Best Things of 2021

I write these up for my Christmas cards, but I will start my draft list now.

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1.Break-action Air Rifles. My Crossman .22 single-shot kills rabbits, is legal to use inside city limits, and isn't as noisy as a "real" rifle.

2. Goofspiel. A simple but profound card game invented by game theorist Merrill Flood at Princeton in the 1950s. You bid for cards simultaneously, one at a time, using one suit as prizes and the others for your currency. https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=The_Goofspiel_Card_Game.

3. Spoons. A hilarious pay-attention card-passing game good for a large group, similar to Pit. https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Spoons-(Card-Game)

4. Psych, later seasons

5. Wikimedia formatting code.

6. Churchill, The World Crisis.

7 Teaching 7th grade math

8. The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

9. Persimmon whisky

10. The National Conservatism Conference, NatCon II.

11. Hen of the Woods, Boletes, Honey Mushrooms, and Lion's Mane fungus.

12. Death in Paradise TV detective show.

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6 Maraschino liqueur.

5. CourtListener.com An archive of court data including opinions, oral arguments, judges, and federal filings.

6. Internet Archive library for free book borrowing.

7. Rex Stout, The Rubber Band, detective novel with Nero Wolfe.

9. Hett, historian of Nazi Germany.

11. MathPix program to convert pdf to Latex.

13. Retirement.

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