Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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Jersey
JTA, Dan, Ruth, and her mother take a long-weekend holiday to the island of Jersey, and nobody kills anybody.
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Movie Title Mash-Ups
Dan and Ruth spend the greatest part of an evening playing "Movie Title Mash-Up", the second-silliest social game to come out of TV show Cougar Town.
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Buying a House, Part 2
Recently, Ruth, Dan and JTA went looking at lots of houses. Then they decided to buy one, and engaged in a ballsy psychological negotiating tactic designed to get the best deal in the shortest time.
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Orange
Which orange came first: the colour or the fruit? Dan answers this chicken-and-egg question, and then muses on the abstract nature of colours in linguistics.
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Jury Duty, Part 4
Dan's jury service comes to an end, and he looks back on it as he fills in his expenses claim form and contemplates tandems.
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Jury Duty, Part 3
As part of his ongoing jury duty, Dan serves on a trial. And while he can't write about the trial itself, he can tell you all kinds of other things...
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Jury Duty, Part 2
Dan's done his first day of jury service, in which he mostly sat around in a waiting room and watched a patronising DVD.
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Buying a House, Part 1
Dan, Ruth, and JTA are looking for a new house, and their first opportunity to buy a home. Dan discovers that it's an intimidating experience to offer up huge sums of money for a home!
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The Worst Joke I Ever Heard
After refusing to share it for over twenty years, Dan performs his first (and only) re-telling of the worst joke he ever heard.
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Jury Duty, Part 1
Dan's been called for jury service. Naturally, he's going to be blogging about it (except for the bits that he legally can't, of course).
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What's Wrong With Monopoly?
Monopoly enjoys cult status and a massive following the world over, yet it's one of the worst imaginable board games. In a long-promised blog post, Dan explains why he hates the world's most-popular game.
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Non-transitive Games
Dan learns about non-transitive games, writes a program to calculate the probabilities of winning a non-transitive dice game, and gives you a non-transitive coin game to play for yourself!
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Hello 2013: Les Gets
Continuing his series of "catch up about the beginning of the year" blog posts, Dan talks about his trip to the French Alps by train, and the skiing he did when he got there.
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Alternatives to Google Reader
Google Reader is slated to be shut down on 1st July. Many of Dan's friends still use Google Reader as their primary RSS reader, so he's put together a quick guide to evacuating to pastures greener.
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Hello 2013: My Birthday
Dan managed to spend the afternoon of his birthday away from his computer and in the pub... but only because his office caught fire! This, and more from Dan's early-January trip to London.