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Month: June 2019

  • Image representing post: I Put Words on this Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now

    I Put Words on this Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now

    Christine Dodrill is angry with the way that people use tool to do thing.

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    • Repost
    • posted 28 June, 2019
  • Y'all wanna hear a story about the time I accidentally transported a brick of heroin from Los Angeles to Seattle?

    The story of two guys accidentally transporting a shit-ton of drugs. Epic.

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    • Repost
    • posted 28 June, 2019
  • Image representing post: Anniversary Break

    Anniversary Break

    Dan and Ruth celebrate their 12th anniversary by cycling across Scotland.

    Read more - about 21 minutes (4918 words)

    • Article
    • 7 comments
    • posted 28 June, 2019
  • Dan points to Edinburgh Castle in the distance

    Found GC7B9AF Edinburgh's Other Castle

    This checkin to GC7B9AF Edinburgh's Other Castle reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My partner fleeblewidget and I have been cycling around Scotland as part of celebrations of the twelfth anniversary of us becoming a couple (a relationship that started in Edinburgh). On the way, we've been cherry-picking some of โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC7B9AF
    • 1 comment
    • posted 26 June, 2019
  • Found GC86M5G Camo Ammo

    This checkin to GC86M5G Camo Ammo reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found after an extended search with fleeblewidget. Even though we knew exactly what we were looking for, based on the description etc., this still took us a while. Totally worth it! Greetings from Oxford. TFTC!

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    • Checkin
    • to GC86M5G
    • 1 comment
    • posted 25 June, 2019
  • Found GC3W69Q Philpstoun wander - Who stole the bridge?

    This checkin to GC3W69Q Philpstoun wander - Who stole the bridge? reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found easily with fleeblewidget: we've come up from Oxford and we're cycling from Glasgow to Edinburgh as part of our anniversary celebrations. Lovely spot, and yes, surely it was a bridge, once. TFTC!

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    • Checkin
    • to GC3W69Q
    • 1 comment
    • posted 25 June, 2019
  • Found GC10QDG Choo Choo

    This checkin to GC10QDG Choo Choo reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with fleeblewidget while cycling to Edinburgh as part of our anniversary break. Beautiful spot!

    See more posts about our 2019 anniversary break?

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    • Checkin
    • to GC10QDG
    • 1 comment
    • posted 25 June, 2019
  • Found GC5N0VG The Bridge Of Sighs

    This checkin to GC5N0VG The Bridge Of Sighs reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with fleeblewidget at the start of our anniversary break cycling around Scotland. Our sleeper train got cancelled (grr) so we arrived from London on a rail replacement coach (ugh) and started our morning exploring the โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC5N0VG
    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 June, 2019
  • This footpath belongs to nature, now.

    Couldn't find GC3753W Patchlake #2 - Are Dillon and Logan watching you?

    This checkin to GC3753W Patchlake #2 - Are Dillon and Logan watching you? reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Tried, but couldn't hack through the thick vegetation that's taken over this footpath. :-(

    Read more - about 1 minutes (14 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC3753W
    • posted 23 June, 2019
  • Found GC5DP66 Plackett Link

    This checkin to GC5DP66 Plackett Link reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Some serious vegetation got in my way here, but not for long. Hmm; got to the end of that path faster than I expected... perhaps I've time to find a couple more caches before the others wake and โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC5DP66
    • posted 23 June, 2019
  • Found GC7A2Q0 4. Placket Pathway

    This checkin to GC7A2Q0 4. Placket Pathway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Nice to see a proper-sized cache container (although I did have to evict an earwig from it)! FP for that, and thanks for both this and the series. Greetings from Oxford!

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    • Checkin
    • to GC7A2Q0
    • posted 23 June, 2019
  • Found GC7A2PJ 3. Placket Pathway

    This checkin to GC7A2PJ 3. Placket Pathway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A bit of to-and-fro to get a fix but then the cache was soon in my hand. Nettles are fierce today! TFTC.

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    • Checkin
    • to GC7A2PJ
    • posted 23 June, 2019
  • Found GC7A2PB 2. Placket Pathway

    This checkin to GC7A2PB 2. Placket Pathway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Wish I'd brought my GPSr; didn't expect to be caching today so I'm running off my phone and it doesn't do as good a job once close to GZ. Found this in the end, but as others โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC7A2PB
    • posted 23 June, 2019
  • Campsite in the Paddock behind Ruth's aunt's house

    Found GC7A2NK 1. Placket Pathway

    This checkin to GC7A2NK 1. Placket Pathway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After a garden party next door last night I think I was first to wake up this morning as the sun shone through my tent. I was literally just sleeping in the field adjoining, not a hundred โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC7A2NK
    • posted 23 June, 2019
  • Image representing post: Reply to: A modern font loading strategy with the vanilla JS FontFaceSet.load() method

    Reply to: A modern font loading strategy with the vanilla JS FontFaceSet.load() method

    Chris Ferdinandi's suggestion of using FontFaceSet.load() to prevent FOIT seems overkill. What's wrong with font-display: swap;?

    Read more - about 4 minutes (760 words)

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 22 June, 2019

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