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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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #1:
Stand on the sea wall at high tide during a storm and watch the waves crash over your head, then walk home wet.
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Aberystwyth Admission
Dan starts his academic career at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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Avatar Diary - Tiberian Sun
Dan buys Tiberian Sun and spends a few weeks letting it eat his life.
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Avatar Diary - Solar Eclipse
Dan's first blog started with a commentary on the August 1999 solar eclipse. This placeholder post represents that experience.
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Head Sizes
Is there a correlation between head circumference and intelligence, as measured by GCSE scores? Our research says no.
Raw data:
MALE Head Size (cm) GCSE Score TOPLINE BOTTOMLEFT BOTTOMRIGHT 60.4 45 12.87 115.025625 21.855625 57.2 48 31.605 56.625625 2.805625 57.5 44 1.565 61.230625 32.205625 56.4 41 -18.83 45.225625 75.255625 57.1 44 1.485 55.130625 32.205625 56.6 … -
Swimathon 1999
This image was shared here in hindsight, on 25 May 2019.
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Avatar Diary
Went to church with Alecia and Richard. There's a weird experience for me. Tasted the new flavour of Juicefuls from Brewsters while I was in town - Strawberry flavour. They're just as addictive as all the other flavours. Though I had intended to use the remainder of the day to finish tidying my room (the …
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Got up late, and had lunch with my mum before returning to my dad's house. Made a chicken stir-fry for tea (one of my few culinary skills) while my dad repaired his bike... I wasn't actually being considerate of others needs: I was just hungry. Watched "Gattaca" on video in the evening, followed by Channel …
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Went into college for Pure Maths, and for the first time in 1999, arrived on time (as opposed to one or more hours early)! Went out for tea to McDonalds with my dad and sisters in the evening. Went to my mum's house, and spent five hours (almost breaking my personal record of 5 hours …
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Maths in the morning. How is it that the first lesson in a new module always makes so much more sense than any other one? Went home for lunch in my three-hour break, returning for Psychology. Watched a video on "Eyewitness Testimony". We've seen the same one three times now. Alecia took the second half …
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Psychology in the morning was low-tone, and everybody seems to be under excess stress. Bunked off General Studies, because the recently-done exam paper hasn't been marked anyway, and it'll be cancelled as usual... Everything seems to be this week. Instead, took off into town with Fay, browsed the shops, put in my application for a …
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Didn't go in to college. Virtually all my lessons have been cancelled anyway. Instead - spend the morning catching up on sleep lost over the last few weeks, and took the afternoon as a chance to deal with my backlog of e-mail in my InBox...
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Avatar Diary - Birthday Aftermath
Dan shares photos from the aftermath of his 18th birthday party.
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MyFirstTime Contribution
The following somewhat-autobiographical post was originally shared via website www.thefirsttime.com on 15 November 1998. It was republished here on 22 March 2021.
What feels like eons ago, when I was a mere stripling of a 13 year old, I was 'caught in the act' of shoplifting. It hadn't even been my idea, which pissed me off … -
Universities!
From my UCAS form:
1. Y50 UNIVERSITY OF YORK
MEng Honours in Computer Systems and Software Engineering
GG67 MEng/CSySE
2. A40 THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES, ABERYSTWTH
MEng Honours in Software Engineering
G700 MEng/SE
3. M20 THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
BSc Honours in Computer Science
G500 BSc/CS
4. E56 THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
BEng Honours in Computer Science
G501 …