Original air date April – May 1965. The TARDIS arrives at some sort of museum of spaceships and futuristic things. All is not as it seems, as there’s definitely something creepy going on.
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Story 015: The Space Museum
Tuesday, April 8th, 2025Story 014: The Crusade
Tuesday, April 8th, 2025Original air date March and April of 1965. Arriving outside Jaffa during the Crusades, they are immediately beset by troubles.
(more…)Story 013: The Web Planet
Tuesday, April 8th, 2025Original air dates are February 1965 through March 1965. The ship is pulled in to a strange planet and they must figure out how to escape.
(more…)Story 012: The Romans
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025Original broadcast dates January through February 1965. Another excellent print off of the new blu-ray release. A month of leisure sits heavy on the crew’s hands when the unexpected happens!
(more…)Story 011: The Rescue
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025Original brodcast dates from January of 1965. The Doctor, Ian and Barbara wind up on the planet Dido, where they find a shipwrecked rocket ship and a mystery.
(more…)Story 010: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Tuesday, May 9th, 2023Original broadcast dates, November – December 1964. I wonder if it felt different when you couldn’t binge-watch the whole thing? Must have.
Upon arrival a slide of debris locks the crew out of the TARDIS and they’re forced to try and find help to shift it. It’s a good thing they do, as the Daleks have invaded and plan on taking the planet for a joyride.
(more…)Story 009: Planet of Giants
Monday, May 8th, 2023Original broadcast dates October – November 1964
AKA “Honey, I Shrunk The TARDIS!”
In this first story of Season 2, the Doctor and crew wind up on Earth in 1964… except they’re only an inch high. No futuristic space aliens this time, just giant bugs, a huge telephone, and a neighborhood police officer who stops in to check out the rude people and finds a murder victim.
(more…)Story 008: The Reign of Terror
Sunday, February 19th, 2023Original Brodcast dates August – September 1964.
The Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara wind up tangled up in the French Revolution. We get to meet some famous people, see some famous moments, and watch the Reign of Terror come undone.
(more…)Harbor Freight Fluorescent Magnifying Lamp
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023Harbor Freight is making a swing-arm magnifying lamp with a circular fluorescent bulb around it. I’ve been looking for one of these for ages, and had only found vintage ones or really expensive new ones. The vintage ones were all a little janky and heavy and sometimes expensive as well. It was not a great combination.
(more…)Compiling Libraries for Strawberry Perl
Saturday, June 25th, 2022I’ve recently been working on a project that will probably have to run on Windows in the end, which means I needed to use a Windows Perl.
ActiveState has recently changed their licensing and model so it’s very much driven into the cloud, and that’s not what I wanted at all.
Strawberry Perl to the rescue! It’s a nice package which includes a compiler so you can build modules and have everything you need to run Perl, all stuffed into c:\Strawberry. It’s a pretty well put together system. At least, until you need to compile a third party library for it. Then it gets harder.
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