The Weekly Challenge 387: Only Binary Is Rational
RogerBW's Blog1d ago
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string rearrangements and rational numbers. (Note that this ends today.)
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top 11%Notes on Mongoose's Bayern 12: The Relic
RogerBW's Blog2d ago
This is part of an ongoing series about the preparations I've made to run Mongoose's revised edition of the Bayern campaign for 2300AD. Spoilers for Interlude 6 Part I.
On Loops
RogerBW's Blog4d ago
I've found myself thinking lately about loops. Specifically, how do you terminate a loop? I see two basic sorts of thing here: - There is a reasonably knowable number of iterations when you start.
Introduction to Cthulhu Eternal
RogerBW's Blog5d ago
I recently had occasion to write up a quick introduction to Cthulhu Eternal for a group I play with, and thought it might be more broadly useful.
Cold Days at Castle Drax, Charlotte E. English
RogerBW's Blog6d ago
2024 short horror-fantasy novel. Castle Drax is falling apart, and the only way for the family to survive is to sell it, though nobody wants to.
That Emergency Alert
RogerBW's Blog7d ago
Was Friday's message suitable content for an emergency alert? This is not a discussion of the specific harms of the system: the revelation of hidden phones, the stress and panic caused, the...
The Weekly Challenge 386: A Rational Reverse
RogerBW's Blog8d ago
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved base conversions and repeating decimals. (Note that this ends today.)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
RogerBW's Blog9d ago
1968 war, dir. Brian G. Hutton, Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood: IMDb. The captured general has to be got out of the impregnable fortress. Or does he?
The Moth Catcher, Ann Cleeves
RogerBW's Blog10d ago
2015 contemporary police mystery, seventh in Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series. In rural Northumberland, the house sitter for the local Big House is found dead beside the road, though it's not a hit...
Radiant Star, Ann Leckie
RogerBW's Blog13d ago
2026 SF, set in the same universe as the Imperial Radch series but not part of the trilogy. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star is a pilgrimage site on the rogue world of Aaa, and the main...
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
RogerBW's Blog14d ago
1961 war, dir. J. Lee Thompson, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn: IMDb. The guns on the Greek island have to be destroyed, and only a small team… Well, yes.