Who I am
It was shorts and T-shirt weather a couple of days ago and now I'm freezing. Stupid fluctuations in the fabric of space-time weather.
I am bored. Really, really bored. I've got nothing to do.
Well, that's not strictly true. I have things that I could do and things that I probably should do, I just don't want to do any of them, and the things I do want to do are unavailable to me.
Well, that problem was solved by a nice, long game of Advance Wars: Dual Strike. Which took up way too much of my time and now I'm left without a topic and in a rush to get this post done.
So I'll talk about me.
A rather interesting thing happened to me today, which I believe shows much about my true personality (ye gods, it's English personal writing all over again). I've probably mentioned the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) before, since they're the body in charge of regulating my exams and school curriculum. Complicated-looking graphs that Skippy briefly showed me indicate that there must be some people reading this who know what I'm talking about.
Results for the exams I sat in May are coming out in August and the SQA has rolled out a new scheme whereby, if you register now, you can go online to get your results the day before the letter arrives. Since this has to do with time and getting stuff early and since the new series has made Doctor Who references crop up everywhere, the SQA put a picture of the TARDIS and a caption saying "JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED" on the postcard informing me of the scheme.
Some people might think this was a rubbish attempt to seem trendy (though I happen to think it's quite clever, as this sort of thing goes). They would dismiss the front of the card and just flip over to the back to find the url of the website where they can register.
Not me.
I took one look at the card and started wondering what model of TARDIS prop it was. It has the proportions of the new series one (the original series, which had several versions over the years, tended to have TARDISes that were thinner than actual police boxes) but has a lot of scuffs and marks that I don't think should be there. Add that to the background, which has the right style but not the official graphical look, and I suspect that they just used an old police box and hoped nobody would notice.
But I did.
I also wonder if they got full permission before using it. Even if it isn't said to be the TARDIS and Doctor Who isn't directly mentioned, the BBC owns the rights to the police box design. The SQA may be getting a call from some BBC lawyers, methinks.
Normal people might wonder why they didn't say "Doctor Who" anywhere. I'm glad they didn't, since I would never have forgiven them if they'd referred to The Doctor as "Doctor Who". That is not his freaking name!!!!
It was only used a few times by accident and the character has sometimes been credited as "Doctor Who". This was the case in the new series until David Tennant specifically requested that he be credited as "The Doctor". It was used in the non-canon Dalekmania-era films starring Peter Cushing as a human inventor with a time ship called "Tardis".
Incidentally, I used Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth (one of the two films) in a game of hangman today. After a little bit of nudging, a friend of mine got it without guessing any letters at all.
So, what does this whole episode (and this blog post) tell me about myself? The same thing it tells you.
I am Alasdair Corbett. I am a geek.
I am bored. Really, really bored. I've got nothing to do.
Well, that's not strictly true. I have things that I could do and things that I probably should do, I just don't want to do any of them, and the things I do want to do are unavailable to me.
Well, that problem was solved by a nice, long game of Advance Wars: Dual Strike. Which took up way too much of my time and now I'm left without a topic and in a rush to get this post done.
So I'll talk about me.
A rather interesting thing happened to me today, which I believe shows much about my true personality (ye gods, it's English personal writing all over again). I've probably mentioned the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) before, since they're the body in charge of regulating my exams and school curriculum. Complicated-looking graphs that Skippy briefly showed me indicate that there must be some people reading this who know what I'm talking about.
Results for the exams I sat in May are coming out in August and the SQA has rolled out a new scheme whereby, if you register now, you can go online to get your results the day before the letter arrives. Since this has to do with time and getting stuff early and since the new series has made Doctor Who references crop up everywhere, the SQA put a picture of the TARDIS and a caption saying "JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED" on the postcard informing me of the scheme.
Some people might think this was a rubbish attempt to seem trendy (though I happen to think it's quite clever, as this sort of thing goes). They would dismiss the front of the card and just flip over to the back to find the url of the website where they can register.
Not me.
I took one look at the card and started wondering what model of TARDIS prop it was. It has the proportions of the new series one (the original series, which had several versions over the years, tended to have TARDISes that were thinner than actual police boxes) but has a lot of scuffs and marks that I don't think should be there. Add that to the background, which has the right style but not the official graphical look, and I suspect that they just used an old police box and hoped nobody would notice.
But I did.
I also wonder if they got full permission before using it. Even if it isn't said to be the TARDIS and Doctor Who isn't directly mentioned, the BBC owns the rights to the police box design. The SQA may be getting a call from some BBC lawyers, methinks.
Normal people might wonder why they didn't say "Doctor Who" anywhere. I'm glad they didn't, since I would never have forgiven them if they'd referred to The Doctor as "Doctor Who". That is not his freaking name!!!!
It was only used a few times by accident and the character has sometimes been credited as "Doctor Who". This was the case in the new series until David Tennant specifically requested that he be credited as "The Doctor". It was used in the non-canon Dalekmania-era films starring Peter Cushing as a human inventor with a time ship called "Tardis".
Incidentally, I used Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth (one of the two films) in a game of hangman today. After a little bit of nudging, a friend of mine got it without guessing any letters at all.
So, what does this whole episode (and this blog post) tell me about myself? The same thing it tells you.
I am Alasdair Corbett. I am a geek.
posted by Alasdair Corbett at
11:06 PM
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