Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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"Uncle Dan"
Dan reflects briefly on the birth of "tiny", and the crazy week that's come since, along with some adorable photos of the little rascal.
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Where'd it go!? [x-post from /r/funny]
AltCat pranked by video of another cat
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#102 - Strong
Oh man. Sorry....and I'm done ( for now ). Should be another comic up next week.
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Normally-respectable news provider the BBC interviews "terrorist puppet?". WTF, BBC?
AltTerrorist puppet
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ELI5 "TheRedPill" and its incomprehensible terminology
A couple of recent posts in /r/bestof (one, two) drew my attention to /r/TheRedPill, which I'd not come across before. I looked at that subreddit... and I still don't get it.
It's... something like The Game, right? All that stuff about "easy, foolproof" ways to get laid? But the entire subreddit just talks about red … -
The Community Solar System
If the different land uses of the UK were divided up into their percentage-ratio blocks, what would a 100-second tour of the country (with each second covering a single percent of the land usage) look like?
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We need to talk about TED
If the different land uses of the UK were divided up into their percentage-ratio blocks, what would a 100-second tour of the country (with each second covering a single percent of the land usage) look like?
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Odd One Out?
Which is the odd-one out: gypsies, turkeys, french fries, or the Kings of Leon? It's a simple riddle, but it's still better than whatever you've gotten out of your cracker.
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The Hardest Hangman
What's the hardest possible word to guess in Hangman? Many have wondered, but Dan felt the need to find out for sure.
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Narrowboating
Back in the summer, Dan went narrowboating with Ruth, JTA, and Matt P, and the experience slowed his thinking so much that it took him several months to blog about it.
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Yo dawg, I heard you like gold on your gold on your gold.
[this post was originally made to a private subreddit]
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habeas corpus
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Inefficient Rulers
Golomb Rulers and Costas Arrays.
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Social engineering
GoldieBlox have been in the news (by which I mean the blogs) a lot lately because of their Princess Machine video. In case you missed the memo, GoldieBlox do engineering toys for girls, by which they mean a) they’re pink, and b) they’ve got stories, because girls need everything to have a story. Think I’m…
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Family Vlog Moments - Falcor
Unused footage from Godzilla Huntley's Family Vlog covers the debate between Godzilla and her mother about whether or not Falcor, the luck dragon from The Neverending Story, is a mammal.
The argument remains unresolved.
Also available on YouTube.