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Year: 2019

  • Image representing post: Handshake Lessons for Sarah

    Handshake Lessons for Sarah

    Dan's sister Sarah has the worst handshake ever. Let's try to fix that.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (7 words)

    • Video
    • posted 28 December, 2019
  • At the sign with my GPSr.

    Found TC4W8P Love a Cotswold Croc

    Dan finally logs a Terracache he's visited many times before while taking the kids to the local crocodile zoo.

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    • to TC4W8P
    • posted 27 December, 2019
  • Image representing post: When you're in the club and you're hungry... (Misheard Lyrics… Round Two!)

    When you're in the club and you're hungry... (Misheard Lyrics… Round Two!)

    Bec Hill's hearing food in her music again. Funny.

    Read more (150 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 26 December, 2019
  • Image representing post: Making It Boring

    Making It Boring

    Jeremy Wagner proposes that the Web should be made more boring to make it usable by more people, more of the time, and faster. With Dan's comments.

    Read more (220 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 26 December, 2019
  • "Hacker" Dan Q

    Evolving Computer Words: "Hacker"

    Of all evolving computer words, "hacker" is perhaps the most-loaded and controversial. Dan explores how it's changed and whether it can ever return to its original meaning.

    Read more - about 8 minutes (1751 words)

    • Article
    • 7 comments
    • posted 23 December, 2019
  • Comic: carollers sing "We wish you a Merry Christmas" three times, the genie from Disney's Aladdin looks on in shock.

    Three Wishes

    How many times can you wish somebody a Merry Christmas before you've used up all your wishes?

    Read more - about 0 minutes (0 words)

    • Note
    • posted 23 December, 2019
  • Tacobot 3000

    TacoBot 3000 (Part 3 of the Raining Tacos saga)

    Parry Gripp's latest video contains the catchiest song about tacos or robots that you'll ever hear.

    Read more (31 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 1 December, 2019
  • Philosophy Tube - Men. Abuse. Trauma.

    Men. Abuse. Trauma. | Philosophy Tube

    Dan watches "Men. Abuse. Trauma." on Philosophy Tube and doesn't quite get flashbacks.

    Read more (225 words)

    • Repost
    • 3 comments
    • posted 1 December, 2019
  • Muddy shoes and legs.

    Geohashing expedition 2019-11-29 51 -1

    Dan fails to reach a hashpoint on account of wandering into a bog.

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    • to 2019-11-29 51 -1
    • 1 comment
    • posted 29 November, 2019
  • Found GC64QG0 Post Post SN4 309 (Alex Park)

    This checkin to GC64QG0 Post Post SN4 309 (Alex Park) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After a quick pre-breakfast expedition to the (very good, but under-visited) nearby cache GC18GJB, I decided to take a minor diversion on my way back to Alexandra House via this little cache. An easy …

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    • Checkin
    • to GC64QG0
    • posted 24 November, 2019
  • Bus stop in the middle of nowhere

    Found GC18GJB Twelve O'Clock High

    Dan takes an early-morning hike to find a geocache, and discovers a mysterious bus stop.

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    • Checkin
    • to GC18GJB
    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 November, 2019
  • Performed maintenance for GC7Q96B Oxford's Long-Lost Zoo

    Dan checks up on one his his geocaches before winter sets in.

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    • Checkin
    • to GC7Q96B
    • posted 22 November, 2019
  • Post Office account signup form showing error message: "Password too long, max 12 characters"

    What's wrong with my password, @PostOffice? Is it too secure for you?
    It does nothing to fix your "old-fashioned" image that your password policy is still stuck in the 1990s. @PWTooStrong

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    • 6 comments
    • posted 18 November, 2019
  • Vintage vibrators

    Review: Vintage Vibrators

    Epiphora reviews vintage vibrators that are old enough to have belonged to her great grandmother. Hilarity ensues.

    Read more (154 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 16 November, 2019
  • Third party

    Jeremy Keith wonders if the Web would have third-party cookies and JS at all if it were invented today, and Dan weighs in.

    Read more (435 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 15 November, 2019

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