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Topiary-tastic! Great spot for a virtual.
Month: October 2018
Dan Q dnf OK0307 M-libs 12S
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No sign of any artwork at the GZ, unless a fire assembly point sign counts…
Dan Q need-maintenance OK0303 M-libs12H
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Aside from the (loose) historical connection, there’s little to recommend this waypoint. But thanks for the history lesson!
(Oh, I can’t log this one either… another password needed and no indication of where I can should begin looking for it…)
Dan Q found OK0302 M-libs12C
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Lovely sculpture. Thanks for sharing!
Dan Q need-maintenance OK02FE M-libs12W
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Interesting history. Apparently I need a password to log this, though? Not clear where I’m supposed to find that…
Beginning to get the feeling like this cache series might need some attention/updating!
Update 2018-11-18: with thanks to Amberel for the password, now logged as “found”.
Dan Q found OK0301 M-libs12N
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Interesting spot. I’m on campus guide an exam but I’ve arrived early. Thanks for the excuse to take a tour around!
Dan Q dnf OK0306 M-libs 12M
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Not found… I think? I’m standing at the GZ and despite a reasonable explore I can’t see anything that could be described as artwork in plain sight… :-(
Dan Q found GC69JGP 5L22 LOG Charlies 5th Loop
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GPSr walked me right to it, and luckily the joggers who were here a moment ago have gone, so there was only a family of moorfowl watching me as I retrieved and signed the log. TFTC!
Dan Q found GC69JG8 5L21 RIVERSIDE Charlies 5th Loop
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Great cache container! I’m visiting the Open University to take an exam, this afternoon, and enjoyed the opportunity to find a handful of caches (both these, and the nearby series of virtuals from a different cache listing site) while in the vicinity. TFTC!
Dan Q found GC674FF 5L7 ICT 1 Charlie’s 5th Loop
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A nice easy find; good camo! TFTC.
Dan Q found GC674F4 5L6 45 Charlie’s 5th Loop
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On campus for an exam but running a little early; had time to find this cache (hampered only slightly by the season…!).TFTC!
Geohashing expedition 2018-10-16 52 -0
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Location
Alongside a lane that runs through the Quinton Green Business Park, South of the village of Quinton.
Participants
Plans
I’ve got an exam in Milton Keynes in the afternoon, so it’d be only a minor diversion for me to come and try to visit this roadside hashpoint. I hope to be there about 10:30.
Expedition
Failed to turn on the tracklogger on my GPS, but I remembered to get photos at least. This was a quick and easy run, although I did get accosted by a local who saw me hanging around near the wind farm and putting up a sign… I think that after the controversy these epic windmills caused he might have thought that I was putting up a planning notice to erect some more or something. Once I explained what I was doing he seemed happy enough.
Used my new 360° full-panoramic camera to take a picture at the hashpoint; I’ll put a VR-ready version on my website and link it here when I get the chance.
Photos
The peculiar history of the Ordnance Survey
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The history of the organisation known as OS is not merely that of a group of earnest blokes with a penchant for triangulation and an ever-present soundtrack of rustling cagoules.
From its roots in military strategy to its current incarnation as producer of the rambler’s navigational aid, the government-owned company has been checking and rechecking all 243,241 sq km (93,916 sq miles) of Great Britain for 227 years. Here are some of the more peculiar elements in the past of the famous map-makers.
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The Ruby Story
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By 2005, Ruby had become more popular, but it was still not a mainstream programming language. That changed with the release of Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails was the “killer app” for Ruby, and it did more than any other project to popularize Ruby. After the release of Ruby on Rails, interest in Ruby shot up across the board, as measured by the TIOBE language index:
It’s sometimes joked that the only programs anybody writes in Ruby are Ruby-on-Rails web applications. That makes it sound as if Ruby on Rails completely took over the Ruby community, which is only partly true. While Ruby has certainly come to be known as that language people write Rails apps in, Rails owes as much to Ruby as Ruby owes to Rails.
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As an early adopter of Ruby (and Rails, when it later came along) I’ve always found that it brings me a level of joy I’ve experienced in very few other languages (and never as much). Every time I write Ruby, it takes me back to being six years old and hacking BASIC on my family’s microcomputer. Ruby, more than any other language I’ve come across, achieves the combination of instant satisfaction, minimal surprises, and solid-but-flexible object orientation. There’s so much to love about Ruby from a technical perspective, but for me: my love of it is emotional.
Matreon: The Patreon Platform for Emotional Labor
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Dear Guy Who Can’t Read The Room:
Hello and thank you for attempting to engage in an unsolicited conversation with me! In order to ensure our interaction is productive and enriching for both parties, I invite you to join my Matreon. For just a few dollars a month, you can continue to approach me with whatever the hell is on your mind regardless of context or appropriateness, and I will continue to do the emotional labor required to respond without calling you a privileged, myopic dipshit.
Since you’re obviously the most important person in the universe and everything should cater to your needs, I’ve created a number of exciting options that you can take advantage of. You know, like you take advantage of the way that women are culturally trained to be sweet and helpful when you fart words in their direction.
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You know what: there are probably guys who’d pay for this and would then use their doing so as an illustration that women “need men to (financially) support them”.