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Andrew Langstaff

@cowboycoder.com
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Making mobile phones do cool stuff since 1996.

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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 19/08/2026
In a choice that would surprise no one.
Roger Moore stepping out of his Lotus Turbo Esprit
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 16/08/2026
Spot the difference.
Faked BBC headline saying 'Reform UK plans to give every household a pet Unicorn' which is just as likely and achievable as the original headline.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 28/07/2026
Mirai/Cyber/Robo Ninja. I have multiple physical copies; VHS, DVD, and even Laser Disc (I've never owned a player!) I'd love to round it off with a physical arcade cabinet of the game! 😄
The DVD cover
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 25/07/2026
It was discontinued sometime around ~2000 but K.A. Kola Shampane made by A.G. Barr. The current version - Karribean Kola is similar, but has a distinct coconut flavour, which while not unpleasant, just reminds me it's not 'real' Kola Shampane.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 11/07/2026
Shiranui, from the best film you've never heard of, Mirai Ninja. i.ebayimg.com/images/g/m1g... also available was his awesome looking opponent in the film, Shogi
A ninja action figure, still in it's blister pack, with interchangeable heads and hands, and swords
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 10/07/2026
I finally release Combat3D, only 30 years since the preview was on a Playstation 1 cover disc, and everyone loves it.
Colourful, low polygon tanks battling amongst low polygon trees
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 05/06/2026
A Doctor Who title card that makes the episode The Timeless Children less scary by revealing it was written by Steven Moffat, not Chris Chibnall.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 27/05/2026
The dog’s food and water bowl are next to the back door, and now the door is left open in the morning a rather inquisitive Blackbird has taken a liking to dog biscuits.
A blackbird stands on a dog’s food bowl, enjoying breakfast.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 19/05/2026
We all know that train ticket machines use the most obtuse UX possible, but shout out to the designers of the EMR ones, that only know they’re out of paper *after* you’ve paid!
Ticket machine with a ‘printing’ message and busy spinning circle.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 15/05/2026
No better film crashed harder. "Bad Dawg!"
Geena Davis as pirate captain Morgan Adams posing with a cutlass
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 03/05/2026
It's a cartoon! Bit of a cheat, but the The Aquabats! Super-Show in-show cartoon was cool, and had an end of season twist that would give Christopher Nolan a run for his money.
The band scream in terror as they approach certain doom...
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 23/04/2026
The I'd buy that for a dollar character from Robocop, tinted in sepia tone.Silent film style text that says I'd buy that for a dollar.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 16/04/2026
Mysterious Cities of Gold. I've wanted a giant solar powered condor ever since.
Looking up at a mechanical golden condor as it flies in bright sunlight
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 04/04/2026
Always had a soft spot for this slice of cheese.
A young couple stare into the distance, and there's a caption of Tony Curtis grinning, all on a background that has a lobster made to look like comic print, and the title 'Lobster Man from Mars' in a style reminiscent of 50s Sci-Fi films.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 04/03/2026
:/
Unsurprisingly 8008135 has been searched for 15 thousand times already
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 26/02/2026
As an aside, back in the 90s a German reseller of Silicon Graphics computers made some cool marketing merch using the plastic shells of the computers. One of them was the Indy Case. Jenkyns just devalued it. :/
A light blue briefcase made from the outer shell of a Silicon Graphics Indy workstation from the nineties.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 23/02/2026
🙄
AI chatbot fully aware that terminating a conversation with a LOL emoji is a sign of frustration.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 09/02/2026
Somehow bang in between 'French Francophone Community' and 'Eclectic Creative Professionals'. Merde!
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 26/01/2026
That's not a watch...
An 80s Seiko UC-3000 computer watch, with a small keyboard attached being worn on the wrist.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 19/12/2025
Ringwood XXXX porter used to be a great Christmas treat, until covid, and then Carlsberg destroyed the brewery. One of the best beers ever. Here a 2018 vintage is about to become the ale in a steak and ale pie.🤤
A vintage bottle of Ringwood 4 X porter.Bottle cap reads best before 21/11/19.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 23/11/2025
LOL #DevHumour
An auto configure script has checked for a usable installation of the n curses library, but not found it, and exited with the obvious, but never the less amusing error message "Curses! Foiled again!"
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 07/11/2025
Nottinghamshire also strays quite far north. There's a road at the top where you go into Notts for about a minute, then back out.
A map showing the outline of Nottinghamshire, showing it reaching north between Sheffield and Lincoln
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 25/10/2025
Happy #CrispSandwichDay to all who celebrate.
A Heinz Sandwich Spread snd Thai Sweet Chilli crisp sandwich.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 16/10/2025
:/
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 23/09/2025
Were the reporters there stunned into silence? Why were they not in stitches laughing at this bullshit
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 22/09/2025
The contorted, snarling face of Norris from the The Thing as his true form is revealed
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 29/08/2025
Aren't you a little short? Looks like the embankment was raised after this one was placed. #FingerPostFriday
A fingerpost by a riverbank, but the sign boards are only at knee level, instead of the usual head height.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 15/08/2025
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 07/08/2025
If you see this, post a TV ident. Controversial opinion: Indira was a better Nina than Nina.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 06/08/2025
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 25/07/2025
Shamelessly stolen from Fb
An old scientific calculator shows the correct answer for a simple arithmetic problem where BODMAS needs to be used, next to a smartphone 'calculator' app showing the same problem, but with the wrong answer. An amusing online comment suggests that this is difference is why SpaceX rockets suffer catastrophic failures.
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 21/06/2025
Was Jack the Ripper a sixty foot sea serpent from Scotland? Using undiscovered evidence, we can finally reveal the truth.
The Loch Ness Monster dressed as a Victorian gentleman terrorises a woman on the streets of Whitechapel
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 05/04/2025
The beauty of Conway's Game of Life is in surprising patterns emerging from simple rules. A bug leading to two computer players obsessing over the same corner, and probably some floating point rounding error...
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Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com · 24/12/2024
Merry Christmas Everyone!
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