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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Another Quote From Claire
She's particularly dippy tonight -
Woman on TV shopping channel, talking about product: "This is the R.S.P.C.A sleepshirt..."
Claire (commenting on apparent stupidity of presenter): "I bet she can't even spell R.S.P.C.A." -
Quote From Claire
Claire: I'm not very confident about my exam this Saturday. That's why I haven't done any revision. And why I stopped attending the lectures.
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Eurovision At Troma Night?
All Troma Night folks are requested to vote on this week's Troma Night plans! Are you coming? Do you want us to watch JTA's choice of films, or would you rather we watched the final of the Eurovision Song Contest (with full drinking/betting rules) and put off JTA for another day.
"What are you waiting for? … -
Life Among Stressed Students
It's exam week, and so I find myself surrounded by stressy students. Sundeep, in particular, worries far too much about her exams; but even Claire's not immune: while on the surface she's fine, she's been having weird dreams (of missing an exam... of failing an exam... spot a theme?) and has been getting frustrated easily. …
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Candlelight
Contrary to what JTA thinks, it's quite easy to read by candlelight. I couldn't sleep last night (or, to put it another way, I wasn't even remotely tired by the time Claire went to bed, which is perhaps more a result of the fact that she's not used to getting up so early in the …
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Face-Burning Chilli
Many of you reading this will have eaten one of my chilli con carnes before, where I've used my Da Bomb: The Final Answer hot sauce in the recipe before (original recipe). For those not in-the-know, when cooking chilli to feed four or so, I tend to use the following system to measure the hot …
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Today’s Progress
Today's progress - at work - has been stunning, compared to the problems of last week. This morning, I came in, plugged in, did the mandatory e-mail and blog checks, read some news, then got down to work. I slapped on some Pink Floyd (Echoes and Division Bell) and the code... just... worked. By just …
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My New Route Home From Work
Tide permitting, I've been taking a new route home from work. It's not much of a shortcut, not even taking 30 seconds off my time to get home, but it's certainly a lot more fun than the regular route. Of course; it's only accessible at high tide, and it does take a little bit of …
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Uplifting Text Message
Content Warning This archived blog post has been flagged as containing content that treats or depicts people negatively based on their appearance or identity. This wasn't okay at the time and it isn't okay now. I don't believe it's acceptable to pretend I didn't write them by removing them from the Internet - insofar as …
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For My Mum…
"Does she?" -
Claire
45 minutes ago Claire went to get dressed so we can leave the house. She's just finished putting her jumper on.
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Toaster Death
Our toaster at work just blew up. It's an Inspirations 4-Slice Toaster and I'd recommend against it to anybody. It's actually the second such toaster we've had: Alex bought one from Woolworths so we could toast things and before long it developed a problem such that only 2 of the slots actually worked (the others …
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Could Be A Lot Worse
At least my week's getting better towards the end. Extracts from an e-mail from my mum:
...work - complete nightmare, back-to-back meetings most days with no time to implement the outcomes and so much work looming I don't know where to start... ...XXXXX is pregnant and leaving in a month or two (not to be replaced) … -
Andy’s Dingbats Challenge
Remember my dingbats challenges? (challenge 1, answers; challenge 2, answers) Well; Andy took my engine and made one of his own, which I forgot to link to earlier. Anyway, go take it if you like, but the answers are probably out by now.
It's a little bit more random and weird and off-the-wall than mine, mind. -
Busy Busy Busy
It's going to be one of those weeks. I can tell: I haven't finished stuff I was going to do on Monday morning yet. It's not helped by the fact that we've had various computers fall over and we've got two French students (as part of the Leonardo da Vinci scheme) who need leading-by-the-hand for …