267. Unburying The Duck
Dec 02, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Episode description
Lords:
* John
* Erica
Topics:
* Golden owl pre-post-mortem
* https://goldenowlhunt.com/
* Twin update: one year later
* Notepad has support for alternative line endings now
* Goodnight Moon (And/or Goodnight Dune?)
* https://www.firstcry.com/intelli/articles/goodnight-moon-nursery-rhyme/
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.