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Tag: geek night

  • Image representing post: Yesterday's Internet Today! (Woo DM 2023)

    Yesterday's Internet Today! (Woo DM 2023)

    At a work meetup a fortnight ago I presented a "flash talk" about how I've made WordPress into a CMS for Finger and Gopher as well as the web, and what I learned by doing so.

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    • 12 comments
    • posted 21 February, 2023
  • Matt Westcott stands to the side of a stage, drinking beer, while centrestage a cross-shaped "pharmacy sign" projects an animation of an ambulance rocketing into a starfield.

    Oxford Geek Nights #52

    Oxford Geek Night returned this week after an incredibly-long hiatus, and it was amazing.

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 19 November, 2022
  • Image representing post: Remembering December 2003

    Remembering December 2003

    Back in July 2004, Dan lost a lot of his older blog posts during a server malfunction. Now and then, he finds time to recover some of this deleted posts; like today, when he managed to get back everything he wrote in December 2003.

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    • 7 comments
    • posted 21 March, 2012
  • Image representing post: The Game Disbalancer

    The Game Disbalancer

    Coming to an Arkham Horror game near you... never.


    Click for large-o-vision. You know, I think that having this guy on the team might just make the game winnable. Maybe.

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    • 4 comments
    • posted 5 August, 2010
  • The 17 Blog Posts That Weren't

    It may come as a surprise to you that the stuff I write about on my blog - whether about technology, dreams, food, film, games, relationships, or my life in general - isn't actually always written off-the-cuff. To the contrary, sometimes a post is edited and re-edited over the course of weeks or months before …

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    • 4 comments
    • posted 3 April, 2010
  • Image representing post: Dan's April Fools' Jokes This Year

    Dan's April Fools' Jokes This Year

    After JTA and I's monster plan for a great April Fools' joke got rained-off this year (maybe another year), I just had to go ahead with two smaller April Fools' gags this year.



    The Photocopier Prank

    A nice simple joke at the expense of the people in the office building I work in (and far less complex …

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 1 April, 2010
  • Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To Be

    It's been a bit of a day for nostalgia. It started even before I woke up, when I was dreaming about an argument that could have marked the end of Claire and I's relationship, if it weren't for the fact that it didn't even slighly represent the actual circumstances of our seperation (I'll spare you …

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    • 5 comments
    • posted 27 March, 2010
  • Board Games And Waterfalls

    It's been a fun, full weekend. Highlights include:

    A good Troma Night

    In case you weren't following, Troma Night is on Fridays nowadays. We watched the fantastic 1945 film Brief Encounter, which I'd highly recommend, and Lava, which I wouldn't (although if you do see it, watch 'til the end: it improves, I promise).

    Same about the early …

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    • Article
    • posted 17 August, 2009
  • Jimmy, Start Your Engine

    Here's a photo I took this afternoon especially for Jimmy:

    It's a pity he won't be around this weekend to make the most of this exciting new addition to our irregular weekly Power Grid face-off.

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    • 8 comments
    • posted 25 February, 2009
  • What I've Been Up To This Weekend

    This post should have appeared on Monday 24th March 2008, but owing to technical difficulties didn't make it online until Thursday 27th. Sorry!

    Like many others, I've had both Good Friday and Easter Monday off work, and as I haven't blogged enough recently, I thought I ought to provide a quick update about the things I've …

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    • 4 comments
    • posted 27 March, 2008
  • Geek Night At Rory’s

    Geek Night tonight will be hosted by Rory again. Game suggestions welcome. By the way - JTA - we seem to have your copy of Illuminati here; guess you left it when you visited.

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    • posted 27 July, 2007
  • Geek Night At Rory’s

    Tonight's Geek Night will be hosted by Rory (follow that second link for a map to his place if you don't know where it is - don't worry, it's easy to find).

    What would people like me to take there? I'm thinking Carcassonne, because it's been getting a lot of enjoyable playtime recently and there's rulesets …

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 20 July, 2007
  • It’s All Fun And Games



    Back to work after a great weekend. Troma Night was particularly successful this week - we watched a RiffTrax'd copy of Eragon ("Get your ragons online at e-ragon!"), which was suitably hilarious; the classic bit of self-deprecating sci-fi that is Barbarella ("Hmm... camp bad guy number 104... how will Barbarella get past this one? Oh; …

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    • posted 2 July, 2007
  • Diplomacy @ Geek Night

    Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Diplomacy @ Geek Night.

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    • posted 25 January, 2005
  • Image representing post: Playing Lord of the Rings, in The Flat

    Playing Lord of the Rings, in The Flat



    I've been pulling old videos off of devices I used to use. This came from an early-2000s mobile phone, back when mobile phones were REALLY bad at video. It features Paul M, Ruth V, Matt R, JTA, and Claire M playing a single turn of the Lord of the Rings boardgame (it was a complicated …

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    • posted 21 December, 2004

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