248. The Ephemeral Nature Of Digital Fish Food

Topic Lords

Lords:

• Elena
  • https://www.gouletpens.com/blogs/fountain-pen-blog/sailor-shikiori-tokiwa-matsu-ink-review
• Nathalie
  • https://alienmelon.itch.io/ [cw:flashing lights]

Topics:

• Fish-based screensavers
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQpCcQhNfxM
  • https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams
• Fire safety
  • https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheThingThatGoesDoink
  • https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/8/644/files/2017/08/Chiang-Lifecycle-of-Software-Objects-q3tsuw.pdf
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Qxqmhqj1A
• The Aquarium and the Glass Harmonica
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOx7zmO5ppw
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FAc3HmfoSY
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSzTPGlNa5U
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA3sA3ncX44&start=103
• I Am Running Into A New Year by Lucille Clifton
  • https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/738271770264600576
• I went to Japan
  • https://nerdparadise.com/mspaint/stereogram
  • https://twitter.com/mischiefanimals/status/1704934776421913018

Microtopics:

• Shikiori Ink.
• The Computer Museum in Berlin.
• Back when you saw fish-based screen savers everywhere.
• The Roku app fish screen saver.
• A rock in the aquarium that says "Roku"
• 11 hours of fish content.
• Fish nerds sitting in a small box at the bottom of the ocean getting hype over seeing a small worm.
• An animated gif of fish nerds getting hype.
• A live jellyfish web cam that is just in principle.
• A web cam of the thing that goes donk and everyone cheers when it goes donk.
• The fish screen saver where you need to keep buying floppy disks with fish food on it or the fish die.
• Don't copy that fish food!
• The startup selling digital rabbit food going out of business so all the digital rabbits go into hibernation.
• The Life Cycle of Software Objects.
• Being unable to open your front door because the smart lock ran out of batteries.
• Everybody congratulating you on the infuriating guy you made up to get mad at.
• Fire safety anecdotes.
• Glass top electric stoves that look just like induction stoves, as a prank.
• How fire extinguishers taste.
• Looking at fire extinguisher dust and thinking "let's get the blood brain barrier involved."
• Leaving the stove on.
• Broiling a sandwich and the whole sandwich catches fire.
• A five year old doing science experiments with a lit candle.
• The UX design of grease fires.
• The William Shatner song about the dangers of deep frying a turkey.
• Relating to the teens coming into fashion for like a week and then the next week the teens are like "You're still trying to relate? That's cheugy AF."
• Self-moistening fingertips.
• Soaking your fingertips in water for eight minutes to get them pruny.
• The Canon of harmonica virtuoso music.
• Ethereal floating tones that fade in and out of existence.
• The Flat Bells.
• The Mellotron as a slightly more physical sampler.
• Clara Rockmore playing "The Swan" on Theremin.
• Bit-doers playing "The Swan" on Otamatone.
• Letting go of what you said to yourself about yourself when you were 16, 26, even 36.
• The assumption that you need to be forgiven for something.
• The sun coming up on this episode of Topic Lords.
• Working up the courage to climb the mountain you see every day from your back yard.
• Really tall hills you can walk up.
• What it's like to not hear cars constantly.
• Designing a building to sound good – even if it isn't a concert hall.
• Car-free cities.
• Biking in a bike-centric environment.
• Throwing your body into traffic and hoping drivers care about the legal liability of running someone over.
• The intersection where you always see the skid marks from kids doing donuts.
• Doing watercolors but with ink.
• Buying a bunch of art supplies and never using them because you're afraid to waste them.
• How do you get your paintbrush to do what you want?
• How watercolors behave depending on how wet the painting is and how wet the paintbrush is.
• Scraping your knife on the painting and it just looks like a shed.
• Is it a bunch of cats or is it the word "gay"?
• Images that look like stereograms but aren't.
• The blank canvas stereogram.
• Crowds staring at the enormous stereograms hanging up in the Mall of America.
• Stereogram artists accounting for pupillary distance.
• Making a stereogram in MS Paint.

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