That Other Guy

@notthatexciting.bsky.social

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Father of two, enjoy videogames when I get the time. First home computer was a Sinclair Spectrum. Made it to Élite on the BBC B.

Face view of a Sony MD-E900 minidisc player next to a Game Gear cartridge. The cartridge is Price of Persia, and is in its translucent plastic case. The minidisc player is smaller.
3 portable Sony minidisc players. One is shiny silver, one is dark grey, and one is shiny pale blue. They are sitting on top of 8 minidisc in their storage cases.
Sony minidisc recorder and a Denon amp, on separate wooden shelves, with a Squeezebox network music player sitting on top.
6 minidisc of different colours.
A sea Loch with a bright but cloudy sky. There are some hills in the distance.
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A photo of the back of the box for my copy of Microsoft Flight Sim 95 for Windows. There are a few screenshots showing mid 1990s 3d graphics. It all looks positively Soviet.
My original copy of Carmageddon for the PC. It has a socket on the front, showing that it was bought from Electronic Boutique for £29.99.
Ultrasound - Quartet, and The Shamen - In Gorbachev We Trust.
12 year old Isle of Skye whisky box. It's red.
Isle of Skye, 18 years old. A nice dram.
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Dark whisky bottle with white writing. It has a skull motif.
The Wicker Man
Black Sega Saturn with a single controller plugged in. I have one the same.
512 × 512 pixel image of Lenna Forsén, cropped from an issue of Playboy. Widely used as a test image for graphics programs.
An egg showing the code 1UK915 SCO.
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Ugly, ugly, 5-octave Yamaha synthesiser keyboard.
Hamish at 5 years old
4 16gb DDR4 DIMMs, still in their packaging.
Lego Concorde mounted on its table stand, on a dining table, still covered in a Christmas tablecloth.
The Ultimate Rave album from 1992.
Lego Goonies pirate ship.
Lego Concorde
Big Country, The Crossing. Instead of the previous poster's red sleeve, mine is dark green.
Hamish the Springer Spaniel doing bugger all about the mouse that's moved into the house, and having a nice nap in front of the sofa.
World map from the 1993 videogame Syndicate, all coloured yellow, because I've conquered it all.
Attack of the Crab Monsters movie poster. A vast can with a weirdly human face has a blonde woman in a swimsuit trapped in its claw. This woman does not feature in the movie.
Morning rolls. Bread rolls. Softies. Cobs. Baps. Stotties.
Hamish the Spaniel looking suspiciously clean.
A mailbox with a sign that says "Nelson's Post Only"
Hamish is now standing on the chair, with his front paws on the back of the chair.
Hamish, the Springer Spaniel sitting on a chair, looking patiently over the back of the chair, through a window.
Boxed copy of Elite for the BBC Micro
Hamish the Springer Spaniel, lying on the grass in the garden, and making sure no birds can come in.
A bag of Basil, saying "toss into salad".
Popper pencil with multiple colours.
A shaded bottle of Keo beer, with a sunny swimming pool in the background. There's a blue sky, and no clouds.
A partially empty bottle of Keo be in the foreground, caught in the last of today's sun. Humidity is condensing on the cold bottle, beading into water drops. My feet are up on a table. Behind that is a swimming pool. There are palm trees in the background, and not a cloud in the sky. What you can't see are the neighbour's idiot yappy dogs, going nuts, but they seem to have stopped now. It's not cold.
Car thermometer reporting 49°C. It didn't drop below 41 on the whole journey.
My big-box copy of Warzone 2100 from 1999.
Hamish the Spaniel, lying on his side, with his legs stretched out. He looks like he was just standing normally, then tipped over.
Pack of dog food with googly eyes on the picture of the dog.
You should never attempt to play any of these notes.
Solar generation readings since 2011