Year: 2018
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#challengerobin hit a disaster early on: Robin was to find sleeper train tickets in a puzzle box, but a growing storm (see pic) has caused the train to be cancelled. What now? https://danq.me/2018/11/09/challenge-robin-2/#waypoint-disaster
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#challengerobin pushed-off in earnest with a blue-plaque-treasure trail around London and then back to Paddington station... but it looks like things are about to go very wrong... https://danq.me/2018/11/09/challenge-robin-2/#waypoint-gardens
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#challengerobin Robin finally made it to his contact and has been given a clue - a map to a Kensington street and instructions on what to do when he gets there: https://danq.me/2018/11/09/challenge-robin-2/#waypoint-gbk
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Challenge Robin II
Following the success of Challenge Robin earlier this year, Robin's sent out on his toughest adventure yet...
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Found GCGNNT We Would Like To Thank...
This checkin to GCGNNT We Would Like To Thank... reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. In hindsight, visiting this cache might have been a mistake as a storm was beginning to roll in, but I got there before things got TOO hairy! I was in the vicinity preparing an adventure-trail …
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Geohashing expedition 2018-11-09 51 -3
This checkin to geohash 2018-11-09 51 -3 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location
Field near Whitefield Rocks, Langley Marsh. Google Maps says its a nowhere-place but OpenStreetMap suggests there's a footpath right by the hashpoint.
Participants
Dan Q
Plans
Okay, I'm going for it! I'm driving … -
A 5am start and a 230-mile drive sounds like a great way to start off my part in #challengerobin 2. Stay tuned for updates/sleepy off-kilter photos...
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IndieWeb Comic
Yulia (hag.social)
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Drowning cow saved by 'mermaid' on 200-mile swim
A drowning cow was rescued from a river by a passing "mermaid" on a 200-mile swim of the Thames.
Lindsey Cole splashed into the river in a wetsuit, tail and hat at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, on Friday. She is raising awareness of the environmental effects of single-use plastic.
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Shadows Out of Time
Dan adapts the Bodleian's Halloween CYOA adventure gamebook into a Twine/Chapbook powered piece of interactive fiction for your browser. Play it now!
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Hands on with neural-network toolkit LIME: Come now, you sourpuss. You've got some explaining to do
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How well does the algorithm perform? Setting it up to work in LIME can be a bit of a pain, depending on your environment. The examples on Tulio Ribeiro's Github repo are in Python and have been optimised for Jupyter notebooks. I decided to get the code for a basic image analyser running in a … -
Harlot's Web
Perry Bible Fellowship
Funny throughout, and a fabulous final twist that could only be described as perhaps seasonally-too-soon. -
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 following recent report of "broken hinge". Hinge is fine, but this kind of container is designed so that the hinge can be easily detached and the lid removed completely - so long as you come at …
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Why the pencil is perfect
Caroline Weaver (TED)
I love to discover people who are hugely and deeply passionate about things that seem inconsequential to the rest of the world. Especially when they're especially able to express that passion and how exciting their special-thing is, to them. This video (and to a lesser extent the others in the Small … -
Reported GC2ZPK9 Fining Wood needs maintenance
This checkin to GC2ZPK9 Fining Wood reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.