Stephen Scott

@sassquad.net

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Breaking the web full time. Acorn User magazine alumnus. Made a few arcade games for the BBC Micro, keen to make more. If I can bend time and space however. AI slop free. https://www.sassquad.net/

Photograph of the Muppet Mahna Mahna.
Picture of sliced meat clown in a deli counter.
St Ives harbour, looking towards Hayle.
Another snapshot from the same article, where another interviewee saved money by migrating to destinations across SE Asia and working in international schools. This is digital nomad territory.
Snapshot of highlighted text from a BBC News article featuring a couple who claim they were able to retire early by buying packed lunches for 10 years. The fact that they had good incomes to start with (including a role in a financial firm) kind of undermines the point they make.
Thirsty bird!
Snapshot of temperatures this evening in Witley, Surrey, compared to temperatures in London and Hayling Island, England and Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Basically, we are hotter than a tropical country!
Photograph of the cliffs at Holywell Bay, Cornwall, England. At the base of the rockface, is a large patch of algae, whose shape resembles a green frog.
The mermaid chair at St Senara's Church, Zennor. The wood carving is said to be around 500 years old.
Today's headline over at LinkedIn - "Heat risks loom over World Cup"
Screenshot from Polymer Picker game.
Mel Brooks getting pooed on by birds from his 1977 movie High Anxiety.
Google's response to the question "How many b's in BBC Micro?" is one too many, in both it's answers.
Google's response to the question "How many s's in the name Stephen?" is two, then proceeds to spell it out, not realising it's mistake.
Snapshot of Google's response to the question 'How many o's in London?' - it has responded with 'There is 1 "o" in the word London (L-o-n-d-o-n). Wait, scratch that—there are 2!'
Beachy Head
Quote from Acorn's Paul Fellows: "We had no source control, we had 7 or 8 guys trying to write an operating system to go into a ROM, so you've got to get it right, and they're all doing different bits of it and some of these share system files. No CVS, no source control, no Sourcesafe, none of that. The solution was the main system header file with all the constants, SWI numbers and addresses of everything lived in. You could edit that if you had the pink dinosaur on your desk. If you did not have the pink dinosaur on your desk you could not edit it. If you edited it without the pink dinosaur, my Australian friend, Brian Cockburn, would come round and see you. I remember a squealing as Stuart had made some interesting macro changes to the header system without the dinosaur and Brian had spent most of the night trying to figure out why his stuff didn't work, and had finally found out and had got Stuart cowering under the desk saying "come on I want to do the other arm", after giving him a chinese-burn on one arm."
The Red Dwarf line from Ace Rimmer "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!" written in the style of the Burger King logo.
A shot of beech trees in half leaf, and the ground covered in English bluebells.
Cover art of the early 80s video game Magic Mushrooms, written by Acornsoft for the BBC Microcomputer.
Photograph of the ingredients list on the back of a packet of Honey Cheerios cereal. Three of the items have been highlighted - sugar, invert sugar syrup and molasses. The honey ingredient is only 2.2% of the total. So much sugar!
Dune film poster with the word 'Covfefe' on it.
HP Software's Update checker modal dialog containing the following title "Checking for updates" and the following copy: "We are checking for updates. Any new updates will be added to the list of available updates."
Theresa May and some letters dropping off behind her.
Elmo getting the high voltage treatment
Twin Peaks Title Meme generator, with the text Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
A glass of Stella.
Sid James enjoying Tiffin time from the 1968 movie Carry on up the Khyber.
A medieval-style drawing of a knight fighting a ghoul. The text reads: What are the four core character classes? Wrong answers only.
A Daily Telegraph article entitled "The 10 deserts you must visit in your lifetime"
Clip of news article from the February 1996 issue of Acorn User, headlined 'Acorn workstation to take US?'
The BBC Micro owl logo
My Mortimerian name - Rod Satsumas
Laptop with usb camera attached, running the Turkish themed poses challenge app.
Cropped version of the title screen I made for the abandoned Spitfire Fury game back in 1993/4. It shows a Spitfire plane flying under a partially cloudy sky over a coastal view with chalk cliffs. The image was made using the ProArtisan 2 software on the Acorn Risc PC computer, with an Airfix spitfire model as my source.
Snapshot from the BBC News homepage, taken on 23rd December, with an image of The Prince and Princess of Wales and their children. Underneath is the headline "Royal Christmas cards have a touchy-feely look this year"
Photograph showing the ruins of Waverley Abbey, near Farnham, Surrey.
Firefox's new proposed logo
The dog 'thing' from the 1982 John Carpenter movie The Thing.
A photograph of someone holding a Flake 99 ice cream at a beach.
An AI derived image of a horse vomiting in a shop.
Download progress of a software update for Microsoft Teams that is nearly 400mb in size.
Photo overlooking Hankley Common, Surrey, showing the heathland and a distant view towards Devils Punch Bowl, underneath a sunny sky with some clouds.
Timothy Dalton from Hot Fuzz, posing alongside a photo of himself.
Footpath tunnel under a railway line. Reminds me of Spirited Away for some reason.
Screenshot of the Empty bin notification from Mac OS Tahoe.
Me surrounded by fly agaric.
Tesco's Halloween cat decoration is horrific.
The Fisher Price Action Garage set, part of my childhood.
View from the North Downs of Surrey looking over Shere Church towards the Sussex Weald.
Photo of a Tyrells crisp packet
Screen capture of sidebar call to action insert from the BBC News website, with the following text 'Elsewhere on the BBC - Which aspiring sewer will measure up to impress the judges' plus a photograph of the judges of the TV Series The Great British Sewing Bee.
Swordfish served with rice, pak choi, mange tout and a light tangy glaze sauce. This was a special, not part of their menu.
The Mr Men character Mr Grumpy.
Screenshot from the BBC Micro game Hi Bouncer! Featuring the characters from the Mr Men books.
A low flying balloon against a grey sky.
Picture of a collared dove in mid flight.