The Weekly Challenge 386: A Rational Reverse
RogerBW's Blog16 Aug 2026
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved base conversions and repeating decimals. (Note that this ends today.)
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top 6%Where Eagles Dare (1968)
RogerBW's Blog15 Aug 2026
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 Blog14 Aug 2026
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 Blog11 Aug 2026
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 Blog10 Aug 2026
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.