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My sleep experience over the holiday
- Esper says: "Cannabis can definitely help one get into a sleep state, but actually degrades the quality of sleep quite a bit. From personal experience my guess is this has to do with how it affects dreams, often precluding them from happening to begin with."
Conlanging taught me how to judge good art
Tate mode
The Tyger, by William Blake
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger

Microtopics:

Scrubbin' Trubble
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Leguin.
Changing history by dreaming about it and having a hypnotherapist that's trying to change your dreams.
Telling artists that you like them vs. telling them that you like your work.
Learning how to take compliments.
Three people who could have opinions.
Spoilers for early January.
Trying to sleep on an airplane and training yourself to be unable to sleep at all.
A highly suboptimal experience.
Untraining the fear of falling asleep on planes from your body.
How to wear a neck pillow, maybe.
Sleeping sitting up and your head nodding forward as you fall asleep.
Neck pillow instructions dot PDF.
How to transport a neck pillow.
Hyperfixation on sleep and the consequences of not getting it.
Mythbusters Mode.
If you can't sleep, how helpful is it to pretend to be asleep?
Being woken up by the sensation of all your senses shutting down as you fall asleep.
Skipping your consciousness off of the surface of sleep.
Getting super stoked when you're about to fall asleep and waking yourself up because you're so excited.
Problems solved with more coffee vs. problems solved with more coffee tables.
Lingthusiasm.
Cursing yourself to hate a beloved movie series by watching it on a plane.
Psychosomatic self-curses.
Linguistics and conlangs.
The guy everyone hires to con a lang for a movie.
Judging things based on whether you like it vs. judging things based on whether it achieved the creator's goals.
Learning a new framing and applying it to everything.
Being aware of your frame and communicating your frame to the listener.
Lojban.
Lojban as a wholly unnatural way to speak in the same way that ballet is a wholly unnatural way to move.
Decent and not unaesthetic.
Trying to draw a picture without knowing how to hold a pencil.
Birds with extra vocal tracts.
Birdlangs.
What if parrots evolved to be sentient, except in a fantasy world, because reasons.
Ascertaining the borders of your caring.
Brandon Sanderson doing Brandon Sanderson things.
The IPA of sounds a human can perform live on a modular synthesizer.
To create Hatsune Miku, you must first invent the universe.
Horizontal vs. vertical scanlines.
Designing a CRT that can scan either horizontally or vertically.
Delta gun tubes with a triad of phosphor dots.
Having a vertical monitor to display tall things.
Page-shaped-pages.
Games that ship as a rectangle on a web site.
Black frame insertion.
Do modern LCD displays have ghosting?
A very intimidating challenge.
A very fun nexus of art and programming.
Tate Mode vs. Tate Modern.
Tate your owl for science.
Whether this poem predates the Great Vowel Shift.
Mixing ands and ampersands.
Capital Ampersand.
Seeing an animal and realizing that this is it, this is the one that's meant to eat me.
A glowing golden perfect human that everyone instantly hates and wants to eat.
Whether you can invent a tiger in Dwarf Fortress.

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