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The younger child and I nipped across for a photo while we waited for our tram to come.
Year: 2025
Dan Q found GC1JAWP Sibelius Monument
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QEF while my family examined the sculpture. What a great spot for a cache, and so well-maintained. FP awarded. TFTC!
Dan Q found GC1JA6P Töölön kirjasto
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Very easy find for the kids and I after a delightful visit to the Tram Museum. We went to the coordinates and instantly saw the cache! SL, TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK.
Dan Q found GC8925F SkyWheel Helsinki
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A quick photo before the family and I took a ride on the wheel!
Dan Q found GC76AG3 Hauta – Tomb
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Found after an embarrassingly long hunt! After reading the hint I quickly spotted the correct hiding spot, but said to myself “no, it surely can’t be there” and moved on. Only on my third time walking past it did I think to actually try it, and sure enough, there it was! SL, TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!
Dan Q found GC6TJ54 63# Levin kierros aka CITOn muistopurkki
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Third of three finds on this, my final morning here before my flight to Helsinki. Taking a brisk walk/slow jog up to Hotel Levi Panorama, but first, a QEF. TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!
Dan Q found GC6RW31 1# Levin kierros
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The second of three caches hunted on this, the final morning of my brief stay in Lapland. Found on the second host I tried. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK. TFTC!
Dan Q found GCBBVQN Magic of Lapland
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It’s the final morning of my short visit to Sirkka. Having 90 minutes until I need to set off for the airport, I decided to come out for a quick geocaching expedition first.
This was the first cache on my list, and I was so glad to choose it. A truly beautiful and well-maintained cache in a wonderful spot. FP awarded. TFTC!
[09:55 local time]
Vihreät Kuulat
Second “surprising Finnish confectionary” is Vihreät Kuulat Jaffa Cakes. I ran vihreät kuulat through a translation tool and apparently it means “green balls”, which doesn’t tell me much.
Knowing it was neither lime nor apple (which were also available in the supermarket I visited) I had to try them, but I couldn’t place the flavour. They were tasty, though. We finished eating them before I looked it up.
Turns out it’s pear flavour, which apparently I have a blind spot for (back in 2013 at an “eat mystery food in the dark” restaurant I failed to identify that I was eating poached pears for dessert).
Now I need to be on the lookout for actual green balls.
Finnish Haribo
Buying a bag of Haribo in Finland, I shouldn’t have been surprised (given the country’s love of salmiakki) that the black ones were liquorice flavoured.
And yet somehow, when I chucked a handful onto my mouth, I was.
(Not in a bad way. But definitely in a surprised way.)
Dan Q found GCAC54Z Aquarium
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QEF for the elder child and I while on holiday. TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!
[13:16 local time]
Repost #27484
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Layoutit Terra is a CSS terrain generator that leverages stacked grids and 3D transforms.
Inspectable spikes, wedges, ramps and flats are stitched together into a voxel landscape.
Inspired by Transport Tycoon and all ’90s isometric classics.
Built from the southern hemisphere with Vue, Nuxt, and lots of love ♥
+------+ +------+ /| /| |\ |\ +-+----+ | | +----+-+ | | | | | | | | | +----+-+ +-+----+ | |/ |/ \| \| +------+ +------+…
It’s not often these days that I have the experience of “I didn’t know the Web could do that‽”
Once was when I saw DHTML Lemmings, for example, at a time when adding JavaScript to a page usually meant you were doing nothing more-sophisticated than adding a tooltip/popover or switching the images in your mystery meat navigation menu. Another was when I saw Google Earth’s browser-based implementation for the first time, performing 3D manipulations of a quality that I’d previously only seen in dedicated applications.
But I got that today when I played with Layoutit! Terra (from the folks behind one of the better CSS grid layout generators). It’d be pretty cool if it were “just” a Transport Tycoon-like landscape generator and editor, but the thing that blew my mind was discovered that it’s implemented entirely in HTML and CSS… not a line of JavaScript to be seen. Even speaking as somebody who played… and then reverse-engineered… things like Blackle Mori’s CSS Puzzle Box, I can’t even begin to fathom how I’d begin to conceive of such a thing, let alone implement it.
Well done, Layitout! team.
Note #27483
Good morning Lapland!
You’ve got mail
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Subject: “Re-Design and Promotion Strategy for Dead.Garden”
Subject: “About your Dead.Garden”
Subject: “Errors in your Dead.Garden”Dear Dead,
your website is not good enough, in fact, it is actively bad.
Don’t you know that you need Search Engine Optimization?
What are you, some kind of idiot?
Your site is currently ranked on page 1,000,000 of Google,
and if we know anything (in fact, we know everything),
this means that you are wasting not only your time,
but much more importantly
money.
We’ve had a quick look at your site
and noticed a few areas that could be improved.
We’ve discovered that your website’s UI is,
frankly,
complete ass.
Your mobile experience is bad, your CTAs should be shinier and rounder;
Maybe put a gradient here and there.
How are you ever going to get someone to buy your product
without manipulating their behaviour?You’re not selling anything?
Well then, what ARE you doing?…
A fantastic poem that feels exactly like the subtext of every one of these emails I ever receive.
My blog is for me, first and foremost; I suspect Jo feels a similar way about their digital garden. I’m not interested in making money with it, and I’m perfectly comfortable with the fact that it costs me money. These things are all fine. I don’t need an SEO merchant to tell me how they can improve it.
Anyway: go enjoy Jo’s poem.
The Reason I Have 12 Birthdays
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or, how to fuck your shit up by ignoring obvious birthday inflammation symptoms. don’t be like me. seek help.
sorry for this barely scripted and low quality video, the next one will be worse.
special thanks to doctor jacobi for the excellent care, and to the manna charitable foundation for the flight logistics.
The ever-excellent Blackle Mori1 posted this about 18 months ago but I don’t think it got the level of attention it deserves. If if you’ve never experienced birthday inflammation or known anybody who has, it’s an eye-opening experience to hear a first-hand account of this unusual and definitely-real condition.
Footnotes
1 If the name’s familiar but you can’t quite place it, here’s the previous two times I’ve talked about Blackle’s work: my analysis of the construction of the Basilisk Collection, and the (now-famous) Cursed Computer Iceberg.