Andrew Langstaff

@cowboycoder.com

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Making mobile phones do cool stuff since 1996.

A ninja action figure, still in it's blister pack, with interchangeable heads and hands, and swords
Colourful, low polygon tanks battling amongst low polygon trees
A Doctor Who title card that makes the episode The Timeless Children less scary by revealing it was written by Steven Moffat, not Chris Chibnall.
A blackbird stands on a dog’s food bowl, enjoying breakfast.
Ticket machine with a ‘printing’ message and busy spinning circle.
Geena Davis as pirate captain Morgan Adams posing with a cutlass
The band scream in terror as they approach certain doom...
The I'd buy that for a dollar character from Robocop, tinted in sepia tone.
Looking up at a mechanical golden condor as it flies in bright sunlight
A young couple stare into the distance, and there's a caption of Tony Curtis grinning, all on a background that has a lobster made to look like comic print, and the title 'Lobster Man from Mars' in a style reminiscent of 50s Sci-Fi films.
Unsurprisingly 8008135 has been searched for 15 thousand times already
A light blue briefcase made from the outer shell of a Silicon Graphics Indy workstation from the nineties.
AI chatbot fully aware that terminating a conversation with a LOL emoji is a sign of frustration.
An 80s Seiko UC-3000 computer watch, with a small keyboard attached being worn on the wrist.
A vintage bottle of Ringwood 4 X porter.
An auto configure script has checked for a usable installation of the n curses library, but not found it, and exited with the obvious, but never the less amusing error message "Curses! Foiled again!"
A map showing the outline of Nottinghamshire, showing it reaching north between Sheffield and Lincoln
A Heinz Sandwich Spread snd Thai Sweet Chilli crisp sandwich.
The contorted, snarling face of Norris from the The Thing as his true form is revealed
A fingerpost by a riverbank, but the sign boards are only at knee level, instead of the usual head height.
An old scientific calculator shows the correct answer for a simple arithmetic problem where BODMAS needs to be used, next to a smartphone 'calculator' app showing the same problem, but with the wrong answer. An amusing online comment suggests that this is difference is why SpaceX rockets suffer catastrophic failures.
The Loch Ness Monster dressed as a Victorian gentleman terrorises a woman on the streets of Whitechapel