Category: General

I won’t post a link to it because it’s obviously material that shouldn’t have been leaked out and I don’t condone that sort of activity; however, it is a fact, at least as of today, that about 4 minutes of the Runaway Bride (The upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special) are currently available on YouTube.

I’m not sure what the clip is from, but it is obviously recorded with a camcorder off of a screen at some sort of ceremony or presentation, but there’s no indication where it aired.

The segment appears to be a “chase” sequence with the Doctor attempting to rescue the bride from the baddies. It’s a chase unlike any previously seen in Doctor Who.

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BBC – Doctor Who News => Survival Coming to DVD

April 2007’s Classic Series DVD will be Survival – the last regular adventure of the original TV series.

In a year that already sees the release of The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and Castrovalva, Survival features Anthony Ainley’s final performance as the Doctor’s arch-nemesis.

It also features cats on horses – which is almost as strange as cat nurses – and the comedy stylings of 80’s rib-ticklers Hale and Pace.

Details of extras have yet to be announced, although the disc will feature a fan commentary recorded by a Doctor Who Magazine competition winner.

Oh, where do I enter these contests? I’d love to do a commentary track on a Doctor Who DVD! I don’t think I’d want to do a Sylvester McCoy one, though. (On the other hand, it might cathartic!)

Note: April 2007 is the UK release date. US releases are usually within 4 months of the UK release.

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All day my 4 year old daughter has been coming into my room, asking if I’m hungry and then depositing these paper “chocolates” that she’s been making for me.

At least she knows they’re not really for eating, because she hands them to me and says, “These are some chocolates for you, daddy. I made them myself. You can go ahead and eat them if you want to, but don’t give them to James ’cause they’re just paper and he’d die.”

I’m not sure if I should be touched that she’s genuinely concerned for her little brother’s welfare or worried that she doesn’t care if I eat these apparently fatal chocolates.

I like to eat at Taco Bell sometimes so I can have a meaningless conversation with the packets of taco sauce.

Where do I get a job writing this stuff?

Saw this on a window in the parking lot at Costco.

I’d like to spend a few minutes poking fun at PETA, but they’re such a self-parody already, there’s nothing I can say to make them look worse than they already are.

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Do you think that Best Buy calls their cashiers “representatives” so they can get away with paying them less by making them think they’ve got a fancy title?

These people never represent anything to me except the human interface to the cash register.

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I went to Arby’s for lunch today and they’ve got this cool new automated cashier, where you can order your food.

I would have tried it but the human cashiers were so desperate to take my order I didn’t get the chance. Guess that’s what happens when your future, unpaid replacement gets brought onto the jobsite: Worker Motivation

Unfortunately, that’s not a good picture, but you can see that the woman in line is completely ignoring the friendly, convenient robot.

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Syfyportal.com => Capt. Jack Returns to ‘Doctor Who’

SyFy Portal is reporting in an exclusive interview with John Barrowman that Capt. Jack will be appearing in David Tennant’s second season of Doctor Who.

According to Barrowman:

“I will be in [season] three of ‘Doctor Who,’” he said excitedly. “I will be in the last three episodes of four episodes, and the scripts are being written as we speak because I just got a text from Russell [T. Davies] telling me that he’s finishing the script that Jack returns to ‘Doctor Who.’”

Well now that is good news.

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At least, I think it is foreign… it is in English…

New Get A Mac ads for the holidays have been posted at Apple.

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