Summer 2021 I bought a Stirling Cycle engine kit. This is a type of heat engine, and in the case of the kit I assembled, the heat came from a small alcohol lamp.

I went to the local drive-thru strip mall liquor store to buy some Everclear.

9 board tic tac toe is a tic tac toe variant played on 9, 3x3 tic tac toe boards, arranged in a 3x3 pattern:

A fine, intelligent fellow named Stephen Lindholm has written the

Smurf Research Center

You should visit it, it’s wonderful.

This is an excellent work of profound clarity.

A guest post from long-time reader and friend of this blog Henry. Henry finds Heinlein’s “moral philsosophy” might be a product of Heinlein’s own education and life experience.

Previous “moral philosophy” post.

Henry writes:

Previous Understanding Star Trek post

I’ve heard wise people say that there are only two plots for episodes of “Star Trek - The Next Generation”

1. Data Saves the Crew
2. The Crew Saves Data

Well, here’s a whole new take, orthogonal to that: ST-TNG is the Smurfs.

NYT Wordlebot claimed I had two choices after my 3rd guess. Let’s see if it’s correct.

My weirdest year.

Presented for your consideration, four fortune cookies I recently got from a strip mall Thai and Chinese food joint.