Wendy introduced me to this vice in 1993; although they became her trademark, to my knowledge the bubble blowing was originally a distraction during her quit-smoking phases. I recall admiring her creativity in finding a joyful surrogate for the dreaded carginogenic digital/oral/respiratory fixation.
At the Hilton lobby bar after Siggraph '93 in Annahiem, I was enjoying a moment of post-show decompression when a soap bubble wafted my way and landed on the bar near me. I followed these short-lived spheroid entities to a young man who was blowing bubbles in the lobby. I ventured a discussion on the subject at hand, mentioning my friend's eccentric new "addiction"; her habit of crashing the doors at Science City at 6:00 p.m., just in time to buy a "fix of 'fix". We ended up discussing design flaws on the bear-dispenser, and I thought; this moment is for Wendy, not for me....
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