Favorite techie license plate spotted lately:
GREP IT
Category: Entertainment
It had better be!
Just a few miles away from Incredible Cafe.
I wonder if they have a rivalry of sorts?
And I can’t help but imagine a third competing restaurant called Incredibly Fantastic Cafe…and another called Fantastically Incredible Cafe…
For the record: I ate there and had a grilled ham & cheese sandwich with seasoned fries, and it was good enough but nothing special. The place gave me the impression that someone had bought a Carl’s Jr. and turned it into something more like a Denny’s. Fantastic Cafe (not Incredible Cafe) appears to be a local chain in the South Bay area.
Noisy are the Ori
I wonder if we should call Stargate SG1 about this?
(Trying to dry out the carpet after the plumbing leak soaked it.)
Looking “Up”
I spotted this sign after cresting a hill and laughed so hard I knew I had to turn around and come back to take a picture.
Just One Day at San Diego Comic-Con 2011
This year, we approached Comic-Con International a bit differently than usual. For the last seven years we’ve been staying in town for all four days. With the baby, we decided to do Comic-Con 2011 in just one day. So we left him with relatives and took the train down to San Diego for the day. We arrived in town about 9:00, walked down to the convention center, and had our badges just after the floor opened at 9:30.
(Full photo set on Flickr, Flash-related coverage on Speed Force.)
Planning a trip to Comic-Con is always about trade-offs. It’s so big that you can’t see everything, and there are so many events going on that you can’t attend them all. With four days, there’s some wiggle room. With just one, it seemed like I was constantly thinking about those choices.
One of the first choices I made: No news panels. I could get that the next day online (and did). I wanted to focus only on what was unique to the con: exhibits, meeting people, the art show, etc. Basically, I wanted to experience as much of San Diego Comic Con as I could in one day.
Katie decided to pick two things and build her day around them: visiting The Field, an Irish pub our friend Sean introduced us to a few years ago, and seeing the new Thundercats screening. Continue reading
HP8
We caught the final Harry Potter movie on Sunday. It was an impressive finale to the series, and they clearly made the right decision in splitting the last book across two movies so they could actually put some weight behind the story instead of just running down the bullet points. That was one of the problems I had with the fifth and sixth films
Still, I’m most impressed that the movies finished, and didn’t stop partway through the series with dwindling budgets and audience interest. His Dark Materials couldn’t get past the first film, and based on the box office, it’s pretty clear that the current Narnia films aren’t going to continue beyond Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Eight movies over a decade, adapting a complete series, and going out with a bang? That’s an impressive feat right there!
SPAM SPAM SPAM CAR AND SPAM
I saw a license plate today that read,
I ♥ SPAM
I was a little surprised, but then I saw the “Made in Hawaii” plate holder and realized they were talking about the lunch meat.
*whew!*