look.
• Get those fish hungry.
• It's just a lookin' fish.
• Sleeping the lobes of your brain in shifts.
• The lobes of your brain playing pranks on each other.
• How can fish get some shuteye if they don't have eyelids??
• How can fish rubberneck if they don't even have necks??
• The Star Trek replicator except instead of materializing your food it prints a piece of paper with the words that you need to say to the tired-looking guy who then goes to cook your meal.
• Ais krim.
• What languages are hardest to spell in.
• Are there four silent letters at the end, and if so which ones?
• Cofftea.
• Rolling all them bones.
• Owning more sets of dice than you have played actual D&D sessions.
• A big pile of dice rattling around in your phone.
• Rolling the dice off of the table every single time.
• A switch that goes ka-chonk.
• Actively seeking out hobbies where you touch things.
• Ways that continuous deployment sucks.
• Text classifiers flagging your sexuality as photographic.
• Image classifiers flagging your medical photos as pornographic.
• Which photos encapsulate what you're trying to remember and discuss.
• How to get your life off of a corporation's hard drive.
• Unsearchable Tumblrs.
• Get out there and jizz a bird!

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