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Notes from the Home Office: 2011-06-08
Originally published at Radio Free Tomorrow. You can comment here or there.
Some of you may be aware that I have now taken one more step into the realm of Living In the Future. I now work almost entirely out of my home, even though my official home office is in San Francisco. Even better, I’m telecommuting full-time while working for a company that ( Read more... ) -
RIP Elisabeth Sladen, 1948 - 2011
Originally published at Radio Free Tomorrow. Please leave any comments there.
Although there’s still some confusion about reliable sourcing, at this point, with the BBC willing to confirm it, it seems that actress Elisabeth Sladen, known best for the role of Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures has passed away at the age of ( Read more... ) -
Sorry for the Radio Silence!
Originally published at Radio Free Tomorrow. Please leave any comments there.
Right, so, I restarted this blog, was doing OK for a while…and then fell off the blogging wagon again. There are several reasons, and at the risk of sounding like I’m making excuses, I’ll enumerate a few of them.
- I got stuck on the second Tom Baker Doctor Who ( Read more... )
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Travel Musings Followup
Nate Silver's Five Thirty Eight Blog at NYTimes cites a CBS News poll in which 81% of respondents had a favourable opinion of the new body scanners ( Read more... ) -
Travel musings
The more I hear about the body-scanner/enhanced pat-down crap that is gradually being imposed by the TSA as the body scanners come on line, the more irritated I become ( Read more... ) -
We few. We happy few. We band of brothers.
[Slightly edited reprint]
Today is 25 October, which until the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican was known as the feast day of the twin saints Crispin and Crispinian.
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Getting Started with Doctor Who, Part 3: Tom Baker & Sarah Jane Smith
Originally published at Radio Free Tomorrow. Please leave any comments there.
After giving it some thought, the Tom Baker article is being broken up into three parts: the Sarah Jane years, the Leela years, and Romana years. There’s just too much good material to talk about during this long tenure.
It’s difficult not to think of Tom Baker as being ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain
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Getting Started with Doctor Who, Part 2: Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee
Originally published at Radio Free Tomorrow. Please leave any comments there.
In 1966, it became clear that William Hartnell could not continue to star in the title role of Doctor Who. He loved the job, but he was in increasingly ill health, and and arteriosclerosis (and the resulting diminished blood flow to the brain) meant that his memory was ( Read more... )