Original air dates April through May of 1964.
The Doctor, Susan, Barbara, and Ian wind up on Marinus, and are blackmailed into finding some “keys” needed to operate a planetary mind-control machine. Hijinks ensue. (more…)
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Story 005: The Keys of Marinus
Saturday, July 20th, 2013Story 004: Marco Polo
Sunday, July 14th, 2013Original air date February through April 1964.
This is one of the lost episodes. For some reason, the sound was saved separately, and fans have made various reconstructions. I’ve found animated version of the first one that is better than no video at all. For the others, there are photos placed over the audio track. It is enough to follow the story.
Story 154: Silver Nemesis (MST3k)
Thursday, July 4th, 2013Original air date November 1988.
This was the 25th anniversary episode of Doctor Who. It had Ace and the 7th Doctor, Sylvest McCoy. I’d never seen either of them before. I saw it at Westercon on a panel where they covered it like Mystery Science Theatre 3000. It deserved that treatment.
Doctor Who being cancelled should be no surprise after things like this. More when I get to it.
Story 003: The Edge of Destruction
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013Story 002: The Daleks
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013Original air dates December 1963 through February 1964.
The second story is long, and has Doctor Who’s foe, the Daleks in it.
Story 001: An Unearthly Child
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013Original air dates November, December 1963.
The very first episode of Doctor Who starts with little explanation of the weird title sequence and sci-fi electronic music. All that fades away to an ordinary high school.
Watching Doctor Who — All of It!
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013I had an itch lately to watch some Doctor Who, and decided to watch as much of it as I can, in order.
This started with my realizing Ihad never seen a full story with Hartnell or Troughton as the Doctor, and reading a review of a much improved release of a Pertwee story,
DBIx::Class Talk at SVPerl
Friday, June 7th, 2013I was the speaker again at this month’s Silicon Valley Perl meeting. This is because my talk about Catalyst wound up mentioning Template Toolkit and DIBx::Class so much they wanted to hear more. I went and gave them more.
Here are the slides I used for the talk. There was no sample code this time – I used that from the examples, which means you can get it all from CPAN. Links are in the slides, and questions are welcome.
Template Toolkit Talk at SVPerl
Thursday, April 4th, 2013I gave a talk on Template Toolkit at the Sillicon Valley Perl meeting. I used these Template Toolkit Slides as I talked. Except I think I corrected the typos when I got home. =)
It’s a fun group, and I always enjoy going, even when I’m the speaker.
Raspberry Pi Media Player
Sunday, March 17th, 2013I wonder if I could build a Squeezebox-compaitble media device out of a Raspberry Pi. It would mean I could get as many as I needed.
Raspberry Pi, $50ish, with case, etc.
That has sound already. If it’s crappy, plug in a $100 Total Bithead. If you want to go whole hog, get a $500 Headroom Micro DAC and Headroom Micro Amp. You’ll even get a big knob and all the nice ports on the front.
Way less than a Transporter, but no shiny displays.
If I could get “good enough” sound for $50, with a DIY software set from the Internet, that’d rock. It’d rock especially hard if I could make it do the software sync, too, but that might require changes to the Logitech Media Center.
EDIT: After thirty seconds of searching the Internet, yes, it can do this. Someone else has done the hard part, even. Neat.