Bubbles
Latest Posts
You've often heard before people talk about being a man. They're not talking about sex or gender when they use this phrase, but rather, it's an obligation to society and to family that you have to fulfil to validate your masculinity. You...
DMG – Live the Dream Skittering glitchy rave from Daniel McGurty, aka DMG, now based in Edinburgh but a native of Blackburn. McGurty is painting with a delicate brush here, sketching around an absence of overt dancefloor kick/bass spine,...
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my...
There was no yoga today, so our morning exercise was marching in the Saint Anthony Park parade (which is an institution!) with our mayor, Kaohly Her. It was a lot of fun, we ran out of candy, we got to see other politicians we admire...
Happy 250th birthday, USA. The defining image in my lifetime of American culture is the hooded man at Abu Ghraib prison. Well, you’re still young and “finding a place to be/ in the early days of a better civilization,” as Dennis Lee’s...
One of the items I keep buying in Japan are hand creams. Whenever I go to Don Quijote to buy snacks or additional skincare, my attention gets diverted when I see the hand creams displayed there. I prefer Japanese hand creams over Korean...
Borneo, 1941: rich white Brits run the show for tobacco, pearls and the opium trade, while World War Two creeps up around the edges. Who is sneaking onto the Goodwill plantation and why? The Red Pearls of Borneo (Bushmonkey Games) is an...
I am once again sorry to all my friends about my obsession with Esperanto. It passes through my life like a kind long orbit planetary body over many years. I think around 15 or so. Except this time it's hit the me planet like a comet and...
I used to bake a lot. Despite my usual protests and grievances about baking, as baking is a precise art whereas cooking is a whole YOLO approach, I used to bake because I felt like we could always have more spinach quiche and chewy...
Stanford University researchers have some bad news for elder millennials me... —you’re about to get real old, real fast. At least on a molecular level. That’s because the researchers found that the aging process involves two significant...
My heart has now been broken twice in looking for a house. We put an offer on one which wasn’t accepted and then the other we missed by a day maybe? Regardless this search is just exhausting us at the moment.
A favorite album by one of my favorite musicians, Bill Frisell. With Don Byron, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet; Guy Klucevsek, Accordion; Kermit Driscoll, Bass; Joey Baron, Drums. Recorded in 1992, the album cover features a 4th of July photo...
Camera: Fujifilm X-T5.Location: Sydney CBD.
IntroductionWhen I was a computer science student, I read the first edition of the book "Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide" by Dick Grune [1] et al. In the ~30 years since, it may be the book I’ve been reminded of most often. The...
Good twisty wartime spy story from Paul “subtlety is for cowards” Verhoeven. Not one of his best movies – too plotty and obvious – but clearly crucial to his whole deal (it wouldn’t be his last film about resistance fighters betraying...