Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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Did not find GC6QQXW #1 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT
This checkin to GC6QQXW #1 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A disappointing start to this morning's walk. There's an obvious host that I spent some your poking under without success, after which I turned to the trees to see if they could …
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Found GC9D4V6 29# CAMINS DE MONTBRIÓ (PARC SAMA)
This checkin to GC9D4V6 29# CAMINS DE MONTBRIÓ (PARC SAMA) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick find after a visit to the gardens with my family. Sneaky container: I like it. We'd accidentally parked the car almost next to the cache! Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK, and TFTC/GLA!
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Found GC6QTWA #13 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT
This checkin to GC6QTWA #13 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Finding the cache was easy. Reaching around to pull it from its hiding place was harder! But soon I had it in hand. This has been a lovely morning walk.
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Found GC6QV11 #15 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT
This checkin to GC6QV11 #15 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I was glad if the shade provided by the trees along this delightful footpath. Working up a bit of a sweat out here! Had to break from the footpath and kick through …
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Found GC6QTVF #9 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT
This checkin to GC6QTVF #9 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick and easy find once I spotted a likely hiding place. Starting to feel like I should have had breakfast before I set off! TFTC/GPA, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK.
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Found GC6QTVM #10 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT
This checkin to GC6QTVM #10 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My family and I are on holiday staying nearby. I came out this morning to explore and try to find a couple of local geocaches while the children were still asleep. This …
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They love RSS
unstory claims that people who, like, me, announce their love of RSS in footers etc. don't actually love RSS, and couldn't handle operating the protocol 'by hand'. unstory is wrong, at least in my case.
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Found GCB1918 Peggy Bedford's blocked gate
This checkin to GCB1918 Peggy Bedford's blocked gate reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I'm staying in the Thistle Hotel around the corner before a flight in the morning, and stepped out to find this cache - and some supper - before bed. Sorry to hear about your muggle troubles, …
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Geohashing expedition 2026-08-07 51 -1
A successful expedition to a hashpoint in a field, while travelling to Heathrow Airport on a Friday evening!
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Normal F***ing Sunglasses
DuckDuckGo have gotten into the smart glasses game, and they've come up with a pair that, dare I say it... I would actually buy!
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You're Pronouncing JPEG Wrong
Fighting about the correct way to pronounce GIF is so last decade. Let's fight about how to pronounce JPEG.
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No green and only two black wine gums in this bag? Feeling robbed.
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On a desk, a packet of Maynards' Wine Gums has been emptied out and its contents sorted by colour: there are five orange, two black, and ten red sweets.
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BeepAlive - keeping my soundbar from going to sleep
My dog ate the remote for the soundbar on my TV/media centre, and it keeps going into 'sleep mode'. So I wrote a software tool that periodically makes an inaudible noise to trick the soundbar into staying 'awake'. That's how a hacky engineer like me fixes a hardware problem with a software solution!
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Sainsburys grapes confuse me.
500g of white grapes are £2. 500g or red grapes are £2.20. So you'd expect 500g of half-red, half-white grapes to be... £2.10, right? But no, that's £2 too.
So buying 500g of white grapes and 500g of red grapes is cheaper if you buy the mixed packs and then separate them. Why!?
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Online shopping screenshot showing four packets of seedless grapes. 500g red grapes are £2.20; 500g white grapes are £2.00; 500g red & white grapes are £2.00; 900g mixed (red, white and black) grapes are £3.95.
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(Feeling Fucking) Fabulous in Blackpool
This year, MEEK's Fabulous has been stuck on a loop in my head, but I only just got around to watching the music video. Which, to my delight, is shot in the region of what I reckon is Britain's gayest pub crawl. Let's take a tour together...