I've been working to assemble all 'classic episodes' of Doctor Who onto my FTP server. Although I've featured a "Dr Who - Classic" folder in my "Science Fiction & Fantasy" section for some time, many single episodes were either missing or were of poor quality.
I'm happy to report that as of today, I'm half way through getting the classic episodes online! All episodes of the following reincarnations of the doctor, in their original quality, sequencing and order are now online Chazhome.com!

I have yet to set up a special website for the 'classic' episodes, as I have with the new episodes, but you can access it by web browser by clicking here and to download an episode, right click on the filename and save the file to your system. Remember: Please download only ONE at a time, or the server will block you from future connections.
Technical notes: I recommend you download CCCP (the Combined Community Codec Pack) to ensure full compatibility with Xvid, DivX and other video codecs. CCCP is the best! (A video codec is a device or software that enables video compression and/or decompression for digital video.) If you don't know what I'm talking about, read this, or just take my word for it.
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Chris Elliott
(who authors a very popular and
wide-read travel bog) has apologized for making the connection between a
TSA Officer accused of molesting a minor and his S&M lifestyle (excerpt
below).
Link to the full
story/apology is here: http://www.elliott.org/blog/a-sincere-ap
It was nice for
Chris to apologize, although the comment linking the two separate issues
was originally made in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, not by Chris
directly.
One thing that
should be mentioned is that readers
of Chris' travel blog have been anything but sympathetic as to the nature
of my complaint of linking S&M to child molestation charges.
They're saying things in the "comments section" of Chris' blog such as
"These people need to get some thicker skin!" and "Oy! If sadomasochists like
pain, why are you apologizing for offending them???".
One
comment from "Steve" reads: "You should NOT have to apologize for the few
idiotic, interpreting everything literally, PC people out there. It’s time
political correctness went the way of the dinosaur. These people need to get
some thicker skin!"
The important
factor? Chris' blog is completely moderated, which means
all of these comments were approved by Chris Elliott
before able to be seen by the public. So, is Chris' apology truly
sincere when he allows this sort of torch-wielding mob-mentality to
verbally abuse the S&M community?
While I agree that
some levels of "political correctness" (i.e. nice manners) are extreme, I
do believe in any case where a minority is singled out and mass-ridiculed by a
majority, I feel some level of sensevity is warranted. Don't
you?
Add you two cents to
the comments section of Chris Elliott's blog here.
I just updated "Where's Chaz" -- my travel schedule. Major updates include my confirmation of travel to the Great British Bear Bash #13.
It's been a while since I've updated my blog, sorry about that -- it's just that I've just been busy... Looking for work, travelling, sight-seeing, club stuff, family stuff and enjoying home life with my husband! To defend myself somewhat, I have been diligent about posting photos from my travels on Picasa, as well as keeping Where's Chaz? and my Google Calendar up to date. I've also been active on Facebook (although I swore I'd never use it!) -- I have some simple rules with Facebook: 1) Facebook takes LAST priority for communications (phone and e-mail remain #1) 2) I reject ALL Facebook apps (i.e. Mafia Wars, Farm Frenzy, etc.) 3) If someone SPAMS me on Facebook, I unfriend them and then unfriend anyone that's mutually on their friend list and mine. 4) I don't approve just anyone as a friend -- I look first! 5) I don't reply to Events/Fan Pages/Groups unless I truly have an interest in them. Make sense? Sure it does. ;-) I'll post again soon, but I need to edit and upload photos from Philadelphia now! If you're a mate of mine, do drop me an e-mail from time to time. I've been noticing a drop-off in communication with many friends lately. I've updated my Dr. Who, Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures webpages to contain the latest shows! Coming soon.... Doctor Who Returns to Full-Time Filming With Moffat, Smith Shooting began on the new season of Doctor Who with Matt Smith taking over the lead role under new show-runner, Steven Moffat. The BBC released the first glimpse of Smith’s costume — a professorial, period tweed ensemble complete with anachronistic bow tie (above). The outfit might be an effort to age The Doctor since, when the young Time Lord appears with assistant Amy Pond, the show looks a little like “Jim Henson’s Doctor Who Babies.” The multi-award winning Moffat will shape the new Who as it enters its fifth season since Russell T. Davies rebooted the show. The new series will be the first full run since 2008 as this year offers only four special episodes featuring the final appearances of David Tennant (the rumored Bilbo in the upcoming Hobbit films). Fans theorize that Moffat will take the show in a darker direction and away from some of the more flamboyant elements of Davies’ run. But only time travel will tell.
While I'm on route, I'll be playing with my new Android T-Mobile (Google) phone! Read about my new toy below..."Visitors to Google’s I/O conference earlier this year received a surprise gift: a new touchscreen Google phone made by HTC. The svelte gadget is the second major Google Android device on the market, and sometime in August, you’ll be able to buy one from T-Mobile USA. T-Mobile is going to sell it for $199 with a two-year contract. Sure, you can buy the new iPhone 3G S, but in case you don’t care much for either the iPhone or the network it runs on, I think the new Android phone might actually be worth the wait. T-Mobile is calling this 3G handset (with built-in Wi-Fi), myTouch, not exactly the most original or mellifluous name, but from a device standpoint, it is a worthy smartphone. I’ve had the one given out by Google for a few weeks now, and I have found it to be a very worthy competitor to current smartphone champions. I’ve been using it in tandem with my BlackBerry Curve 2. The best part I like about this device: its sleek, lightweight design and how unobtrusively it slips into a top shirt pocket. 156010.jpgIt has a great 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen display; the touchscreen is probably the second best in the business in terms of responsiveness. It comes with a 4GB microSD card for you to store photos, videos and music, which can be upgraded to any size. The phone has a built-in 512MB of internal memory. It seamlessly integrates all Google services including Google Chat, Picasa, Search, Calendar and Gmail. It took me literally 15 minutes to get going: I typed in my Google ID, and the phone did the rest. My calendars, contacts and Google Talk friends were downloaded to the device automatically. Of course, if you don’t have a Google account, things might not go as smoothly. Setting up IMAP email was pretty easy as well. Sure, it has its short comings — the browser is good, but not great like the iPhone browser. It’s sometimes hard to switch modes on the virtual keyboard or bring up the dialpad when you need it most. It has one micro-USB port that can either be used for charging or plugging in accessories such as headphones. The most disappointing feature of the device is the 3.2-megapixel camera — it is horrible. And like most other 3G smartphones, the device guzzles power faster than a Hummer speeding down the freeway. The phone lasted about seven hours at best when I checked email, used instant messaging, and surfed the web too often." Could this have been the Rochester, NY Subway? ![]() Duane Thomas Fields writes (about Rochester, New York) "I came across the fact that the city had a subway for a time in the early 20th century. It hasn’t run since 1956 and the tunnels sit abandoned today. But in researching whether there was support for modern revival, I came about a map of what the subway map could look like today, with the original line plus proposed extensions." On another note, Eddie Jabbour, co-owner of KICK Design, was born and bred in NYC; he lived here for decades before finally getting fed up with the MTA’s “ungraceful” subway map. So he made his own. “We’ve had the current one for 29 years and it serves its purpose, but it’s not friendly,” he says. “It doesn’t celebrate the city. My map is all about celebrating the city.” His KICK Map is a hybrid of approaches: diagrammatic (i.e., a work stylized to the point of abstraction) and topographic (which shows exactly what is above the surface). ![]() MULTIPLE LINES: “The current MTA map hides the lines on one route,” says Jabbour. “At first, it looks simple. ‘Oh, nice!’ But then when you realize there’s five different lines on one trunk—that’s when you realize, This is nuts. The first IRT map in 1904 had multiple lines, so I added them back in. That way, you can scan your line quickly—you don’t have to read it. No New Yorker wants to be caught looking at the map for a full minute, peering over some old lady and her hat.” ACCURATE TOPOGRAPHY: “Williamsburg, on the current map, looks like a string of spaghetti. Anyone who lives there will recognize my Williamsburg as the real one.” CONNECTIONS: “If you live on the Upper West Side and are going to Bushwick, there’s not one train to get you there, and that’s where the MTA’s map fails. On my map, it’s extremely clear where you have to transfer; you’re dealing with three lines. One glance also tells you about off-peak hours and whether you can cross over and go in the opposite direction for free.” SIMPLIFICATION: “Every station dot has a number or letter. The words are also all horizontal, not diagonal. Both allow all that information to stay where it belongs—next to the station stop—so all that clutter is contained. In the old map, the info about Times Square goes all the way to Ninth Avenue. It’s crazy!” Click here to read more or for a full-blown version of the KICK Map: click here! ![]() In the past 14 days, I've been to London, Boston and San Francisco! 18-SEP: My first full day in London -- alone. Dave Pike wasn't able to join me on this trip (in fact, he's in hospital today for a hernia operation, which is why he couldn't join me). I made plans for two excursions: 1) The Royal Observatory at Greenwich (which was to close in five minutes the last time I was there) and 2) the tour of the Houses of Parliament (House of Lords and House of Commons).Typically, whilst travelling with UK citizens, they are hesitant to tour Parliament, as they've either "done it before" or the queue was too long -- it must have been my lucky day, as I purchased my ticket at 15:05, and my tour was to begin at 15:15!! I was in without delay! You can [virtually] tour the Royal Observatory from the internet! Just click here to check it out! There are two main paths to follow: the Astronomy galleries and the Time galleries. Have fun! I must admit it was fascinating to see the sheer number of people taking photos of themselves and friends whilst standing on the Prime Meridian in Greenwich!! It made me proud to be a geek! See photos on my Picasa Photo Album. Sorry -- no TARDIS sightings. :-( 19-SEP: In Soho (London), I saw Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the musical - which was a fun adventure full of surprises, even if you've seen the movie! I have heard rumours that it will be coming to (New York's) Broadway in 2010 -- I think it will give "Mamma Mia!" a run for it's money!20-SEP: My extreme online group, MaleBodyMods.com had a face-to-face gathering at The Hoist's NBN Night. We had over a dozen people from all over the world show up -- which is pretty impressive! This was our third such meet-up party at The Hoist in the past 12 months, and each one is more successful than the last! 22-SEP: I left London for Boston, spending only several hours in Boston. 25-SEP: I departed Newark Airport (EWR) for San Francisco (SFO) with a lay-over in Dallas Fort-Worth (DFW) to meet up with my buddy Greg Hill (whom I met exactly 51 weeks prior at the Golden Gate Guards run). I wanted to immediately hit the Lone Star and the Eagle upon touch-down, but we never made it there... 26-SEP: I was a volunteer at a 15 Association pre-Folsom St Fair Play Party above Mr S leather shop. I managed to meet (for the first time face-to-face) one of the co-moderators of my extreme online group, MaleBodyMods.com -- it was great to meet "C" in person, especially after being in London one week prior meeting with my other co-moderator, "M"! The party was wild and was reminiscent to the hard-core play of "Cabin 4" at both the Rochester Rams and Spearhead Runs. 27-SEP: Folsom St Fair! Sadly, I was only there from about noon to 14:30. As usual, it was simply mental -- tons of people. See photos on my Picasa Photo Album. 29-SEP: It was the 70th Anniversary of the Wizard of Oz. Although threat of rain and a chilly evening, some New York Bear Den members managed to show up and had a blast on rumsey playfield (in Central Park) for a free Netflix screening of the new 70th Anniversary Special Re-Mastered HD version of the classic movie and a LIVE concert (as opposed to a dead one?) Time to breathe and hunker back down to job hunting and ECMC affairs that need tending to... I leave you with this wacky news: Think flying economy is bad now? New aircraft design puts passengers face-to-face in rows for budget travel.Air travel is being overhauled with a new aircraft design which plans to seat passengers facing each other in rows. The controversial design is intended to save space and money and could see 50 per cent more passengers packed on to each plane. Howard Guy, director of the UK company Design Q, acknowledges that some people will not be happy with the plan, but says they will be able to pay less for any inconvenience.... read more In other news... did you hear about the grandmother who was arrested for buying cold medicine twice in 1 week? read all about it here
![]() Bar owner, Richard Ramey called APN on the morning of September 11 to confirm the information in this article, except the correction noted above that no patrons were arrested. Ramey said the only charge faced by bar staff and dancers is that the male dancers in their underwear had been dancing without a permit. "No patron was arrested. I was under the impression the only time you needed a license... is if they're strippers. These dancers were in their underwear," Ramey said. Ramey said he is upset and concerned about the civil rights of his customers. He wants bar patrons who feel they were mistreated to contact him. "After everything they did to our customers and our staff... they did this like they did in the Stonewall days," Ramey said. Ramey said the so-called complaint from the community consisted of "a noise complaint... How can they made everybody lie on that nasty floor without probable cause?" This writer arrived minutes after the raid had begun. A line of cop cars blocked the parking lot so that no one in the parking lot could leave. According to numerous patrons, many patrons were handcuffed and many, if not all, were searched for drugs and were asked to show identification. According to one patron, APD handcuffed all Eagle staff members and dancers, patrons in a leather shop, and anyone who was wearing only underwear; Thursday is advertised as underwear night. APN received the following email on September 11 from a patron who was inside during the raid. "My roommate and I were there for the police raid at the Eagle on September 10, 2009. We had arrived about 20 minutes before the raid took place," Allan Vives said. "Everyone was ordered to get on their stomachs and face down during this ordeal. As far as I could tell everyone was searched at least once, most of us twice. Most, but not all, of the officers were incredibly derogatory and insulting whether they found evidence of drugs or not," Vives said. "When asking why, we were met with derisive remarks and no explanation. I am furious at how we were treated and can't believe that this has happened in this day and age. The officers present were incredibly rude to anyone who dared to ask what was happening and several were openly hostile towards the gay patrons. Of the officers present, there was one female who was running searches on the IDs of those whose licenses were collected. She was not only rude but seemed to be enjoying the event," Vives said. "At one point, she stopped what she was doing and walked over to the television and asked her colleagues what the score to the game playing on the television was.....at this point there were still innocent patrons laying face down on the floor," Vives said. "When pressed for answers none were given, only further threats that something worse would happen if we didn't capitulate to the demands of these 'law enforcement' officers. I'm disgusted at what I went through. I'm disgusted at what I witnessed. I'm embarrassed for this city. I hope this is the beginning of a discussion that ends in the dismissal of several Atlanta police officers and whoever initiated this act. It is UNBELIEVABLE that the patrons of one of Atlanta's gay bars would be subjected to this kind of treatment given the high rate of serious crimes that are being perpetrated on a daily basis? Is this really the greatest concern of the Atlanta police department...especially in a city where the daily news rarely goes without some report of violent crimes against others? This is just unbelievable, a serious embarrassment. I can't express how angry I am." From about 11:30pm to 12am, patrons came out of the bar one at a time, apparently, after they had shown ID and gotten searched. At about 11:50pm, police asked all people standing in the parking lot to leave the property and un-blocked their cars. At about 12:15am, one staff member complained of a fast heart beat and feeling faint as a result of the stress and shock, and an ambulance was called to the scene. The individual apparently felt better after a few minutes and did not leave in the ambulance. After revising Where's Chaz with my upcoming trips for the year, and without too much thought, I got to thinking where are the places I've visited in my lifetime? Below are the results... (Some inconsequential omissions may have been made, the map is clickable, should you want to see the large version). Tomorrow, 1 September 2009 would have been Johnny Ipacs and my 12th anniversary. The day after, 2 September 2009 is the 2nd anniversary of his death in 2007. Above is a video I spent several hours piecing together three years before John's death -- when he was hospitalized and we all thought he was going to die... The tattoo on my left arm reads "Johnny." It's short for Johnny Ipacs. Johnny also had my name hidden on his body tattooed in large print as well! (Obviously, you don't arbitrarily get a tattoo of someone's name on your body without there being a serious connection.) Johnny and I shared a total of three unique, matching tattoos. Johnny and I celebrated five years together as a couple in September of 2002 -- but 2002 was a very bad year for us -- by 15 February 2003 I had moved to Boston, Massachusetts due to a number of relationship issues. Johnny and I reconciled our differences and became very close friends in 2004 -- but his health began to fail shortly thereafter. During the last three years of his life, Johnny's health was failing quite rapidly. He was in hospital more often than not with a myriad of conditions. I created the video to rally his friends to come and support him while we still could. Some of you might recognize some of these photos, people or places in this video. Consider yourself lucky to have been a part of our lives -- I hope you appreciate the video. Thank you. Please note: This video contains brief male parts in an artistic form. This is a dedication video: Please don't mark as improper. If you even think you might be offended, simply don't bother watching this video. Thanks for your understanding. Those who know Johnny also know that this collage speaks reams of how he lives his life, and this is exactly the way he would want to be thought of.
![]() WILL CLARK'S PORNO BINGO TO BENEFIT THE NEW YORK BEAR DEN on 09/09/09! Coming up Wednesday, 09 September, the NY Bear Den will be the featured charity at Will Clark's Porno Bingo at Pieces Bar, 8 Christopher St, New York, NY. Porno Bingo is a weekly New York gathering that "has raised nearly $70,000 for Manhattan based GLBT non profits". Will Clark World has more information about Porno Bingo and other charity events. For more information about the NY Bear Den at Porno Bingo, please click here! We're still looking for some more volunteers to help sell bingo cards. Of course, EVERYONE is welcome to attend and meet Will Clark and the guest porn star of the week! ![]() Following Porno Bingo, come join us at Lee Chappell's "Drip!" party -- a new pool party that brings out the cuties! There isn't a dry thigh in the house at Drip, Lee Chappell and Shequida's new Wednesday night pool party at the Grace Hotel. DJ JonJon Battles spinning from a land zone. Everyone is waxed, smashed, and splashing around in the pool as if in a gay version of a Busby Berkeley aquacade (minus the jewelled headdresses and synchronized wrist action.) Drip! starts immediately after Porno Bingo and is at the new Grace RoomMate Hotel, 125 West 45th Street, between Broadway and 6th Ave. The fun goes until 2am! Want to know more about these events? Visit http://NY-Bear-Den.com/
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The books are closed on the last of Dr. Who 2009 and David Tennant (photo left) as "The Doctor". I wasn't sure how David would handle the role at first, but he grew into one of my favourite Dr. who actors since Jon Pertwee (photo right)!
I'm back from Salt Lake City. Whilst there, I managed to visit
I'm making a mileage run to Salt Lake City today, returning tomorrow evening.
While I'm on route, I'll be playing with my new Android T-Mobile (Google) phone! Read about my new toy below...


18-SEP: My first full day in London -- alone. Dave Pike wasn't able to join me on this trip (in fact, he's in hospital today for a hernia operation, which is why he couldn't join me). I made plans for two excursions: 1) The Royal Observatory at Greenwich (which was to close in five minutes the last time I was there) and 2) the tour of the Houses of Parliament (House of Lords and House of Commons).
19-SEP: In Soho (London), I saw
Think flying economy is bad now? New aircraft design puts passengers face-to-face in rows for budget travel.




Seems I've been doing a lot more on Facebook under my name "Chaz Antonelli" than I have been posting here lately...

Last weekend KK and I went on a long-distance bike ride to Hillside Campground.
On the job front, I've been asked to apply for a Service Delivery Manager position with a major competitor of IBM. I'm in their "HR system" now and awaiting their lengthy interview process, but I feel confident that this position will be the apex of my IT career.