The Rest of my Life - Latest Comments

Re: Do you like my hat?

Adam Tinworth — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 04:47:51 -0000

Hello,

I haven't migrated to WordPress. I use both platforms - and many others besides.  So, no, sorry.

Re: Do you like my hat?

Ara — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:34:24 -0000

Hey, since you've migrated to WordPress, would there be any way you would consider yielding the oneman.tumblr.com url?

Re: Easter baking

Adam Tinworth — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 08:25:01 -0000

Mission accomplished. :)

Re: Easter baking

Documentally — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 07:06:02 -0000

Right. Thanks for this. I'm now having to leave the shed and head inside for something cake shaped.

Re: Pod coffee’s bad taste for the planet

Coffee & Complexity — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:20:00 -0000

I was not aware of that. Not sure it changes my view greatly, although it useful to know.

Re: Pod coffee’s bad taste for the planet

Toby Jones — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:40:00 -0000

We use a Senseo coffee machine that uses pods that look like round teabags - there's no plastic, so they can go straight into compost (which is very good for the garden) or can be binned without harm.

Re: AA Car Servicing Fail

Daniel — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:18:13 -0000

Wow... Sounds like you had a horrible experience with the AA! 21 miles is a little to far to walk to work :(

Re: When missing a train is a gift

Jvthekke — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:47:32 -0000

I know exactly what you mean. But I also experience an other problem. Because I read so much small pieces of text (read: social content), it becomes harder and harder to read larger articles.

Re: The weaponised smile of a baby…

Ratshag — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:43:46 -0000

I hear you, bro, it's pretty awesome. Enjoy those grins!

Re: Lewisham: killing you swiftly

Adam — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:02:14 -0000

No, of course I don't. It just reflects a feeling that Lewisham and its area could have been so much more than they were, but that the political powers-that-be were never really engaged in dealing with the issues that they needed to - and that's reflected in those figures.

Re: Lewisham: killing you swiftly

Clare — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:22:00 -0000

You seriously don't think that you moving out of Lewisham has had any impact on your personal life expectancy as it relates to this figure do you? I thought you had more nous than that!

Re: Lewisham: killing you swiftly

Adam — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:09:05 -0000

Oh, I doubt that it's entirely down to those things. Issues like pollution levels, quality of hospitals, quality of hospital care at the very least will effect outcomes.

Beyond that, there will be social factors with a geographical element that influence lifestyle.

Re: Lewisham: killing you swiftly

juliet — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:04:50 -0000

surely this is entirely down to lifestyle and wealth rather than geographical location, its just that the vast majority of those who live in that location do not have on average as much money and therefore the ability to enjoy the same healthy lifestyle as those, say in Kensington and chelsea?

Re: Tasty, tasty Canon pancake

Ratshag — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 06:12:54 -0000

Spiffy. I likes me fast 50mm lens, but this has appeals too.

Re: The Coffee Ritual

Adam — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:43:44 -0000

Yeah - it's essentially making an Americano.

Re: The Coffee Ritual

Arnehulstein — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:14:53 -0000

But why the extra water? Isn't that like adding water to an espresso?

Re: The Coffee Ritual

Adam — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:51:32 -0000

Oh, yes. :-)

Re: The Coffee Ritual

James R Grinter — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:32:59 -0000

You'll have seen this then...? http://worldaeropresschampionship.wordpress.com/recipes/

Re: Sailing the Caribbean

Ratshag — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:28:31 -0000

I has a jealous.

Re: The only Infographic that matters

Toby — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:03:45 -0000

I'm afraid it's too small to read. Can you link the original please?

Re: George Lucas and the failed narrative

Ratshag — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:44:30 -0000

This scene was originally in the book, which Lucas wrote before the movie was finished. I can't remember if it worked there or not (12 year old me was probably a bad judge anyway). What I do remember is that the description of Jabba was nothing like the slug we saw six years later. Corpulent, yeah, but walking around. So they filmed that scene when they were making the movie with ... something ... standing where Jabba was standing, and Solo walks behind him. The scene doesn't work for whatever reason (I expect Jabba looked fake as hell, in addition to the known reasons), and it gets cut.

Fast forward to the 1990s, and Lucas says "Hey I've still got this footage, and I can CGI Jabba in. Let's do it!" Except in the raw footage, Solo walks where Jabba's tail now is. Sadly, instead of accepting that it just doesn't work, they turn it into Solo stepping on Jabba's tail, with some CGI magically (and at least in the first attempt, blatantly) raising Solo into the air as he does so. And ha ha, now we have a physical gag, isn't that great? Excpet for the minor fact that it completely ruins what ought to be a tense showdown.

And yeah, even without the gag, it would have served no purpose.

And and yeah, Han shot first.

Re: Starbucks wants Nespresso's business…

James R Grinter — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:16:02 -0000

There's a lot of people out there that don't like coffee - and that's who the Starbucks "experience" targets. So I'm sure they'll do well, regardless.

Re: Starbucks wants Nespresso's business…

Tim Holmes — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:19:13 -0000

Quite.

Re: The news… it’s so predictable these days

Maarten Schenk — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:31:23 -0000

They forgot: "Some Celebrity Did Something Stupid!"

Re: A photographic method and a career, in the rear view mirror

Tom Morris — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:48:32 -0000

Well, HP5 is comparatively grainy compared to the tabular-grain films like T-MAX, Delta, Neopan and so on. Back when I did more film, I quickly switched to the T-grain films as the graininess was a bit more subtle and you could enlarge bigger without the grain being so much of an issue.

Of course, in digital land, we just have noise, which, unlike grain, I cannot get used to at all.