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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Simpsons, Puppets, And Alcohol
Sat up last night with Bryn and Claire with a cheap bottle of wine and the remains of an expensive bottle of whiskey and watched The Simpsons (Season 3, DVD 2) and Puppets Who Kill (Season 1, the episodes we hadn't seen yet).
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Weekend
I seem to spend most of my time on this blog posting retrospectively about what I did on any given weekend. Will try to spice things up with a little more thought and debateworthy stuff in the future - I've got some ideas. In any case:
Friday was Andy's gig - not as good as the … -
My Greatest Weakness
This post was censored by its author shortly after its publication. The original contents are believed to be completely lost. See: all censored posts.
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Thanks Dad. Love you Claire. Will all be fine yet.
"Alcohol! Now there's a temporary solution!" -
My Very Own Googlebomb
Partially out of curiosity, partially to point out a flaw in the #aber multipass system, I've made my own little googlebomb. For those of you who don't like reading, a googlebomb is where you manipulate the way that popular search engine Google into falsely linking with great priority a page that it probably should not. …
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Rory’s In Town
Met up with Rory this lunchtime in MGees: looks like he's working on moving back to AberWorld whenever he can afford it, and running his business from here. I'm not sure how much of a market there is for payware RSS/ATOM newsfeed readers, but I wish him the best of luck in it anyway. Hopefully …
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Improved Viagra Available From Chemists
As of next week, an improved version of Viagra will be available - without prescription - from your local chemist. Just go up to the counter and request Mycoxafloppin. Satisfy your woman! Cure your errectile disorder! Make $$$ fast! No... wait.
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A Slogan For SmartData
SmartData's considering this as a new slogan to replace "Enjoy smart business. Make data work for you." We've all been asked to 'try out' the proposed new slogan with friends/family/whoever and get some feedback, so I thought I'd put it on my blog. Here we go:
Free time. Work easy. SmartData.
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Error Message Of The Day
Sometimes being a geek is funny.
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Str8Up, Fluxx, Liz’s Birthday, Etc.
Went to Str8Up at the Students Union on Monday night with Bryn, Claire and Paul. Paul complained a little about people (in general) who go to traffic-light parties (where you wear red, yellow or green to reflect your 'availability' and 'desperation' - Claire and I wore red, Paul wore yellow, Bryn wore blue), wearing green, …
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SmartRacer
Yesterday lunchtime I finished writing a program that suddenly makes our working day that little bit more exciting - SmartRacer.
SmartRacer runs quietly in the system tray of as many users want to run it - currently Matt, Haagen, Gareth and me... but I'm trying to get Alex involved, too.
When you click on the system tray … -
Fluxx
Yay. Fluxx arrived. I need one to five volunteers for a pre-GeekNight test game of it tonight. Who's in? -
Another Fun Little Weekend
Another happy fun little weekend. Troma Night on Saturday was particularly good: we watched both Kill Bill films back-to-back, along with the usual collection of other crap. Not-gay Gareth couldn't make it, in the end (his parents are visiting this weekend), so we may have to see him some other weekend.
We've proposed a few more … -
I Don’t Think ACME Get Many Customers
I recently bought three board games (Munchkin 3, Fluxx and Puerto Rico) from ACME Computer Games in Bangor (yes, I know, the same guys who got confused over my order before...). Somehow, I don't think they get many e-customers: I just grabbed this screenshot from their web site -
Notice that I'm looking at Munchkin 3, … -
Munchkin game... Of Doom!
This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.
Ruth wrote:
Dan: "Let's play Hacker!"
Andy: "No, let's play Munchkin. It'll be shorter."
General Agreement3 and a half hours later:
Dan finally wins. All players have been at level nine almost constantly for about half an hour. Several attempts at winning have been made, but all have … -
8pm, Arts Centre, Be There Or Be Elsewhere
Contrary to my perpetually changing plans, we're off to see Bubba Ho-Tep at the Arts Centre tonight - 8pm. If you're in town and need a slightly more relaxed night out, come along!