Chris Robbins

@EastMidRailway spent almost £400 on a train ticket Stockport/London. All trains out of Euston suspended but I can’t use the ticket on EMR to Sheffield because it’s a different company! Other providers do accept. Hang your heads in shame

@JohnDCook Geometric mean - my favourite “think about what you’re doing before you transform by taking logs of values from a skewed distribution, find the mean of these and use the value to tell you something about the arithmetic mean of the original data…”

In what sense is Jupiter half way between the earth and the sun in size? In what sense is an F# half way between a C and a C an octave higher? In what sense is Bill Gates closer to Elon Musk than to you? All examples of geometric mean. johndcook.com/blog/2026/01/2…

@exQUIZitely Brilliant game - spent too much on it (hard game)! And that start sound!! There was a brilliant port to the BBC computer in the days before ripping off things exactly was seriously frowned upon - see: bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=11

Defender - one of the games that I spent way too much money on at the arcades (together with Gauntlet). The sound at 0:06 will stay with until the end of time. Defender was created by Eugene Jarvis (inspired by Asteroids and Space Invaders). He also made Robotron: 2084 a few years later. Both were highly praised and massive commercial hits. Defender alone grossed over 1 billion US$ and remains one of the highest selling arcades of all time. I can confirm that Defender definitely ate too much of my pocket money...

@recca777 @KierroYuy @toys_retro I just watched the same clip! There’s a few slips with the line up but I can now sleep comfortably after more than 30 years of mulling this over 😁

@KierroYuy @Grallator @toys_retro rewatched the clip and no matter how you position things, there is going to be a few inaccuracies that don't line up lol we're just going to have to suspend disbelief and let it go, but at least now i understand why theres a drop out of nowhere haha youtu.be/fpvP6MEp844?si…

@SFrassy9 @toys_retro A fine theory but it does stand still over the car and swallow the rest of the goat while the kids watch. Perhaps the T-Rex is standing on some kind of “Spider-Man villain the goblin” glider 🤔🤔…

@Grallator @toys_retro Shaking his prey back and forth in his jaws

@F111Driver Third loudest thing I ever heard. Number 2 is the English electric lightning. Number 1 is Judas Priest.

They don’t make them Like they used to🤩 #TurnAndBurn🔥 🔥 📹 franky060185

.@LeahRebeccaUK …

@LeahRebeccaUK The XK-SS is particular nice - I’d need to save up a bit more pocket money to get one though!

If I may quickly just interrupt your dubious and, let's be honest, pretty pointless scrolling, just for one quick moment..? Thank you. It's just that It's #Caturday not Saturday 😃 Doth thou Jaguar? 🏁🇬🇧😎❣️😎🇬🇧🏁

@LeahRebeccaUK 18m - it’s 60 feet!

@Grallator 18 feet of it! 😳

OK, to begin with, here is my Konami TB3, which is an excellent and highly accurate miniature 😎

@j49576 @curiouswavefn @ionactive Or indeed what heat is!

@j49576 @curiouswavefn @ionactive Yes! This one I have is 1899 and is quite interesting - people were still getting their heads around what heat was and the existence of atoms and molecules.

This is a pretty unique quantum mechanics book because of the sheer range of quantum phenomena it covers. Apart from the basic principles, it goes into nuclear physics, solid state physics, astrophysics, particle physics and even spectroscopy.

@ionactive *Geordie voice* a right riveting read!

Tonight's reading. Compendium of Material Composition Data for Radiation Transport Modeling 200-DMAMC-128170 PNNL-15870, Rev. osti.gov/servlets/purl/… How much better can life get I wonder?

@LeahRebeccaUK Shelf below - where’d you get the larger interceptor and S.I.D. from?

I finally got the new TB4 in (on the left) after some major rearranging. Yes, it's now a tad busy on that side, and yes it needs dusting. But she's in 💛

@LeahRebeccaUK Foo Fighters greatest hits?

Morning neighbours 😎

@LeahRebeccaUK The difference would be lost on me - too many heavy metal concerts over the last 4 decades!

I've replaced my felt Rega turntable mat on my Rega Planar 3, with this. It's a condensed acrylic mat, which supposedly gives a punchier bass response, with less noise, and a sweeter top end. All with zero static generation. It looks great - let's see how it performs...

@MotoNutJob Brilliant! Our old mini had a swimming pool in the boot…

LOOK AT IT 🥰 It's all the good stuff in a tiny car Much want for this

@LeahRebeccaUK This is unnatural!

It's just another #MiniMonday That big small car thing fun day Since 1959 day Small Beemers aren't allowed day 'Coz it's strictly just for Minis on Monday 🇬🇧🏁❣️😎❣️🏁🇬🇧