{"id":27,"date":"2006-10-31T18:14:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T00:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2006-10-31T18:14:48","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T00:14:48","slug":"tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, BANG!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday (the 23rd), I replaced my desktop with an iMac &#8211; it had locked up about four times in the preceding week. I invited my daughter along on the trip to pick the iMac up, because I figured that she&#8217;d enjoy the trip. She did, partly because I indulged her request to look for the boxed set of season one of the new <a title=\"The official BBC site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/\">Dr. Who<\/a> series. Apparently, she has a crush on the Doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Tower Records by Cherry Creek Mall is going out of business, so she got it at a discount, and was so excited that she was &#8220;blushing so hard it hurts.&#8221; (She&#8217;ll be embarrassed that I&#8217;ve quoted her on this, but it&#8217;s part of the job requirements for parents.)<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, she asked, &#8220;Did I tell you the universe hates me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I got the explanation from her, and you have to know some of the backstory of Dr. Who to understand. Basically, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_%28Doctor_Who%29\">the Doctor<\/a> is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. One of his capabilities is to regenerate into a new body and new personality when near death (conveniently allowing replacement of the lead actor). She had done a marathon session to view the entire boxed set, and, unfortunately, the Doctor on whom she is crushing is not the one featured in season one; he appears at the end of the last episode and has exactly one line of dialog. Season two is not yet available on DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well. Points to anyone who can identify where the post title comes from (you&#8217;re disqualified, Paul).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday (the 23rd), I replaced my desktop with an iMac &#8211; it had locked up about four times in the preceding week. I invited my daughter along on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}