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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Final Troma Night Of The Year
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And a good Troma Night it was, too. The usual people came - surprising how few of them had gone back to their families for Christmas, yet - although Liz didn't bring Tom, and, as … -
Last Troma of 2003
This repost was published in hindsight, on 23 March 2019.
Kit wrote:
TromaNight rolls to a close in 2003 with three excellent offerings. Tonari no Totoro, Pitch Black and Kiki Delivery Service. The first and last were excellent. Pitch Black was a good middle film without doubt - but perhaps easier to forget because the other … -
Gatecrashing
Claire, Peter and I gatecrashed a friend-of-a-friend's house party last night, and ate all of their Pringles. One of the housemates' music collections was fab: all the best of the Goo Goo Dolls, 3 Doors Down, Nirvana... and some weird (but actually quite good) Welsh rock band.
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Banned From Driving For Life, Before He'd Even Passed His Test
As this news story from the BBC relates, a certain Alan Shirkey from Aberdeen was this week given a life ban on driving, as well as a £300 fine and a year's probation.
He'd started learning to drive over a decade ago, but then stopped. Then, on the day in question - 10 years after he'd … -
Christmas Is Coming, The Exams Are Getting Written
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I haven't done any yet.
I'll start tommorow. Better call my mum and get some tips on what my sisters are into this year. Becky's typically quite easy - she usually just wants the most violent … -
Worst 100 Films Of All Time
IMDB provide a list of the worst 100 films of all time, as rated by their visitors. I particularly enjoyed the fact that four of the Police Academy movies made it into the list. In other words, Police Acadamy films are responsible for 4% of the Worst 100 Films Ever. This shouldn't come as a …
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Something In The Water
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People keep getting together. Kate and Leu, Tom and Liz (now with a journal!), and now: Sian and Andy. Must be something in the water. The latter pair (and the one I most recently heard … -
Troma Night
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Ran out of food, ran out of alcohol: a disgrace from a planning perspective.
On the other hand; we watched...
"Nymphoid Barbarian In Dinosaur Hell", in which a girl (who wasn't really Nymphoid or Barbaric … -
Justification Of What You All Already Thought About My Sanity, And About Orange's Competence
As I promised a few days ago, I called Orange today to complain that I hadn't ever received the two messages for which I've had the cost refunded. The first couple of people said that there was nothing that they could do, but a lot of harassment and a few calls later, and I persuaded …
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The Software Engineers Behind My Alarm Clock
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They must die.
My alarm clock has an interesting featurette. The design is, on the hole, like many similar mains-powered radio alarm clocks. It has a button for "Time Set", and one for "Alarm Set", and … -
Orange Gives Me 80p For No Apparent Reason
Today, Orange sent me a text message apologising for charging me for two picture messages earlier this year, and have apparently credited me 80p as a gesture of compensation. The Register reports that this has happened to others, too, but I can't help but feel that Orange's mistake is even larger than they thought it …
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AbNib & Str8Up!
Oh yeh; and, in case you hadn't noticed - AbNib is down. And it's not my fault! The server fucked up something rotten, but seems to be okay now. And whoever posted a comment to one of my entries the other day and had it not-appear; sorry: same issue.
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Parcel Of Goodies
Woo and indeed hoo. Just when I was about to wander down to Richley's and take advantage of their sale on jeans (having had a nasty shredding-related accident with one-too-many of my existing pairs of trousers a couple of weeks back), my Auntie Anne sends me a parcel of goodies, including several pairs of trousers …
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A Most Unlikely Couple
It turns out that two people I know have become a couple, in what is perhaps the most unlikely relationship I could ever imagine. I'll not say who they are, here, but it's quite funny.
Claire: X and Y are toghether now.
Dan: X? And Y?
Claire: Yeh. That's what I thought.
Bryn: Hang on... X [surname]...
Claire: Yup.
Bryn: And … -
Warning: Extreme Geek Humour
Sat in Burger King...
Bryn: So many nice things come in .deb packages...
Dan: Yeh. Except for some nice things which still come in nasty RPM-shaped packages.
Bryn: I'm not even sure I have an RPM package manager installed.
Dan: I'm sure you can 'apt-get' one.
Oh; how we laughed.