Recent content by Autumnal

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I like d10s and d6s. I also like 2d20 when generating percentiles. I have no real interest in the others, and antipathy for d4s.

I remember Dad sort of resenting having to dig out his immediately-post-WW2 (Caltech class of 1946) linear algebra when working on ranging systems for Voyager’s encounter with Jupiter. He felt that a proper frame of reference wouldn’t require that. :) But his bosses at JPL hadn’t put him in...

She’s not unaware of gaming, though I can’t remember if she plays. But she just keeps being really, really busy. Her book Inventing the Renaissance is kind of a spin-off of a research project that’s still ongoing, I think, which involves a lot of travel for on-site examinations and a lot of...

What, starting now? Without any warning or warmup or warning or W words?

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1204/1547118-watch-tcd-debuts-worlds-first-film-in-ancient-sumerian/

This one comes via John Scalzi:

I just learned about this this morning.