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Taking a Jackbox Zoom Party to the Next Level
Dan hosts a lot of Jackbox games over Zoom, and he's got some pro-level tips to share with you.
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Found GC5VKVN Walk by the Firehouse #4
This checkin to GC5VKVN Walk by the Firehouse #4 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I first tried to find this cache back in 2018, but the cache container had been destroyed leaving only a fragment of it left. Today, as I was out on a lunchtime cycle nearby anyway, โฆ
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Couldn't find GC9K2D0 The Footpath Wonder
This checkin to GC9K2D0 The Footpath Wonder reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Saw the notification pop up and thought this was an obvious FTF opportunity, so me and a geokid zipped out and mounted a search. After about 20 minutes of hunting we double checked hint cache details - โฆ
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Found GC1E9YX Uninhabited Island
This checkin to GC1E9YX Uninhabited Island reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Geosense sent me straight to this one during a short visit to Stratford. Some fellow volunteers and I stayed at the hotel last night for our AGM and Christmas party and I couldn't resist coming out to find โฆ
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Tick Tock
Dan reviews Tick Tock, a cooperative puzzle game that he and Ruth played for their Date Night this week, and recommends you give it a go!
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"DOONT" โ A Bad Lip Reading of Dune
Bad Lip Reading takes on Dune: Part One, and it's the best thing Dan's seen since watching Dune: Part One.
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How did it take me years of working-from-home before I thought to install one of these in my desk? Brilliant.
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Pronouns in Three Rings
Via a quick linguistics lesson, Dan explains how Three Rings handles volunteers' pronouns, and how it might need to improve in future.
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Performed maintenance for GC9EXXC Shady Seat on The Green
This checkin to GC9EXXC Shady Seat on The Green reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I was out on a head-clearing walk anyway this evening as I waited for my computer to catch up with me on some batch processing work, so I figured I'd check on this cache, which โฆ
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Email Tracking and Paperless Banking
Dan's paperless baking gets taken away when he doesn't consent to them tracking when and where he reads their emails.
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Performed maintenance for GC8W7QW Forgotten Bridge
This checkin to GC8W7QW Forgotten Bridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Took a late hike out here for a maintenance checkup before winter: make sure the waterproof seal is good etc. Really creepy to walk out here alone in the night fog, silent except for the occasional startling loud โฆ
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Found GC54MFQ (Mac)Donald Where's Your Troosers?
This checkin to GC54MFQ (Mac)Donald Where's Your Troosers? reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Staying at the nearby hotel I came out last night to try and find this but quickly gave up rather than poke around in the gloomy night. I'd brought a torch for exactly this kind of โฆ
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Note for Future Dan: if you want @Firefox's picture-in-picture (popout video) mode to be available for videos of less than 45 seconds, the setting you need is media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.video-toggle.min-video-secs...
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Hot Shots, Part Dream
Dan shares a dream in which he starts a meme about a non-existent 80s kids TV show inspired by a loose translation of a scene from Hot Shots! Wait, what?
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Automattic Growth
After only two years at Automattic, Dan's now been there longer than most. Wait, what?