September 2018

Digest for September 2018

Summary

This month’s blog activity was mostly dominated by 360° photos taken with my new camera, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I also had to archive two geocaches, Oxford’s Wild Wolf One and Two, as they’d been getting muggled/vandalised. I also shared a fabulous reinterpretation of Who’s On First? for the post-post-modern society.

All posts

Posts marked by an asterisk (*) are referenced by the summary above.

Checkins

Dan Q archived GC7Q9E6 / OK0457 – Oxford’s Wild Wolf One *
Dan Q archived GC7Q9FF / OK0458 – Oxford’s Wild Wolf Two *
Dan Q temporarily disabled GC7Q9FF Oxford’s Wild Wolf Two
Dan Q performed maintenance for GC7Q96B Oxford’s Long-Lost Zoo

Notes

Reposts

Reposts marked with a dagger (†) include my comments or interpretation.

Note #10603

Once you’re doing with adding #indieweb awesome to your website, @henrahmagix, you might like to add an RSS feed so people like me can subscribe! In the meantime, I made you a temporary one at https://rssey.danq.me/henryblyth powered by my RSSey tool ( like this: https://github.com/Dan-Q/rssey/blob/master/feeds/henryblyth.js ).

Note #10601

Oh, go on, one more 360° photo: view from @NuffieldCollege’s (library) tower, ten stories above the #Oxford castle quarter.

Note #10598

One last @NuffieldCollege 360° photo on my lunchtime walk. Cool archway!

Note #10596

Walking around @NuffieldCollege at lunchtime: love this long pond.

Note #10594

Lunchtime at @NuffieldCollege gave me another excuse to snap some 360° photos; this one’s part of the quad.

Note #10589

The @bodleianlibs Comms Team Away Day at @NuffieldCollege provides yet another excuse to play with 360° photography.

That way they would never know

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Some 702 intimate examinations were done on sedated or anaesthetised patients (table 3). In only 24% of these examinations had written consent been obtained, and a further 24% of examinations were conducted apparently without written or oral consent.

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Coldicott, Yvette; Pope, Catherine; Roberts, Clive (BMJ)

This 2003 study at an “English medical school” determined that vaginal/rectal examinations were routinely carried out on anaesthetised patients without their knowledge or consent. “I was told in the second year that the best way to learn to do [rectal examinations] was when the patient was under anaesthetic,” one fourth year student responded, to the survey, “That way they would never know.”

Well ain’t that a thing.

Unwrapping a viper

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@ziyatong

Ah! That “new snake” smell.

Dan Q trash OK0458 Oxford’s Wild Wolf Two

This checkin to OK0458 Oxford's Wild Wolf Two reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

The cache has been archived.

Dan Q trash OK0457 Oxford’s Wild Wolf One

This checkin to OK0457 Oxford's Wild Wolf One reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

The cache has been archived.

Dan Q archived GC7Q9E6 Oxford’s Wild Wolf One

This checkin to GC7Q9E6 Oxford's Wild Wolf One reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

In hindsight, I should’ve anticipated that when the nearby schools’ terms started this hiding place would be at-risk. I’ve been checking on this spot at school-kicking-out time for a few weeks and, sure enough, the tree that was the hiding place is a hot climbing-spot for local kids, so I can’t imagine that returning the cache at this location will ever work.

If you’re looking for local animal-related history, though, Wild Wolf Three and Long-Lost Zoo are still alive and well!

Dan Q archived GC7Q9FF Oxford’s Wild Wolf Two

This checkin to GC7Q9FF Oxford's Wild Wolf Two reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Clearly somebody doesn’t want this geocache here because both the original and the replacement containers have been quite-obviously-deliberately buried under a block of concrete: that’s some seriously-dedicated muggling! I’ve removed everything I can of the cache container and its assembly (unfortunately some remains under the concrete and I’d need a crane to lift it!).

Wild Wolf Three’s and Long Lost Zoo are still viable nearby caches if you’re looking for some local history as you explore.

Dan Q temporarily disabled GC7Q9FF Oxford’s Wild Wolf Two

This checkin to GC7Q9FF Oxford's Wild Wolf Two reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

This is definitely muggled to death. Never seen a cache and its hiding place so-deliberately wrecked as this before!

Dan Q performed maintenance for GC7Q96B Oxford’s Long-Lost Zoo

This checkin to GC7Q96B Oxford's Long-Lost Zoo reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Checked in on this cache. Perfect condition, all good to go!