Pete Hindle

I managed to get all of Star Trek (the Original Series) Season 3 into Thumber. This is what came out: (Click the image above to see it bigger.)

Star Trek – the 2009 version – turned into a large image. I used this software that did the hard work.

On Friday, I left the house for Datarama, Newcastle’s software version of Dorkbot. Well, maybe it’s a more artistic, friendly version of Dorkbot, without all the posturing that can be seen at the Limehouse. That’s not strictly important. What is important is that, whilst there, I presented my resubtitled version of Gran Torismo. Gran.Torino.subtitles (that’s [...]

RSS readers might need to click through for the video. EDIT: I recorded this video using Photobooth and uploaded it to Vimeo, but it seems that – like every video I record with Photobooth – something went wrong with it. In fact, I have a whole litany of hate just for Photobooth, as every occasion [...]

Answer: the opportunity to make a catalogue of your books and then graph the costs of them! I know I’ve done this before, but it never fails to make me happy! Of course, this graph doesn’t show all my books – I’m still packing them, a process which takes slightly longer when you decide to [...]

In my teenage years, I had a big comic habit (graciously funded by my parents). It all started with the Silver Surfer double-issue where the Kree-Skrull war kicked off, on a holiday in Saffron Walden. I can’t remember the year it was, but it was before my reading speed kicked into the ludicrously high speed [...]

Infinite Summer is a group reading of the novel Infinite Jest. I’m slowing myself down from speeding through that book with my high reading speed, sometimes by reading other things, sometimes – as this weekend – by drinking and going to barbecues in the sun and small country pubs. This weekend truly felt like there [...]

“…what I ache for is a world where people really dream of incredible things, and above people who are in charge of the media, people who paid a lot of money, actually use their imagination and intelligence to take me places and tell me things I don’t know.” Adam Curtis, 2007

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