chrisphin

chrisphin, 4 months ago to random

Stumbled across this old photo I took hot-air-ballooning over Bath, edited with a tilt-shift effect to make it look like a model. Never don’t find that effect charming! #tiltshift

chrisphin, 5 months ago to random

When twats twat on about how early Christmas stuff is in the shops I’m like, can it, Linda; I’ve spent nine joyless months with nary a mince pie to be seen. Let me have this.

chrisphin, 5 months ago to random

The nice thing about wearing nail varnish as a cis man is that it has particular impact when you tell ignorant cunts to fuck off 💅🏻

Okay, ‘a’ nice thing.

The other side of the 🖕🏻 gesture, showing more of the gold nails.
The palm side of my hand with the fingers slightly separated and circled back towards the camera showing the glossy chrome gold nail varnish.

chrisphin, 5 months ago to random

Friends fear he’s shoving it down our throats again. 🌈

(New pins from https://heckinunicorn.com!)

chrisphin, 5 months ago to random

@twostraws ICYMI I think this is exactly the kind of charm in software that you like: https://mastodon.social/@chrisphin/111688467925760136

(You may know about it already!)

chrisphin, 5 months ago to random

Legitimately one of the biggest-little-upgrades in moving from an iPhone 12 to 15 is that Face ID works in landscape¹. I wouldn’t have said I often unlock my phone sideways, but especially since my default behaviour for notifications is to hide the content unless unlocked (in my case with FaceID), this is small but significant quality of life upgrade – for StandBy, yeah, but other uses too.

¹ Did that come in with 13 or 14?

gedeonm, 5 months ago to random

The whole “resume syncing” in iOS photos has got to go. I don’t care if my battery is low, just always sync damnit!

glennf, 5 months ago to random

What age do you consider “old”? Are you past that age?

jeffowski, 5 months ago to random

chrisphin, 5 months ago to random

Oh. #Wonka is pretty magical! I think I was burned by the Depp Wonka and thought any new Wonka would be another misfire at best, but the new one has great performances, some sweet new numbers, honours the Wilder version… and Chalamet can do it. He can actually do Wonka. I cried quite a lot!

Breathtaking: the hubris to hook your story on a character wanting to feel the same thing he felt as a child… and actually DELIVERING making you feel like you did watching Wonka as a child! Bra-fucking-vo.

glennf, 5 months ago to random

A busy year for your friend Glenn. https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2023/12/11/2023-in-review

chrisphin, 5 months ago to random

Got Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit. For my daughter. Yes-yes.

chrisphin, 5 months ago to random

Took the plug off a strip adapter today and then rewired it — thanks Standard Grade Physics! — so I could slip it behind my office shelves to power a bunch of the stuff that’s on display. (Details in alt text!)

A UK plug in the process of being unwired, with the live, neutral and earth wires inside visible.

chrisphin, 5 months ago to random

I’m sorry, Spotlight; are you drunk?

(Bonus tip: I basically never need to call up the Dictionary on my Mac, but every so often I want the Thesaurus. Open the Dictionary app's preferences and you can drag to change the order of the sources; I drag the thesaurus to the top then synonyms are just a ⌘-space away!)

chrisphin, 5 months ago to random

In my very glamorous Premiere Inn room last night there were eleven (11) sockets on the wall opposite my bed. There were zero (0) beside my bed. I felt like I’m being trolled.

jamesthomson, 5 months ago to random

Well, I nearly made it four years!

twostraws, 5 months ago to random

@chrisphin TIL that Roger Allam (Peter Mannion MP) was Inspector Javert in the original London production of Les Misérables. I realize I might be the last person in the world to learn this, but I'm sending it your way just in case 🙂

chrisphin, 5 months ago to random

Festive nails for me and the kid! 🧑🏻‍🎄🎄