281. Mr. Nukem Was My Father

Lords: Stevie Bri Topics: 3D modeling and my lack of visual imagination Cutthroat compounds (my linguistic specialty) – current pursuit is "verb-em" last names – I'm researching the origins of the fictional law offices of Dewey Cheatum and Howe Pocket Warwick and other lost software For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper, by Joseph Fasano https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1fvzv1f/poem_for_a_student_who_used_ai_to_write_a_paper/ Colma's city motto "It's Great to Be Alive in Colma" is great marketing Microtopics: Silly inventor and brainstormer. Writing code that generates audio. Giving talks at the Odd Salon. Coffeehouse revolutionary thinkers. Classic Hughes Behavior. Looking at Blender again every seven to ten years. Imagining a place in any level of detail. (Other than the name.) The memory of what a tiger looks like, and whether it rotated on a Lazy Susan. Whether seeing things in a dream feels similar to visualization. Needing a license to operate as an engineer, but anyone can call themselves an Imagineer. Weenies and MacGuffins. Drawing something in 2D and tracing it in Blender. Different ways to approach level design. Thinking of something and putting it in your game. Getting your game design playable as soon as possible so you can find out if it's any good. A verb and its direct object. Misers and drunks and cowards and gluttons. Kick 'em Jenny. Bop It! Plastic keys where the point of the key is that it immediately breaks and you have to buy a new one. Lawyer jokes from 19th century Australia. Whether Nukem is his last name or just a nickname. Syntactic freezes. Rude slang words that end up on listicles. How "cacafuego" became "spitfire." Etymonline shrugging and giving up. Not knowing about the alternate pronunciation of parentheses and processes until you get an office job. Choosing a comma as one of your hills. A unit of sound and meaning that you use to modify another unit of sound and meaning. How to pronounce Warwick Davis. A Jib Jab. A Tamagotchi Situation. Boatswains and forecastles. Adding redundancy for clarity and also removing it for efficiency. If you still have a Jaz disk, what do you even do with it? Going to MagFest to see a chip metal band called Master Boot Record and he's throwing floppy disks with Deluxe Paint on them into the crowd. Sharing a birthday with a Kentucky Derby winner but not being sure if he's a person or a horse. The Friendliest Friend! Stu Sutcliffe, the sixth Beatle. International Snooker 2012 and Seven Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover. Fantasy consoles that only run Final Fantasy games. If it's your first time at Nice Club, you have to Nice. Seeing a generation grow up using automation to do a task that you had to do by hand and feeling one way or another about it. How to tell whether somebody can reason about a topic and express their thoughts clearly. Underpants Gnome Plans. Polishing your thought processes until you find one that you agree with. Defending Your Thesis, directed by Al Brooks. The only place on the Internet you can hear advice about going to college. Colma Secrets. Noone ever stops in Colma (on purpose) Everyone who came to San Francisco and died. Go By Train. Calling the Colma Historical Society to see if they have a living volunteer there that day. Calling a song "Going to Colma" and hoping that the phrase catches on as a euphemism for Kicking the Bucket. The Joy of Actual Citizens and People Involved in Government. Encyclopedia Briannica.