Bubbles
Latest Posts
2026/07/26 15:02 Sometimes I wonder if search engines haven't become ironic Baudrillardians. They are doing it on purpose for the lols, you just don't appreciate it because you're not getting the reference.
So much fun stuff! Websites and retro computer adverts and all the computers in Jurassic Park! Books and journalling and the humanities and philosophy! Websites as anthologies of self, which might prompt a full blog post, but for now As...
The Birth Play Project's latest Shakespearean adaptation in their mission to "place reproductive stories in public memory" is his bloodiest and most brutal play, The Lamentable Tragedie of Titus Andronicus, believed to be the first...
The article “A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence” went viral. It was co-authored by Jacob Tsimerman, who, as the media has made abundantly clear, is the 2026 Fields Medal recipient–as if that somehow adds...
Don’t fear git rebase 💽
Soundtrack to this post. I’m 46, currently working through Couch to 5K (week 6), and I’ve just set myself a proper goal: run the Paisley 10K next year in under 50 minutes. Where I’m starting from Let’s be honest about the baseline. My...
We all learned in science class that water freezes at 0 °C or 32 °F at atmospheric pressure. But what water, exactly? Even after you distill out all the dissolved salts and minerals to get pure H2O, not all H2O is created equal – and for...
Newsletter strategist Dylan Redekop recently wrote about the "context box," his term for the line in a marketing or newsletter email explaining why you are receiving a particular message. (By the way, I think he coined something useful...
Jason and I have been making the same argument for over a quarter of a century now: Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints. And when they work in software or media or other intellectual realms, they...
Hey! It's been a while. I spent the last month looking for something important enough to share here, but every time I came up empty. Whenever I tried to think of something fun or insightful to write about for the blog, I just drew a...
Today’s TDC asks us to: Tell, show, what a culture of belonging looks like Since about 2016, when I was looking at CLMOOC for my PhD, I’ve had this sketch on my wall HOMAGO flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons...
I’ve had a MacBook Air with the M5 and 32 gigs of unified memory since the beginning of the year, and while I’ve been dealing with seventh months of feeling pissed off at Pop!_OS COSMIC I’ve also been trying to figure out if I prefer the...
erholt Ich habe einfach geduscht und fühle mich deshalb erholt. Diese Woche war okay. Meine Laune war allerdings etwas getrübt, weil ich einige Absagen auf Bewerbungen erhalten habe. Absagen auf BewerbungenAm Montag habe ich eine Absagen...
I got back to smashing up the concrete on the old broken pond this week, something I’d put on hold, what with needing to get scything done and my toe not supporting much weight recently. I did two brief stints with the sledgehammer, the...
Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great...