Si_Hart Years ago, back when the Internet was less than half its present size, I used to go and meet the stars of Doctor Who and try to stand back to back with them. Over the next few weeks I’m going to share some of those photos from the Si Hart Camps It Up With The Stars archives.
pant_leg me: i’m so sad and hopeless and directionless
my brain: buy stuff
me: no listen i need a purpose
brain: a purchase?
@the_mckern @TheAmyCode Yeah, pretty much that. If I could do it over, I’d at least try to find an area of the industry to work in that aligned more with my core values.
TheAmyCode For people with 10+, 20+, 30+ year careers in software, what is your secret?
@dangusset I saw it accidentally on telly when I was a bit too young for it. #heebiejeebies
5tevieM when you need to confirm you’re not a robot pic.twitter.com/nueeljlewl
@4r7hr They’re pretty cool; you can do anagram and wildcard searches.
@4r7hr I bought the Chambers app and I’ve not regretted it. A little cheaper than the Big Red Book itself, at least :D
@4r7hr No worries. Always interesting to dip my toe into an Azed (or a Mephisto); I normally consider them a bit above my level. Definitely helps if someone’s already done 80% of it! 😂
@4r7hr And double check your anagram at 5d!
@4r7hr Yup.
@4r7hr 15d is German if that helps?
amyxcait Life was better when these apps were the height of technology pic.twitter.com/NMoXa71e0u
@CharlieVivante Afternoon, Charlie!
@Juggzy @asusarla Mine’s 16*20+16*4. I wonder if that’s my programmer brain being fairly comfortable with 16s.
viagrafaII me getting ready for the plans i said yes to pic.twitter.com/cPqPk9Oo2h
irkafirka “@gothick
The bounding squirrel: nature’s cutest sine wave.” #irkafirka10
irkafirka.pictures/gothick pic.twitter.com/K4LNzhI0iV
Avon_Stories The former Clifton Rocks Railway, and some bridge or other pic.twitter.com/0YKs4r9cdb
Landing stage lights. pic.twitter.com/iEmj9shDC1
@archidave I was always put off enough by the queue—even in the beforetimes—that I’ve never tried it.
We also rated dogs. Personally I think this one rated eleventy-five out of ten, but I can’t remember what our official dog-rater, @Bingo_Little, scored him. pic.twitter.com/yayIAt9vn8
@Kavey I have had it with this motherfucking water in this motherfucking hot well.
@wood5y Yeah, we were hoping for colder weather. Hard to find the right conditions of low tide, coldness and actual daylight :D
Pleasingly, you remember that triangular “square” in Clifton from the other day? That’s where he lived. pic.twitter.com/JYGkilcLsk
It used to be a tad grander. Here it is in a lithograph by Samuel Jackson, in 1822. pic.twitter.com/QlJD7i2yrT
I believe we succeeded in our objective, though: finding the ignominious remnant of the Hot Well of Hotwells. #bristol pic.twitter.com/I7R9M4DWCy
And there’s @Avon_Stories, taking pictures at the edge of the world, as usual. pic.twitter.com/8RLE3oiMgi
That’s quite the queue for Eat a Pitta. pic.twitter.com/rNhdSZK1jc
Avon_Stories Slipway, aptly named.
Behind me, @gothick is shouting “please don’t die!” pic.twitter.com/Fw8dVILuOR
@la_weyman Oh yeah.
HolBolDoTweet The first 4 pieces in my War of the Worlds series! More to come in the future! pic.twitter.com/MUfCp6YsNo
spacedolphin__ lots to unpack about van morrison and eric clapton’s forthcoming collab but i cannot get over the fact that its title “stand and deliver” is a phrase popularised by highwaymen, a famously pro-mask community
After 21 years of careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that this particular sign and its supports are the single ugliest bit of the entire Cumberland Basin flyover system. And that’s quite some competition. #bristol pic.twitter.com/VT6zBCgDGG
breadlikerach Looking for some recommendations for following women in web dev. Please share some @’s below! #webdevelopment #100DaysOfCode #newdev #WomenWhoCode
Glint. pic.twitter.com/2ivVoLQFyV
“The architectural style is Early Maniac.” #blakes7
Well, it’s certainly something. pic.twitter.com/vpkt4JaI3o
Slightly fairy-tale look today, Bristol. Well done. Keep it up. pic.twitter.com/sfl1ve0JVL
pacarnahan Fisher Price Little President Set, available now at Argos, £12.99.
#DiaperDon pic.twitter.com/g0JlhPyc2c
Two from Narrow Quay. #bristol pic.twitter.com/obCOqwdvAZ
CharlieVivante They’re moving the zoo!!
bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/whats…
What are you, iOS? Lois Lane? All I did was take my glasses off and now you have no idea who this strange person’s face is.
@KWargamer These days it’s more like I’m programming in Symfony, which happens to use PHP as an interpreter.
Me, bunk off all day doing nothing but going for a walk and coding on a completely random side-project? No, you must be thinking of someone else. I was doing my accounts. (In fact, I have… a full-time job… as an accountant. #ifyouknowyouknow) pic.twitter.com/AXlnbNZI8r
@chubbybannister I think it turns out that I really just liked Hathaway. Which I suppose must demonstrate some acting talent.
Mervalan. twitter.com/BobRushy/statu…
Clifton gunna Clift. pic.twitter.com/PwBHKWrznl
(Can you tell I was meant to be doing my accounts this morning? Yes, I bunked off for a very long walk and haven’t started yet.)
Christ Church sunburst. pic.twitter.com/A5E0fxVukV
Would pay to see the episode of the sitcom where these neighbours, obviously bitter rivals, decided to try to out-porch-roof each other. pic.twitter.com/nLQrWGQXOc
Having just been there and become quite confused, might I humbly suggest that whoever named Canynge Square in Clifton be put in remedial geometry class? pic.twitter.com/GXWQCdctaA
Lovely little sign at Foliage Cafe. pic.twitter.com/cQ8IAQiqEo
Cliftonwood window. pic.twitter.com/sosW35dDBY
Layers pic.twitter.com/irUrfpQLle
Taking the flight deck of the Liberator to its logical extreme. #blakes7 twitter.com/kristenmeinzer…
@SplashMan Nice!
@AthanSpod Apparently so! I had to check. pic.twitter.com/J8LWslx91y
Driven by… pic.twitter.com/giMVk2IbFJ
Rudolph the black-nosed bindeer. #facesinthings pic.twitter.com/a1LFMGI0Tw
Got mine. Saving it for later. #willpower twitter.com/hopper_coffee/…
Winter sun, balconies and bikes. pic.twitter.com/Kl1OGMtzuc
Not convinced I’d want *my* car to be a redshirt. pic.twitter.com/I584SyGPuy
johnroderick They Might Be Giants just released an EP of song fragments they recorded for Dunkin Donuts many years ago. I started listening to it and felt like I’d heard the first song before but definitely thought, “Who is this terrible vocalist?” It was me. youtube.com/watch?v=XAJnD6…
Have pretty much inhaled this over the weekend. twitter.com/redhookstories…
Tobias Smollett’s Humphry Clinker was apparently no great fan of the Hot Wells. #bristol #hotwells pic.twitter.com/AotZmHAWIf
When you’re reading a book, and look up multiple things mentioned in it to find out more about them, only to find that the primary source of all the articles about them is the book you were reading in the first place…
Development progress: Getting Dropzone uploads working is quite satisfying. #omm pic.twitter.com/O6791EzJGV
_35millimetre My darling partner comes from a town in which 76 people died in 1845 when trying to watch a clown being pulled down a river in a bathtub by 4 geese - they all rushed to one side and collapsed a suspension bridge. Great Yarmouth!
@psidnell I had a third-party one that came with stick-on Velcro bits in the box to pre-empt the wobble issue 😂
@KevinLehane Oooh, didn’t even know that existed.
KevinLehane I’m watching the Never Surrender doc on Galaxy Quest on Prime. (I didn’t know it was on there.) It’s one of those look-back docs I love that only happens with years of distance. It’s honest and loves its subjects and it makes you love the film and filmmakers even more.
Today’s walk with @Avon_Stories and @Bingo_Little: the “things on walls or fences” subset. pic.twitter.com/0IwZ68CzoP
I’ve just been up a Dead Badger’s Bottom. twitter.com/avon_stories/s…
Odd that Instagram has moved the button to post a picture out of reach of my thumb and replaced it with a new button that just seems to show me TikToks. I already had an app for that…
ChristinaMcMc Overjoyed that the most recent episode of @CriminalShow is about ‘The Max Headroom Incident,’ my all time favourite weird true crime. pic.twitter.com/06MOMuVBOT
Got my latte, got my pastel de nata, got my brain ready, but the first online Time Crossword championship site is clearly struggling under the weight of attendees. Blank page. D’oh.
Just had my NHS flu jab in a slightly grander building than normal 😀 Very quick and efficient production-line affair. pic.twitter.com/FyBrVeLwET
The Enigma Files! Woah. ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-gra…
I may be gone for some time. ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-gra…
Mr_Mark_Norman Here’s a major rabbit hole for you all.
Hosted by my old Uni, @RavensbourneUK , the BBC motion graphics archive is a fully searchable archive of BBC title sequences since the 1960s. See you all in a few days!
ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-gra…
@DigitalJonathan I do like the way my random one-mile-radius wandering project is letting me see things that I must’ve been within ten feet of a thousand times but never noticed.
@DigitalJonathan Cool!
@VoxPopple (I deffo recommend it. Amazing how much actually came back to me. zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.ht…)
@VoxPopple Bizarrely, I *just* got as far as that bit in The Way Past Swann’s. (It’s taken me a while.)
Still circling. pic.twitter.com/dG0puoc0r2
@richardjfoster @RachaelKrishna I have strongly resisted checking back through past photos of gatherings I’ve been to, just to see, on the grounds that OF COURSE IT’S NOT THEY JUST REALLY DO ALL LOOK LIKE THAT.
“What is it, Arthur?” “It seems to be a receipt… for a stepladder, a giant pencil-sharpener and a pair of bolt cutters.”
Though it’s not in London, I do feel the Portcullis’s pub sign is just waiting to have a @Peculiar murder plot woven around it. pic.twitter.com/ptSOpqKDVh
Sionic. pic.twitter.com/Nbd6yd5OXG
It is quite… something. pic.twitter.com/XTfUhZ0Vxb
The Fascinating Transoms #bandname pic.twitter.com/YjxGZuBYF2
I’ll admit, she gave me something of a start when I first noticed her. pic.twitter.com/UwSlq1HBYO
In today’s wander, I feel like I may have encountered a Doctor Who alien of some kind. pic.twitter.com/PGBMRjCrKD
RachaelKrishna My boyfriend sent me this as a joke but I am also slightly obsessed with British village halls and want to know if anyone’s ever written about the architectural/interior choices that makes them all look like this. pic.twitter.com/1FfFHEQPEm
Even a stopped clock is right, er, at least four times a day, I guess… pic.twitter.com/tI7lSHawuB
Well, that’s really put the, er, swan among the pigeons. pic.twitter.com/aw96z1Iw36
Well, I’ve certainly worn some grooves in the local roads since I started this one-mile thingy. This weekend I might need to head a bit further out. omm.gothick.org.uk
laurenlaverne My problem is - what do I do when the pronunciations department give me a note that says “-oo as in ‘book’”
ddoniolvalcroze Trees swallowing Trespassing Signs pic.twitter.com/LQCmsupYK3
Somewhat drowning in new words at the moment. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to defalcate a didlum. ‘Tis the season…
I do appreciate the way the river mud is carefully marked on Bristol’s late-19th century town plans. I wonder if any of it’s exactly the same mud @Avon_Stories enjoys so much in the present day. pic.twitter.com/fZtLACRfO7
@tsunimee Presumably “gorgous” means “resembling a Gorgon”?
Now thinking of a lost first draft from Gerard Manley Hopkins. twitter.com/robram/status/…
jessicahische Teaching @oliviawilde how to letter was not in my wildest dreams of “career goals” twitter.com/skillshare/sta…
No, at midnight *you* got fascinated by a ZX81 emulator and tried to see if you could remember how to draw a circle, forty years on… zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.ht… pic.twitter.com/k8C6eCMdXE
Apparently this 18th century novelist has read my SQL code. pic.twitter.com/4LtCzOYgxi
@benjohnbarnes …provided macOS binary was 32-bit and didn’t run on my machine, I did take a moment to pause and wonder how normal fucking people coped with this palaver.
@benjohnbarnes I just tried to convert the text of a Project Gutenberg book to HTML after fixing it a bit. I managed it, using what I think was a recommended too, buy as I installed libraries I’d never heard of in a scratch VM to compile the source as the…
SofieHagen In case you were wondering, yes, there is a war between minimalist and maximalist decor. Someone joined a maximalist decor Facebook group just to take people’s photos to share in a minimalist decor Facebook group for people to make fun of. Shit’s kicking off.
Plus ça change: “There was an exceeding good concert, but too much talking to hear it well. Indeed I am quite astonished to find how little music is attended to in silence; for, though ever body seems to admire, hardly any body listens.” — Frances Burney, _Evelina_, 1778.
Avon_Stories Before dawn pic.twitter.com/eqrkDRwPDD
Unexpected final sentence. pic.twitter.com/Cos08VOhFR
KittyCostanza Those first 15 secs of Take On Me before the hook kicks in were put there deliberately to allow time for a woman to scream, jump up and drag her friend onto the dance floor, spilling both their drinks in the process.
Avon_Stories High tide pic.twitter.com/8PO9zMhByW
@DanRoseUK_ @porthjess *Waves belatedly*
hotdogsladies Oh, and you DON’T? pic.twitter.com/KIc2H65Qoc
Water was a tad high this morning. #bristol pic.twitter.com/Q18blKPdnv
@WeirdBristol Say, any idea what this bit tall thing is at the dockyard? @Avon_Stories and I have been wondering! pic.twitter.com/qQ9AyoA2Ib
Slightly delayed on the way home by filming at Ashton Avenue Bridge. pic.twitter.com/HJ25JUdALZ
SofieHagen So instead of Grindr, it’s Bindr and it’s for queer stationary nerds, hear me out
So, plenty of GPS tracks now, and the site’s actually got a back-end rather than being static. I suppose the next Big Thing is to put some of the photos I’ve taken up there, too. omm.gothick.org.uk
@Avon_Stories Crazy fool. Let me know if you are, there’s always a chance I’ll be awake anyway…
@ahnlak Well, possibly, but the motivation seems a bit lower given that both of these things are “free”…
THEN WHY ARE YOU OFFERING IT TO ME AS AN UPDATE, APPLE? pic.twitter.com/sHFcwVpATi
pickover The original Star Trek was born on TV, and well before HD. A fan has synthesized what it would have looked liked in widescreen Cinerama by stitching together screenshots. Source: bit.ly/2UmfO2E pic.twitter.com/f36JuXRiTg
A new (old) book has arrived. Sometimes I take inspiration from my walks somewhat literally. pic.twitter.com/0pxFrmoVF8
Hit the northernmost extremity of my #onemilematt radius today. Thanks to my friend Lisa who came out in the rain with me :) pic.twitter.com/kKPaPPbmFS
@WeirdBristol @StephenRW01 I’m not sure I’ve ever seen another pic of it. Think this would have been 1995 or 1996. I was living in Portland Court, the block of Baltic Wharf overlooking the marina at the time (the company I was working for were paying the rent!)
Did you know The Hand* at Baltic Wharf used to be lifting a figure of Hercules carrying an obelisk? Here’s a picture I took of it back when I first moved to #bristol sometime in the mid-nineties.
*_Hand of the River God_ by Vincent Woropay, apparently. pic.twitter.com/ZgNp5J1bJZ
Ashton Avenue Bridge. pic.twitter.com/Z8eXHgobKK
Wait. Is this why we’re friends? Have you just been angling for that giant blue woolly hoodie of mine for all these years? twitter.com/_pigeons_/stat…
Have just ordered a copy of _Chatterton Square_. We’ll see how I get on.
(A bit of gothic revival sounds like exactly what I need…)
Nice tympanum. pic.twitter.com/VVoZjD4gKu
Got passed by a gorgeous 2.8i today. #fordcapri pic.twitter.com/TJXB4sQTRy
Not entirely convinced I like the style here, whatever it is. pic.twitter.com/MWHR6GjZsK
@_pigeons_ *hugs* Similar shenanigans here.
Fascinating reading, inspired by passing a plaque to her on one of my “one mile Matt” walks in Clifton today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._H._You…
Advice, Cumberland Piazza. pic.twitter.com/g5W9pA0fXt
@BacklistedPod Very ready. pic.twitter.com/5xbWNzarKd
BacklistedPod For this year’s Christmas episode - available on Friday Dec 25th - we are thrilled to tell you we’re discussing The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. We have something special planned too, more details to come. One more thing… pic.twitter.com/UAzVorGIS8
@tsunimee @parsnip45 @ChicBeauty_ It’s okay; we can blame the Old Germans. pic.twitter.com/j1stGSb4rH
@CharlieVivante This was a disturbing tweet to read right now. 👀 pic.twitter.com/9pvaXb8ToC
@OmniFocus Say, is there a way to avoid this thing where OmniFocus often isn’t in the share sheet the first time I try to share? Thanks! (iOS 14.2) pic.twitter.com/8lczPWxjQx
@Bristolvor Managed a perfectly-timed lunch today. Think I was also out for the only hour of the day it was actually mostly sunny.
…small cause. pic.twitter.com/8VW0NiTjJs
Big swing… pic.twitter.com/ZE7QoGkXOR
jsnell Little buddies (iPhone 5/SE on left, iPhone 12 mini on right) pic.twitter.com/28AT6HycwA
GKCdaily A poor man has much more interest in good government than a rich man. A poor man must stay and be misgoverned; a rich man has a yacht.
Nice day for it. pic.twitter.com/5Eozt0kE0s
Earlier and later pic.twitter.com/Nxr6SK0T0l
Carving pic.twitter.com/Fit3HqzyRQ
The bridges were okay and all, but I was more interested in the electricity pylons. Longest powerline span in the UK, apparently, 1618m. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aust_Seve… pic.twitter.com/6Hrq9Ea0W7
I used to like these, but I don’t any more. Yes, that’s right: I’m an ex-tractor fan. pic.twitter.com/INQD0OOSIy
Today’s walk: google.com/maps/d/edit?mi… with @Avon_Stories and @Bingo_Little (Sarah suggested this, only backwards: aforgottenlandscape.org.uk/projects/two-b…, which was a good idea 😀)
Private pic.twitter.com/yJzoguNeVz
Splash of Colour. pic.twitter.com/s3LCudXfmh
KEEP HOPE pic.twitter.com/P8CkDd7btR
commonor_garden probably the most incredible sky I’ve seen yet on my commute pic.twitter.com/UBsgyLcfTQ
Avon_Stories This morning’s fogwalk (I think fog is my absolute favourite weather condition for walking in!) pic.twitter.com/4YhoL5dTve
Four from the morning walk. #bristol pic.twitter.com/hVOKZJ51yj
Apple wrote the progress bar for this election, didn’t they?
Purty. pic.twitter.com/bAzLou4ltZ
@tyronem I am leaning back on one right now.
Social. Distant. pic.twitter.com/TGfb1TA8IM
Walker. pic.twitter.com/hu7qfGt4uY
Mustang. pic.twitter.com/jbILox1Ypd
Today’s walk. Colours. pic.twitter.com/JLZpfX0J3L
StephenMangan Dear Americans, THIS is what an election in a mature democracy looks like. Yours,
The UK (H/T @loobstery) pic.twitter.com/lFRC0ht0x7
HenryRothwell ‘A Sussex Windmill’, Eric Slater, colour woodblock, 1930s. pic.twitter.com/L6WBYV1Xmp
Avon_Stories First time I’ve seen frost this autumn! No wonder I’m so cold pic.twitter.com/298FAuFtui
dangusset First frost. Time to pick your sloes. pic.twitter.com/lbb98aONQc
I’m not sure how this Spotify playlist managed to make it from Adult Net to Half Man Half Biscuit, but I’m glad it did.
@tomcoates @ivan007 You just reminded me I have a packet of butterscotch Angel Delight in the cupboard and now I know what I’m having for dessert.
@porthjess You’ve ruled out pole vaulting quite early…
Different Perspective. pic.twitter.com/bh24e2vBiD
Haberfield. @WeirdBristol #hotwells pic.twitter.com/8fHnxxKDGo
“There is very little left of me and it’s never coming back” pic.twitter.com/sxKNIdTIaZ
📷 Rose of Denmark, Hotwells, Bristol. It’s the large, friendly letters for me. tmblr.co/ZD7hNxZBgSxV8W…
Raspberry_Pi We completely redesigned Raspberry Pi 4 4GB to fit inside the new Raspberry Pi 400 raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry… pic.twitter.com/7cXqWFqEPW
NicholasGoodden Why not try photography? 📷♥️ New article: Photography to Help with Mental Health During the Coronavirus Pandemic (and Recurring Lockdowns) nicholasgooddenphotography.co.uk/london-blog/ph… #coronavirus #lockdown2uk #MentalHealthAwareness pic.twitter.com/pBuWjFB4hl
Spotted my first Voi scooters at lunchtime. pic.twitter.com/Ueu7azeWMp
@Panopticrat @HenriettaRI A few years ago I gave up on all these allegedly resealable bags, bought a few packs (you always need more than you think you’re going to need) of clips like this and haven’t looked back. lakeland.co.uk/1261/8-Grip-Cl…
A night late, but tonight’s film is _Host_ boxd.it/r5O4
The merest bit of technical progress today, as I’m knackered from walking (20.3km this weekend): highlight most recent track in orange; tooltips show GPX track filenames. omm.gothick.org.uk
Abbot’s Leigh local. pic.twitter.com/0eBr1JmNHc
I *told* them to look like a moody three-piece shoegaze band for this album cover, but they ignored my artistic direction and couldn’t stop laughing. pic.twitter.com/fdO50SWsfI
WoooOoOOOoooOOOOo pic.twitter.com/AfefhAxgdj
Near and far. #bristol #ashtoncourt pic.twitter.com/QmyFcPXiB3