Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

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February 2016

wunderkamercast His arrival was foretold in the ancient murals…
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@sdpp99 Instant, reliable, great syncing, cheap… I will shed a small tear when old-school radio goes away.

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@Bufty_Grifter Coat pocket? Since the carrier bag charge I do seem to find forgotten stuff there more often.

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For all our innovation, there is no better house-wide audio streaming system than an FM radio tuned to the same station in every room.

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@chubbybannister I find it helps with those scenes if you imagine that they’re elephants rather than cows.

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@chubbybannister Think there’s a stall like that at the Corn Street flea market, every Sat.

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@veschwab Yeah, that can happen. You probably got upgraded to one of the high-gravity rooms without even knowing it.

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benicus_rex When you post a selfie but no one favs it pic.twitter.com/NHZ7XGO2HE

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@bendoscopy The thing I see missing is kitchen/cooker.

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<Tenth Doctor Voice>Yeah, *tell* me about it…</Tenth Doctor Voice> instagram.com/p/BCTKpiwJC9m/

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@Bristolvor I do not know. I have watched them relatively regularly (though not frequently) since the 1990s.

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@Bristolvor I’ve had mine for many years, made by the same man.

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@hayles Excellent! Zazu keeping up their usual high standard :)

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OpinionatedGeek Starting to think I should list ‘Installing software updates’ as my main hobby. I certainly spend too much time doing it.

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After 27 years of sterling service, it’s time to retire my old speakers. I like to take a pic at moments like these. pic.twitter.com/zzi5yuE8R4

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@Marnova I’m assuming that’s true for cakes and things, but this little fella has a specific porridge setting that’s meant to be pretty good

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@Marnova Yeah, I think I’m getting there. It’s got a timer so I can pre-soak overnight and auto-start the cooking in the morning, too :)

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@Marnova (It’s really good for rice, and made ace maftoul last night. Porridge is going to need more experimentation.)

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@Marnova I’m enjoying most of the experiments. I left this one on the “keep warm” setting a bit too long, though.

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@dangusset Mystery solved. And the explanation was not paranormal. I feel just like Scully.

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@dangusset So it wasn’t your video? Because there was the same one on the same *hashtag* from someone else.

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@dangusset Your original seemed to have an actual Vine attached as well as a picture?

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A 1902 rollercoaster versus one from a century further on. Progress, via @_FutilityCloset futilitycloset.com/2016/02/26/pro…

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ismh Checking my to-do list after lunch on a Friday. media.giphy.com/media/8DNwRygI…

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@AshleyEsqueda I’m thinking there can’t be many opportunities in life to spontaneously buy a golden octopus. Go for it.

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Longshanks1307 Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords seems increasingly appealing as a basis for a system of government.

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📷 Well played, Roo Bar. tmblr.co/ZD7hNx22QioTX

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Welcome to Clifton Village, whose aura of Georgian quaintness is so strong it repels all mobile phone data signals.

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@antichrista Yes, but only by spending far more of your time on list-writing and double-checking than you use by just going to the store.

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@Jeenniebeenie If it helps you work it out, I understand that the NEC bone’s connected to the head bone.

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📷 Stable, Bristol, with a guest appearance from my friend Paul, who is anything but stable.  tmblr.co/ZD7hNx22NSUpb

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Hit_Delete Saw Mike Leigh in Waterloo. Went and spoke to him. ‘Never compromise’ he advised.

I’m now in Pret and might request a new coffee.

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@thomasvenables I’d love to be back in that area right now. It’s the perfect time of year for harbourside commuting!

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When you need to make exactly the right choice for your first native Twitter GIF post. pic.twitter.com/kWSZCSfQVY

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@word_geek Sadly, when the music started he just sang along, badly.

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Satellite TV. Some assembly required. instagram.com/p/BCLXSjNJCzL/

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Oh, yes, by all means talk to yourself all the time you’re working next to me. That won’t be annoying at all.

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TigNotaro After much anticipation, a revolutionary male birth control was finally released. It’s called “a hoverboard”

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@Bristolvor Yup. Bought a new rice cooker so my meals this week will mostly be rice-based ;)

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@Bristolvor (I used to be so much more up on harbour gossip when I rode the ferry every day!)

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@Bristolvor Maybe. It wasn’t there yesterday, but I wasn’t paying attention this morning!

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@Bristolvor Not sure, but their email newsletter said “nearly back” last week.

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@RicherSupport That was Safari, but I have the same issue in Chrome. Shows store name, but doesn’t link to details. pic.twitter.com/2ar66YBGaY

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@Kavey @SyrupyCupcakes Really good, especially for a first time. Porridge not so great; I’ll need to practise!

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@chris_coys That’s how I like my rice. Cooked by high tech fuzzy logic robots.

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@Kavey @SyrupyCupcakes I am waiting to hear what happens when the rice is ready. I’m hoping for another tune.

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@SyrupyCupcakes @Kavey I just upgraded from a £20 one that didn’t beep at all. Quite excited.

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You can tell it’s proper Japanese because it plays “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” charmingly when it starts cooking. pic.twitter.com/JlCsMAsKj8

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@RicherSounds It’s great that you detect my local store, but even better would be a link to the store details! pic.twitter.com/E4Tq3hzuD7

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@ToM_BaL I think I had that last time. Went for lamb today!

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Given that Flour and Ash doesn’t open until 5pm, where’s a good Bristol lunchtime pizza place, folks?

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I don’t really know what a pig ark is, but from a Google Images search it seems to be some kind of porcine Nissen hut.

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Today I will mostly be having a boiler serviced and then hopefully going out to lunch with some friends who are picking up a pig ark.

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@bexxi Really gets on my nerves. Bought noise-cancelling headphones to reduce the problem instead of simply murdering someone recently.

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hotdogsladies “Fake earnestness is like cilantro. A pinch can be lovely but too much makes you want to throat-punch the fucking taco guy.”

—Oscar Wilde

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codinghorror How the movie WarGames changed US national security policy nytimes.com/2016/02/21/mov…

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Threading your way through the wardrobe of Top Shop to the Narnian exterior of Cribbs Causeway.

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quellist1 Someone in an ad agency somewhere is clearing out their desk……. twitter.com/holly/status/7…

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alicej_t “Like eating the colour grey”. Love returning to @chrispople’s Frankie & Benny’s review: cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/franki…

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@dangusset That’s a baby thrown out with the bath water, that is.

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@dangusset He is utterly, stark-staring bonkers, though. To the degree that he probably eats shoes every day anyway.

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@dangusset “Wait a minute. Isn’t that where Rupert Giles retired?”

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Morning and evening pictures framed for the bedroom. Just need to hang them now. pic.twitter.com/V6MBUZOAEP

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@chubbybannister Yeah, but if *you* could get a grant for filming penguins on a treadmill, you would, wouldn’t you? I would.

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SwiftOnSecurity Jeb blew through $100 million without anything to show for it, so he should have a great career at Yahoo.

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@paulcapper I’d put you on The List, except I probably couldn’t print the bastard.

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This printer is very lucky that I’m not armed.

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@hatsandbikes I was agreeing with you right up until the last part… Oh.

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govindajeggy I’ve been given three months to live.

I’ve asked for Feb 2056, April 2058 & November 3009

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Consigning a crate of nostalgia to The Cellar. pic.twitter.com/v7CntDRkq8

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@BristolBaloney I like their three seed loaf. I’ll have to try a croissant next time I’m in.

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@Kavey I don’t believe my little local one does that. It’s also surrounded by other places that do excellent croissants, which doesn’t help.

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@moiseschiu @coffeeandcider Oh thank Christ. It was giving me serious anxiety.

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@hayles The Clifton train’s a half hour walk in the wrong direction…

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@hayles I agree. Though I wish she wasn’t so damn far away.

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Tesco croissants are from hunger anyway. Where do we think serves the best croissants in , folks?

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guardianfood In a twist: Tesco’s decision to stop selling curved croissants sparks debate d.gu.com/KYhCPW

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Might be eating popcorn while watching X Files.

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@DazeEnd It’s awful. Best implementations I find tend to be in databases. Apart from that people keep inventing their own broken versions.

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c8ters When you’re house sitting for millennials and ask how the lights work pic.twitter.com/Xli7ZdZeHW

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@amyengineer @c8ters @internetofshit I say smash them with whatever you have to hand and introduce millennials to the concept of candles.

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ASPolice UPDATE: All roads in city centre are now re-open.We had concerns for the welfare of a man but he is now safe & well. (1/2)

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@RedQueenCoder I hate that. Eventually I found bad television or re-reading old favourites helped get me through. Hope you find something.

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@libbymiller Not bad. I think every other low alcohol beer I’ve tried has suffered greatly from being lager.

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@UrsulaWJ Well, there are worse places to be stuck, at least.

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ASPBrisCentre We’ve closed part of Bridewell St & the Bear Pit roundabout in due to an on-going incident. All motorists should avoid this area.

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@UrsulaWJ !? Rather glad I’m already home. Might just put the other lock on, too.

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BathChron BREAKING: Man in orange underpants blocking on A46 heading into Bath
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JordanETID If the FBI needs to get into someone’s iPhone without permission they should just call U2 and ask how they did it

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Wait for 505. Bus standing at stop fires up, becomes 505. We get on. 505 bus sails past. Driver tells us he doesn’t set off for 15 mins.

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bexxi And the cobbles, they shone in adoration of the rain. @..instagram.com/p/BB8dr1CFPux/dU

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B247Martin This was Bristol’s tram network in 1911: pic.twitter.com/X1S06HDHPd

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Kevin had been abused by a previous owner so always his at the back of the garage when the door..instagram.com/p/BB70cASpC_K/gg

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MittenDAmour Emma Thompson eating a slice of cake decorated like a front page of her eating a slice of cake is a thing of beauty. pic.twitter.com/nsxODePxjW

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“What internet phenomena are adults my age unfamiliar with these days?” questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic…

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@macguitar I love the way that every single character in WarGames seems to have depth and backstory.

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Beathhigh The title certainly would seem to indicate some problems with the marriage, yes… twitter.com/chaptersindigo…

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@bexxi What kind of fitting is it? Maybe my painful research can help.

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BatLabels AUTOMATIC BATALARM
FOR DETECTING PHONE
DETECTING EQUIPMENT pic.twitter.com/d6MB0G9pPF

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@bexxi Most are pretty bad. Some are pretty good. I’ve probably spent more money finding good ones than I’ll recover in energy savings :(

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FirstBSA We’re off for the evening.

Bristol city centre traffic is MENTAL. Taking traffic about an hour to make a 10 minute journey :(

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@CharlieEsq_ I’ve not been in there since it was Henry Africa’s!

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@CharlieEsq_ Is that the one that was a bad American diner for a bit?

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@tomasmcguinness If people don’t like a back-end language, they have eight more to choose from.

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daringfireball Craig Mod on the Leica Q: daringfireball.net/linked/2016/02…

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Comparing old and new phones in the office. pic.twitter.com/EosySAGIpo

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mrdavidwhitley I sometimes buy sandwiches that aren’t in the meal deal. twitter.com/kanyewest/stat…

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@Pinboard I’ve bookmarked a few things today (7+ hours ago) and they don’t seem searchable by tag. Anything wrong? Ta!

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Standard-issue British holiday. The pier tells me it’s Bournemouth. pic.twitter.com/dnrhUgl185

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@zanettoyarns I’ll have to go see what @ironworks_co is like inside now. This was somewhere around twenty years ago. pic.twitter.com/svHvoewrO6

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@hayles This is just down the road from Bodgers department store. Or am I bluffing?

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The light leak suits the colour scheme in this, the very first branch (I believe) of Las Iguanas, in St. Nick’s. pic.twitter.com/B73nq9qf3k

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@antimitch Well, it’s pretty cheap to *try* these days. It’s only really expensive if you actually get into it :)

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Yeah. We really were stereotypical white male IT geeks. And no, I don’t know why I’m holding a rubber chicken. pic.twitter.com/ysvOMz08TM

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My friends were into duck face before it was cool. pic.twitter.com/1npKOpVb3l

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@antimitch Though I did take a few in my room at uni, apparently. My friend Si must be making sushi in this one. pic.twitter.com/4q8Ad8zym7

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@antimitch Basically I barely picked up a camera between the 1980s and 2008, when adult me got into it again.

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@antimitch No, just a few random rolls, and very little of Bristol. Shot lots as a kid, but there’s big long gap before I got back into it.

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@antimitch I used to work in the ugly modern (then-NatWest Insurance) building at the end of the road, behind the nice Edward Everard front.

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@antimitch Yup. I spent a lot of time in that cafe!

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The City Netgates internet cafe, Broad Street, 1990s. I believe it’s ironworks_co now! pic.twitter.com/O1AHK4k8DM

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Sometime in the 1990s, apparently during my “Henry Crabbe Lookalike Competition” phase. pic.twitter.com/WfWyrTXvEN

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@porthjess @CaiBurton @BristolFerry Sadly I stopped years ago, when the early boats were axed following Council subsidy cuts.

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@guriben I was in Gants Hill, so not too far away at all.

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@StephenEThomas We probably know some people in common, though I didn’t know too many of the younger crowd.

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Oh! An “eyeball” card from my CB days. That’s a long time ago..pic.twitter.com/xS4wEqkKxOxO

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Goodness. Seem to have dug up issue #2 of the Blake’s 7 Poster Magazine. pic.twitter.com/PyWBQJSaHg

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@hayles Just checked. They’re playing the Royal Albert Hall this year. 17 seats left in the stalls, £252 each.

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@hayles Wonder how much you’d pay to see Heart at Wembley these days…

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First big gig where *I* decided what we were seeing :D pic.twitter.com/4Qc7OSdssw

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@MandinaM I’ve been thinking about it for years. Finally needed a decent scanner for the business, which helped.

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@MandinaM Two or three hours. Gently pottering and scanning, not really going for it, either.

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I just scanned 1,541 elderly photos. Fuji ScanSnap scanners really do have excellent paper feeds.

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Eventually, I learned to swim without having 250 floatation devices clamped to myself. pic.twitter.com/yVVmdkbGpq

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(And that’s childhood friend Claire, who lived over the road.)

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I also had an alarm clock fetish, it seems. Under the clock radio is a 150(?)-in-1 electronics project kit. pic.twitter.com/vFuXvEGEeS

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An epic space battle on the alien landscape of my duvet. pic.twitter.com/Gp5MZ8FP5r

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That light would have just about doubled the wind resistance of a Raleigh Commando. pic.twitter.com/Dj5OZFOmJv

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@talkie_tim I had the Electron for ages. It was in between the ZX81 and the BBC Master.

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@Bristolvor (Incidentally, if you’re into podcasts, I highly recommend @DownAndSafe :) )

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@Bristolvor Really. Nexus 2000 con. Met her, Paul Darrow, Gareth Thomas, Nicholas Courtney and Walter Koenig, among others.

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@Bristolvor I have a photo of me together with the beautiful Ms. Pearce around somewhere…

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@Bristolvor I remember watching Blake’s 7 on one. I’m re-watching an episode right now! I haven’t changed much.

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My childhood desk (ca. 1985?) suggests early interests in computers, books, photography and coffee. pic.twitter.com/XnNNfpJWIE

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@Bristolvor But it had actual pushbuttons, unlike the one in my room :) pic.twitter.com/u6ctGQHHoZ

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My father. Presumably soon after watching a Marlon Brando film. pic.twitter.com/R1vTVXwvzA

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@guriben @samsneed12 @jukesie I think it might have been a golf club bar. Probably looks just the same today.

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This was cutting-edge technology at the time. pic.twitter.com/rRK4lGEtop

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@hayles Pretty sure my high-tech digital watch there played “The Yellow Rose of Texas” for an alarm, too. I WUZ KEWL.

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Going through old nostalgia boxes. My career in the Air Training Corps did not see much actual flying. pic.twitter.com/Rx1Nw9IAnO

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