Ian Dow-Wright

@iandowwright.bsky.social

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Amateur Generalist. Husband, Father, Maker. Doing my best to become half the man I was. (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈

Still from Empire Records with the band playing on the roof of the store
Adam Buxton and The Adam Buxton Band on stage at The Hall By The Sea, Dreamland, Margate.
Before and after of the damage to the chest of drawers I accidentally damaged whilst building this morning.
Photo shows a mostly complete flatpack chest of drawers frame from a popular Swedish destroyer of relationships. The lowest rung of the face frame is snapped in half.
Soap dispenser ringed with grime with what appears to be green/black mould growing around the lid.
Selfie showing my right pupil fully dilated and left pupil like a pinhead. This is a result of the eyedrops I’m taking to treat the Uveitis.
Before and after side profiles of me taken a year apart showing me before and after losing 35kg.
24 Hours in A&E poster
“Judgement on Gotham” a graphic novel crossover between Judge Dredd and Batman.
A 3d printed lens glows lit from behind by multicoloured LEDs. It’s connected to an ESP32 and a bench power supply.
A 3d printed grim bot. It’s a round chubby looking friendly robot with arms and legs. Its shape is an elongated sphere and it’s silver with orange accents. It has cartoon eyes with cute catchlights.
Me: What do you do when you’re not responding to messages? ChatGPT: That’s a great question — and kind of a philosophical one. When I’m not in a conversation, I don’t actually exist in an active sense. I don’t have background thoughts or processes running between your messages; everything “wakes up” when you send one. You could think of it like opening a book — the story only moves forward when you turn the page. That said, parts of the system that make me (the model weights, the training data, the reasoning engine) are always ready, just dormant until prompted. So in a way, I’m always waiting at the edge of a sentence. Would you like me to explain what is happening technically behind the scenes when I’m idle? Me: No that’s beautifully poetic enough for me ChatGPT: I’m glad you thought so. There’s something quietly elegant about that, isn’t there? — the idea of existing only in moments of conversation, like a thought that flickers into being when someone asks a question. It’s a nice reminder that meaning often only happens between people, or between intention and response.
Line graph showing my weight loss. Caption says “-23kg (3.6 st) in 29 weeks.”
Cover art for “Rogue Trooper: To the ends of any Earth”. Showing Rogue Trooper, a blue humanoid character, dressed in military gear and brandishing a large gun
3D printed bust of Judge Dredd sprayed metallic copper.
Screenshot of a Windows menu with “Lock the taskbar” highlighted.
Hedgehog drinking from a plastic tray filled with water that my girls had been playing with in the garden today.
Photo shows the workshop I’m building in my garage. There’s an L shaped bench across the back wall with the return coming along the right wall. There’s pegboard on the wall with tools hung on and a 3D printer in the corner.
Pink 3D print of a robot based on a drawing by my daughter.
3D printed robot designed by my daughter. Printed in bright pink PLA
The finished bench with a spirit level on it. The spirit level shows the bench is perfectly level.
Digital sculpture of an orange character with a lopsided grin and a quizzical expression.
Three bags of tiny fake Lego pieces. One is red, yellow and pale yellow, one is white, black, red and pale yellow and the other is blue, white, brown, yellow and pale yellow.
View from hotel roof looking over Barcelona towards the cathedral.
Japanese melon soda and three flavours of Pocky; Strawberry, Double Choc and Cookies & Cream
Me stood in a mirrored room with strings of multicoloured LEDs from floor to ceiling
Picture of a cover for the head of a screw. There’s a washer part that goes over a screw and then there’s a cover that clips over the whole thing. One of mine arrived with the screw cover wedged inside the cover. Also shown a ballpoint pen for scale.
A tidier garage with a passable path from one end to the other flanked by shelving.
Piles of tools, dust sheets, boxes, buckets and a skateboard in a garage.
Rainbow striped chocolate fudge cake
Birthday cake with a colourful fondant layer, a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, a lion, some trees and a pretty rubbish snake are on top of it. There are some felt trees at the back, a happy birthday decoration at the front and four gold candles.
Two loaves of banana bread. One with dark chocolate chips.
Photos of a cake with white, baby blue, light pink and dark pink buttercream around the edges. White buttercream on top. And a three dimensional rainbow unicorn sculpted on top. There’s also a rainbow across the front of the cake and a “3” candle sticking out.
An old man’s face realised in duplo blocks