Find My Dragon: Recent Episodes
Skyler and Kym
dragons are delighted to catch-up after the break, receive feedback, and talk productivity.
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fmd book club is back! we are discussing “light from uncommon stars” by ryka aoki.
links:
https://bookdragon.eu/2022/08/01/light-from-uncommon-stars-by-ryka-aoki-2022-7-28/
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Subtitle: how did we get here?
actually accurate information about LEGO bricks, and chaos afterwards. Content warning: somewhere near the end we start talking about plasma and blood donation and get into a bit of medical details.
links:
Lego: Plants from Plants
Review: 71419 Peach's Garden Balloon Ride - Ben Cardy
Lateral with Tom Scott
Sky's website
Kym’s blog
Skyler’s mastodon account: @skylerblue@keyboards.social
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dragons continue to be surprised by how much Skyler is into proper football.
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Kym’s blog
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Kym’s mastodon account: @kym@mastodon.world
all the usual topics you’ve grown to expect by now - books, figure skating, keyboards, and football. we are nothing but consistent.
links
Keychron "Developer" Keycap set
Sky's website
Kym’s blog
Skyler’s mastodon account: @skylerblue@keyboards.social
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we are very happy to have follow-up! All it took is to talk about football, apparently 8)
links:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CoaEr40r5HU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.kizilay.org.tr/deprem2023/
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Sky's website
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Skyler’s mastodon account: @skylerblue@keyboards.social
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the most athletic dragons talk about sports!
links
https://results.isu.org/schedules/FC2023_ColouredTimeSchedule.pdf
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Sky's website
Kym’s blog
dragons try to stay on track and yet end up all over the place with topics - figure skating, geography, grocery shopping, note taking, and international standards.
links
kym’s obsidian graph view
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Kym’s blog
copyright follow-up, konmari updates, and budgeting revisited.
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Kym’s blog
skyler and kym are getting back into their respective routines, including this podcast recording. there is a keyboard corner but no figure skating yet.
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Sky's website
Kym’s blog
Sky’s keyboard setup
dragons are back!
Links:
Sky’s new keyboard
Matcha spoon
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
The Myth of Normal
The Left Hand of Darkness
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Kym’s blog
skyler and kym are back from an unplanned break. they talk about long-distance driving, and then go on a break again, but this time it’s planned.
links:
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Sky's website
Kym’s blog
recap of sky’s trip to orlando and caffeine talk.
Links:
When McKinsey Comes to Town
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Kym’s blog
after more than a year of talking dragons finally introduce themselves (we went overtime, but that’s ok, isn’t it?).
links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3210
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5S
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quite a typical episode of fmd - you get figure skating, linguistics, and tangents.
links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative
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Kym’s blog
dragons continue talking about food (mainly, cheese)
links:
bechamel sauce
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Sky and Kym try to stay on topic of gift giving with limited success. plus some figure skating news.
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Sky's website
Kym’s blog
Sky talks off-the-cuff for a couple minutes because kym is gone.
Links:
Light from Uncommon Stars
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new instalment of FMD book club. beware of spoilers, but there are chapter markers to help you.
Links:
Project Hail Mary
The Martian
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Sky's website
Kym’s blog
dragons talk about new stuff they both got this week, with a tiniest bit of linguistics.
links:
Hobonichi Techo buying guide
Hobonichi Techo 5 year planner guide
TWSBI Go
Beluga Whale
Beluga (Sturgeon)
Pennonia Inks
Lamy Safari
Pilot Metropolitan
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Kym’s blog
dragons indulge in some naval gazing on the occasion of the earth making a full circle round the earth since they started making this podcast.
links:
Tom Scott Plus: “I gave my producer an actual tattoo”
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dragons talk about soft drinks and holiday with obligatory tangent into amateur linguistics (kinda).
links:
Six Colors 2021 E-Reader Roundup
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Sky's website
Kym’s blog
dragons are back from the three week ‘break’, but not like they were on holiday. Hence, some listener feedback, some catching up, and, as always, some book talk
links:
Answer in Progress: “i read 700 years of history to fix my glasses”
In the End, it was All about Love - Musa Okwonga
Life after Life - Kate Atkinson
Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
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we have book follow-up, we have shameless self-promotion, and we have pen talk!
links:
Kym’s ink towel
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this time dragons start with actual follow-up based on listener’s question, and then they finally talk about “Ella Minnow Pea”
Links:
Kym’s Dock
Sky’s Dock
Ella Minnow Pea
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Kym’s blog
forty plus minutes of Kym talking about Yuzuru Hanyu news
links:
Yuzuru Hanyu - wikipedia
list of career achievements by Yuzuru Hanyu - wikipedia
Yuzuru Hanyu olympic seasons - wikipedia
YonkaitenPixel - youtube
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dragons start with a detour into the world of apple betas, but then get to the main event of talking about “The Martian” by Andy Weir.
Note: Spoilers for The Martian start at 23:38 and go to the end
Links:
Sky’s iOS 16 Homescreen
The Martian
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Kym’s Blog
Kym interrogates Skyler why they don’t play video games, and then spends rest of the time explaining diablo gameplay.
Links:
Operation Paperclip - Annie Jacobsen
Lioness Rampant - Tamora Pierce
Platinum #3776 Century Shape of Heart
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Sky's Website
Kym’s Blog
Sky had a busy and creative week, and talks about their new project and a fun thing they got to do.
Useful Links:
Random Facts About
Conduit Ep. 26: The Content Dragon Appears 💙🐉
The Allusionist
Replacing the switches in my Keychron K8 - Skyler Blue - Youtube
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Sky's Website
Kym’s Blog
sky and kym talk about their note taking ways with inevitable digressions in the meantime.
Show Links:
The Plural of Anecdote is Data
Kym’s Obsidian Graph
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Kym's Blog
travel follow-up, task management talk which, in typical FMD fashion, morphs into sleep routine discussion.
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Kym's Blog
basically, kym talking about their trip to berlin and not much else.
Berlin Building
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both Sky and Kym are loopy after a work week, and go through their almost usual set of topics - figure skating, travel, geopolitics, and public transportation.
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Sky and Kym try to keep this episode under an hour and fail (unsurprisingly), because there is a lot of follow-up and public transport talk.
Links:
- Political Colours
- Gasoline
- Budapest Metro
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Kym's Blog
The show is back after a few weeks away. We both catch up on what the two of us have been up to during the break. Also lots of tangents.
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Sky's Twitter
Kym's Blog
how two different dragons in different situations use email, and why Kym doesn't like opera.
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Find Skyler at their website or on twitter
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FMD Book Club returns with our opinions on John Green's "The Anthropocene Reviewed"
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Links:
The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Gayme Changer - Jens Schandendorf
Two Scatterbrianed dragons talk about movie going experiences. Sky explains an american movie trend that Kym dislikes.
Links:
Junhwan Cha - ISU Championships 2022
Dragon Figurines from Ankhanu
Book dragon's opinions - the Anthropocene Reviewed
Sky's new technology and Kym's trip to the 2022 ISU worlds.
Links:
single guy from adelaide
in this first edition of the Find My Dragon book club, we talk about and give our opinions on "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August" by Claire North.
Links:
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Kym's Blog - Book Dragon's Opinions
Lingthusiasm
Kym's unsuccessful habit creation, why the sky is blue, and organisation of personal libraries.
Support Our friends and colleagues in Ukraine by checking out these resources:
The Red Cross
UN Crisis Relief
Links and Shownotes:
Dragon's Hoard Microstory
we explore an eclectic list of music, kym tells the story of sleep, and we discuss how we use our collective ipads.
The Fancy Music Boy's Fancy Music List
FIYE 97 - Kym and Scotty Jackson
FIYE 95 - Skyler Blue and Betty Chen
Globle Game
We are officially a Fanyu podcast, and Kym quizzes Sky on 50s american musicians.
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Yama
Episode 20! Kym talks about figure skating and we have a discussion about gender expression.
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Sky tells their stories of being in the apple store, and why they always get AppleCare. Kym is a little anxious about the skating events.
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Sky is a bit sick, and has some complaints about technology. Kym needs to reorganise their book collection.
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Four Continents Jun-hwan Cha Free Program
Four Continents Jun-hwan Cha Short Program
Books Mentioned:
Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Chaucer - Wife of Bath's Prologue
Lysistrata
The Nicomachean Ethics
Sky has updates on their morning habit, and we talk about digital organisation.
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Spaceship You
If you actually listened to all of this, you're an amazing person. This is the extra-long unedited version of our figure skating episode.
Main Episode Shownotes
Kym talks at length about recent events in figure skating, and Sky is just along for the ride
Links:
Yuzuru Hanyu Short Program
Yuzuru Hanyu Free Skate
Jason Brown
Nathan Chen
Deniss Vasiljevs
Shoma Uno Japan Open
Shoma Uno Japan Nationals
Yuma Kagiyama Short Program
Kym talks at length about recent events in figure skating, and Sky is just along for the ride
Links:
Yuzuru Hanyu Short Program
Yuzuru Hanyu Free Skate
Jason Brown
Nathan Chen
Deniss Vasiljevs
Shoma Uno Japan Open
Shoma Uno Japan Nationals
Yuma Kagiyama Short Program
We're back from the break! We retell our stories from break, and the many foods we had during the holiday time. We also discuss our reading plans for the coming year.
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Books Mentioned:
Stealing from the Sacarens
All About Yves
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Sky has made the trek home, Motion Sickness is terrible, and Kym has a new Shark Friend.
Check out Kym's Blog!
Blahaj Shark
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Sky's brain is broken because they just finished finals week, and Kym asks Sky about wether or not they should change their blog.
Barbara Sher - Refuse to Choose
We start out with tech issues, Kym tells a story about a plant in their fridge, and Sky explains the dorm situation at their university.
Youtube - The most difficult jumps in figure skating
Kym finished a book that they absolutely hate, Sky adds more books to their "want to read" list, and some figure skating scoring controversy.
lit bros article
Sky turns into a morning dragon, and has also picked up a reading habit. Figure skating is now a regular segment.
Sky complains about youtube and tries to start a new reading habit. Follow up about pens. Sky finally watches a figure skating video.
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Sky gets their hands on a new toy, and many questions are to be had. Kym complains to the universe about an unfortunate event.
Today's Show art: The Wonderful Kathy Campbell
Special Shoutout: Above the Mess
Other useful Links:
CGP Grey - I, Phone
TWSBI Go Fountain Pen
An episode out of time!
We talk about Books and some of our favourite sports.
Dan Moren
We talk about sleep, why Skyler is very tired, some book recommendations, shoutouts to some of our favourite people with podcasts, and more.
Links to some things we talked about:
https://oku.club/
Book track app
Kaiju FM
Above the mess
Conduit - Relay FM
Do By Friday
Recording a day late, vehicles, measuring the efficiency of vehicles, packing lists, and airlines.
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We were wrong about Canada... again. Shoutouts to two very nice podcasters on relay.fm. Kym is jealous of the long holiday breaks from uni that Skyler gets, and we talk about gender norms in society.
Check out Conduit with Kathy and Jay!
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Adventures in an apple store, moving homes, getting homesick, and remembering dreams.
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Skyler messes up geography, Kym has a story about walking in Orlando, and we get into politics despite our best wishes.
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