Tom Strickx

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Pixies vinyl album Live in Newport, the artwork showing a stylised Golden Gate bridge, colored in a green gradient. In the background is a lighthouse.
A tote bag filled with 16 records in a cardboard sleeve
A wrapping queue in an industrial estate
The front of a bar, slightly occluded by a tree with new leaves on the branches. A red awning has the name of the bar written in white lettering: "The Hairy Canary". Above it there's another sign with the name, in more traditional English pub lettering.
A TV in front of a window with exposed brick around it. On the tv is an old school teletext display, showing beer checkins through Untappd
A 2-shelf cupboard, with a glass shelf. On the top shelf there's a set of green-glowing glassware, made with uranium glass. The bottom shelf has random trinkets.
A graph of RAM (DDR5-6000 2X32G) module price over time. It's stable around $200 from the left of the graph (jan 2024) until sept 2025. Since the price is accelerating upwards, and is currently at $700.
A pint of cask ale in a pint glass that has Real ale & cider festival 2025 printed around a pictogram of an old diesel engine. At the top Epping Ongar Railway is printed.
The view of the front of a steam engine, with bronze piping and levers, and an opening for the coal burner at the bottom.
The front entrance of Verdant Brewing. It's an industrial building with a large glass entrance. A large green sign saying Verdant Brewing Co. Sits on top. In front are some benches with an sail providing some weather protection.
Two Japanese knives, one gyuto with a damascus steel pattern, and one santoku, on top of a green cotton knife roll
A picture of a snow covered mountain range in the background, and an out of focus piece of cheese and a foldable knife in the foreground.
The start screen of Half-Life 2, showing a town square with a large imposing tower in the background.