Oliver Turner
@oliverturner
Web aficionado, Cloud inhabitant, CSS devotee, Svelte superfan
Radiatori Orchid / Parrot Tulip / Wisteria Radiatori mainly because who doesn’t love pasta modelled after an old industrial heating fixture, but also designed to trap sauce
A “sharpener” always puts me in mind of the sequence immortalised by Bernard Ingham in his account of Sir Dennis Thatcher’s hydration regime…
Just discovered that my incredibly talented brother designed this *stunning* new release dk.com/products/978...
Similar, in that any time nicotine’s siren call sounded, its previously irresistible association with Left Bank chic — strong black coffee, a paperback thriller, Bacall smouldering in a half-lit poster — melted away as soon as I brought this image to mind…
@orangetronic.bsky.social imagine my delight when, halfway through enjoying an absolute belter of a tribute to #tunegirl, I catch an unanticipated glimpse of this funky adonis!
It’s really just a matter of time before I bite the bullet on some variant of this bad boy… www.lapavoni.com/en/families/...
And there I was thinking that chimeric revulsion had peaked with this…
The later stanzas of Betjeman’s “Slough” are just as appropriate as its opening “Come friendly bombs” in this context…
Both references are a bit obscure though, so I would probably just go with “crinkled”
In woodworking, leaving the lip of a turned bowl its natural form creates a “live” edge
In paper making, leaving pages untrimmed results in a “deckle edge” (from the “deckle” frame the pulp is pressed in)
I also missed ⌘⇧C when I switched from Arc to Vivaldi... but the good news is that you can recreate the functionality with a Command Chain 😀
A comparative assessment of the performances of Patrick Macnee, Donald Monat, Julian Wadham and Ralph Fiennes: Maslow's Hierarchy of Steeds.
Saw this and thought of @davidmalki.com who deeply appreciates verse of this calibre