Topics discussed at lunch with mitya000 today:

• Why squirrels can climb 50 times their own height in seconds and humans can’t
• Sugarhill Gang vs. Eric B. & Rakim and the history of hiphop
• Untranscribable drumming performed by Dave King with his other band, Happy Apple and his similarities to Art Blakey.
• Time stretching historical speeches and reversing them to make eerily bizarre music
• Wiring up an entire field of potatoes to power electronic devices
• Wiring up a huge mound of mash potatoes to power your house
• Alternate histories of what used to be where Primo 360 is now (Endangered Species Taxidermy Shop, Zimbabwean Popsicle Stand, Candy Shop Specializing in Lebanese Chocolate, etc)
• Esoteric Cisco router errors
• Where is Ralph Nader now?
• Emulating a disfunctional relationship between a cigar-smoking, British Tiger Hunter and his sheepish wife who is obsessed with quilting

In other news, my cheap as used Sun Type 6 keyboard that I bought on Ebay finally arrived. I think I may have finally achieved promulence.