Gerald Fnord: Serbian vampire lore's pretty good. (10:09pm)
Gerald Fnord: I think they're the ones with dhampirs%u2014and you can get rid of them with a bullet fired into the coffin. (10:10pm)
Gerald Fnord: I think, generally, they're a form of corrupted upir, which is to say a psychopomp. (10:11pm)
Gerald Fnord: Stoker introduced the idea of their being strong, to make his Count Wampyr (as he was first called) more of a threat. Before then, they were generally pretty frail, except that if they latched onto you%u2026. (10:16pm)
Gerald Fnord: (sorry)...if they latched onto you.... (10:17pm)
Gerald Fnord: Chat lost my speculation that the psychopomp escorts the soul into the afterlife, then can't resist jumping into the vacated body to have the kind of fun it can't as an incorporeal spirit. (10:20pm)
Gerald Fnord: Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga all came-up with quantum electrodynamics around the same time, expressed in wildly different formulations. Schwinger's was more rigourous, Tomonaga's similar (I believe) but little-known, Feynman's best for doing calculations. Freeman Dyson proved them equivalent. (10:25pm)