Andrew @generalising@mastodon.flooey.org
Librarian and occasional researcher. Opinions of course my own. Scholarly communications, historic MPs, Wikipedia, inter alia other things. Misplaced Scot.
Joined Nov 2022
Playing around with a macro lens and here is an incredibly garish closeup of a phone screen: I make the "h" about 1.5mm which would have each pixel be approximately 50μm. Neat.
film #17: December, London
(Olympus OM-10, Foma 400)
This one sat in the camera for ages which may have contributed to it being a right pain to develop. Kinked everywhere, had to slice off the last few frames, and all sorts of scratches loading it. But occasional nice bits despite that.
film #16: September, London.
(Nikon F601, 720nm filter, Rollei Infrared 400)
one week later, I think I hastily ordered a new roll. Feel like I cracked portrait-IR at the end and then have never had a bright sunny day since
film #15: September, London
(Nikon F601, 720nm filter, Rollei Infrared 400)
First attempts at near-infrared. Came out better than I expected.
film #14: August, Portrush
(Olympus OM-10, Kentmere Pan 400)
Remarkably I only shot one picture on film when in NI - no idea why. But I like it, despite the window reflection. You can see my grandparents' house from here, if you look closely.
film #13: July, Kirkwall in the rain and Waverley at night.
(Nikon F601, Foma 400 - lots of halation on the lamps)
Serendipitously turned this up while trying to confirm his death-date - weird to see a reference to contemporary events that you recognise 185 years later.
It's a good thing we don't have any more of this kind of government two centuries on, tho.
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/calley-thomas-1780-1836
And a fourth: Sir Thomas Charles Style, Bart., who does not seem to have had a very exciting career either before or after Parliament. But I was amused to find this when looking for his obituary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Style,_8th_Baronet
Trying to imagine a modern Speaker just corpsing in laughter during one of the great constitutional debates (this is, I think, third reading of the 1832 Reform Act). Would liven things up.
Reposting @scotlit from a few days ago: Edwin Morgan predicting the weirdnesses of text generation software, 55 years ago.
merryholly happyjolly all!
Took a photo of dinner at the end of the roll to use it up before developing, and so this was a mere ~5 hours from being taken to being posted online.
Can't quite decide if that counts as shockingly fast or laughably slow...
In 1979, someone managed to get an almost entirely nonexistent record onto one of the more obscure singles charts #wikipedia
Not wildly keen on having to be on the DLR at 7.20 am, but it has its compensations
Today's mild annoyance: Project Gutenberg have done something to their default CSS (or else Chrome has stopped playing nicely with it) & now book pages are pretty much unreadable on a phone screen - it used to all just flow neatly! At default sizing I now get ~1000 words per screen, ugh.
Percentage of terms with known parties in Jan 2022 and Dec 2023. Not exactly apparent (and don't have the raw data to map them) but complete from 1931 then and 1910 now. Grinding ever on...
More Compton Mackenzie (his memoirs this time): having to explain the concept of professional writers from first principles.
Librarian and occasional researcher. Opinions of course my own. Scholarly communications, historic MPs, Wikipedia, inter alia other things. Misplaced Scot.
Joined Nov 2022
