I'm doing a reading at my friends' wedding and he is a massive Doctor Who fan. Does anyone have any ideas for a Doctor Who themed reading of a decent length?
Two of my friends are getting married. They're both huge Doctor Who geeks, and actually met through a DW RPG. Their wedding invitation contained a very subtle DW reference (you wouldn't have been able to tell unless you were very familiar with the show yourself.)   Doctor Who's been running long enough that there are quite a few nice quotes for basically every occasion in life. I was hoping someone would know a nice wedding-related one, or maybe one about love, that I could include in a wedding card?
In Hitchcock's Vertigo, there is one part of the film that has never made sense to me and I believe that it was a cheap ploy to mislead the audience until the ultimate reveal (I won't spoil it here).    In this scene Jimmy Stewart watches Kim Novak enter a rooming house and afterwards sees her standing by the window on the 2nd floor.  When he enters the house and talks to the inn-keeper, she tells him that Kim Novaks's character positively never came in and even shows him her room key that is still behind the front desk.  They go up to the room and find it empty.   This scene seems to imply that the Kim Novak character may have had a ghost like quality. But given the reveal at the end she clearly does not and there was no way for her to enter the room without a key and without being seen by the inn-keeper.  If this was done by some other director I probably wouldn't have given this much thought but Hitchcock was a perfectionist (especially for this film) so I never understood the significance of this scene other than to mislead the audience (with a cheap ploy IMO).  Does anyone who is familiar with this film have a different explanation/perspective about this scene in an otherwise brilliant movie. Ireland Transit Visa when flying from IND - Abu Dhabi - Dublin - US Can I include another file in fstab Can I include another file in my fstab file?  I.e. can I have fstab execute lines from another file at an arbitrary point, and then return to the main file when completed? I have had significant problems with watching flash video in 64-bit Ubuntu.  Does anyone know of a good way to get flash running on the platform? Evaluate $\lim_{n\to\infty} [{1\over kn}+{1\over k(n+1)}+{1\over k(n+2)}+\cdots+{1\over k(n+p-k)}]$ where $k<p$ There are four options. 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Put   $$ l^{\infty} = \{ (x_n) \subseteq \mathbb{C} : \forall j \; \;\ \;|x_j| \leq C(x)\} $$  I want to show that $c_0$, the space of all sequences of scalars that converges to $0$ is closed subspace of $l^{\infty}$.  MY atttemt: Take arbitrary sequence $(x_n) \in c_0$. We know $x_n \to 0$. but $0 \in c_0$. Therefore, every sequence in $c_0$ converges to an element in $c_0$. Hence, $c_0$ must be closed  Is this correct? thanks Skipping Iterations in Python I have a loop going, but there is the possibility for exceptions to be raised inside the loop. This of course would stop my program all together. To prevent that I catch the exceptions and handle them. But then the rest of the iteration runs even though an exception occurred. Is there a keyword to use in my except: clause to just skip the rest of the current iteration? What is -crf used for in ffmpeg When converting an array of jpegs to a video file (ogg format) I have been using the -crf option.  What are the valid ranges for -crf? Currently I am using 23.    I cannot find the bookmark I read to know what this flag does and I have spent some time Googling around.  These are the arguments I am using at the moment:  -f image2 -r 10 -i " + _sourcePath + @"\img%05d.jpg -crf 18  -y -r 10 " + _destPath + "\\" + _filename + ".ogg" Given any $10$ consecutive positive  integers , does there exist one integer which is relatively prime to the product of the rest ? I am thinking about buying a new lens specifically to take photos of distant targets (birds, bears, etc). I currently own the Canon 70-300 IS USM, which is a nice lens, but I find that if I want to take a photo of anything further away than about 10 meters, the target does not fill a large amount of the frame (meaning I have to significantly crop in post production).  I am currently looking at the Canon prime 400mm, however I would like to determine at what distance an object will fill a reasonable proportion of the frame.  Is there a formula or rule of thumb I can apply that will help me in this situation? I realise the size of the target I am shooting will play a role here, so if we need to make an assumption about the size of the target please let me know. Expanding code in etoolbox's \ifblank I am trying to use the etoolbox \ifblank (and its cousin \notblank), but I want to expand any macros in its test statement.  For example:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{etoolbox}  \begin{document}  \newtoggle{longformt} \newcommand{\longform}{\toggletrue{longformt}} \newcommand{\iflong}[2]{\iftoggle{longformt}{#1}{#2}}  \newcommand{\quoteifnotblank}[1]{%     \notblank{#1}{``#1''}{}% }  % Try commenting this line. \longform  This should be completely blank if the form is short: \quoteifnotblank{\iflong{Some long quoted text}{}}  \end{document}   The problem here is that \notblank sees its argument of \iflong{Some long quoted text}{} as a string, not as code to be expanded, so the quotes always appear.  How do I expand arguments before they are passed to \notblank? Computing $\mathrm{Hom}(\mathbb Z_n,\mathbb Z_m)$ as $\mathbb Z$-module pgfplots: correct rounding problems I had a problem with disappearing marker as the data sum up to more than 100 while xmax was set to 100. See .  As written in the answer to the cited question I tried to avoid the problem by normalizing the value to 100. But this lead to (much smaller) rounding errors in previously correct rows and now the marker disappear there. See the following example. Before the normalisation the column F ist affected, after the column B.   How can I in a reliable way avoid this rounding problem? Or at least get a clear error message. I have quite a number of this plots and I don't want to have to check them all the time for missing markers.    \documentclass{scrreprt} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.13} \usepackage{pgfplotstable} \pgfplotsset{  my stackbar plot/.style={              xbar stacked,              xmin=0,xmax=100,              symbolic y coords={A,B,C,D,E,F,G},              ytick=data,              nodes near coords={xxx},}}  \begin{document}  \pgfplotstableread[col sep=space]{  text   --  -    +       ++  A      0.0 1.7 13.8    84.5  B      0.0 0.6 20.1    79.3  C      0.0 1.9 13.2    84.9  D      0.0 1.6 27.9    70.5  E      1.3 3.9 19.5    75.3  F      0.0 1.4 15.0    83.7  G      0.3 1.7 24.8    73.2  }\data   \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/expr={\thisrow{--}+\thisrow{-}+\thisrow{+}+\thisrow{++}}]{sum}\data %  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/copy=--]{--o}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/copy=-]{-o}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/copy=+]{+o}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/copy=++]{++o}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/expr={100/\thisrow{sum}*\thisrow{--o}}]{--}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/expr={100/\thisrow{sum}*\thisrow{-o}}]{-}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/expr={100/\thisrow{sum}*\thisrow{+o}}]{+}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/expr={100/\thisrow{sum}*\thisrow{++o}}]{++}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/expr={\thisrow{--}+\thisrow{-}+\thisrow{+}+\thisrow{++}}]{sumnew}\data  \pgfplotstabletypeset[columns={text,sum}   ,precision=10,columns/text/.style={string type}]\data \quad \pgfplotstabletypeset[columns={text,sumnew},precision=10,columns/text/.style={string type}]\data   %\pgfplotstablesave{\data}{pgfplotstempout.dat} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[my stackbar plot]  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{--o},y=text] {\data};  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{-o}, y=text] {\data};  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{+o}, y=text] {\data};  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{++o}, y=text] {\data}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \quad \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[my stackbar plot]  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{--},y=text] {\data};  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{-}, y=text] {\data};  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{+}, y=text] {\data};  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{++}, y=text] {\data}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture}  \end{document} Coming from Eclipse and having been used to duplicate lines all the time, it's pretty strange finding out that Xcode has no such function. Or does it?  I know it's possible to change the system wide keybindings but that's not what I'm after. How can I reset my menus? I accidentally opened too many menus (or windows) and I want to reset them to default.  It is really annoying, and effecting my animation.  Thanks