267. Unburying The Duck

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.

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