Month: November 2014
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Found GLG58G7G Thrupp wander #3
This checkin to GLG58G7G Thrupp wander #3 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found while out on a walk with fleeblewidget and her daughter. Easy find, but this year's growth made it a little challenging to extract from its hiding place! TFTC.
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At 4:39pm I got an email to say that the 4:30pm bus had been cancelled. I'd left to catch the bus at 4:20pm.
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Hey, decadeclub: you know what happened an *actual* decade ago?
Ten years ago, this week:
Half-Life 2 was released, over a year behind schedule. Delays had been blamed on the theft of source code from Valve's network during a hack attack, leading to many in the community asking "don't they have backups?"
Yasser Arafat died at the age of 75, after a … -
A huggy home run.
AltA huggy home run
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Posted a note for GC4Z3RZ Boundary Brook: Billy Goats Gruff
This checkin to GC4Z3RZ Boundary Brook: Billy Goats Gruff reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Just passing by, dropped off a travel bug.
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Going to a memorial service today? Help update the national record of your war memorial.
Since 1989, the War Memorials Archive has been trying to keep an up-to-date database for everybody to read, showing the location of every war memorial in the UK as well of details of the dead commemorated there. But their records are incomplete, and sadly many memorials (especially rural ones) are degrading: someday the information … -
"The Law You Won't Be Told" - jury nullification explained [4:30]
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Map of the Lounges, version 2 (moderately censored edition) [description/history in comments]
[this post was originally made to a private subreddit; versions of it posted to more-exclusive private subreddits are not replicated on this blog]
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If you add this subreddit to a multireddit, make sure that multireddit is private!
[originally posted to a private subreddit]
I had a public "megalounges" multireddit that I made available to anybody in the megalounges who wanted a starting point to make a convenient multireddit list. But if I'd have put this subreddit into that list, then it could give away the identity of this "final" subreddit, so I've … -
Performed maintenance for GC54F7N Oxford Steganography #4 - Tilt
This checkin to GC54F7N Oxford Steganography #4 - Tilt reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Performed maintenance: dried out contents and added fresh silica gel sachets to help keep moisture out, adjusted seal to improve waterproofing, added a travel bug that loves mystery caches (help him find more!).
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Wait... there's something on the other side of the Sun? Could it be...
[this image was originally posted to a private subreddit]
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Where gold and mercury collide - this pound coin is *floating*
[this post, which was originally made to a private subreddit, referenced the image formerly found at http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr02/2013/4/16/22/enhanced-buzz-27259-1366166748-0.jpg but which has since disappeared]