Oh great, another recast of the TOS crew, but they're all preteens hijacking a spaceship and fighting preteen Romulans together? Also, they form this deep and meaningful bond that has to be reset/memory wiped by the end of the movie yet somehow steer them onto a shared future?
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All the more reason to chip in as a (human) volunteer translating open source apps 🙂
I've used deepl, and as a "quick solution/I'm fine with the occasional error" translation service it's definitely better than Google. As a commercial platform probably tracking more than I personally care for, trying to corner a market share —not so much.
But neither of the above are fit for translating books of any kind (except perhaps as a joke to emphasise just that). And I'm still doubtful of the "AI" models doing any better.
Meh, it's fine. I used it knowing the literal and vernacular meanings, either is valid here 🙂
Oh, want? I think you're contributing agency to inert goo. 😄 I'm just not certain Boimler's face hair will be able to deal with the steady scrubbing (also chemicals).
Five Federation credits says that disinfectant is going to decimate Boimlers "beard".
You say "chance", I read "intent" 🤷 Mainstream isn't what it's cracked up to be.
While true, covering up fundamental faults to keep afloat is hardly an example of best practice.
Sure, I'll help: The best way to achieve this is not sacking 30% of your employees.
You had the workforce,you laid them off. It's a bit soon to come asking your userbase for voluntary help.
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"I will never surrender!" The third 60th anniversary special script has a lovely, unfilmed coda for Wilfred Mott
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A short while back the BBC added a batch of new/never before seen scripts to their Doctor Who database, including the 60th specials. Tucked away at the tail end of "The giggle" is an alternate ending scene featuring Wilfred Mott that the late Bernard Cribbins didn't shoot before his demise:
THE DOCTOR And Grandad, where is he?
SYLVIA He’s off, shooting moles.
From offstage, a BANG!
SYLVIA (CONT’D) There he goes.
And all TURN to look.
There’s WILF, in his WHEELCHAIR, buzzing across the lawn, with a SHOTGUN.
WILF I’ll get ‘em! Don’t you worry, Doctor! You stay there! I’ll get the little..!
ALL laughing, except Rose.
ROSE Leave them alone!
WILF I will never surrender!
And Wilf glides away. All turn back to each other.
THE DOCTOR Don’t worry, I gave the moles a forcefield. Love the moles.
Here's to things left undone, Mr Cribbins. You live on in our hearts.
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Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor is headed for Victorian London in an upcoming Paternoster Gang box set from Big Finish
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[Tom] Baker, who famously played the Time Lord from 1974 to 1981, will be reprising the role this April. His Doctor joins the Paternoster Gang as they fight intergalactic crime in the latest entry to the Trespassers series.
He joins the cast made up of Neve McIntosh as great detective Madame Vastra, Catrin Stewart as her spouse Jenny Flint and Dan Starkey as their loyal valet Strax.
McIntosh added: "Acting with Tom Baker has been something I've wanted to do for so long. He was my Doctor growing up, from when I was hiding behind the sofa."
I'm thrilled TBH, I thought the chemistry between McIntosh, Stewart and Starkey made the previous Paternoster Gang sets some of the most campily enjoyable BF work I've heard. Add Tom Baker, even in his old age... Woof, this'll be good!
The podcast, which will start releasing weekly on Saturdays from March 2024, will showcase fan-favourite stories from Big Finish’s back catalogue, presented in episodic, 30-minute instalments.
Each episode will feature a brand-new introduction read by Sixth Doctor star Colin Baker, and will also include behind-the-scenes interviews, with the podcast being available via all podcast platforms, with listeners able to stream it for free with ads.
Actors come and go in the part of the Doctor, it's a revolving door by nature. But it struck me just now how long Nicholas Briggs has been doing the role as his nemeses, the Daleks.
Or rather, I'm wondering exactly how long he has been turning the knobs on the old ring modulator? IMDb gives his earliest Dalek credit as 2000's Doctor who: The apocalypse element, but surely they aren't listing all of his audio plays?
Big finish got the rights to produce Doctor who audios in 1999, were there any Dalek bits by him there — giving him an early silver jubilee this year — or perhaps earlier in unlicensed fan works?
I hope somebody better versed in the extended universe can help answer this. Either way, the fact that Briggs has played the same part in Who productions longer than the entirety of the revived series has been on the air is... monumental.
+1 for a markdown based workflow!
I'm not partial to Zettelkasten myself, but if you are I recommend using Zettlr instead of Obsidian. It's open source, available for Linux, Mac and Windows, and as the name implies it's built around a Zettelkasten methodology.
I do believe Zettlr even exports to markdown presentations, so there's another piece of the researcher workflow implemented?