blog.firedrake.orgadded August 2026
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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved base conversions and repeating decimals. (Note that this ends today.)
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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?
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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...
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Just before sunset? How could I not, really? With phone camera this time, because I was wrangling the pinholes and, until the sun sank too low, the projection screen (two bits of card out of the...
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More gaming with nearby friends. First game was FUSE and it felt as if it went pretty well, but we had two cards left at the deadline.
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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...
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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.
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