234. Plunge Correctly For High Score

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Topics:

• Thoughts on approximately 5/12 of Don Quixote
• The Time Life "Mysteries of the Unknown" Series (1987-1991) and its impact on a generation of young nerds
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysteries_of_the_Unknown
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/comments/r487u4/distant_astronomical_objects_iceberg/
  • https://www.slideshare.net/DirkTheDaring11/timelife-mysteries-of-the-unknown-the-ufo-phenomenon
  • https://archive.org/details/DreamsAndDreaming_201809/page/n33/mode/2up
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lal0aWAys0k
• Thomas Edison didn't think telephones needed to ring. He figured the caller could just start yelling "hello" at you even before you answered the phone
• Desiderata
  • https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html
  • https://www.readwritethink.org/sites/default/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson372/PoloniusExcerpt.pdf
• Is pinball meant to be fun? Can you lose a quarter at an arcade faster in a game cabinet or in a pinball machine?
  • https://arcadeblogger.com/2018/07/06/arcade-holy-grail-the-pinball-circus/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAtVBb8rOok
  • https://archive.org/details/TILTTheBattleToSavePinballDisc2Extras

Microtopics:

• Dog ownership.
• A living creature that just wanders around the house.
• Picking up warm soft weird thing.
• Cracking open a cold one.
• Computers flush with science data.
• The deepest images humans have ever taken.
• Finding distances to individual galaxies.
• Listicles you can peruse.
• Picking a galaxy and naming it after yourself.
• Bug Mars 2.
• The Glass Universe.
• Hiring women and calling them computers.
• A guy with a lot of free time and a gold nose.
• Some public domain books being more readable than others.
• Pun localization.
• North American otaku tilting at windmills with their katanas.
• How people pronounce quixotic and how they ought to pronounce quixotic.
• Whether we respect English majors on this show.
• Naming a character something weird and hoping nobody argues about the pronunciation hundreds of years from now.
• Butthead as Don Quixote and Beavis as Sancho Panza.
• The Great Cornholio tilting at windmills.
• The era of translations that don't realize Don Quixote is a parody.
• Part II of Don Quixote responding to Don Quixote fan fiction.
• Don Coyote.
• Sending Mario Maker back to Miguel Cervantes to see what he would make.
• The kinds of books your parents would have on their shelf, back when that was the only thing available to read.
• The 80s resurgence of New Age thought.
• Mystic Places.
• The Shin Megami Tensei section in the library.
• Where to find the books that teach you magic in the public library.
• The canonical map of reported UFO sightings worldwide.
• Books for the kind of person who thinks Aleister Crowley is cool.
• The Spaceships of Ezekiel.
• The JWST iceberg.
• The Distant Astronomical Objects iceberg.
• A tin can and a string with a battery attached.
• Hello, fellow phone owner.
• A phone call asking you to log into a web site and read a message.
• Funny ways to answer the phone.
• E.B. Games, where you can get F-Zero for Zero.
• The size of fortune cookies in the 1920s.
• Nice things to do and be.
• Desiderata vs. Deteriorata.
• Advice giving poems.
• Skin cancer is mid.
• Casey Kasem quitting Transformers after they wrote an episode featuring Abdul, king of Carbombya.
• Avoiding loud and aggressive persons.
• Pinball getting harder and more complex over the course of a century.
• Baffleball.
• Pinball features to make things easier for beginners.
• The quickest way to lose money on an arcade game.
• Tilt-sensing plum bobs.
• A weird kinetic sculpture that exists just for your entertainment.
• The Black Hole for Personal Reasons.
• A boring and easy pinball cabinet that you can play for an hour when you want to get sick of pinball.
• Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball.
• Multidisc!
• Pinball tables by George Gomez.
• Pinball: not actually fun, but they did their best.
• Free play skee-ball.
• Pacific Pinball Museum and Musee Mecanique.
• Twitter forgiveness.

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