Playdate Announced

I am very excited for Panic’s recently announced handheld gaming system Playdate. It looks and sounds super fun:

Playdate

As an added bonus it comes in the best yellow! My Game Boy Color was the best yellow and so was my favourite N64 controller.

Game Boy Color Box Yellow

I found the box and a link cable but not the actual console. I definitely had it recently though!

(I also couldn’t help myself and had to make a special theme for my site!)

Custom Playdate Website Theme

(Edit 26th January 2025: Added screenshot of custom theme)

Bread

Maids of Honour

Back to Baltzersens for more ramen last night. I think it was better than last time! The slight changes improved it greatly!

Pork Ramen

Empty dishes

Excellent job landing InSight NASA!

Had delicious ramen last night at Baltzersen’s FredagsRamen night!

Baltzersen’s FredagsRamen

A few more excellent Smashing YoYos arrived recently!

Smashing YoYos Monocle, Float, and Bounce

(Monocle, Float, and Bounce)

Oh no! Another yo-yo appeared!

Smashing YoYo - Crucible

Whoops, bought a yo-yo!

YoYoFactory Shutter black/grey fade

And now some actual racing!

Bed Race Running

Enjoying another Knaresborough Bed Race!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Lost in Space on Netflix started like: Lost, in Space.

It got better.

About to watch the apocalypse be un-cancelled, and then I hope, cancelled again.

A couple of photos from this snowy week.

Snow over the viaduct

Snow on the window

Icicles over a day

Icicles over a day

Good morning, happy new year! Starting 2018 correctly with coffee.

I got a rock on a stick for Christmas: Rock on a stick

Merry Christmas!

Maids of Honour

Time for Star Wars!