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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Couldn't find GC3VJAT Route Canal - Dukes Cut
This checkin to GC3VJAT Route Canal - Dukes Cut reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My last hunt of the day, as it started to get dark and my GPSr's battery finally died and it made a sad noise and fell asleep. The hint only told me what I already …
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Couldn't find GC3XVHG Route Canal - Plough View
This checkin to GC3XVHG Route Canal - Plough View reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A narrowboater had moored nearby and struck up a conversation with me as I parked my bike and sat on the bench near this cache. It's a shame he was so friendly, because it gave …
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Couldn't find GC4CFE3 Route Canal - Court View
This checkin to GC4CFE3 Route Canal - Court View reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Battery was starting to get low on my phone, which I was using as my GPS and which I'd forgotten to properly charge before I left the office this afternoon, so I didn't hunt for …
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Couldn't find GCN69F Never at Sea - Grog
This checkin to GCN69F Never at Sea - Grog reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Took a diversion on my way home from work to try to get this and some of the Route Canal series. Unfortunately I failed at this, my first cache of the day, when I found …
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Found GLDTXPXH Route Canal - Wolvercote Lock
This checkin to GLDTXPXH Route Canal - Wolvercote Lock reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick and easy find as I cycled home to Kidlington up the Oxford canal.
Battery was getting really low now, so I decided that if I was only going to be able to manage one … -
Found GLDTXPFT Route Canal - End of the Road
This checkin to GLDTXPFT Route Canal - End of the Road reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. It's been over a year since I've done a "serious" caching expedition, and the clue threw me for a while as I tried to dredge up an old memory of what it meant. …
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Found GLDTXP8T Route Canal - Oxford End
This checkin to GLDTXP8T Route Canal - Oxford End reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Had to stretch to reach it! Nice cache.
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Found GLDT2A0Y Wreck this Logbook*
This checkin to GLDT2A0Y Wreck this Logbook* reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Took my co-workers lizrosemccarthy and kateevery out on their first ever geocaching expedition, and this was their first ever find: what a great first-cache for anybody. Scrawled in the log, along with other vandalism which I'll leave …
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/r/ReverseReverseGIF/. For when /r/ReverseGIF feels backwards to you.
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Sometimes when you reverse a reverse GIF, what you get still looks backwards.
[this image was lost when minus.com shut down]
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Motorcycle police chase black athlete out of town, into lake
AltRace
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Children's book about a kid and an alien represented by an asterisk (*)
I read a book as a child, probably in the early 1990s, whose story sick with me but which I haven't been able to find since. The plot goes thusly: a child plays a semi text-based video game in which he controls a character (represented by an asterisk), but it later becomes apparent that … -
Surprises, e.g. a Brother-in-Law
While on the way to a stag night in Edinburgh, Dan stops to perform magic in Preston and is surprised to discover that his sister has secretly gotten married.
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@TheGodzillaGirl @bornvulcan #am #i #doing #this #right #hashtag #questionmark
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@mccarthy_liz on computers not doing what she expected: "I wish that computer weren't so inanimate... and could feel shame."