Bubbles
Latest Posts
Cardiff Bay
Location check in — The Mount Stuart, Cardiff Bay - a nice strong ale, Wobbly Bob 🍺 🗺 Map of area
Aerobatic monoplane Extra NG — this is one of the most beautiful airplanes I've ever photographed. I had a chat with its friendly owner today, and I hope I'll have an opportunity to capture it again. Luckily, he is based at CNL, so 🤞
The other day that stupid thing called the Enhanced Games took place. As you might have guessed by the name, this is basically the Olympics on steroids, quite literally. The event itself is not even worth commenting on. I remember...
One of the interesting things about the discourse around Generative AI (just “AI” from here on) is how very polarized it is. One one side we have people like Steve Yegge writing blog-posts claiming the efficiency benefit of programming...
Hurdles include facilities, materials, and steps requiring unwritten lore and hands-on experience.
Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Let's start with Wikipedia, because the irony is almost too perfect to pass up. In mid-May, the Wikimedia Foundation fired Brooke Vibber — the lead developer of MediaWiki since 2003,...
Moving things around part two: combining architectural risk mapping with expected traffic modeling to preview the dynamic impact of hazards
Analog formats are back to save us from the inundation of digital malaise. Racket points to an “insane” demand for CRT television sets in the Twin Cities area. Retro video gamers are the driving force, lured to the dated tech because,...
by George Pritchard Almost two years after her introduction to the planet of Pern, home of dragons that can traverse space and time in a blink (oh, and their riders are there, too), Anne McCaffrey has returned with a sequel to...
MACE WINDU STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE II (KENNER) “In the days before Palpatine’s Empire began its reign of terror, the Galactic Republic governed the affairs of the galaxy from the capital of Couruscant. In addition, the city-planet...
Sponsor support is very important to me here at The Pen Addict. My sidebar advertisers put their faith in me to deliver good value for them month in and month out, and I ...
In his Deontology (1834), Jeremy Bentham anticipates our world of “steps” and smartphones: A whole kingdom, the great globe itself, will become a gymnasium, in which every man exercises himself before the eyes of every other man. Every...