Recent content by CordwainerFish

Or even from the Seventies - "why is smoke coming out of my oscilloscope?" (Yes, I know that's not what would happen.) There's an essay by John W. Campbell where, as a gedankenexperiment, he puts a late Forties missile into the hands of Twenties scientists and explains why they wouldn't be able...

Guess I gotta tap the XKCD sign again... Which is what I do, alongside creating a fairly involved directory structure to keep things grouped by sector or theme or whim. (Hm, maybe I need a directory just for hard links of sector map posters...)

Sweet - even if it means clicking on all my download links (and there's a bunch of them) to see if there's dates at the end.

I don't consider that acceptable. My iDevices come with a vendor-contributed program which works on all standards conformant PDFen.

Now that's a head scratcher. What the hell are ghostscript and poppler doing?

I live in a state where hot air balloons are more common than rain clouds (I am not making that up), so a moonroof is a nice thing to have.

Not to mention having to do a captcha to log in makes about as much sense as a sunroof on a submarine.

Outside back cover: is "xxDesigners & Dragons System History" meant to be there? (fixed)

Would it be possible to provide a .pdf consisting solely of the checklists? I know I can cons one up myself but I ass-u-me more people than just me would like one.

p. 206: GURPS appears once as 'GURPs' Outside back cover: "did GDW decided" should be "did GDW decide" (noted elsewhere); also seeing the dash in "science-fiction" feels odd (part fixed)

Making Foreven terra ignota may be part responsible for the underdevelopment of the entire region spinward of the Marches in general and the Zhodani in particular.

Neither ISFDB, the SF Encyclopedia, nor the Library of Congress authority file are aware of any Irishness on his part.

ISO 8601 or bust. (Or better yet, something like DTRPG where the system knows if there's a newer version that I haven't downloaded and tells me. I rename all of my PDFs...)

I do not have and will not get Acrobat Pro.

The current version of Ghostscript appears to have serious issues - it produces ridiculously large .pdfs, like 40 times the size of the original. It also takes longer to process each page than the last. Further. it bobbles the picture on page 009 of The Fifth Frontier War. Poppler has the...