Tag: letters
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'Simplified'
Well 'thanks' for the 'simplified' statement, I guess?
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At first I thought "Christmas post" had something to do with letters and parcels, but then I found one in the wild.
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Finger post footpath sign adorned with a toy snowman and wrapped in a spiral of red and silver tinsel.
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Tension in the Wires
Received my physical copy of Planets In The Wires today, and I must say it was really cool of Pagan Wanderer Lu to include one of Fred "Thickie" Holden's famous Tension Sheets as a freebie.
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Milk and Mail Notifications with Flic 2 Buttons
Dan deploys Flic 2 "smart buttons" to remind him to read his post and bring the milk in.
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A New Keyboard
Dan already owns the best mouse in the world. Maybe it's time for a new keyboard, too. But what's this? Not what he expected, that's for sure...
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HDMI Virus, or How I Became An Old Person
HDMI cables are over-marketed at the best of times. But Dan's just discovered one that goes one step further, claiming to do the fundamentally impossible. And then, like an old person, he writes an irate letter.
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Poly and the Census - Success! (almost)
After much to-ing and fro-ing, the Freedom of Information Act request that a fellow blogger made to the Office of National Statistics, on the subject of households with individuals in non-monogamous relationships or with non-binary genders, has begun to yield results. Dan comments on the findings.
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Poly and the Census – Part Four
More fun and games in Zoe's quest to get meaningful information out of the Office of National Statistics, about how census data reflects non-monogamous and non-heteronormative relationships.
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Poly and the Census - Part Three
Dan hears back - albeit only via somebody else's Freedom of Information Act request - to his concerns about the possible treatment of polyamorous households by the Office of National Statistics during this year's census. And he's not happy.
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Poly and the Census - Part Two
Still no reply from the Office of National Statistics... but somebody's put in a Freedom of Information request now asking a very similar question.
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Poly and the Census
Dan engages in a little polyamory activism, writing to the Office of National Statistics to ask for their assurances that the data submitted on the census he shares with the other Earthlings will be correctly recorded and that the fact that his partner has ticked both the "partner" and "husband or wife" boxes (for different people) will not be treated as a mistake. I wonder what they'll have to say about that...
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Postcard From Kit And Fi
Received a postcard this morning from Kit & Fi, and it's as much to many of you lot as it is to me, so I'll relay it to you here:
[CLASSIFIED - OPERATION TROMA // EYES ONLY]
Dear Dan, Claire, Paul, Bryn + Ruth, JTA, Andy, Siân & any other Troma fanatics (Jon + Hayley I'm … -
Parcel Of Goodies
Woo and indeed hoo. Just when I was about to wander down to Richley's and take advantage of their sale on jeans (having had a nasty shredding-related accident with one-too-many of my existing pairs of trousers a couple of weeks back), my Auntie Anne sends me a parcel of goodies, including several pairs of trousers …