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 2020 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.

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.