Who’s got two thumbs and a licence to fly in Dundee city council parks?
| Website | http://chrisphin.com |
| Location | Dundee, Scotland |
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| Ebike channel | @EbikeNuggs |
Christopher Phin
@chrisphin
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Uses language suitable for miners rather than minors. Proud xennial. Podcasting, tech, publishing, ebikes, art and design, queer shit. (I did warn you about the language.) 🩷💜💙
I keep failing to make #Knotwords a habit, but I always love it when I open it up. The mini puzzles fit nicely into my brain.
I was mistaken yesterday. The new router doesn’t replace two devices, it replaces three. Yummy.
So our kid wants to make a Mothers’ Day podcast. Adorable. But I’m a hundred miles away, so I start to walk my wife through getting set up. The old keyboard is temperamental so: ditch it and use the new one. She’s like: there’s no mouse. Shit, I took that with me. Direct her to the old Mighty Mouse in a drawer with ‘and you’ll need a USB-C adapter’. She manfully finds all this stuff, then sends me this with ‘is this right?’
Reader, it is not right, but it is both understandable and adorable.
Picked up this little book from 1902 in a charity shop. It’s a list of multiplication tables for pre-decimalised British currency, which was hard to calculate in your head. So for example, in the close-up we see, 31 × 8 shillings and 6 pence is £13, 3 shillings and sixpence.
Lookup tables like this always interest me. Research the history of ENIAC to see the moment history started to pivot away from the requirement for these to exist and to be manually calculated by ‘computers’ — women, often.
Found an old Ladybird Book of British Railway Locomotives in a charity shop and nabbed it for a friend’s kid. Scanned in the illustration on the cover so I could also add it to the mailing label, so here, internet, have a pretty thing – as the original scan and a quickly cleaned-up 1-bit version.
A kinda silly special effect photo, but it has a charm. I was struck by the halo of light created by the guy power-washing his car on the street, and I used Dehaze (along with tweaking Highlights and Shadows) to push the tree almost all the way to silhouette, then added a linear fade to drop the saturation out of the top half of the photo. Although it’s a bit schlocky, I like how a monochrome and a colour photo can kinda coexist in the same shot, without you probably noticing.
My 2019 Intel MacBook Pro (which is in a semi-retired state) has been struggling for a long time, with the fans always running and performance apparently being thermally throttled. “So clean the fans, Phin?” Yes. I couldn’t see any dust at the hinge vents, though; tried blowing in some compressed air, but it made no difference.
Admitted that I’ve lost my P5 Pentalobe screwdriver, bought a new @iFixit set, and, um, it’s running much better now…
(Should have done this years ago. Don’t be me…)
