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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You Know Your Program Is Convoluted When…
...the client calls up and says, "I'm not sure if this is a bug... or a feature... but -"
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The Doctor That DOESN’T Just Tell You What You Want To Hear
I went to the doctor this morning to discuss the side-effects of the lariam tablets. I'd made the appointment just a week ago, when I was still having weird mood swings and not being able to sleep, like, at all. Since my last tablet, though, last Tuesday, I've been pretty much fine: nothing worse than …
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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Watched Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind last night with Claire and Paul. It's an absolutely stunning film (currently ranking at #49 in the IMDB's top 250 films list), a must-see! Go watch it! But try to know as little as you can about it before you do; it'll only improve the expeirence.
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The Register Takes Off In Aberystwyth
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The Register have this story and photo, taken in Aberystwyth: can anybody identify the woman in the picture?...
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Random Drunken Piano Appreciation Society Of Aberystwyth
So Paul, Claire and I are in The Flat. Paul's reading, I'm coding, and Claire is playing the piano. It's half past eleven. The doorbell rings.
Who could that be? None of us are expecting anybody, and most of the folks we know have already left town to be with their families, etc. I go downstairs … -
Lariam Dream The Fourth
Perhaps the most disturbing dream yet since I started on this weird medication. And I promise you that if you know the people starring in it, you'll be scared, too...
Warning: Sexually Explicit Content - You Have Been Warned
I only remember fragments of the dream, but two particular images stand out:
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Calling In Sick
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Feel rotten. And I'm supposed to be back at work, today. Called in sick, especially apologetically.
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Bizzare Definitions That Come From Weird Conversations
Claire and I came up with the following definition:
Quamplicated [adj.] - being or relating to a thought about something on your person or some sensation that, by nature of thinking about it, alters the target of the thought.
All of last week I've been seeing people who are leaving. Yeh, I know, I ought to be … -
Lariam Dream The Third
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Another weird dream last night. Surprisingly similar 'cast' to some previous ones.
Some friends and I, and my mum, are … -
Dan’s Best Impression Yet
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Want to see me do my impression of a coconut?
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World’s Highest Bridge Completed
With it's road surface 270 metres above ground, and 2,460 metres long, this bridge could be visualised quite well if you imagine a bridge joining the tops of Pen Dinas and Constitution Hill, in Aberystwyth. Just another impressive feat of engineering I thought I'd share with you. I like bridges. Read the full story here.
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Claire Doesn’t Seem To Know What To Do With Herself
Claire doesn't seem to know what to do with herself. She had her last exam for the year this morning.
Previously, she'd play computer games in an effort to procrastinate on revising. But now she doesn't have to revise, so she can't find anything to procrastinate from doing.
Perhaps I should give her something to do.
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Lariam Dream The Second
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Another somewhat trippy-themed dream since I've been under the influence of lariam:
I am at my mum's house, and I'm watching some live … -
Mood Swings
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Fucking hell; this stuff is weird.
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Blimps… In Space
Now here's a funky idea - sub-orbital spaceflight in enormous helium balloons, up to a two-mile wide sub-space station (a permanant facility at the very boundries of our atmosphere). This could be used to carry spaceship components for assembly in orbit, and then launched using ion drives at a fraction of the price of rocket …