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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Game Theory Applied
A friend of mine recently posted the the following conundrum to his blog:
I found the deck of cards from a board game called scrupples (it poses you a dilemma and your opponents guess how you would respond) and I thought up another one completely off the top of my head:
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Black Sheep
We have to get this film for Troma Night: Black Sheep. It looks stupid enough to rival Isolation (angry mutant livestock!), which some of you saw last Halloween, but at least it doesn't seem to take itself too seriously. See the trailer:
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Troma Night CLXI - Tonight
CHANGE OF PLANS: All of the tickets for Pan's Labyrinth are sold out. For those that didn't get a ticket in time and for those that weren't coming to Pan's Labyrinth anyway, Troma Night now starts as usual at The Cottage at 8pm. Tell anybody who might not know.
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The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Well, that's Twilight Princess for the Wii finished. And quite a spectacular game it was too. Highlights [warning: spoilers] include:
Predictably Zelda: many of the best elements of Zelda games gone by made it into Twilight Princess, so much so that the predictability of some of the plot elements will make accomplished … -
Gorillamania 1 - Comedy Night - 28th January
Gorillamania 1 - the upcoming Gorilla Monsoon comedy night - has been announced! Three Cardiff comedians will be doing their stuff in the Coopers Arms, supported by two of Aber's own - Ben Poole and... Scatman Dan! Show starts 8pm on Sunday 8th January. Read more about the event on the official website.
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The Decline And Fall Of The British University
Here's one for the academics amongst you: an article by a Mark Tarver entitled Why I Am Not A Professor OR The Decline And Fall Of The British University. Without having had the decades in academia that the author has had, it's hard for me to easily agree with him. However; I suspect he's right. …
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Plans For The Weekend
For those of you that were wondering, here are some of the plans for the weekend:
Saturday (Tonight) - Troma Night
Tonight, 8pm, at The Cottage. We'll be watching Airplane, some dodgy Mystery Science Theater 3000, and Airplane II. Both Airplane movies in one night: surely, I can't mean it? Yes, indeed I … -
It Couldn’t Be You
Following up on my Lottery Winners Counter JavaScript toy, and on Andy's recent blog post about trying to rig the lottery using statistics, I decided to write a new software toy to help demonstrate exactly how impossible it is to do as he suggests and guarantee a profit through the strategic purchase of large numbers …
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Top Ten Worst Domain Names
Do you think that the Italian power company, PowerGen, were actually thinking of how else their domain name could be read when they registered powergenitalia.com? And there's at least nine more equally badly-chosen domain names.
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My Mum On Christmas Day
As Paul indicated, Claire and I are out of Aberystwyth this Christmas: first with my folks, then with hers. As I'd threatened it yesterday, I'm sharing with you and the world in general this video of my mum on Christmas Day. She's had a few drinks already, and she's decided that she's suddenly able to …
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Otters
This morning, I saw a family of three otters swimming up the Rheidol. I've never seen or even heard of otters in Aberystwyth before, so I found this noteworthy and remarkable. In answer to questions in advance: Yes, I'm sure they were otters: I had quite a clear view from the riverbank. No, I don't …
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A Very Merry Troma Night - Tonight At The Cottage
Tonight's Troma Night will be held at The Cottage. It's the final Troma Night of the year, and it'll be our least Christmassy of the "Christmas" Troma Nights ever, we suspect! Here's the plan:
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Geek Night Tonight
We haven't had a Geek Night in, like, forever, and a few folks I was talking to last night suggested one. So let's have one! The Cottage at 7pm; see you there.
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Synopsis For Harry Potter Movie
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Gorilla Monsoon Mailing List
The Gorilla Monsoon Mailing List is finally becoming usable, after a lot of kicking of the Monsooners by yours truly. If you're in Aber, and interested in stand-up comedy, and weren't on the mailing list because it was impossible to persuade anybody to put you on it, the problem has now been fixed and you …