Bubbles
Latest Posts
Tun-huang by Yasushi Inoue, translated by Jean Oda May, preface by Damion Searls (New York Review Books, 2010) Damion Searls, in his preface to Yasushi Inoue's 1959 historical novel Tun-huang, grouped the novelist's fiction into four...
One of the reasons salmon are so desired.
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
by Kaye Dee A Triumph and a Tragedy It’s just a few hours until publication, and I’m finishing this article at the last minute, so I can bring you the most up to date information on the tragic loss of the Soyuz-11 crew. These are the...
OBI-WAN KENOBI — NABOO STAR WARS: EPISODE I (HASBRO) “The young Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his mentor, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, help Queen Amidala and her forces in their attempt to liberate the planet Naboo from the overwhelming...
When the US government took down its climate science site a group of scientists put all the material back online at Climate.us Dave Snowden has been at his favourite knowledge management conference and offers blog posts with many...
The Minnesota Fringe Festival schedule was just announced, but if you want a preview of the sort of adventurous, inventive, outside-the-box art you will see in August, check out In the Backroom by Michael Torsh at the Southern Theater...
Yes, it’s hot. No, I do not do well in the heat. I live in New England for a reason, I’d rather be too cold than too warm, so this 100+ garbage can eff right off. Apologies in advance for my mood. Also not helping my disposition is the...
“What belongs to the sea will always return to the sea.” Author Clara Ward has always been drawn to the ocean, spent time teaching others about the ocean, and now has featured the ocean in their newest novel, Dream the Deep. Dive into...
Finally checked out an NTW show this weekend in Taoyuan with one of my buddies. My first live wrestling show of 2026! What a show! Lots of solid matches and gimmicks, and even a little warmth when one of the wrestlers shouted out his...
Back to the Bluebell for a the little trains. But first a brief report on the ESNG meeting on July 1. I missed part of the meeting to visit the dentist, and also watched the England game on my laptop. We had a very respectable eight...
Canada’s big wooden automobile safety head reminds us about safe driving on the July 4th weekend. If you drive the speed limit (or slightly below to save gas) and avoid tailgating (the most stupid thing drivers do) your chances of...
There’s been a lot of bad news lately, from Rockstar trying to push the cost-of-a-game envelope even further, to Bandcamp firing most of their engineers only a few months after pledging to ban any and all music that even so much as hints...
We had missed them in Shetland and Norway, they kept eluding Capsula on the water, and here they were just there, at touching distance, seemingly unbothered by all these humans taking pictures of them. as if nothing happens Just as we...
finding a cool project only to open github and see claude as main contributor ):