Tom Creighton

@tom.party

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🇨🇦 Software designer. He/him. http://tom.party #hamont

The Nissan COM COM
A screenshot of macOS helpfully telling me some conversions for 1 Pascal as opposed to, say, launching 1password.
A Github commit with 3,280 files changed; 5,400 lines added; and a staggering 181,736 lines removed.
A vintage(?) computer with a face on the monitor experiencing a Blue Screen of Death, including drool.
A door with a large black triangle on it
An email subject that says “Discover new projects waiting for you in Jira!”
A screen the looks very much like a touchscreen with a larger banner across the top reading “NOT A TOUCHSCREEN”
A conversation between Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani, as so: Elizabeth: This year is our year Elizabeth: We can never forget this tiger Sunny: I know. I am focused on it. Sunny: We will execute this year Elizabeth: I know. I’m focused on it too.
An image of an Ericsson Hotline, consisting of a very 1980s handset attached by a coiled wire to a bulky base with attached antenna. The whole unit has a carrying handle.
Johnny Mnemonic about to wipe out someone’s entire server
A photo of ‘watergate salad’: a bowl of mint-green slop garnished with whipped cream, walnut pieces(?) and maraschino cherries.
A screenshot showing some Mac OS menubar apps, including one that shows the next train departure time.
The config.json for a Peep theme, specifically calling out the “supportSecondaryFont” attribute.
Some really fantastic fruit crate graphics on a take-a-penny tray
A Japanese minitruck with tank treads for some reason
An email subject line from Atlassian reading “These new Jira features are a must-try"
An elevatir control panel with a large sign reading “PUSH HERE”
Linkedin headline reading ‘Ads are coming to your fridge’
Two googly eyes in a pill bottle.
A portable(?) accessory for laptops that unfolds to reveal three 16” monitors
A hand-lettered sign that says “Baltic Bread Bakery” and then underneath, ‘Crusty Rolls’ • Donuts
A modification of the “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision” image, which instead reads “A computer can never have taste, therefore a computer must never make a creative decision”
Johnny Paloma’s debut LP, “Surf’s Up”
The (trade paperback) cover of Moonbound by Robin Sloan
An article headline reading “Elizabeth Holmes’ partner has a new startup. It’s a blood-testing company.”
A very graphic round yellow sign with ‘Vote’ six times around the rim, and an arrow.
A cool vaguely brutalist building at dusk
The OSX terminal icon with some cute faces
A git commit that says “Added a huge amount of swearwords"
(Some of) the cast of Farscape.
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The Sphinx is terribly mysterious
Peep! A hologram sticker, perhaps.
A photograph of the interior of the MCC Smart Eco-Speedster (1993); it is glorious
A Nougat type sample
A beautiful image showing the most romantic of animals, the possum, with text reading “Let’s eat trash and get hit by a car”
Text from a Linkedin email saying “Tom, ask Arianna Huffington your career questions”, a thing I would actively seek to avoid
An email from Notion that reads, in part, “You’ve been invited by Tom Creighton to Tom Creighton”
A screencap of a tweet showing pizza being delivered by a drone
A riff on the classic “I can’t operate on this boy – he’s my son!” riddle, where instead of a boy, it’s a dog
Many chorded hand gestures for various computer manipulations. Print and Zoom differ only by one finger, which (imo) is not optimal.
Big salami rug
A Bluesky moderation option labelled “This guy sucks”, with subhead “Just an absolute softbrain dipshit”
A lifted Pontiac Trans Sport. hell yeah.
The subject line of an email from Notion that says “Work smarter this year”, I just got roasted
Two bullet points listing USD and CAD salaries. The USD salary’s low end is $78,000 CAD higher than the CAD salary’s high end
A screenshot of a visual bookmarking service built on Atproto. It features a masonry-style grid of interesting images.
The cover art for Saint Etienne’s new album called “The Night”. It has an image of an old computer sitting on a desk next to an old vending machine with the label HOT DRINKS, and most notably, a SOUP button.
A stamp-like output from the (formerly on Twitter) artbot Philateleology.
Peugeot 504 Loisirs
AI-generated lyrics for a song about marrying a horse, most noticeably the phrase “stable life”, which let’s be honest, is just insanely good
A pastry in the shape of Polycarbon’s lowercase g (joyride.studio)
An emblem that reads LR&T in the style of the old Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo Railway logo