Dan Q – Page 333

O what a beautiful moooooorniiiiing…

This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.

Ruth wrote:

So, after raining for both my days off, it’s now sunny again. I don’t mind though. Friday I got rained on, had lunch at MGs, got rained on some more, did laundry, went for a bike ride and got rained on. In the evening JTA and I went to geek night and got rained on, but it was fun. We played Man O’ War and Scotland Yard, a couple of games that Dan found. I discovered how to make Scotland Yard a lot harder for the ‘baddy’ by maths. mwa ha ha.

Saturday was going to be the day Dan, Claire, JTA and I went down the Rheidol in a little plastic boat as the tide went out, but somebody’s spilt raw sewage into the river and polluted the bay, so we didn’t do that after all. Instead, I came home and did some reading, drank some tea, generally loafed about. When I made supper there were pigeons in the kitchen, which was a bit weird but apparently it’s a hazard of living on the sea-front.

Troma night in the evening. It was quite a quiet one, initially just Dan, Claire, JTA and I, although we were later joined by Bryn and Jon and a frazzled looking Matt P. We watched Ocean’s 12, which was much better than I expected, and then Teenagers From Space, which was enjoyably awful.

And now I’m going to spend this beautiful day working… Meh.

Naruto Night II

Tonight at 8, if anybody’s interested. “Future Boy” and “Ghiblies” are on the cards, as is “Naruto” if either (a) Paul brings some, (b) Not-Gay Gareth brings some, or (c) I acquire some by then. See you later!

Dan And Alex

Dan & Alex comic strip

Man O’ War Rules, Templates, Info Etc.

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Back In Aber

Claire and I are back in Aber after our trip around the country. We’re both knackered so, for now, that is all.

Claire’s Birthday, and Preston

Well, Claire and I are in Preston. We travelled up here last night (after a few false starts, including getting to Mach before realising we’d left the Green Day tickets blu-tacked to the wall “so we don’t forget them” in Aber and having to turn back). Claire’s been made out to be a bookworm again, with a heap of new reading material to keep her occupied for the coming year.

Visited my mum’s house. My sisters are typically hilarious. They’ve got a new chicken (after the last ones were eaten by foxes) + chicks, and a new guinea pig (called Pork Chop, which I think is a fantastic name for a guinea pig), and the puppies have grown up so it’s complete mayhem of the excitable 3-month-old doggy variety. They’d decorated a cake for Claire’s birthday, which read “Happy Birfday [sic] Mini Melton” and had an (anatomically correct) picture of her, with an arrow and the word “You” pointing to it.

This evening, we’re off to see Feeder and R.E.M. at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground, which’ll be fab, and then tomorrow, we’re travelling down to Milton Keynes to see Green Day (& friends), then we’ll spend Sunday in London before returning to Aber. This puts Troma Night in the hands of those of you still in Aber. Bryn has a key to the flat, and I’ve changed my password on Duality to something you’ll be able to guess: to determine it, look at the large yellow sign in the kitchen – there is a mis-spelling on it, and there is a number on it. Type the mis-spelled word (in lowercase) as it appears on the sign, followed by the number. If you have any trouble, text me. And if somebody could record/download the Dr. Who episode (as Claire and I will miss it), that’d be great.

I mentioned to my family that the computer game that’s occupied me most of late is Microsoft Train Simulator. My dad seemed pleased, but the rest of my family seem to want to award me an anorak. Once she’d checked to see that I wasn’t joking, the dialogue with Becky went as follows:

Bex: Microsoft Train Simulator?
Dan: Yup.
Bex: Trains?
Dan: Uh-huh.
Bex: So… what? You plan train routes, manage finances, that kind of thing…
Dan: No, it’s not like Transport Tycoon. You drive trains.
Bex: You… drive trains.
Dan: Yeah; you drive different kinds of trains along real-world routes to a schedule.
Bex: So… do you like; earn money and you can buy better trains? Or unlock secret areas?
Dan: No.
Bex: Wh… bu… <disapproving silence>

Well; I’m guessing she won’t be wanting a copy, then.

Fun. Cool. Saucy. Axe Feather.

This was fun even before I realised that tickling her in different places when she was in different positions had different effects.

I like it.

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Squashed Philosophers – Condensed Philosophy

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I Can’t Stop Thinking! #6

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Napster was never about stealing music

SmartData (And French Visitors) Night Out

SmartData and friends (including our French exchange students and some of their friends from placements around the UK went out for a few drinks and a dance on Friday night. Here’s a piccy which I think pretty much sums up the theme for the evening:

Axe Feather

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Tickle that girl. Damn sexy.

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Robotic Bins And Benches

Singing Benches Let Loose In City, writes the BBC. Just plain weird, say I.

Dan And Alex

Dan & Alex comic

Good Stuff

Well; everything’s going notably well this last day or two: Naruto Night I, our new weekly Thursday Night anime night, went off well: only Paul, JTA, Claire and I were able to make it, but that’s pretty much the number we got to the first ever Troma Night, and look what a success that turned out to be… Anyway; Paul and I will try to get a web site set up, because we think this has potential.

Work’s going well, but that’s just work. Claire’s got some good news, but I think she’ll want to share it with you in her blog when she gets round to it.

And, after a few days of stalling, I’ve made a little more progress on TromaNightAdventure2, the sequel to my original RockMonkey WikiGame adventure game. My planned format has changed a little, and it won’t be featuring as a WikiGame directly any more, but… you’ll see: I’m hoping to formally announce progress and a release date next week.

Off to work. Don’t forget, no Geek Night tonight.

Naruto Night

Okay, okay, so I took my time to look at and get into Naruto, a most fantastic anime series. Thanks to Rory and Gareth for showing me the movie, and Paul for providing episodes.

We’ll now be having a weekly “Naruto Night” (to go alongside Tuesday’s “Knightmare Night”, Friday’s “Geek Night”, and Saturday’s “Troma Night”), on Thursday nights, starting tomorrow at 8pm. At each of these we’ll watch about 6 episodes of the Naruto series… assuming Paul can keep me supplied with them. And… I don’t know… eat ramen or something.

Tomorrow we’ll watch episodes 2 through 8, unless anybody comes along who’s never seen any before, in which case we’ll start at number 1. If you’re in two minds, come: it’s fab. See you there.

In other news, Geek Night this week will be rescheduled to Sunday night as Claire and I will be going on a “SmartData and friends and clients and friends and various French exchange students” pub crawl on Friday night. Which you’re all welcome to, if you like – I’ll happily introduce everybody to everybody – and if hanging out with drunken geeks is your thing, come along.

My head feels wheelful.