Alex Savin micro blog

There are gigabytes and then there are gibibytes

Amazon always charged me for Prime in January without warning - which used to be £75 and now goes up to £95. This time I’ve remembered and cancelled Prime! Now have few more weeks to finish The Expanse rewatch.

Edinburgh is the best

Shetland islands on slide Kodak Ectachrome film and Hasselblad

The puzzle is complete now - took me a while to find a non-Japanese LD of Batman Returns, am very happy about it. Now if only I could find a full trilogy of Back to the Future.

Finished this build in 4 days and had a lot of fun in the process!

Career aspirations

Shroomies on Kodak Ektachrome slide film and Hasselblad

Forth Bridge and a tiny lighthouse of the North Queensferry

When you forget there’s film in camera but it makes the picture even better - expired Agfa HDC

Agfa HDC film, shot in March 2022

Got the original Dr Mario - with box! Works great too.

Freshly cleaned and ready for reassemble into Archimedes keyboard. Also it’s my first 105 keys here rebuilding - sure lots of keys to get through

Toasted marshmallow hot chocolate kind of day

Introduce yourself with 5 TV shows 📺:

Babylon 5 Twin Peaks The X-Files Better Call Saul (same creators as X-Files haha) Succession

Northernmost point of Scotland - on the islands of Shetland. Took a bit of trekking to get there with my trusty Hasselblad. Film - Ilford HP5.

Free ice skating if you dare!

My advent calendar chose to shame me today for eating too much chocolate because world wealth is not evenly distributed and so are the chocs in this box

Very frosty Edinburgh today

Snowy Edinburgh is ready for Christmas

Let’s make this Acorn keyboard like new again

Edinburgh is getting chilly this week

That 5G thing is actually quite decent after all. This is in Edinburgh.

Vinyl is cheaper than therapy

A bit of activism this weekend - with a bespoke hand printed letterpress banner!