Simon Hardwick

I’ve a legitimate need to run a generator this weekend, so I filled two cans of petrol and topped up the car. The side-eye from the queue spilling onto the road to fill their own cars suggests cognitive dissonance is thriving.

Thanks, that was the search i was trying to find earlier but didn't seem to be available on the app. Now to agonise whether to keep it for the memories, or keep my wife happy by reducing clutter!

Boxed Handheld Plane And Tank Electronic Game from the 80s.

Apparently these are worth "silly money" these days? I can see lots of auctions with ambitious prices but do they actually sell for £100? #RadioShack #PlaneAndTank #RetroGames

Fascinating video if you enjoy a certain fizzy beverage! https://youtu.be/TDkH3EbWTYc?si=g-xeCQmSs7bQ8-Xq

Well that was a plot twist i wasn't prepared for!https://youtu.be/2OtMenQgIJ0

Summarising 2025 perfectly!From: @HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2https://mastodon.social/@HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2/115785577522479896

An AI imagined rugged smartphone case with excessive protection and added features and comedically the flimsiest keyring attachment that wouldn't last 5 minutes against the weight of such a case!

My old phone cracked after an unexpected leap down the stairs. Reluctantly, I had to get a new one but this one is larger and more slippery than the old one and I fear a reprise of the previous events. I need a mega case immediately.

Reluctantly I was placed in a position where an IOS refresh was needed. So far the only casualty from this was the old Tooot app which has vanished from the app store (and history). So here i am now trying the ice cubes app as my daily mastodon client....

"There's a few choccies left, help yourself"...me: oh

It's time for the annual christmas tradition of "clear enough useless crap off my phone so i have room to take a video of my daughter's nativity".

A flurry of snow down south, not even enough to be worth a picture. However it was clearly enough for the two year old to get a bit giddy racing round the house shouting "it's christmas". 😐

Infra red camera showing radiator with inlet pipe reading 44.7c

It's my day off and i'm vibe plumbing using the heat sensitive camera! I swing violently between"this is cool" and "what is my life now anyway?"

New Post: How one bored Saturday night turned into a lifelong love of dance music.https://www.simonhardwick.com/posts/how-one-saturday-night-rewired-my-ears/?mastodon

facebook timeline post saying "Something went wrong. This may be because of a technical error that we're working to fix. Please try reloading this page."

I broked the Al Gore Rhythm 🤪 (i've been clicking the x on all facebook adverts and non-followed content for a while and it's clearly given up on me!)

Signal is down possibly because AWS is down. Dunno why, but i thought it was server agnostic and worked on peer to peer. Guess not!

Now it's been on the telly i'm allowed to talk about my crazy day at work yesterday when taylor swift came round, but the harsh reality is I was far more interested in whether lewis capaldi's hilarious c-bomb would make it through the edit unscathed. And it did 😝🎉👍

I understand the demand for something like duck duck go, but who is funding their uk tv ad campaign, and why? Genuine question - helps me understand the direction a service might go in the future.

Spectrum Analyser with CPU board on hinges for easy repair

I do appreciate kit that has been designed with repair in mind... flappy sections that open up for easy access without complete disassembly! Re-capping a noisy power supply board on this vintage Avcom Spectrum Analyser.

As I trundled down Uxbridge Road (W12) I spotted a man in a Rod Stewart mask, wearing a Rod Stewart T-shirt, and holding a Rod Stewart poster out in front of him? I desperately need to know what that poster said. Was he promoting Rod? Or protesting Rod? If you can enlighten me, please do!

I get the benefits but I just fear this is portraying cell-broadcast emergency alerts to be an infallible method, when it isn't, and should be used alongside more traditional methods of dissemination. After all this may end up being a life or death situation!

The government claim that "tens of millions of phones successfully sounded" in the news...Except cell broadcast doesn’t actually report back who got the message and who didn’t. So if it did, or didn't come through on your phone, there’s no way for them to tell!

I'm not at work today, but colleagues are sharing videos on our whatsapp group, the studios are unaffected, this is in the hotel/restaurant end. hope everyone is safe. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62qr5ldppqo

Just my name hidden in the credits of a tv show

Getting a credit is rare for my TV job, but for the second time in my career it has happened... and it's on Netflix in 4k 😛 #LoveIsBlind #Reunion

A cartoon mastodon that's eaten too much!

Brief mastodon self hosting outage because of a full ssd drive. Eaten too much of your media!

If you spell your name backwards and put an umlaut over the first vowel, that's your IKEA furniture name.nömis

Yeh yeh vibe coding is a thing, but have you ever tried vibe plumbing? (in all seriousness I'm aware of my limits - enough to be able to diagnose which bit is stopping our hot water - but not enough to apply wrenches to pipes and flood the place! will leave that side of it to a professional!)

Not sure this quote from the ofcom chief exec on porn verification was appropriate for breakfast radio!

Following the 40th anniversary replay of Live Aid last Friday, I kept getting asked the same question. So I found out! Warning: extreme geekiness! 🤓

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LED Matrix message board displaying the message "HI MASTODON" in red.

Youngest napping, eldest is playing some puzzle. Me? I'm attempting to make a retro 90s style LED message board work with a pi zero. But what could I use it for?

It's the hottest day of the year. Everyone is exhausted. The two year old has just learnt how to get Alexa to play Baby Shark.#SendHelp