Ben Booth

@benbooth

Aussie | dad of 3 | software eng (mostly frontend) Unduplicitous, unmalicious, unconniving, unnasty

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Ben Booth@benbooth· Jul 18

7yo ripped one pack of Pitch Black 🤯

A photo of the Morpeko ex Special Illustration Rare 177/084 card from Pokémon TCG Pitch Black in my hand

Ben Booth@benbooth· Feb 8

I'm cooked

A photo of a bag of rice, the labels say:

DAAWAT
Super Basmati Rice
Fluffy Long Grains

The "The What" meme template, which is a photo of a smiling ladies face on the left with a red background, and a close up of the same ladies face on the right.

Normally the left side has "The" text over the image, and the right side has "What" text over the image. I've put "Daa" on the left side, and "Wat" over the right side.

Ben Booth@benbooth· Sep 16

fry-squinting.gif

A screenshot of a cancel subscription offer from HBO Max. It starts with the header "We'd love for you to stick around..." The offer compares my current plan of Premium for $17.99/month for 12 months, with a special "One-time Offer" of Premium for $17.99 for 3 months, then $21.99/month.

Ben Booth@benbooth· Jul 27

Here we go

A TV seconds before the kickoff of the Women's Euro 2025 final between England and Spain

Ben Booth@benbooth· Dec 25

Merry Christmas from the possum in my garage roller door 🎄

A possum laying upside down inside the inner barrel of a garage roller door

Ben Booth@benbooth· Dec 5

👀

A screenshot from Advent of Code 2024 showing the current countdown to day 5

It reads 5 04:22:34

Ben Booth@benbooth· Nov 13

I still have them @playtonicgames.com 🧦 maybe I shouldn't, but I do.

A pair of bright green socks with Yooka and Laylee faces being worn on a pair of feet.

Ben Booth@benbooth· Nov 6

The perfect image does not exi... We bought a new family car/van!

Me wearing a white hoodie and a cap leaning on a second hand VW Multivan. A large sign on the building behind reads "Perfect Image".

Ben Booth@benbooth· Oct 21

My most recent was the Dune Ornithopter (which I'm realising now I took no photos of), but my fav is the Tree House

A photo of the completed LEGO Tree House set on a table

A close up photo of the completed LEGO Tree House set. The parent minifigs are sitting at a table with the tree in the background

A close up photo of the completed LEGO Tree House set. The daughter minifig is holding a compass piece and standing next to a creek.

Ben Booth@benbooth· Oct 8

Looove this one 😍 @poorlydrawnarsenal.bsky.social www.poorlydrawnarsenal.com/southamptona...

An illustration by @poorlydrawnarsenal.bsky.social. It shows Arsenal's Saka standing by the corner flag in front of the crowd. The background & crowd are all in red shades, and shows a lot of details & faces in the crowd.

Ben Booth@benbooth· Oct 5

I took kiddo to indoor bouldering this morning, and this place is such a fun playground 🤩

A large selection of indoor bouldering walls, of varying difficulty

Ben Booth@benbooth· Sep 22

One of my favourite JS niceties is using underscore (_) as a numeric separator to make number literals more readable. It's so aesthetic.

A screenshot of 2 lines of JavaScript code:

const ONE_MILLION = 1_000_000;
const YO = 0b_01011001_01001111;

Ben Booth@benbooth· Sep 17

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #123,144!

Ben Booth@benbooth· Jan 10

For me it came so close. It misspelled both the animal and the plant, and failed to reverse the letters correctly. But it somehow still produced a correct answer 🤷‍♂️😅

A screenshot of a ChatGPT transcript:

You
What is a four-letter name of an animal, that when the letters are reversed becomes the name of a plant?

ChatGPT
The answer is "dear" (animal) and "read" (plant) when the letters are reversed.

Ben Booth@benbooth· Nov 3

Just dropping in to say that password rotation policies suck.

Ben Booth@benbooth· Sep 28

Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, missed that one.

A notification from The Guardian that reads:
Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82

Ben Booth@benbooth· Sep 27

I feel you bro

A photo of a white dishwasher in a kitchen. The dishwasher is running a cleaning cycle and has a pink post-it note stuck to the front that has "WORK IN PROGRESS" handwritten on it.

Ben Booth@benbooth· Sep 13

I think I did it! I might have found the most depressing fortune cookie message ever?

A photo of a fortune cookie message paper, it reads:

🙂 Be rich, you'll make friends with others. 🙂

Ben Booth@benbooth· Sep 13

Childhood memory unlocked! Finished LEGO Technic Test Car (8865)

LEGO Technic Test Car (8865) complete from a front/side angle. The front steering & suspension assembly is in focus.

LEGO Technic Test Car (8865) complete from a rear/side angle. The engine bay and rear suspension are in focus.

Ben Booth@benbooth· Sep 7

These guys?

A photo of the Backstreet Boys in all pink outfits

Ben Booth@benbooth· Sep 4

My Switch gallery is full of screenshots like this, I kept trying to get the perfect "Link bathing in the blood moon" shot

A screenshot from Breath of the Wild. It shows Link with all clothing items removed looking at the moon. The moon and sky are red from a "blood moon" event.

Ben Booth@benbooth· Aug 12

Happy Tillie's Day! 🇦🇺

The front of The Matilda's Nike jersey. The Australia badge and Nike logos are visible

Ben Booth@benbooth· Jul 28

Nice

A screenshot of a 2FA SMS message from myGov, with the security code "696420"

Full text:
myGov Security: Your security code is 696420. If this was not you, contact the myGov help desk on 132 307. Do not reply by SMS. Message reference: SV001

Ben Booth@benbooth· Jul 25

The Vince McMahon meme format.
Status Update -> Interested
Tweet -> Excited
Skeet -> Very excited
Xeet -> Losing his mind

Ben Booth@benbooth· Jul 9

LEGO Technic in the 80's, there are 144 pieces required for this 1 step. In total there are 24 steps to build this whole set 😅

Partially constructed LEGO Technic set 8865 "Test Car" from 1988. The instruction booklet is open at step 18, and 144 pieces have been gathered for this step.

Ben Booth@benbooth· Jul 4

Wait, how long has @github.com has this tree view? I'm just noticing it today. Previously I'd been using Octotree, but I hate to say there's no use for it (for me) anymore.

A sidebar with a tree view listing of files and folders in a project repo hosted on github.com

Ben Booth@benbooth· Jul 4

These are my favourite lego.com model shots. This is definitely how my wife sees me when I'm playing with my LEGO sets 😅