Category: Personal
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Performed maintenance for GC7R0HB The Fairy Elevator
This checkin to GC7R0HB The Fairy Elevator reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Came by to check up on this cache following the previous log entry. Everything is fine here; tucked the paracord away a little more-tidily and did a little litter picking, and my preschooler took a pink flower …
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Ambition
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ambition (smbc-comics.com) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal -
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Posted a note for GC54KVD Oxford Medical History #2: Grey matter
This checkin to GC54KVD Oxford Medical History #2: Grey matter reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. (With owner's permission) moved cache container about 30cm closer to the road in order to put it under better cover, as the bush that used to provide for its concealment has been severely cut …
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Cyborg Time With Kimiko Ross
Cyborg Time With Kimiko Ross (dresdencodak.com) Previous Page Previous Page Dark Science #85 is almost finished, but in the meantime enjoy this interlude comic with indispensable cyborg knowledge! Enjoy Dresden Codak? Become a Patreon subscriber today! http://dresdencodak.com/wp-content/plugins/patron-button-and-widgets-by-codebard/images/patreo...
Dresden Codak
Dresden Codak is one of the most fabulous (but strange) webcomic series, and it's great … -
Why your brain never runs out of problems to find
David Levari (The Conversation) It's a psychological quirk that when something becomes rarer, people may spot it in more places than ever. What is the 'concept creep' that lets context change how we categorize the world around us?
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Happy Pride Month!
Happy Pride Month! - Create, Discover and Share GIFs on Gfycat (Gfycat) Watch Happy Pride Month! GIF by cheshix on Gfycat. Discover more Mark Kanemura GIFs, mkik808 GIFs on Gfycat.
Gfycat
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Test Your Awareness : Whodunnit?
YouTube (youtube.com)
Transport for London (YouTube)
I remember when this advertisement did its original run and I loved it. I was delighted to accidentally stumble across it on the Web recently; if you haven't seen it before (and even if you have) you should give it a watch... -
Cropmarks 2018
https://rcahmw.gov.uk/cropmarks-2018/ (rcahmw.gov.uk)
The unprecedented spell of hot, dry weather across Wales has provided perfect conditions for archaeological aerial photography. As the drought has persisted across Wales, scores of long-buried archaeological sites have been revealed once again as ‘cropmarks’, or patterns of growth in ripening crops and parched grasslands. The Royal Commission’s aerial investigator Dr Toby … -
Frigid
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Frigid (smbc-comics.com) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal -
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech
John Gordon: The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (urbigenous.net) Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.
There comes a time when people at a technical conference like this need something more relaxing. A change of pace. A shift of style. To put aside all that work stuff and think of something refreshingly different.
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Einstein's theory still passes the test: weak and strong gravity objects fall the same way
AstronNL (YouTube)
Fabulous explanation of the Strong Equivalence Principle coupled with a nice bit of recent research to prove that it holds true even in extreme gravitational fields (and therefore disproving a few interesting fringe theories). It's hard science made to enjoy like pop science: yay! Plus a Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference, … -
How To Play - Carcassonne
https://youtu.be/DJ2Si2sjHNY (youtu.be)
The Dragon's Tomb (YouTube)
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The Insane Story In The Background Of Arrested Development
The Insane Story In The Background Of Arrested Development (Cracked.com) The day that Mitchell Hurwitz starts making shallow humor is the day that we rip the mask off of Mitchell Hurwitz and find the real Mitchell Hurwitz bound in his own cellar. Throughout the first three seasons of Arrested Development, we were treated to some …
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Leak in Comic Chameleon (app API hacking)
Not for the first time, Dan becomes an "accidental hacker" when he finds a bug in a comic-reader app that lets him read not-yet-published episodes of a webcomic he follows.
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Performed maintenance for GC7Q9FF Oxford's Wild Wolf Two
This checkin to GC7Q9FF Oxford's Wild Wolf Two reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. You think when you chain a container to an abandoned concrete block that's been "just standing there" fire years that it'll be safe, don't you? Turns out: not necessarily! Looks like a super-heavy vehicle managed to …