Mike Lund
@lowbacca.bsky.social
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 13h
We've wrapped up season 3 of The Old SwichAroo podcast

These season finales are a lot of work, but worth it for the fun of getting to bring back so many of our season guests in one go. And both seasons we've done this I've been very blown away by the creativity people can pack when quizzing us
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The Old SwitchAroo @theoldswitcharoo.bsky.social · 19h
In the newest episode of The Old SwitchAroo, we're celebrating the end of season 3 by looking at the highs and lows of this season's games and playing a trivia game featuring this season's guests.

Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮
An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "24-game-pak 16th bit retro-spective" with an illustration of a number of video game heroes and enemies. The additional text below the label reads "Season 3 Finale" and the text to the side reads "with Kat and 15 guest cameos!"
Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 14h
The Halloween version of the logo looks absolutely awesome, btw
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 14h
Was on the theme park podcast Wild Mouse to talk about Knott's Scary Farm and my favorite time of year in theme parks with the world of haunts. And Knott's really is one of the best.

I choose to interpret the bottom image as artist's interpretation of the skeletons of me, Donald, and Panchito
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Wild Mouse @wildmousepodcast.com · 20h
New episode! @lowbacca.bsky.social of @theoldswitcharoo.bsky.social returns to discuss ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and other things that go bump in the night at Knott's Scary Farm!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3gsZ33uo9asLHqfhUoR2n5?si=RjiAFqKZSVqI7k6ZI9IJjA

#podcast #halloween #themepark
Collage with "Wild Mouse: A Theme Park Podcast" logo, a man with Donald Duck and José Carioca characters, and a Halloween skeleton display.
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 16h
Always be prepared
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 1d
Connections is where it's at
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 1d
Wordle?
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 1d
Ask and ye shall receive
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 2d
I like to think that I was ahead of the curve when it came to putting questionable requests for unfettered telescope time on ArXiv:
arxiv.org/abs/2003.13879

So it's interesting to see the rest of the field catching up.
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 5d
I've not heard of it, and neither has my wife (so that suggests it's not too Australian)
Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 6d
0 to 60 hundred in 3.0 decades
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 6d
This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000!

To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why
Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits.
www.nature.com
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 6d
Ok, hope you get it worked out easily and if it helps to verify it's working on pocketcasts (my preferred app) by having someone check, just ask. (I always find the apps i don't use more of a headache to check than the web stuff)
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 6d
And maybe it's been like that and i just didn't notice before. Totally possible i didn't.
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 6d
Congrats on the milestone.
Though i wanted to ask, it lists 476 episodes there, but I noticed on pocketcasts yesterday I only see your last 100 episodes (other podcasts don't have that 100 ep cutoff for me).
Hope this doesn't feel like raining on the well-earned parade, just was looking for backlog
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 7d
At a comedy show called popular kids club. And the stamp to verify they checked my ticket says "I'm a popular kid".
It took four attempts to get that stamp to work on me and not sure if that's the stamp rejecting me or my skin rejecting social status.
Could be either, really.
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 7d
Great, thanks
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 7d
I liked it better when I thought this was literal and just sorta crazy. Not just vanilla moral panic.
Time cube may have made me set my standards too high for societal internet rants.
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 7d
I'm presuming this means being on earlyish in one line-up and late in the other since they're like 20 minutes apart. If so, do you know which end of that The Offbeat Bar will be?
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 7d
As is deserved. Box costumes are often overlooked, imo, and they should get more credit
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 7d
I'm wondering if all this is somehow linked to John Kellogg, his corn flakes, and his weird thing about a "simple, pure and unstimulating diet" to suppress sexual desire.
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 7d
My pitch: it's actually pumice with a lead base so that it's just slightly denser than water overall.
Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 7d
I hope that there was someone with a Betamax costume that you beat in costume contest
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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 12d
Well don't I feel stupid
A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 12d
And to get hotdog on a stick. It's two birds with one stone.
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 12d
When i was a young business guy, I was always at food courts. So i get it
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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 13d
Festive chocolate in October may be one of the few things America is still good at
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