Tag: covid-19
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Found GC4PV7E BFG #3– The Black Hairstreak
This checkin to GC4PV7E BFG #3– The Black Hairstreak reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I first came to this series in 2014 - seems like a lifetime ago! - but got called away by something (a problem with the beta of Three Rings' Milestone: Promethium) before I could find …
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Automattic Lockdown (days 79 to 206)
In another 128-day-interval update, Dan looks back on months two through six working for Automattic.
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I think our local red kites were mostly living on roadkill, and the lockdown means they're not getting fed. They've also forgotten how to hunt: this afternoon I watched one get its ass handed to it by a medium-sized crow.
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Thursday
Gareth's providing a daily briefing including all the important things that the government wants you to know about the coronavirus crisis... and a few things that they didn't think to tell you, but perhaps they should've.
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The Board Game Remix Kit
A free kit to help you make more of classic family boardgames like Monopoly, Cluedo and Scrabble.
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Lockdown Productivity: Spaceship You
CGP Grey's latest video, on lockdown productivity, is great. But you probably already knew that.
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Mackerelmedia Fish
Dan reviews Mackerelmedia Fish, a surreal game by Nathalie Lawhead, and recommends that you give it a go.
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Giving a Damn at Scale
Bridget Stewart encourages us to look at the mess we make of Web applications, and how COVID-19 has really shone a light on that, and Dan talks about the lessons he hopes we'll learn as a result.
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For the benefit of my South African colleagues on Slack, I give you the #maskchallenge #emoji.
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Happy Birthday, You're Fired
Robin's latest blog sort-of reads like a contemporaneously-written "what I did on my holidays" report, except that it's pretty-much about the opposite of a holiday: it chronicles Robin's adventures in the North of England during these strange times.
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Coronavirus: what the hell do we do now?!
Andrew Steele's produced another COVID-19-related video, this time focussing on the endgame of the crisis, and you should go watch it.
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Found GC4CEXE CowSlip
This checkin to GC4CEXE CowSlip reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Like many others, I came at this cache from the wrong side of the ditch/fence and had to make my way East a little way to find a suitable crossing point. Cache was easy to find, but it's definitely …
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Found GC61RDN Beside the Seaside, Beside the . . . . Cherwell
This checkin to GC61RDN Beside the Seaside, Beside the . . . . Cherwell reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found the clue object immediately and the cache a couple of minutes later while out on my coronavirus-crisis-compatible daily exercise walk. TFTC.
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Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In
In an interview with Halimah Marcus of Electric Literature, Ted Chiang shares his thoughts on how the coronavirus crisis is, and is not, like a science fiction story.
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The first lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing
Jessie Gaynor from Literary Hub rewrites the first lines of 10 classic novels for our new reality.