Now, if I could only actually remember to post this weekly, I’d have a weekly feature! That’d be awesome! Anyway… This week — today, in fact — brings us two bits of geek news that sort-of peg the WTFBBQ meter, along with some actually fun announcements. No reviews in this installment, however.
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This week in random, shameless geekery
In which I ramble on about “Encounter at Farpoint”, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and a woman building a TARDIS.
Where do we go from here
My social media use has become quite disarranged in recent months. I no longer really use LiveJournal. I’ve never used Facebook very heavily. I do use G+ and Twitter quite a bit but those don’t seem to be the best venues to expound on certain kinds of thoughts — good places to link back to, …
Notes from the Home Office: 2011-06-08
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 builds solar power plants! …
Getting Started with Doctor Who resumes shortly
After a long hiatus, I’m about half-way through writing the next installment in the “Getting Started with Doctor Who” series. Stay tuned!
Getting Started with Doctor Who, Part 3: Tom Baker & Sarah Jane Smith
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 the “definitive” Doctor. Not in the …
Getting Started with Doctor Who, Part 2: Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee
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 failing. At a time when episodes were …
Getting Started with Classic Doctor Who: William Hartnell
A week or so ago, I found myself posting, first as a comment and then as a separate entry in my LiveJournal, an article enumerating recommendations to a friend as to which episodes of the classic Doctor Who series were the best ones to focus on out of the vast body of material already released …
Ark
Go here and watch Ark. All 9 episodes. It won’t take you more than about 45 minutes. No…really. Right now.
RealID: When Good Ideas Go Bad
ADDED This is what I get for being late to the party and carefully considering how I feel about an issue. As various comments have stated, the policy has been rescinded before it was ever put into place. Someone got smart. I haven’t really been doing much gaming, lately, and what I have been doing …