I suspect I wasn’t the only thirty-something to ‘get a bit of grit in my eye’ upon hearing that Oliver Postgate — the creator and narrator of Bagpuss, The Clangers and Ivor the Engine, among others — had died at the age of 83. Continue reading The voice of my childhood has died

I needed to get a few photos last night, so I got out my camera and set up my Nikon SB800 strobe on a tripod. I was just fitting a CTO gel to the flash when my girlfriend thought it would fun to take a photo of me at work. Unfortunately, what she didn’t realise was that my camera was in commander mode, which meant that it triggered the flash as I was staring directly at it from about a foot away! Yes, I did swear, and yes, I did have green rectangles in my eyes for some time after.

It’s too early to start counting chickens, but it’s starting to look as though I may not need to stay up till silly o’clock to see who’s going to be the 44th President of the US. Why can’t elections be held on Fridays? It would be so much more fun to stay up all night getting sloshed with a bunch of friends.

Anyway, here are a few links to kill some time:

Thought this was rather good: the US election in one large image.

Be careful in public toilets part 1, be careful in public toilets part 2

And my favourite story of the last week, turn left at the autoresponder.