Author: Andrew Huey

Ed Foster’s Gripelog – Quicker and Quicker Quicken Sunsets

I’m going to keep an eye on this discussion at Ed Foster’s web site. I’ve been using Quicken for maybe 10 years now, but it may finally be time to switch to something else. It just seems that Intuit is trying to squeeze money out of their customers without providing much in the way of new features from year to year.

my own “best of 2004” list

Since I’ve been linking to a bunch of other people’s “best of” lists, I thought I’d make one up myself. I can’t quite think of 10 CDs to put on it, though, so it’s not a top 10 list. In no particular order:

  • U2 – How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
  • Wilco – A Ghost is Born
  • Phish – Undermind
  • Ted Leo – Shake the Sheets
  • Chris Whitley – War Crime Blues
  • Silkworm – It’ll Be Cool
  • Rum Diary – Posions That Save Lives
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto – Chasm

I’m not 100% sure that all of those albums were released in 2004, but I think they were.

I know that there were a lot of good albums in 2004 that I completely missed. Hopefully, I’ll catch up a bit in 2005. I’m just starting to listen to Arcade Fire and the Unicorns, for instance. And I haven’t picked up Brian Wilson’s Smile yet.

 

San Diego hotel stuff

This article has a good write-up on the San Diego con hotel situation. Interesting quote: “The fact of the matter is that Comic-Con International is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, annual convention to hit San Diego.” No kidding. Attendance last year was counted at 87,000. There’s more hotel news here.

Comic-Con

Today is the first day that Comic-Con hotel reservations can be made. I managed to snag a room in a decent hotel not too far from the convention center, but it wasn’t in my first, second, third, or fourth choice! It looks like there’s been a mad rush on hotel space for the con. I think anyone looking for a hotel room past the end of this week is probably going to be out of luck. (Either that, or there’s something wrong with the hotel reservation site, and they’re just not showing all the available rooms.)

On a related note, only a couple of more weeks until National Gorilla Suit Day.