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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My 1:1 with the Queen
Martin Beeby shares a recording of his recent 1:1 performance review with Her Majesty The Queen.
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Rebuilding a Windows box with Chocolatey
As often happens when he moves house, Dan broke a PC. But thanks to package manager Chocolatey, he was able to get it back up-and-running in a fraction of the time he might have expected.
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Simply Paul found GC88ZY9 The Devil's Quoits
After Dan launched a new (virtual) geocache, he marvels at the FTF log... posted at 2am the following morning!
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Human Tapestry - Episode 1
Dan features in the inaugural episode of a new podcast about the diversity of human experience of relationships, sexuality, attraction, and the like.
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Break Into . Us (lock puzzle game)
Some people, when faced with a puzzle, try to solve it. Dan tries to recreate it. That's how he wrote his latest game: Break Into Us.
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Found GC8VMXW Spooky container
This checkin to GC8VMXW Spooky container reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. FTF! (Been a while since I got one of those!)
A quick park-and-grab while on the way back from the school run which, following my house move the other week, goes right past the end of this road. Not … -
Found GC4XEPP School Run
This checkin to GC4XEPP School Run reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A second quick geocache find while the 6 year-old and I took a stroll around the village, which - as of yesterday - became our home! Nice to see the lights here that'll help protect her during our …
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Found GC7XEZ9 Church Micro 12107...Stanton Harcourt
This checkin to GC7XEZ9 Church Micro 12107...Stanton Harcourt reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Moved to the village yesterday; found this cache quickly (after a glance at the hint) while out on a walk around our new neighbourhood. TFTC!
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Tour of our old house
We've only got a couple of days left before we move to our new house. In order that she and her little brother might better remember our old house, I encouraged our 6 year-old to record a video tour.
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Buying Another House
By the weekend, Dan hopes to have moved house. Again, but perhaps for the last time?
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Intent
Jeremy Keith shares his thoughts on his (almost inevitable) racism.
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SPACEX - ISS Docking Simulator
SpaceX released a free simulator game of the ISS docking procedure. It's pretty challenging.
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Stethoscope
My partner @scatmandan just completed his Masters degree. His sister @bornvulcan sent him a stethoscope as a congratulations gift which is one of the funniest things to happen in these parts for a while.
Ruth Trevor-Allen (@fleeblewidget)
I'm not sure my sister understands that a masters degree is not a doctorate. I don't … -
With #lockdown guidance as it stands, only six of the seven dwarfs can meet together in the park?
The seventh dwarf won't be Happy.
In fact, he'll be Grumpy.
Which is a problem, because that means one of the six is Sneezy. -
Sour Grapes... a Murder Mystery in Lockdown
Dan doesn't let lockdown get in the way of hosting a murder mystery party, with thanks to the power of video conferencing and a prefabricated script.