Tag: earth
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Who's Your Daddy?
Days before he and the other Earthlings move out of Old Earth forever, Dan finally gets to have a conversation with his neighbour. And his poor mind is damaged forever by the experience. JTA's probably will be, too, when he reads this...
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Beware: Necrophiliac Paramedics!
If Dan is killed on his way to work and his lifeless body is raped by a necrophiliac paramedic, it's JTA's fault. You read it here first.
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The Board Games Are Breeding
While taking a break from coding to pack boxes in anticipation of the Earthlings' upcoming house move, Dan realises that his board games must be breeding.
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The Murder Mystery Where Nobody Was Murdered
After weeks of procrastination, Dan (finally!) gets around to writing about Earth's last Murder Mystery Night - Murder... Way Out West!
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The Crack
Dan defines esotericism for a man who's repairing his floorboards. That is all.
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Murder... Way Out West
Dan invites you to "Murder... Way Out West", Earth's latest Murder Mystery Night.
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Finding my Geographic Centre
What do you get if you take the average location between all of the places you've ever lived? Dan tried this, and it turns out that his geographical centre point is only a quarter hour's drive away from where his parents live, even without weighting. How will it be affected by his house move, later this year?
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Productivity
When we woke up this morning Oxford was caked with a blanket of snow, about two inches thick and growing fast. Ruth, JTA and I thought that we'd make the most of it and go for a walk along the Cherwell, and by the time we were heading back the snow was ankle-deep. Reaching the …
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Hectic (so let's look at Paul, instead of writing a proper blog post)
Between SmartData work, Three Rings work, freelance work, strange new bits of voluntary work, and the rapidly-looming wedding between Ruth & JTA (along with handling all of the crises that come with that, like the two mentioned on the wedding blog and the threat of rail strike action on the weekend of the event, which …
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Murder At The Magic College
A week last Sunday - just a couple of day's after Paul's arrival - Earth hosted a housewarming event combined with our latest Murder Mystery, Murder at the Magic College. While we've had our fair share of Murder Mystery Nights before, this is only the third one I'd authored (after Murder in the Reign of …
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Working From Home
The phone rings. It's clear to me by the sound it makes and by the image on it's display that this is a business call.
"Good morning, SmartData; Dan speaking," I say.
The caller identifies themselves, and asks to speak to Alex, another SmartData employee. I look to my right to see if Alex is available (presumably … -
Busy Weekends Part III
As if we hadn't been busy enough the weekend before last and the one before that, there's more that I'm only just getting around to blogging! It was only when I thought about writing this up that I realised how much I'd neglected to write about already (and had promised people would be "coming soon"). …
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Offshore Oil Strike
The Metro have a fabulous article about this board game:
Yes, it's a game about drilling for oil using offshore digs. With a remarkable picture on the front of a rig in distinctly stormy seas. And look - there's BP's logo on it: yes, Offshore Oil Strike got their official endorsement when it was released in … -
There's Somebody At The Door
I was hacking away towards a deadline, this afternoon, when I heard a knock at the door. It's not so unusual at the moment - we've had a lot of packages delivered to our new house over the last week or so - but what was a little strange was that today's visitor was a …
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Weddings and Secret Gardens
Ruth, JTA and I - later joined by Matt P - went to Jen & Nick's wedding over in Belfast this weekend, and it was awesome. They're an amazing couple and it was great to get to be part of their celebrations, to meet the fabulous folks they're related to, and to drink ourselves under …