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Lords: Megan Lexi Topics: Erik Satie's performance indications https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=4497 Instant food from other cultures (why isn't everyone eating maggi noodles??) Seasonal decorations Delhi Metro https://docs.google.com/document/d/17k75ftxEn2xR-tJkLSV4H8st5BFAxPNxE3BNCXDI6Go/edit Becoming Immortal by being predictable Living in different climates (e.g. my experiences with the harsh winters of Chicago vs sweltering Austin TX summers) Microtopics: Music implementation for The Lamplighters League. Watching a streamer play games and asking them for a turn at the controls. How to pronounce "Erik Satie." How to pronounce "Gymnopedies." Finding 100 umbrellas in your dead friend's apartment. A list of Satie's performance indications. Grandly forgetting the present. With your bones dry and distant. Playing music with your forehead. Doing something to a piano. Your boss sending a memo asking you to work with a shy piety. Pizzicato vs. Bartok pizzicato. Adding the hamburger so it's not just Helper. What instant foods are missing from your food vocabulary. Adding heavy cream to ramen broth. Getting an apron so you can have a little costume when you cook. Realizing that when you wear the apron you don't get food on your shirt. A big bib for Big Jim. Normalizing scoop bibs. Kraft Dinner. Halal certified instant stir fry noodles. Ramen in a cup or ramen where you provide your own container. Insurance Mac. Canned cheeseburgers. A boring house with nothing on it. Movable feasts. Keeping those 12-foot skeletons in your yard and decorating it seasonally. The beetles that clean bones for you. Recreational Explosives Day. A Zachtronics programming puzzle for every holiday. A movable feast where you don't eat. Decorating your house to celebrate Toyotathon. Falling for strangers and their blue hair. A poem that is long if you read it but short if you recite it. Taking public transit as an act of defiance. A gift that is impossible to give yourself on purpose. Inventing a shower proof phone so nobody ever has shower thoughts again. Putting your phone in a Ziploc bag and watching movies underwater. Sitting down at your computer and getting stuck. Hacking your executive function by adding friction in the right places. Whether Wellbutrin gives everyone tinnitus or just you. Death hacks for staying mentally connected to your dead relatives. A service that puts your podcast on vinyl. Using CRISPR to infect the cockroach population with 229 episodes of Topic Lords. Moving to a land where your snot doesn't freeze. Not trusting your own weather opinions. Surprising yourself by enjoying seasons. Driving in icy conditions. Standing under the heated lamps like a lizard. Waiting for the bus in the dark. Learning to drive after you move to a city with public transit. Not driving with kids. Getting rid of all the bots. Sgt. Pepper Bot.