Chris Taylor

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The town of Peniscola on the west coast of Spain.
... it is said that he [Babbage] sent the following letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson about a couplet in "The Vision of Sin": Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase. I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: Every minute dies a man, And one and a sixteenth is born I may add that the exact figures are 1.167, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre. Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines
Wellingtons with a big capital L and R on them. See Jimmy Cricket.
Handmade notebook from Memory Steel wrapped in brown paper with blue and yellow ribbons.
a ginger kitten travelling at speed braced on someone's shoulder with lens blur
A canal full of pond weed or something. Swirly green stuff.
A battered Monopoly house. Ho ho ho. To be fair I don't know how much these cost in monopoly now. Also just dawned on me that in the game they are buy to rent.
An impossible-to-drink-it-of-without-a-dribble 'hug mug', with the 'TGAC' logo, expanded below to 'The Genome Analysis Centre' plus a short, stylised double helix and some sort of cog-based DNA machinery thing. It's quite busy tbh.
Andy Burnham winning in Makerfield by protecting a bin from its natural enemy the fox
a section of DHS's insane post about consecrating the US showing a three-armed angel with non-standard hands
sign with a silhouette of a goose under the red 'no' symbol
Ed Milliband looking rather haggard
A smile emoji from Jira whose preemptive antialiasing for a light background means that on a dark background that it looks like it's on a doily
My coldwarsteve world cup chart. Nazis and 80s product sponsors. Marvellous.
Book titled 'Pan's People Our Story' which I hope isn't a further series of revelations about Radio One DJs in the 70s and 80s.
Cute chubby mug, even cuter little Japanese teapot and a fancy-pants strainer.
A Wenshuo 'pudgey' mug, with some nice turmeric and ginger chai.
HOUSTON (The Borowitz Report)—The US Senate race in Texas got uglier on Thursday as Republican Ken Paxton accused Democrat James Talarico of lacking the requisite criminal record to represent the Lone Star State in Washington. “With all due respect, my opponent doesn’t have the cojones to go on a crime spree,” he told a crowd of supporters in Houston. “James Talarico never saw a law he didn’t abide.” Drawing a stark contrast between himself and Talarico, Paxton said, “My criminal record is as big as Texas itself.” Paxton warned that, given the lawless environment that currently prevails in Washington DC, a non-crook like Talarico would be a “dangerous choice,” adding, “Texas deserves a criminal who doesn’t need on-the-job training.”
An asterisk navigates a treacherous valley mate up if two wiggly line of the letter I. The raw feel of whatever font that is adds to the visceral experience.
A halved and partly-excavated avocado with a sinister face on the inside of the rind.
An old, old tweet and reply. @Harry_Styles says 'Avocado ruins lots of great sandwiches' to which @avocado replies 'What the fuck'.
Hand using plant mister. Caption reads 'No.'
Mr Incredible getting stretched by an Omnidroid removing the crick in his back.
Picture of the retro, 3D-printed, Raspberry-Pi-based https://www.typeframe.net/docs/px-88 with a mechanical keyboard and a little LCD screen, angled up (but folds flat), in a BBC-Micro-beige chassis. Based on the Epson PX-4.
A small military band stand assembled next to a set of stairs on a runway at Andrews (leave it) air force base. There is a conspicuous absence of a plane.
Mobile phone with the crawly girl with the jerky movements from Ring coming out of the screen
Windows lock screen showing some sort of tropical river lined with tall palm-like trees, from a forward gunner's perspective, bending away into the distance.
Trump, Rubio and Hegseth as Teletubbies with American flag skin. Trumpy Wumpy is playing with some toy jets sat in front of a map of Persia as the other two look on in awe.
The logo of Swedish cleaning firm (iirc) Tvatt. As sniggered at in a hotel in Stockholm.
Pilot briefing before a Death Star raid. The image of the target on the projection screen at the front of the room is not dissimilar to an ovum and the raiders are tadpole-y with wiggly tails and are 'attacking' the egg. Caption reads: 'Oh do stop giggling at the back' https://b3ta.com/board/11427078
Data table. Summary: Feature: Shark detection of amino acids Detection Threshold: ~1 ppb Scientific Reference: Meredith & Kajiura (2010) Feature: Human detection of geosmin (smell of dry soil after rain) Detection Threshold: ~5 ppt Scientific Reference: Polak & Provasi (1992) Comparison: 1,000x to 200,000x more sensitive
Tomasz Schafernaker gesturing at a weather map of the UK. His sartorial odyssey continues in a casual jacket, a polo (roll / turtle) neck and round dark-framed spectacles. And jeans.
An international socket that does UK, European, Indian, US and other plugs so in each if a pair of switched sockets, with a couple of USB ports for good measure. They probably have these on the ISS.
Email from Google Play (definitely has their domain) reported as spam in gmail. Fine I suppose.
Trump the first time during a covid press conference, in which he asked if bleach or UV light could be used to treat victims, as ex-CDC White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Deborah Birx tries to wish herself away to anywhere else.
Partial shot of a man in a white shirt that is very sheer and has kind of white floral appliques(?) here and there. Very casual.
From 2016 by Norwegian artist Christian Bloom: Tango Hitler as a toddler at the end of a trail of shit leaking from his diaper. He is dragging an American flag off a table, dragging with it a large globe (the map of the world kind) which is about to topple onto him.
Baby foxes exploring and play fighting in our scruffy back yard.
Picture of a teeny-weeny rodent clinging to a finger tip. Caption reads 'Not all Australian animals will kill you. Don't get me wrong he wants to... He just can't.'
Something looking out from the tree trunk that is a bit owly...
One of HAL's display screens showing the letters CNT
Google search result for restaurants named 'Pasta la Vista' found one near London.
Hugh Grant as British PM standing up to Billy Bob Thornton as US President.
Shot of the big tube of swirling green evil in John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness (1987)
Snap of the crowd waiting for the by-election result. In the middle are what may well be three supporters of The Official Monster Raving Looney Party. The back of the jacket of the middle one has, in a sparkly Goodies-style font, 'Johnny Disco' on his back.
Four urinals with a forest of collapsible cleaning and warning signs in front of them
Cartoon by Asher Man at the front door of a house, speaking to the resident. A van parked in the road behind is labeled: 'WRITERS CLEANING SERVICE' The man is saying "The process is simple: you tell me to get some writing done and then, to avoid getting started, I clean your whole house."
A Lenovo 'ThinkCentre' monitor-y thing (photographed from the back). How the geeky have fallen.
A dining room with some cat hammocks on a radiator, a car okay tunnel, a box with that new cardboard smell, and done standard furniture.
App with a search box. The placeholder text keeps deleting and retyping itself to show different example searches.
Halo Jones asking her robot dog Toby (an lliac 600 Ripper) "How's half-life with you" to which he replies "Rough"
Small, quite henge-y track support in the Bakerloo line
A young tuxedo cat with a thousand-yard stare and ears back sits at a table with a cup and a plate with kibble on it.
A text message: Arriving Today: Your package from Unipart Group Limited (3mobile) is out for delivery.
Cover shot of the novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Lots of very cute little kids in animal costumes dancing about. Backdrop says 'Disney's The Lion King'. Cuuuuute :D
Harry Enfield's character Kevin the Teenager, looking punchable.