Sandy Gilbert at the Washington Tea Party Morning Event 4-15-10
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Voices of the Tea Party: Sandy Gilbert
Posted: April 18, 2010 by datechguy in short films/interviews, special events, tea partiesTags: short interviews, tea parties, tea party express, washington
Voices of the Tea Party: Nick’s School Field Trip
Posted: April 18, 2010 by datechguy in short films/interviews, special events, tea partiesTags: boston, education, tea parties, tea party express
Nick’s class attended the Boston Rally on a field trip.
The downside of getting on that bus is that I wasn’t able to follow up with people I would have liked to, so Nick if you are reading this e-mail me or send a comment so I can e-mail you.
The first of thousands to come…
Posted: April 18, 2010 by datechguy in oddities, techTags: 11th doctor, blogs, doctor who, google, pop culture, tv
During the Doctor Who special I mentioned yesterday they showed a clip from episode 4 of this year. (Not broadcast in either England or the US yet). The episode features the return of Alex Kingston as professor River Song who keeps meeting the Doctor in different relative timelines.
In the clip she points out something called “blue stabilizer” and insists they are needed to land TARDIS. When the says the ship has landed the Doctor disagrees pointing out there was no “Woosh, Woosh”. Song replies “It’s not supposed to make that sound, you leave the breaks on.”
Now this post isn’t about the canonity of that statement (Cough: episode 1 of the Pirate Planet 4th Doctor and Romana: Cough) nor the fact that the sound is the most unifying item in the show, constant since that first episode back in 1963. it’s about something more interesting.
Update: Well Luke cancels out the hole premise of the post in comments, but he’s right.
Shortly after the show I googled the phrase “you leave the breaks on” and the word “Tardis” to see what people were saying about it. Nothing, no results at all. I ended up falling asleep on the couch waking up just before 5 a.m. the next morning, the machine was on standby so I logged back in and repeated the search and this blog entry came up:
There’s a section in the special where they talk about the TARDIS, and they inserted the cutest scene where River lands the blue box and Eleven starts wondering where a certain noise was and he made the little sounds. Then River was like, “It’s not suppose to make that noise. You leave the breaks on.” Eleven replies, “It’s a brilliant noise.”
Mind you this was the ONLY entry that came up. Nothing else. Now I don’t know this blog from Adam but I do know that within a few weeks there will be hundreds upon hundreds of web sites with that phrase in it and by the end of the year it will be thousands or more.
It’s very rare to see the very first entry on something that will become part of Science Fiction pop culture, so proprietor of the blog Timey wimey, take a bow you, are the first ever blog to use the phrase. It’s an odd and in the scheme of things unimportant distinction; but it’s all yours.
An Actual tip Jar request
Posted: April 17, 2010 by datechguy in employment, personalTags: have fedora will travel, i'll do it myself tucker fund
Well here comes the bleg…
I owe debts of gratitude to Stacy McCain, Barbara Espinosa for their assistance in Washington. I owe a particular debut to Andrea Shea King who helped out a total stranger on the word of someone else. Finally a tip of the Fedora to The Charming Roxeanne of Haemet who provided moral support.
Thanks also to all who have linked and all who have read or commented on the posts I’ve put up and will put up on the subject.
As regular readers know I’m about 6 weeks from the end of my unemployment. Although I had a free ride down I racked up an extra $250 of expenses consisting of The train Ticket home ($135), Memory Cards and batteries ($40) and cell phone stuff ($70).
If anyone is able and willing to help offset these expenses I would really appreciate it. Just click on the “I’ll do it myself Tucker fund“. Please specify in comments that it is to offset Washington so I don’t put it toward Ga.
I’m still offering my Have Fedora will travel services for a full week of blogging & filming etc to anyone with a story they want told. Price $1000, plus flight, hotel and rental car.
To any who can kick in from $5 to $500 I will not forget it.
And of course if anyone wants to hire a full time telecommuting staff blogger let me know.
Update: Wow! It’s one thing to get an instalanche, it’s another to get one on a tip jar request. What an amazing thing to wake up to after a day of illness. Thanks to all who stopped by. when it no longer hurts to look at the screen I’ll thank you properly.
Update 2: You guys are really something. Washington is paid for, anything extra will go to the Ga Trip. Thanks to each and every one of you.
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