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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National Full-Stop Shortage
Extract from a personal (online) conversation, today:
Rockmonkey: it was very boring well no not boring but i could understand law like u and a simple web site so didn't pay attention and explained it to others after
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The Silence Of The RockMonkeys
Argh! Nothing's happeneing on RockMonkey... I'm being forced to waste time by making phallic sculptures out of blu-tack.
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Bubba Ho-Tep
What's everybody doing tommorow (Thursday) night? Wanna go see Bubba Ho-Tep at the Arts Centre cinema? It scores 7.6 on the IMDB, so it's better than most of the crap we watch. I'm trying to avoid learning too much about it in case I 'kill' it, but here's the plot outline according to the IMDB: …
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Not-Gay Gareth
Not-Gay Gareth Is Back In Town!
By sheer coincidence, I bumped into not-gay Gareth, a friend of mine from my second year, who studied Film & TV while working as a projectionist at the Arts Centre cinema. It's him who introduced me to both Troma and Studio Ghibli, and therefore him who's (inadvertently) been a huge … -
Dudley’s Dungeon
Another fantastic Dudley's Dungeon (comic for Nethack-lovers) today.
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WikiPlatformGame On RockMonkey
Inspired by Jon's WikiMaze on RockMonkey, the wiki-powered website that I helped Andy to set up, I've made WikiPlatformGame. Go have a play! And, if you don't mind really bad humour, try the EvilWikiPlatformGame afterwards.
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Tigris And Orkney
A somewhat low-key Geek Night last night: just a game of Munchkin and a game of the stunning Tigris & Euphrates. Matt won the Munchkin battle, with a cleverly executed win against a monster while he was at level 8, which we let him get away with (the other three of us were level 9's) …
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Halloween In Aber
I'm a big bad wolf, it seems. And last night I, along with Little Red Riding Hood (Claire), Death (Bryn), Paul (Andy!), Judge Doom [barely] (JTA), Pinocchio (Matt), and Matt (not in costume... grr), went out to the Coopers Arms to see Pagan Wanderer Lu. And he was good - some songs I knew, some …
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Good To Be In D.C.
The guys behind "This Land" have done it again - this time with "It's Good To Be In D.C.". Requires Shockwave Flash - click here to watch!
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ClaireMelton Wanted Even More Than MisterJTA
I've been playing around on RockMonkey a little much these last two days (it's a wiki-based site I've helped Andy set up. Today, while browsing the WantedPages list (a list of pages that have been referenced by other pages but not yet defined) I noticed something interesting: the most-wanted entry is... ClaireMelton: eight pages reference …
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The Onion’s “Election Day Guide”
The Onion have some tips for those who's be voting next week, our friends on the other side of the pond. Worth reading.
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RockMonkey
Yay! I've got a page on RockMonkey.
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The Mathematics Of Woman
Here's a thought for you. We all know that women seem to take up a lot of time and money - in actual fact, having women is the product of time and money, which can be expressed thusly:
women = time x money
We also know, from the old adage, that "time is money":
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A Great Wedding Was Had By All
Bryn, Paul, Claire and I went to Kit and Fiona's wedding this weekend. Despite the hideously long drive (almost 11 hours, with driver/navigator pairs driving and sleeping in shifts in order to maintain progress) throughout Friday night - and the equally long journey back on Sunday, it was a most fantastic and memorable experience.
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Amused Me This Monday Morning
Two things of a religious nature that amused me this morning:
The Rapture Index - what happens if you take the models used to predict global stock exchange behaviour and apply them to biblical prophecy about "the last days". It's funny, right up until you realise that they're absolutely serious. Pretty site, though.
How To Tell If …