Dan Q
This checkin to GLCCBZ9M Melting Mouth ~ The Best Ben reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Found with fleeblewidget while exploring along the lochside (and grabbing a few caches as we went), during a holiday to celebrate our anniversary. I was still peering at the numbers on my GPS when fleeblewidget jumped straight onto this one.
This checkin to GLCCBZ79 Melting Mouths ~ Crumble Cake Falls reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Found with fleeblewidget while exploring along the lochside (and grabbing a few caches as we went), during a holiday to celebrate our anniversary. Cache is a little waterlogged and needs some TLC. TFTC.
This checkin to GLCC5ZEV Jass @ Jammy reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Found with fleeblewidget on the first day of our narrowboating holiday (riding Nerys out of Cambrian Cruisers). We spent the night moored up just a little further North-East of the cache, overlooking a broad and beautiful valley to the South. TFTC.
My secret bonus segment to my review of Godzilla Huntley’s Family Vlog (“IRL”), Episode 11.
My review for Episode 11 of Godzilla Huntley’s Family Vlog, in which I mock Godzilla for what’ll probably turn out to be a mental illness, and then I’ll feel guilty. There’s a secret bonus video to complement it.
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The original link was: http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=30513
[since originally being published on Reddit, the resource in question has been moved to http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-30513]
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The original link was: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/oana-romocea/romania-rosia-montana_b_3920165.html
Cosmo: Westeros Edition sex tip: grab your man, pull him close, whisper “the Lannisters send their regards” and stab him in the heart.
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LARRY WALTERS FOUND FAME AT 16.000 feet. On July 2,1982, the 33-year-old truck driver rigged 42 helium-filled weather balloons to a Sears lawn chair in San Pedro, Calif., and, as friends looked on in wondrous support, lifted off. The sight of Walters floating in the sky shocked pilots, who radioed perplexed local air-traffic controllers. Walters returned to Earth by using a pellet gun to shoot out some of the balloons and landed safely about 10 miles away in Long Beach. The 45-minute stunt earned him an appearance on The Tonight Show as well as a spot in a Timex watch ad, after which he quit his job to deliver motivational speeches. “People ask me if I had a death wish,” he said. “I tell them no, it was something I had to do.”
But the attention didn’t bring enduring happiness. Walters and his girlfriend of 15 years, who had helped him pay for his adventure, ended their relationship. His speaking career fizzled, and he worked only sporadically as a security guard. He sought solace by reading the Bible and walking in the San Gabriel Mountains, where he worked as a volunteer for the U.S. Forest Service. “It seemed like Larry came to the mountains because he was disappointed with the way his life was going,” says his friend Joyce Rios, a fellow volunteer ranger.
On Oct. 6, unable to deal with the world he had briefly delighted, Walters, 44, hiked to a favorite spot in the Angeles National Forest and ended his life with a single bullet through the heart. His mother, Hazel Dunham, did not disclose his death until Nov. 22. Although Walters did not write a suicide note, he had left a Bible with several passages marked at Dunham’s house in Mission Viejo, just before his death. Among them was John 16:32: “Indeed the hour is coming…each to his own, and will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.”
People
In my review of the tenth episode of Godzilla Huntley’s Family Vlog, I try to educate the family in the nature of acronyms and in US history. Who knew that vlog-reviews could be so educational?
This video makes reference to my dislike of Monopoly, which you can read about here.
Those of you who’ve met my family will probably already have an understanding of… what they’re like. Those of you who haven’t are probably about to gain one.
It started on a weekend in April, when my mother and I went to a Pink concert. The support act were a really fun band called Walk the Moon, who finished their energetic set with I Can Lift A Car, with its’ catchy chorus hook “Did you did you… did you know know: I can lift a car up, all by myself?” Over the weeks that followed, perhaps because of its earworm qualities, this song became sort-of an inside Rickroll between my mum and I.
At one point, she sent me a link to this video (also visible below), in which she is seen to lift a (toy) car. My sister Becky (also known as “Godzilla”) was behind the camera (and, according to the credits, everything else), and wrote in the doobly doo: “I think I’m gonna start doing family vlogs.”
She’d experimented with vlogging before, with a short series of make-up tutorials and a “test video post” on her blog, but this represented something new: an effort to show off her family (and guest appearances from her friends) as they really are; perhaps this was an effort to answer the inevitable question asked by people who’ve visited them – “are they always like that?” Perhaps that’s why she chose the name she did for the Family Vlog – “IRL”.
At the time of writing, Becky (on her YouTube channel) has produced eight such videos (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight), reliably rolling out one a week for the last two months. I thought they were pretty good – I thought that was just because they were my family, but I was surprised to find that it’s slowly finding a wider reach, as I end up speaking to friends who mention to me that they “saw the latest family vlog” (sometimes before I’ve had a chance to see it!).
Naturally, then, the only logical thing to do was to start producing my own YouTube series, on my channel, providing reviews of each episode of my sister’s vlog. I’ve managed to get seven out so far (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven), and I’d like to think that they’re actually better than the originals. They’re certainly more-concise, which counts for a lot, because they trim the original vlog down to just the highlights (interrupted only occasionally by my wittering atop them).
The widget above (or this playlist) will let you navigate your way through the entire body of vlogs, and their reviews (or lets you play them all back to back, if you’ve got two and a quarter hours to spare and a pile of brain cells you want killing). But if you’re just looking for a taster, to see if it’s for you, then here are some starting-out points:
@misterjta: “It must be
really strange, being a duck: jumping into the water not knowing if this time you might sink.” #DuckExistentialAngst
Well done! You found the not-so-very-secret bonus to my review of Godzilla Huntley’s Family Vlog – Episode 7.
For die-hard fans of vlog reviews only.
