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Have you ever tried to reproduce some text that contains a typo? That is, you try to type in some text that contains mistakes, for purposes of mocking whoever produced the original, mistake-laden rubbish?
You know how hard that is?
I read George Orwell’s 1984 sometime during “Junior High”, which in the 1970s was what we now call “middle school”. My district, Adair County R-III, had grades 7, 8 and 9 in their own building.
The school library had a copy of 1984. I was busy reading a lot my 7th and 8th grade years, so I read it.
Two more real fortunes, both from the same strip mall Thai and Chinese joint as my previous fortunes.
I wrote some about my rock climbing in a post about 1983.
I also did some ice climbing, between about 1984 and January, 1990.
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
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”
Well, here’s a whole new take, orthogonal to that: ST-TNG is the Smurfs.
