Ian Badcoe

@ianbadcoe.itch.io

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(they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...

This email was intended for "lan Badcoe (Retired, Game- Dev, Poet, Software Engineer)"
A crack in a tarmac footpath with yellow arrows on either side, pointing inwards at it...
A pot of house leaks with a flower spike curving gently to one side...
A sign reading: fishing is not shower after dusk
Email subject clipped from my inbox, reading "Congrats Ian Badcoe, you're now a member of Fay Roberts"
Snip from a game store page showing "horror" and "users interact"...
A "Zen Garden Set" featuring "artificial bonsai", "artificial moss balls" and (presumably real) stones...
Screenshot of text saying "Generated from sources. May be inaccurate."
A puddle on a dark wood surface that's a bit like a leafy seahorse, if it was evil. A light reflection gives it a glaring eye...
A light fitting which, suitably rotated and cropped, somewhat resembles a deep space probe...
Close up of a length of iron fence, angle so it recedes into the distance. The paint us peeling and the exposed metal rusty, and patches of bright green moss have colinised the exposed, horizontal surfaces.
A map of the UK absolutely swamped in location markers...
A post from Mastodon asking artists to send their music videos to Indie Beat TV" or "Fedi MTV"
Five map sheets laid together at odd angles and showing a world where strands of water thread throuth the sky linking mountains, islands and chunks of huge broken machinery...
Google maps route showing hobi could walk to the road, dive 6', get out, then walk back down the drive when I want to go in the house....
On this day 9 years ago lan Badcoe 24 Nov 2016 I've just decided: Next Wednesday is Lilac Wednesday. Please message everybody you know about it, every two minutes, until 2am Thursday morning.
Thumbnail for a TV show, cut off by the edge of the screen so it reads: "I'm a cel- Get me out-"
The bottom of a coffee cup, tilted, with a little coffee on the lower side and the grounds making a spreading tree pattern above.
A large, precarious pile of books, on a side table with various ornaments, casting a shadow on a nearby wall.
A coffee cup with blotchy curved liny patterns a bit like convection cells...
A Cappuccino with froth somewhat in the shape of Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
A near-empty coffee cup containing swirly brown patterns
A bark blue book entitled "All the tales a spy might tell" with faux battered cover...
A large plum, dark maroon with greyish surface bloom, sitting on a dark glass hob exactly on the circular line which marks the position of the heating element.
Simple computer game graphic showing a basic train, some trucks have 2x4 arrays of little circular holes on top, and some holes have white barrels slotted into them.
A large but simple key, lying on the floor, with a tag tied to it that says "GATE..."
A view into an empty, dirty coffee cup. The wet grounds, in running down to one edge, have produced a series of overlapping, thin, serrated shapes, similar to a side view of close-growing pines...
A Mastodon screenshot with 5 unexpected errors listed at the bottom left...
A tarmac pavement with a capital G, a line, and an arrow pointing at the viewer...
A section of brick pavement split down the middle with a straight line that cuts diagonally across the bricks. The bricks to either side, match in neither colour nor size, although their orientation is consistent...
My feet (in stripey socks) and legs casting long shadows across our red hall carpet.
A foot in an orange and white stripey socks, posed in front of a large vertical stack of books
Three pills arranged on a dark background so they look a little like the Star Trek "Voyager" starship...
An Android notification saying "Missed Call / Suspected Scam"
A shelf in a cupboard filled, in a semi-organised way, with more than one layer of homemade pickles.
A bonsai "folly" made of cut down bricks and mortar with various plants (see main text for details...)
An old wooden panelled door labelled "Private Fire Apparatus"...
An old wooden panelled door labelled "Periodical Room"
A latte with the, now obligatory, complex patterns in the foam.
A sign post lost in the leaves of a huge gunnera
Close up of a large array of bracket fungus growing on a tree stump
A close up of what I believe is yarrow with a ladybird (ladybug) on it...
A view of the centre of a long hedge, growing advice a stone wall, where the line of the hedge runs absolutely straight through three different bushes.
Shop frontage with name The Ph*ne Shop where the star is a picture of a phone that looks more like an O than an A...
Close up of a computer graphic of a simplistic "town" showing a bend in the rail track passing through another, sharper bend...
A computer graphic of a simplistic "town" consisting of different sized buildings and loops of connecting rail...
A top-down view of some simple computer generated geometry, there are three loops of track, the top two are small and look like eyes, the bottom one is larger and loops like a mouth...
A ladybird crawling along the rough wooden back of a garden seat.
Light off two bulbs shining through a part full beer glass...
The complex slatted shadow of a Venetian blind cast by the sun on a slightly cloudy day...
A closeup of a glass sal cellar showing light caustics caused by the glass semi-focussing the light...
A close up of a large, brown, tightly curled teasel leaf, with spikes along the outer edge glowing from backlit sunshine.
A multi-layered old bracket fungus, growing on the end of a log, and dusted with brown spore powder.
Eight isosceles triangular textured paving slabs arranged in a square. Each slab is broken across at least once...
A "18" painted on the he ground, it's so worn away that, viewed sideways, the remaining paint looks like a lower case alpha with a bar above it...
A long series of "rate limited" errors down the side of the Mastodon page...
No frills game graphics. Two loops of track with trans passing in opposite directions. Basic points, which would make the trains cross from one track to the other, as shown in blue.
An Umbellifera flowerhead not yet opened and still somewhat resembling a basket...