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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Introduction (to SMAC)
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri[1] (which we fondly refer to here as SMAC, both as an acronym and in reference to its potent addictive properties) opens in an odd way for a science fiction game. Most such games open with spaceships, star travel, or some futuristic technology. They seek to hook the imagination. But our game begins much more …
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Starring to feel like #Christmas! It's that time of the year when I finally run out of goose fat from LAST Christmas.
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Carry Fire
"My dad'd love this!" Dan thinks as he listens to Robert Plant's new album, in the first case of him momentarily-forgetting-his-dad's-death in almost a year. It's a pretty good album, regardless.
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Found GLTHEB08 Mutiny on the Bounty
This checkin to GLTHEB08 Mutiny on the Bounty reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found easily this morning while on the way to a museums conference at the Imperial War Museum (because no trip to London is complete without a geocache being found!). Wasn't exactly where the hint seems to …
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Speaking of volunteers, #MuseTech17: how do you manage yours? Wearing my @3RingsCIC hat: www.threerings.org.uk is seeing increased adoption.
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#MuseTech17 @cawston I wonder how the psychological diff. between transparent and opaque donation boxes is affected by "opaque" contactless?
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#MuseTech17 @cawston has done interesting experiments in feedback/"rewards" for contactless donors, e.g. "thanks" videos.
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#MuseTech17 Thought: does adding a "narrative-building" preposition to digital exhibit labels count as clickbait?
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#MuseTech17 Kevin Bacon and his team have learned the same lessons as the @bodleianlibs did about kiosks, in the same order... #dejavu
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Are speakers planning to put #MuseTech17 slides online? It'd save effort by the people who seem to be photographing every... single... slide
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#MuseTech17 @hannahfox: "Encourage (especially young) people to contribute to your ideas; take risks; engage community; focus on feelings."
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#musetech17 @hannahfox sells us on the value of empathy in the museum sector. Don't be afraid to feel!
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Off to #musetech17 (@ukmcg) at the @I_W_M, who also happen to be @3RingsCIC users... #wearingmanyhats
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Jokes That Aged Badly
Why is Margaret Thatcher like a pound coin? Find out why, and then have the joke explained to you, here.
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Excited to hear that #ogn45 will be happening this autumn. Any update on when/where, @oxfordgeeks?