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.

Once upon a time, I wrote a reasonably-strict-C89 C language program that “relocates” a function in memory and then runs it. That relocated function can relocate itself again, and run that copy, and so on and so forth.

Github repo for this program

I was curious about whether the “hint” that you get with an official Cryptoquip makes any difference.

I was also curious about how hard it is to construct a decent Cryptoquip.

Previous Cryptoquip Post

Cryptoquip Solver Github Repo