mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Sandwich Imagineer at Twinbeard. Made Frog Fractions. May or may not have already made Frog Fractions 2. He/him.
Steve update: another of Winston's friends asked if I was Steve. I wasn't even wearing a blue shirt at the time. Here's a photo of me cosplaying as the Statue of Liberty for comparison.
This waterpark is really out there like "we're open ten days a year" as if that's totally normal and doesn't demand elaboration
I've been listening to the audio book "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge. The spacefaring humans in the story use units of time like "kilosecs" and "megasecs," which come across one way when read on the page and in an entirely different way when pronounced aloud.
When Esper started editing Topic Lords, I added a line to my pre-recorded spiel at the end of the show saying you can pay Esper to edit your show as well, by contacting them "on Twitter." Then time passed and everyone left Twitter, so she started doing this bit where if someone said "Bluesky" during the episode, she'd copy that word out and paste it over the offending "Twitter" in the outro. This quickly devolved into doing jokes. Do you like jokes? Here are a bunch of them:
The department that decides what to make thought the world was ready for mushroom bacon. The department that designs the packaging decided to avoid the word "mushroom" at all costs.
Does anyone know what this is? My wife chose it as her Xbox Gamer Pic and now we're both curious. It was on the default list of Gamer Pics that came with the Xbox. If you do a reverse image search you'll find someone who used it as their band's logo on Bandcamp and also a thousand web sites that scrape user data from e.g. Xbox Live leaderboards.
IMO it's fucked up that you can't just sell people a list of cool sci-fi ideas, you have to come up with a story to put the ideas in.
And then! And then! A better writer can take your cool ideas and put them in a better story and they get to have the bestseller. But that has to be allowed, because otherwise someone could have all the ideas and trap them all in a shitty story forever.
When I was a kid, my voice got more nasal when I felt like I was saying something smart. I also remember reading a book, one of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books, describing the protagonist's voice as "growing nasal" as he described the cool part of his plan. I don't experience this phenomenon anymore, and I've never heard anyone else talk about it. If you search around for why nerd characters stereotypically have nasal voices, the primary hypotheses are allergies, asthma, poor posture.
Current mood: trying to figure out where to go for lunch.
Life hack: if your joke isn't funny the rest of the year, it won't be funny on April 1st either.
This is a fun one. These folks were able to, with the right lighting conditions, see video frames encoded on a laserdisc using a microscope
I guess these guys have been making the rounds for a while but I just heard about them a couple days ago and goddamn, this is by far the catchiest microtonal math rock I've ever heard
Hash tag teeth
Personsplaining the history of riot prrsons to my person boss while eating this person dinner in the heat of the hot person summer
If I'd started recording Topic Lords on the day I was born, and I released an episode a week until I reached the maximum human lifespan of 120 years, there would be 6240 episodes of Topic Lords.
I didn't start Topic Lords when I was a baby, and I'm not quite 120, so there are only 335 episodes of Topic Lords. That's a mere 5.3% of the theoretical human maximum.
When will we see the first true 6240 episode recording career? Only time will tell.
Stumbled into this dadaist billboard covered with context-free baseball words. Keep the Bay Area weird!
Today on Twinbeard plays Mario, it's the level where I spend a dozen lives figuring out the first jump
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cb6Lk0H5gaE&list=PL3SbI8kec0NviwCJF2AETmxYBiMZzmKqA&index=74
Today on Twinbeard plays Mario, it's the one you've been waiting for all your life, Super Mario Bros. Special.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=A-o8bwVhE60&list=PL3SbI8kec0NsZ6qnRLEEo2f5NZde1CA9A&index=1&pp=iAQB
Our TV just went kaput (after 11 years, thank you for your service) and there's no way I'm getting an Internet-connected TV because I'm already worried enough about my blood pressure. There don't seem to be many consumer options, but is there some reason why we shouldn't just get a commercial display intended for digital signage, like this one?
Topic Lords #356: ICANN has Cheezburger? ft. Felicia and Andrew. We discuss the indestructible mailbox, emulating the timing of the Reality Display Processor, Moo box vs. Groan Tube, Front Mission 2's color configuration menu, and finally realizing The Incredible Machine 3 is literally the same game as The Incredible Machine 2
Today on Twinbeard plays Mario, everyone loves a Traditional Festival!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiC3WcvxMx8&list=PL3SbI8kec0NtrbOq7YwQzVPlqRalEFydP&index=95
