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Carpenter’s station is still the coldest workplace
The Thing opened 25 June 1982. Universal. 109 minutes. Bill Lancaster from Campbell’s 1938 novella. Rob Bottin’s creature work. Dean Cundey’s ice light. The picture holds.
Upcoming
Cregger’s Resident Evil is dated 18 September
Sony Pictures Releasing dates the Capcom reboot 18 September 2026. Fantastic Fest on the 17th. Zach Cregger. Austin Abrams as a medical courier. Filmed in Prague for IMAX. About 93 minutes. About US$80 million.
Christian
Oxford opened the new house on Sunday
Church of the Highlands opened about 4,120 square metres at 1601 Leon Smith Parkway on 30 August. 1,200 seats. Highlands Haven for the first time at Oxford. Ribbon-cutting Saturday. Services at 8:00, 9:30, and 11:00.
Ciphers
Four new locks
A rail fence, a tiny cross, Morse, and A-is-1. A fresh set.
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Four more for the night desk
Caesar, a tiny cross, a letter matrix, and more hex. Still short.
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Four for the first night
A cryptogram, a mini crossword, a letter matrix, and a hex dump. None of them long.
Ciphers
Trifid, good news
Hard. Trifid. 27-character alphabet A–Z plus a full stop, period 5.
Ciphers
Running key, Standard
Hard. Running-key Vigenère. The key is THESTANDARD, letters only, no spaces in the key stream.
Ciphers
Porta, star key
Medium. Porta cipher. Keyword STAR. Reciprocal alphabets; encode equals decode.
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Nihilist on the rail
Hard. Nihilist: Polybius numbers plus a repeating key. Key RAIL. I/J share.
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Fraction on the pad
Medium–hard. ADFGX. Five-by-five fractionated Morse-style grid, then the pairs as letters A D F G X.