Month: March 2025
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8-year-old, angry: Give me that fucking thing right now!
Me: [Child's name]! That's not an acceptable way to ask for something!
8-year-old, calmer: Sorry. PLEASE can you give me that fucking thing?
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Bored of it
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Every article glorifying it.
Every article vilifying it.
Every pub conversation winding up talking about it.
People incessantly telling you how they use it.
I feel dirty using it.
You know what Iโm talking about, even though Iโve not mentioned it.
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Paul โฆ -
Sometimes the kids need to leave your pub dinner before you finish your drink, and you need to take a "to-go" pint.
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Dan, grinning, holding a quarter pint of beer in few rear passenger seat of a moving car.
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For a little while I got to lie in the sunshine and read my book in quiet solitude. But before long I found I was sharing it with a small child and his noisy games console.
Still delightful, though, and it feels wonderfully Spring-like out there today.
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Dan, seen from his 'head' end, lies in a hammock with a green book, 'Bored Gay Werewolf' on his belly. At the other end of the hammock a boy plays on a Nintendo Switch. Around them is a garden containing a climbing frame and a washing line full of white shirts and sheets.
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It wasn't until I made time for myself to get out into the countryside near my home and take the dog for a walk that I realised how much stress I'd been putting myself under during my team meetup, this week.
Istanbul was enjoyable and fascinating, and I love my team, but I always forget until after the fact how much a few days worth of city crowds can make me feel anxious and trapped.
It's good to get a mile or two from the nearest other human and decompress!
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Dan, a red leash hung across his shoulders, gives a half-shrug as he smiles for a selfie on a grassy trail between a hedgerow and a field. Behind him, near a weathered old-fashioned footpath sign, his French Bulldog looks at him expectantly.
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Delivery Songs
In the UK, ice cream vans are perhaps the only delivery service with their own jingle. Turkey and India are WAY ahead of us in this regard, and I've got a few ideas about how we fix that...
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Found GC7B9C6 Heykel&Boฤaz/Sculpture & Bosphorus- Virtual Reward
As others have observed, this is a bit challenging right now owing to the hoardings that have been erected in the way. But like others, I found a gap in the fence through which I was able to photograph the sculpture. TFTC!
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Found GC6JQAX Rainbow Stairs
Whether or not this piece of art is or was an act of political defiance, it might need to be one once again. Brought my own rainbow so I could be part of it, too. ๐โ
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Reply to: Is Not Answering the Thing Now?
Marc Thiele asks whether people just don't reply to emails any more. I try to, but I write a response on behalf of everybody who, like me, has failed to do so in the past on account of the awkwardness of replying 'eventually' if you missed the chance to reply immediately.
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Found GC7B79C Kฤฑz Kulesi/Maiden's Tower- Virtual Reward
This checkin to GC7B79C Kฤฑz Kulesi/Maiden's Tower- Virtual Reward reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Went over on the ferry. Using my phone as my GPSr and also my camera, so snapped a thumbs up, and my name, and my face, all with the tower visible. Looks like it's going โฆ
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Found GCAJHQ1 The Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III
Two virtual caches in such close proximity! And what a beautiful fountain. As requested, photo shows the fountain and my username, but also me! Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK, and TFTC!
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Found GCAJG5P The Two Mosques Virtual Reward 4.0
Here with worth colleagues on our "day off" from meetings and code hackathons, we're planning to visit the mosque I chose to photograph behind me. TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK.
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Found GC6VTEG Galata Bridge #3
After lunch with my work team in a delightful restaurant overlooking the bridge I decided to take a diversion on the route back to our coworking space to come and find this geocache, my most-Easterly yet.
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Thanks to finding a couple of geocaches here in Istanbul, my geocaching "2D convex hull" (the smallest possible convex polygon that covers an area), which I wrote some code to draw last year, just expanded a little further to the East. ๐
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World map, with an irregular near-quadrilatral drawn such that it approximately connects Inverness (Scotland), Istanbul (Turkey), Cape Town (South Africa), and San Francisco (California, USA), encompassing the area within.
I've got a lot of the world left still to encircle, but I'm slowly extending my reach...
(previous map, for comparison: https://danq.me/_q23u/2024/04/dans-geoing-hull-2024-04-03.webp)
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Found GC892N8 Galata Tower
My second visit of the day to the tower, has I didn't have a working pen with me on the first. Decided to go all-in on using my working pen by drawing myself holding a sign, showing myself holding a sign, showing myself holding a sign... you get the idea.
