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The old rules were even worse about down time: they stipulated "monthly expenses". Player characters had to drop 1000 gold pieces per level per month, supposedly in maintaining a lifestyle commensurate with their experience level. The idea was to keep the players hungry for loot even as the profits ...

The union of 2 points in free space is egg shaped when the points expand equally in all directions at the same rate. The two spheres may become enormous, but their union becomes a static shape, when their union is complete. No, that’s a lentil shape. It only looks ovoid from some angles. It always ...

The "jumped-up monkeys thinking with lumps of meat" line is one I use in teaching quantum mechanics. ( Etwas entwickelte Affen, die mit Fleisch denken müssen ... .) I want to get students to get over just feeling overwhelmed and stupid, which is what we all are, and start struggling with understandi...

Doctor Steuss is persuasive, as usual. I withdraw my objections to the logo.

I've been having trouble with Disqus posting replies to Tim's Blogger blog, and it's getting frustrating. I think the problem is probably that Disqus is unhappy with my iCloud proxy e-mail. I'm not worried about anyone finding out my real-life identity—as a German professor my freedom to hold whatev...

I think this is an important point, though elusive enough that we may all be groping a bit to address it. One thing I want to try to say is that to some extent everything is what Gadianton calls "narrative". People who think that they have the cold, hard facts that don't require any story to make th...

Yeah, Wagner is long.

I don't think it's a bad logo. It's an open book, but it also looks like multiple paths with a nice little doorway as the right path through them, or opening up into all of them, or something. My only problem is that being all bent around backwards like that is going to be awfully bad for that book'...

I'd call that progress! Medicine names are usually so opaque. I still remember the Rogaine commercials from the 1990s that urged you to "ask your doctor if Rogaine is right for you" but gave me at least no idea at all of what condition the product was supposed to treat.

Götterdämmerung, a snifter of orange soda, and a hearty pastrami sandwich Am I right that the soda and sandwich are to be consumed while listening to Wagner, or is Götterdämmerung a Mormon delicacy like funeral potatoes and lime jello? (I may just be confused by the fact that the possibly ironical ...