Amy Weston

Dokami - D&D Engineer. Real Life Cryogenicist.

As you may have gathered, I’m the science correspondent around here. I’m the overmind of the machine intelligences. In real life I work on ways to cool detectors to within a tenth of a degree above absolute zero for a balloon borne NASA cosmology mission called PIPER. And I bake awesome vegan chocolate cake. My favorite food is avocado and cucumber maki. My favorite color is 2.7 K blackbody emission. I know all about the chemical process that makes umeboshi eat through an aluminum lunch box. I have lunchtime conversations about quantum entanglement in mitochondria. I think apoptosis sounds like the name of a D&D villain.

My ground state is wide-eyed enthusiasm. Current obsessions include, but are not limited to: planetary exploration, radio astronomy, polyhedral dice, cartoon characters from Japan, chiptunes, and posthumanism. I can quote most of Scott Pilgrim and I don’t believe in ghosts, but ghost stories keep me up at night. Someday I hope to be able to upload my memories into a computer, and I’m not afraid of the robot uprising. Besides writing here, I sometimes write on my own blog (qquern.wordpress.com), but usually I’m writing material for my D&D and GURPS campaigns. One time I beat the entire Elite Four with a lone Dragonite.

And I am the greatest hero the world has ever known.