to.... I have no idea. The weather forecast is abysmal. All of the days look like this:


I am hoping that that is the cute kind of snow that allows you to actually still do stuff, but maybe I will just get a lot of reading and hopefully hot tub sitting done while I am there. I have no idea if I have any kind of communications access (GHASP!), but if I do, I will photo-blog or whatever when I can. I am kind of set that I will go see the geyser no matter what... simply because I have no idea if I will ever get back there or not.

We are also diverting down to see the Grand Tetons, which i am told look like this:


So I will be in Montana and Wyoming, which are large, crazy, unpopulated placed with many dangerous elements.

If I don't come back, someone please feed my cats. I know you all want to take Pucky-Puck home with you. Go for it.

Courtesy of Gail Carriger's blog, which is scrumptious

Remember: do not operate sewing machine while under the influence of anything more potent than your Mother-in-Law.
- Male Pattern Boldness

I actually got an email today with the title:
Jonas Brothers map world tour with Demi Lovato; plus Rob Thomas, Creed, Shinedown, Chevelle, Hanson

My response:
Dear Live Daily - learn how to use the preferences that I give you so that you do not send me horrifically untargeted spam. You can tell that I would not like any of those bands because you have my age and it is not under 12.

/rant

And I am sure I will come out of this one even more pissed than I usually do. That guy has some awesome trailer people - but his movies always piss me off. Anyway, here's a new trailer...

"The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved." Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross." The English have not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from "Tiresome" to a "Bloody Nuisance." The last time the British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was during the great fire of 1666."
~ Email forward, Gail Carriger's Blog

Pictures posted if you are interested! [Clicky Click]

My 200th Album is up - and it's from the Orbital show on Friday night - check it out!

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This makes me happy :-)

This is totally fascinating and proves a lot of people wrong about Victorian society. [check it out]

Some of these are crazy awesome... and some make me cringe [check it out]

These are awesome... [check 'em]

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The Port of San Diego has agreed to a $753 million expansion to the San Diego Convention Center keep Comic-Con and other festivals in the city. There has been rising doubts about whether Comic-Con would stay in San Diego when the contract between the city and organizers Comic-Con International (CCI, a non-profit organization) expired after 2012. The problem is in accommodating the 126,000+ attendees. Aside from the catastrophuck of this year’s hotel pre-registration, the San Diego Convention Center is a finite space. The center isn’t happy because they’ve had to turn away events in recent years, and exhibitors and studios aren’t happy because they want even more consumers to buy their goods and even more viewers to see their product.

san_diego_convention_center_expansion_site_plan.jpgComic-Con-as well as the other events at the convention center (yes, there are other events that use that space the other 362 days of the year…they just don’t matter to us)-generates fat cash to the city. According to SignOnSanDiego.com, a mayoral task force discovered that the Center had pumped $18 billion into the local economy and raised $364 million in tax revenue over the past 20 years.

Now factor this into your math: the center began operating at capacity in 2001, shortly after completion of its first expansion, which cost $216 million. In that time, the convention center has had to turn away almost 400 events in recent years, 80% of which could have been accommodated had the venue been larger. As for the other 20%, I can only speculate, but I assume they were turned away because their applications were filled with ethnic slurs.

But here’s some math that I’m having a little trouble with: The larger center is expected to open in 2015. If Comic-Con’s contract ends after 2012, where does the Con go for 2013 and 2014? My guess is that the Con would resign with San Diego because you don’t dump your girlfriend if you know she’s going to have an extra 200,000 square feet of exhibit space, a third ballroom and 100,000 square feet of meeting room in just a couple more years.

San Diego is a beautiful city and I love the Gaslamp Quarter adjacent to the Convention Center. I also like that they’re expanding the center rather than trying to cut the convention up into far off hotels. Keeping it all under one roof is terrific. Now if CCI could just understand how to do pre-registration right and that maybe it’s time to make wi-fi pay-only, then we’ll be cooking…until the next problem we find unbearable at this yearly pop culture phenomenon that is ridiculously fun. [original]

Mine is the Buzz Lightyear one! [check it] ANd like that, I get 6,000 hits, overnight...

WonderCon Pics are up for all interested parties. [check it out]

If you have not seen heard this, you should check it out.

There's 8bit All Along the Watch Tower from BattleStar Galactica, too. [check it]

From the costuming panel at WonderCon.

1) Laugh out loud. 2) Eat bacon. 3). Then, and only then, do you call 911.

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This is pretty much exactly how i feel about it also. "Faith is an interesting thing. I'd like to have some, but I don't. That's how it works."

which I find amusing [get one]