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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Werewolves and Wanderer [Video]
Video version of my blog post about the video game that had the biggest impact on my life: Werewolves and Wanderer.
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Werewolves and Wanderer
A single text-based adventure game I found in a book in the 1980s taught me more about programming than anything else I experienced in that decade.
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Mastodon Re-Introduction
Finally got around to rewriting my Mastodon introduction, now that my selfhosted server's got enough interconnection that people might actually see it!
If you're on the Fediverse and you're not already doing so, you can follow me at @dan@danq.me. Or follow my blog at @blog@danq.me. -
Solitary Nouns
Collective nouns are great and all, but what if we had solitary nouns?
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Morning walk with Demmy, first of her name, Queen of Stealing Your Spot On The Sofa, Empress of the Farts Of Doom, rightful keeper of That Gross Chew Toy, bringer of snuggles, destroyer of rosebeds, scourge of the mailman.
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Threads
Meta are launching Threads tomorrow. If you're wondering how this will impact the world and society's social connections, I direct you to the predictive powers of 1984 British cinema.
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The Miracle Sudoku
Three years after first enjoying it, I re-watched this spectacular video of... a man playing sudoku. It's way better than it sounds, I promise!
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Found GC3742 SP9
This checkin to GC3742 SP9 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Well this was a challenge! The woods threw off my GPS, but I'd brought a backup device so I averaged between them and found a likely GZ. The dog and I did an increasingly large spiral, checking all the …
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Local Expert
This week, I spoke to a school group about the history of The Devil's Quoits. Perhaps I should be more-willing to share what I've learned in-general, even in areas where I'm still learning?
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Some Days the School Run is Easy
Today was not one of those days. A sarcastic video rant.
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Making a Home of Each Other (The Eggs)
Lucy Bellwood shared the story of how her wife produced a breakfast dish they called The Eggs, and it's the first and only "here's a recipe, but first my life story" article I've ever loved.
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Performed maintenance for GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing
This checkin to GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Maintenance check while walking the dog. Cleared some overgrown plants, but watch out because the nearby nettles ate still a little fierce (cache can be retrieved without a sting though!). Cache itself intact and healthy.
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How cool are Silo's credits?
New TV series Silo's pretty good, but its credits sequence is just... excellent. Let me take it apart bit-by-bit for you.
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I have minus 26 new articles in my RSS reader! Either I'm a time traveller, or there's a wraparound bug when you neglect your unreads for long enough.
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WCEU23 - Day 2
Today was the first second full day of WordPress Europe 2023 in Athens. It was... busy. And intense.