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Month: January 2024

  • King Arthur again, but now he says "I wanna, like, make cool shit on the Internet or whatever."

    [Bloganuary] Mission

    My mission is to make cool shit on the Internet, and to periodically remind people about how awesome Monty Python is.

    Read more (115 words)

    • Article
    • posted 9 January, 2024
  • Dan smiles alongside a 10-year-old girl who's holding a geocache container.

    Found GC2WTGE 8~ NUDDSY MEGA RAMBLE

    This checkin to GC2WTGE 8~ NUDDSY MEGA RAMBLE reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A challenging and courageous scramble by the eldest (who turned 10 yesterday!) and I (who turned 43 today!) up the slippery wet leaves to reach the GZ. I stopped to double check the proximity and meanwhile โ€ฆ

    Read more (47 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC2WTGE
    • posted 8 January, 2024
  • Did not find GC2WTGN 9~NUDDSY MEGA RAMBLE

    This checkin to GC2WTGN 9~NUDDSY MEGA RAMBLE reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An extended search by three adults, two children, and a dog failed to find this cache. We found what we think might have once been its camouflage near the obvious hiding place at the GZ, but nothing โ€ฆ

    Read more (38 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC2WTGN
    • posted 8 January, 2024
  • Dan, with his thumb up, in front of the ruin of an abbey.

    Found GC5TF25 Mystic Abbey

    This checkin to GC5TF25 Mystic Abbey reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Out for a walk on my 43rd birthday, left the kids playing with their other parents in the (beautiful) ruins of the abbey or I hacked my way around to the GZ. Started searching at my evaluation of โ€ฆ

    Read more (73 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC5TF25
    • posted 8 January, 2024
  • Dan waves, his head and shoulders peeping out from underneath a white duvet.

    [Bloganuary] Live Long and Prosper

    I'd love to live as long as I can do so in reasonable health, and I'm happy for that to be longer than I'm predicted to. But if everybody lived longer, what would that mean for the world?

    Read more - about 3 minutes (623 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 8 January, 2024
  • An open Oblique Strategies box with the face card showing: "The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten".

    [Bloganuary] A Different Diet

    I periodically aspire to veganism, or at least something slightly-closer to it than where I stand right now. From an environmental/sustainability perspective, that is.

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    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 7 January, 2024
  • Building-sized billboard saying "THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK".

    [Bloganuary] Billboards

    If I had an enormous billboard sitting around, I'd print something like "this space intentionally left blank" on it.

    Read more (108 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 6 January, 2024
  • Hardware turtle and microcomputer.

    [Bloganuary] Nostalgia vs Futurism

    Do I spend longer thinking about the future or the past? Honestly, I think it's about equal...

    Read more (339 words)

    • Article
    • posted 5 January, 2024
  • Dan drinking beer from a Wye Valley Brewery pint glass.

    [Bloganuary] The Gift of Time

    The best gifts I've ever received have been those that take me out of my routine (or give me the time and space to do so for myself!).

    Read more - about 3 minutes (573 words)

    • Article
    • posted 4 January, 2024
  • Standing in a study bedroom, Dan shows off his certificate of admission to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

    [Bloganuary] Alumnus

    Bloganuary wants to know what colleges I've attended. Let's take a tour of my experience of further education.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1094 words)

    • Article
    • posted 3 January, 2024
  • Dan with his thumbs-up in front of the high-score table (with the top-ranking spot about to be filled) of Wonder Boy, on a generic "80s Arcade Classics" arcade cabinet.

    [Bloganuary] Playtime

    Do I get to "play" in my daily life? Absolutely. For this Bloganuary prompt, I'm looking at the ways in which I play.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (693 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 2 January, 2024
  • A person wearing a cardboard box on their head, labelled "BRAIN". Above, a hand reaches from out-of-frame to hold a sign labelled "IDEA" above them.

    [Bloganuary] My Biggest Challenge

    What's the biggest challenge on my horizon as I come into the New Year? Right now, it feels like it's Bloganuary! But there's an underlying challenge of winter motivation and procrastination that makes Bloganuary seem so hard.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (498 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 1 January, 2024

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