216. I Forget What We Do But We're About To Do It

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Lords:

• Tyriq
• Jay

Topics:

• I recently moved and I think I understand Having Stuff more now.
• Teaching my 3-year-old to use a mouse and keyboard. Kids learning software being a ghost of its former self.
• Interface traps
• Yelp! Review for God by Willow James Claire
  • https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/ib998beS.jpg
• Starting a YouTube Channel for kids and the lack of useful information on the topic.

Microtopics:

• Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream.
• Washing the ice cream off of the cookie dough ice cream and baking cookies.
• Snacking dough.
• Living on your own and owning silverware for the first time.
• Losing a fork that they don't make any more and having mismatched forks forever.
• A hodgepodge of styles.
• Different spaces each with their own internal consistency.
• Going to your ex-roommate's Halloween party as a guest for the first time.
• Parties that you can leave.
• Finding out you were right about what you thought you'd like.
• Moving house in an hour.
• Your kid banging on the keyboard to write nonsense messages in discord but he forgets to hit enter to send so you have to do it for him.
• Teaching kids to read by giving them a Kindle tablet.
• Typing "stop" fifty times in notepad.
• Dell Rugged.
• What Mavis Beacon is up to nowadays.
• Computers as the exciting future vs. computers as the boring shitty present.
• Getting a laptop without a touch screen so your kid can learn to use the mouse.
• Different ways to not understand folders.
• Whether the problem is that Gen Z doesn't know what a folder is or whether it's that they sometimes still need to know what a folder is.
• Apps that appear to be native apps but they're secretly running in a web browser.
• Coming into possession of a child.
• An overworld where you can walk in 8 directions and bump into NPCs.
• Boots Quest.
• Auto Shooting Survival.
• Roguelike Turn-Based Auto Shooting Survival.
• Mini Yoto.
• Using the insert key on purpose.
• The Jay's Wife of Scroll Lock.
• The two Smush tracks on the Hypnospace Outlaw soundtrack.
• Why there are separate shift and caps lock keys but no separate toggle insert and hold to insert keys.
• Sticky Keys.
• Caps lock keys that physically toggle.
• Toon Boom Harmony and other way too expensive subscription software.
• Can't draw can't see pencil in toon boom reddit
• Lock the taskbar, lock the taskbar.
• The pros and cons of different start menu orientations.
• Getting kissed in the vegetable aisle, so to speak.
• Talking about dungeons and dragons and getting something slightly wrong about dungeons or dragons.
• The laws of physics preventing you from kidding boys.
• On the one hand growing up as a trans poet in Arizona. On the other, drinking a whole lot of strawberry kiwi kombucha.
• Four out of five stars for inventing an extremely dry mouth.
• A dry, scratchy, sandpaper cat tongue.
• A song about a ghost eating toast.
• Watching your kid watch things.
• Where to put video content on the internet.
• Ideas that are occluded by ideas that are better search-engine optimized.
• Whether librarians are scarier in Germany.
• Combining three people with social anxiety to make one really big person with social anxiety.
• Fixing kids software for 100 people because it's too hard to fix it for the whole world.
• X for Extreme.

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