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  • Two laptops: one showing a full-screen Zoom chat with Dan and "Jackbox Games"; the second showing a windowed copy of Jackbox Party Pack 8.

    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.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1089 words)

    • Article
    • posted 16 December, 2021
  • Dan and his bike on Chillbridge Road, Eynsham.

    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, โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC5VKVN
    • posted 15 December, 2021
  • Dan and John look sad near the site of a possibly non-existent geocache.

    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 - โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC9K2D0
    • posted 5 December, 2021
  • 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 โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC1E9YX
    • posted 5 December, 2021
  • Tick Tock screenshot showing a mysterious machine with many buttons. The machine is switched on and the screen shows a wolf's head and the number "-2". The buttons show a bug, an hourglass, a snake, a wolf's head, a keyhole, a cog, a raven, a doll, and a section of railway track.

    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!

    Read more - about 3 minutes (559 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 2 December, 2021
  • Image representing post: "DOONT" โ€” A Bad Lip Reading of Dune

    "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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    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 26 November, 2021
  • Image representing post: Note #19700

    How did it take me years of working-from-home before I thought to install one of these in my desk? Brilliant.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (20 words)

    • Note
    • posted 18 November, 2021
  • Flowchart showing how the pronouns used by Three Rings for a volunteer are contingent on what properties their org records, whether the volunteer has specified pronouns, failing that whether they've specified a gender, falling back to "singular they" pronouns.

    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.

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1323 words)

    • Article
    • posted 17 November, 2021
  • Dan, in the dark, lit only by a torch.

    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 โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC9EXXC
    • posted 16 November, 2021
  • Dan, near his front door, reads his mail. His facial expression suggests that he's about to exclaim "What!?"

    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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    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 16 November, 2021
  • Geocache logbook entry reading: "2/11/21 - Found during bridge inspection. Oxfordshire County Council Countryside Access Team."

    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 โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC8W7QW
    • 2 comments
    • posted 15 November, 2021
  • 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 โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC54MFQ
    • posted 13 November, 2021
  • 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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    • Note
    • posted 12 November, 2021
  • Still from Hot Shots!. Owatonna, an older Native American man, sits surrounded by animal skins. An English subtitle reads "So, who won?" A Japanese subtitle reads "่ชฐใŒๆˆฆไบ‰ใซๅ‹ใฃใŸใฎใงใ™ใ‹?", which translates as "Who won the war?"

    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?

    Read more - about 5 minutes (970 words)

    • Article
    • posted 12 November, 2021
  • Graph showing all 1.802 current Automatticians as coloured squares, ordered by their start date. Dan Q's square is squarely (LOL) in the middle.

    Automattic Growth

    After only two years at Automattic, Dan's now been there longer than most. Wait, what?

    Read more (362 words)

    • Article
    • posted 10 November, 2021

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