Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 4 – Doctor Who Experience – Cardiff

[29MAY – 05JUN 2016, Cardiff, UK]

Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 4

Doctor Who Experience, Cardiff, Wales… And More.


Emergency Regulations: It Is Forbidden To Dump Bodies Into The River

This paragraph is repeated in all five parts of this “Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who” posts, so if you read it once no need to read it four more times! Well, unless you want to. In 8 days, I went to, in order: DCA (Washington DC, USA) to ORD (Chicago) to LAX (Los Angeles) and stayed overnight there. Went from LAX to YVR (Vancouver) and hopped on a BA Airbus A380 to LHR (London). Then went on the Heathrow Express to Paddington. Caught the GWR (Great Western Railway) to Cardiff. Walked to Holiday Inn hotel next to the Principality Stadium. Went to Cardiff Castle. Hopped on the water taxi to Cardiff Bay. Walked over to the Millennium Centre. Then walked to the Doctor Who Experience (where I shot most of the pictures). Came back. Hopped on the water taxi and went back to the hotel. Then train from Cardiff Central to London Paddington. Walked to the Hilton Metropole hotel. Visited my old hangouts – Sherlock Holmes Pub by Charring Cross and then off to Waxy O’Connor’s by Piccadilly Square. Back to the hotel. Then Heathrow Express from Paddington to LHR. BA FIrst Class! Relaxed for an hour or so in the BA Concorde Club room, then off onto the BA Boeing 787 from LHR to SJC (San Jose). Then from SJC to LAX and stayed overnight at LAX. Then From LAX to ORD on an AA Boeing 787. Lastly went from ORD to DA and to my hotel and zonked out…

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Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 3 – Cardiff Bay

[29MAY – 05JUN 2016, Cardiff, UK]

Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 3

Cardiff Bay pictures… And More.


Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru – Wales Millennium Centre

This paragraph is repeated in all five parts of this “Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who” posts, so if you read it once no need to read it four more times! Well, unless you want to. In 8 days, I went to, in order: DCA (Washington DC, USA) to ORD (Chicago) to LAX (Los Angeles) and stayed overnight there. Went from LAX to YVR (Vancouver) and hopped on a BA Airbus A380 to LHR (London). Then went on the Heathrow Express to Paddington. Caught the GWR (Great Western Railway) to Cardiff. Walked to Holiday Inn hotel next to the Principality Stadium. Went to Cardiff Castle. Hopped on the water taxi to Cardiff Bay. Walked over to the Millennium Centre. Then walked to the Doctor Who Experience (where I shot most of the pictures). Came back. Hopped on the water taxi and went back to the hotel. Then train from Cardiff Central to London Paddington. Walked to the Hilton Metropole hotel. Visited my old hangouts – Sherlock Holmes Pub by Charring Cross and then off to Waxy O’Connor’s by Piccadilly Square. Back to the hotel. Then Heathrow Express from Paddington to LHR. BA FIrst Class! Relaxed for an hour or so in the BA Concorde Club room, then off onto the BA Boeing 787 from LHR to SJC (San Jose). Then from SJC to LAX and stayed overnight at LAX. Then From LAX to ORD on an AA Boeing 787. Lastly went from ORD to DA and to my hotel and zonked out…

Go to: Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 2: Cardiff Castle
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Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 2 – Cardiff Castle

[29MAY – 05JUN 2016, Cardiff, UK]

Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 2

Cardiff Castle pictures… And More.


Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 2 Cardiff Castle Library
Also known as the TARDIS library from “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS”

This paragraph is repeated in all five parts of this “Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who” posts, so if you read it once no need to read it four more times! Well, unless you want to. In 8 days, I went to, in order: DCA (Washington DC, USA) to ORD (Chicago) to LAX (Los Angeles) and stayed overnight there. Went from LAX to YVR (Vancouver) and hopped on a BA Airbus A380 to LHR (London). Then went on the Heathrow Express to Paddington. Caught the GWR (Great Western Railway) to Cardiff. Walked to Holiday Inn hotel next to the Principality Stadium. Went to Cardiff Castle. Hopped on the water taxi to Cardiff Bay. Walked over to the Millennium Centre. Then walked to the Doctor Who Experience (where I shot most of the pictures). Came back. Hopped on the water taxi and went back to the hotel. Then train from Cardiff Central to London Paddington. Walked to the Hilton Metropole hotel. Visited my old hangouts – Sherlock Holmes Pub by Charring Cross and then off to Waxy O’Connor’s by Piccadilly Square. Back to the hotel. Then Heathrow Express from Paddington to LHR. BA FIrst Class! Relaxed for an hour or so in the BA Concorde Club room, then off onto the BA Boeing 787 from LHR to SJC (San Jose). Then from SJC to LAX and stayed overnight at LAX. Then From LAX to ORD on an AA Boeing 787. Lastly went from ORD to DA and to my hotel and zonked out…

Go to: Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 1: BA Airbus A380
Go to: Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 3: Cardiff Bay

Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 1 – BA Airbus A380

[29MAY – 05JUN 2016, Cardiff, UK]

Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 1

British Air Airbus A380 pictures… And more.


Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 1

This paragraph is repeated in all five parts of this “Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who” posts, so if you read it once no need to read it four more times! Well, unless you want to. In 8 days, I went to, in order: DCA (Washington DC, USA) to ORD (Chicago) to LAX (Los Angeles) and stayed overnight there. Went from LAX to YVR (Vancouver) and hopped on a BA Airbus A380 to LHR (London). Then went on the Heathrow Express to Paddington. Caught the GWR (Great Western Railway) to Cardiff. Walked to Holiday Inn hotel next to the Principality Stadium. Went to Cardiff Castle. Hopped on the water taxi to Cardiff Bay. Walked over to the Millennium Centre. Then walked to the Doctor Who Experience (where I shot most of the pictures). Came back. Hopped on the water taxi and went back to the hotel. Then train from Cardiff Central to London Paddington. Walked to the Hilton Metropole hotel. Visited my old hangouts – Sherlock Holmes Pub by Charring Cross and then off to Waxy O’Connor’s by Piccadilly Square. Back to the hotel. Then Heathrow Express from Paddington to LHR. BA FIrst Class! Relaxed for an hour or so in the BA Concorde Club room, then off onto the BA Boeing 787 from LHR to SJC (San Jose). Then from SJC to LAX and stayed overnight at LAX. Then From LAX to ORD on an AA Boeing 787. Lastly went from ORD to DA and to my hotel and zonked out…

Go to: Planes, Trains, and Cardiff and Doctor Who Part 2: Cardiff Castle

Microsoft Hololens First Hand Look

[19 MAY to 20 MAY 2016, Kirkland, WA]

So, I was at a MS TFS (Microsoft Team Foundation Server) training class at the Quicklearn training center in Kirkland, WA. They had the Microsoft Hololens Augmented Reality (AR) headset on hand…

Quickly, VR or Virtual Reality is an enclosed system where everything you see is virtual or “fake”, meaning it’s all projected. If the power goes out, you see nothing except darkness. AR or Augmented Reality, like the MS Hololens, is an open system where you see the real world around you and elements of whatever is projected floats in you view. If the power goes out, you see your real world as is. Here are some pictures:


Microsoft Hololens First Hand Look

So, as I previously noted, I was at a training class and they had a Hololens and the instructor was kind enough to let me try it on. Wow, it was amazing. The low-rez video below does not do it justice, but you get the idea… To use the lens controls, you need to learn some gestures. In the sample video, I wasn’t exactly expert at pointing so the end where I am trying to punch in numbers, I am all over the wrong ones…

The scene is from the game “Fragments” where all of the people inside it are real height and you either interact with them or watch a scene. (Think of turning off the lights. Imagine doing “Doom” in 3D, in your own room with life-size monsters. Talk about crazy scary…)

Anyway here is a snippet of the game, nothing scary, just a random scene. It was in “infra red” mode”, the music is not part of the game, I added it since looking at a soundless video is boring. In the game, the headset provides full stereo sound: