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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Found GC8RN35 NANOBLITZ A Log
This checkin to GC8RN35 NANOBLITZ A Log reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found, but only thanks to the hint! My GPSr had me on the wrong side of the road. In case anybody else is similarly affected, I found the cache about 11m away from where I expected to, …
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Couldn't find GC8RN2T NANOBLITZ C&D Nutkins
This checkin to GC8RN2T NANOBLITZ C&D Nutkins reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Gave up before this one drove me completely... nuts. No luck in any of the many obvious hiding spots; I think it must've wandered off.
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Found GC8R5ZK NANOBLITZ Pulling a Female
This checkin to GC8R5ZK NANOBLITZ Pulling a Female reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The recent winds had blown this little lady clear of her hiding place and into the tree next door. Thankfully I was able to retrieve her by her tether and return her to where (it looks …
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Found GC8R613 NANOBLITZ Sound FX
This checkin to GC8R613 NANOBLITZ Sound FX reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I had to give up on the trail to Deansford Lane: too muddy for my boots! Instead heading East, I found this delightfully noisy cache! Bit of a stretch to reach but managed in the end, and …
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Found GC8R5XX NANOBLITZ Me Robbin Box
This checkin to GC8R5XX NANOBLITZ Me Robbin Box reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A bit muddy down this path, but luckily the cache and its hiding place remain above the water level. And hey, it's stopped raining! Nice. TFTC.
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Found GC8R5WH NANOBLITZ Like a Rat up a Pipe
This checkin to GC8R5WH NANOBLITZ Like a Rat up a Pipe reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. First place I looked, but I still squeaked with delight to see the cache container! There were many options for my stop-and-cache plan on today's journey, but I'm already glad I chose here: …
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Found GC8R5V9 NANOBLITZ Power Point
This checkin to GC8R5V9 NANOBLITZ Power Point reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. On a geohashing expedition, between the 2022-02-19 52 -2 and 2022-02-20 52 -1 hashpoints, I decided to pull over and do a little geocaching. This first find was very easy - coordinates were spot on, and the …
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Geohashing expedition 2022-02-19 52 -2
There's a footpath in Kinnersley, Herefordshire. And now Dan's been there.
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DNDle (Wordle, but with D&D monster stats)
Dan releases DNDle, a Wordle clone where you assign characteristics to try to guess the Dungeons and Dragons monster-of-the-day.
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Automattic International
Off the back of a colleague's throwaway comment, Dan makes cartograms showing how his coworkers' countries proportionally dominate their world map.
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Coco the Criminal and Peanut the Prophet
After squirrels steal his bird feeder, Dan wonders about their motives... and what happened next.
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I know what it means, but my inner child still sniggers every time I see @CSSAnimista's effect "kenburns-bottom".
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Geohashing expedition 2022-02-08 51 -1
A field near Kingston Bagpuize is the site of a geohashing expedition by Dan.
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STAR T/W R/A E/R K/S
Dan shares and comments on an excellent crossword puzzle.
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Reply to An Accidentally ‘Anti-January’ January
Siobhan said:
I fell off the blogging bandwagon just as everyone else was hopping onto it.
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Siobhan Bamber
I was just thinking the same! It felt like everybody and their dog did Bloganuary last month, meanwhile I went in the opposite direction!
Historically, there's been an annual dip in my blogging around February/March …