Hardwick, along with friends Jonah Ray and Matt Mira, started the Nerdist Podcast just over a year ago. And from the get-go we hear about Hardwick beginning to investigate the show. Not long before he started recording the podcast, Hardwick began watching the New Series and quickly fell in love with it (as is the case with many of us). Nearly every podcast contains mention of Doctor Who in some capacity, but here are a few choice episodes where they discuss DW in some kind of length:

Nerdist Podcast #22: Craig Ferguson Live @ Largo!

Back in June the podcast had a live recording at Largo in LA with Craig Ferguson! The whole thing was fantastic, but in the interest of this guide, you’ll want to zoom in on the discussion of DW that happens between Hardwick and Ferguson about half way through the recording. It’s awesome. “He’s a fucking Time Lord.” There are also some awesome guest hosts and a great musical performance by Sara Watkins at the end. Hooray!

Nerdist Podcast #46: MATT SMITH

But if you’re looking for a true, in-depth discussion of DW, production, the American filming, and other nerdy pursuit, look no further than this interview with the Eleventh Doctor himself, Matt Smith. It’s an adorably brilliant chat. Smith is charming, likes chess, and is clearly passionate about the show and its fans!

Check-in on GetGlue

As far as viewing is concerned, you absolute must watch:

Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show Cold Open featuring an amazing adaptation of the DW theme!

(which had a delayed airing to to copyright issues)

Ferguson and Hardwick reading the tweets and emails:

And Matt Smith being interviewed by Ferguson (with Hardwick nearby):

Check-in on GetGlue

Also worth checking out are the fantastic posts on Nerdist.com about Doctor Who, mostly written by Kyle Anderson and Perry Michael Simon.

You can also follow quite a few of the people mentioned here on The Twitter. Craig Ferguson, Chris Hardwick, Jonah Ray (here is a tumblr link because he’s such a hipster), Matt Mira, and Kyle Anderson all tweet, and do tweet about the good Doctor from time to time.

Until next time … See you at Gally!

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BONUS: My Nerdist Story!

On February 13th of last year I saw Chris Hardwick do a stand-up comedy gig at La Zona Rosa here in Austin (yes I live in Texas, and I like it too!). Towards the end of his hilarious set he asked if anyone in the crowd was live tweeting, to which I (for better or worse) replied that I was. He then asked me for my Twitter handle (@emilyooo), and looked up my profile on his iPhone on stage and looked at my tweets. The last few I sent were to my friend Amber (@ambrrr), to which he pointed out that we had a triple letter thing going on. True! We didn’t even realize. About five or so people in the crowd followed me on Twitter at that moment, which was pretty cool. Then afterwards I met him in the lobby and got his signature and the last of his awesome Nerdist GelaSkins (which I still have on my iPhone 3Gs):

Nerdist GelaSkin

And I also snapped a low-light pic of him wearing his super excellent Weird Al t-shirt:

AlTV

In August he came back to Austin for another stand-up gig, but I missed it because I was home hanging out with my family. Apparently he asked if I was there. Damn! Oh well, hopefully he’ll come back this year. His stand-up set is brilliant. If you like the podcasts you’ll love hearing his stand-up.

3D Dock

I’ve been digging around online and found some code that will change the 3D dock to the “Simple” 2D dock that is the default when you put your dock on the left- or right-hand sides of your monitor.

Open Terminal, and execute this code:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

This will make your dock look like so:

2D Dock

If you have a change of heart and want your 3D dock back, you can undo the action by entering the following into Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall Dock

Cheers!

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