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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The hours of queuing pays off! Let's go!
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Dan, near the front of a long queue, in front of an illuminated West End Live sign.
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Back of the queue for West End Live. It's gonna be a long wait, but hopefully worth it!
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Dan, wearing a Slamilton t-shirt, stands with a tweenager outside a Central London building.
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Off to London for a couple of days of musical theatre fun! Don't wait up!
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Dan on a speeding train.
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125 days since our house flooded, and the damaged furniture fittings, floors, underfloors, and now inner walls have been torn out.
Over a third of a year since we had to move out, I'm optimistic that perhaps, at last, reconstruction work is almost ready to begin.
It's a long, slow process. And there's clearly a way to go. But it's good to see progress happening.
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A view through a pair of dilapidated residential rooms, through the gaps in a hollowed-out partition wall.
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🎶 It starts with sausage,
A hot dog in a bun.
One simple sausage,
Put some mustard on one...Is it just me, or are (sinner) Sir Pentious's colours reminiscent of a hot dog?
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Sir Pentious, an anthropomorphic snake from Hazbin Hotel, in black and yellow longitudinal stripes with red 'eyes'.
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I guess it's sweet that the dog has decided that I'm not to leave my home office without her noticing.
But when the naps right behind my wheelie chair I worry she's going to get her paws run over!
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A fawn-coloured French Bulldog lies on a laminate floor against the feet of an office chair.
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Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme
With thanks to Mark Palko for sharing: this seems like a spot-on observation of Musk's career. Wouldn't it be nice if the world's first trillionaire also happened to be the world's last trillionaire?
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Ad Infinitum
An excellent article by Matthias Ott describes Google's promised AI-first search experience, which dispenses with search results entirely and just uses an LLM (plus sponsored content seamlessly woven in), keeping you entirely within the search giant's ecosystem and minimising how much they cite their sources. As you might imagine, I have some Opinions too.
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New social media restrictions
Despite being parody, diamond geezer's new age-gating - which e.g. asks for personal information but, obviously, doesn't actually block access to the site - somehow perfectly straddles the line between "invasive" and "ineffective"... in exactly the same way that I expect the UK's legal implementation will manage in a year or two.
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Making another attempt at learning to tango, this time at a more-beginner, more-local class. It's still super hard but he makes me question whether I even know how to walk, let alone dance, but I love it so much!
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My Polyamory is Boring
A conversation with another openly-polyamorous blogger led us to ask one another why we don't write about our relationship structure more-often. In my case, the answer is simple: my relationships are boring, and that's a good thing! But here's your chance to tell me I'm wrong...
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This morning I had a lovely meeting with Andreas Marakis, who's researching the sociological impact of the Web of the 1990s on people who experienced it first-hand.
I'm seeing more and more interest in this period - even, surprisingly, among people too young to be nostalgic about it - as the countercultural "web renaissance" tiptoes out of the shadows and encourages newcomers to take their first steps in building their own Web identity with HTML, CSS, and (maybe) JavaScript.
Anyway: chatting to Andreas was great and it reminded me of quite how grateful I am to have gotten to experience a lot of these seminal technologies when they were at their newest and most-experimental.
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Is midnight in the middle of the night?
Niki wondered whether "midnight" is actually the middle of the night and discovered that it pretty much is. I explain that this is because he's in Berlin, which sits very close (only about 6 minutes out) from the solar UTC+1
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I want my friends to have blogs too
Daniel loves blogs and loves blogging, but wishes that more of the people in his 'real life' blogged too. I get it, Daniel!
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AI is not a person
And it's important to remember that. Chris Ferdinandi has some direct words, and I expand upon them.