Four-day memberships to SDCC are now sold out, according to Newsarama, which I presume means that this con will be just as crowded as the last one, if not more so. I’m fine with that. I’ll just stick with stuff that’s a bit off the beaten path, and stay away from most of the Hollywood stuff.
Category: SDCC
San Diego info
The Beat has a San Diego guide posted, higlighting some interesting panels. And ComicsReporter.com has a nice con guide up, with some very helpful tips and links.
comic-con programming
The San Diego programming schedule is up! As usual, it’s chock full of wonderful things. Neil Gaiman! Warren Ellis! Gumby! Kung Fu! Yay!
more San Diego stuff
The Beat has a post up about the San Diego hotel situation, along with links to a couple of interesting forum discussions.
I went ahead and made my flight reservation too. It wasn’t too painful, though the price for the flight actually went up, then back down again, while I was making the reservation. Weird.
I did a little bit of reseach on the Westin Horton Plaza, too, since I’ve never stayed there before. It’s got some very good reviews and some very bad ones, so I’m not too sure who to trust on that. I’m not too picky about hotel rooms, really, so if there’s a comfortable bed and the room doesn’t smell like cigarette smoke, I’m good, for the most part.
good news
Some random good news today:
- I got new bed sheets today!
- I got the renewal letter for my apartment lease today, and the landlord isn’t raising the rent!
- I got a hotel room for San Diego! This might not sound like a big deal, but it’s gotten harder and harder to get a room for San Diego over the past few years. They opened up the hotel reservation system at noon (Eastern) today. I tried getting to their web site right then, but the site was getting hammered so much, there was really no chance of getting in. I went off to eat lunch and came back at 12:30 and tried again. It took awhile for pages to load, but they did come up, and I did eventually manage to make it through the system and came out on the other end with a valid hotel reservation. I’ll be in the Westin Horton Plaza this year, which is probably a pretty good hotel, and not too far from the convention center. I’ve never stayed there before, but it looks nice.
San Diego on Saturday
Record crowds at the con yesterday, and record heat in San Diego. I managed to get to a few good panels yesterday, but a number of panels I was interested in were impossible to get into.
heat wave
After working in an office without air conditioning for the last two days, I’m ready to get out of New Jersey and head off to San Diego. The temperature outside in NJ was about 99 degrees today. In our office, it got up to 87 at one point. In San Diego, it was only about 78 outside today. Nice.
They got the A/C in the office fixed at around 3pm today, so it should be fine in the office for the rest of the week. I’d still rather be in S.D. though!
Wikipedia
I was browsing around Wikipedia a bit today, and discovered entries for Roselle Park, where I grew up, and Somerville, where I live now. Of course, San Diego has an entry too, as does Comic-Con and Horton Plaza.
A9 San Diego maps
A9 Maps has some pictures of San Diego, including a couple of my hotel. Browsing through some of their San Diego pictures, it looks like a lot of them were taken on a rainy day, which is pretty weird for San Diego. And looking at some of the pictures on 7th has reminded me that there’s a bit of an uphill climb involved in getting to A St.
Comic-Con Star Wars Exclusives
Lots of Star Wars goodies at San Diego this year, as usual.