WonderCon was lots of fun, and has the advantage of being (figuratively speaking) right on our doorstep. It's not the insane crush of Comic-Con ... and while it's a lot smaller, there's still a lot of fun stuff going on.
On Friday evening, we drove up and (after finding out that it was in Moscone West [which explained why Moscone North and South were distinctly lacking in life], not very close to the Moscone Center Garage and dropping off 1000 flyers for Silicon Gulch Browncoats which Alyson created and I printed and guillotined [each flyer was 1/2 a Letter-sized aka 8.5x11" sheet of paper] earlier that day, and after wandering the exhibitors' hall relatively exhaustively) went to the world premiere of Done The Impossible ... which involved seeing myself (and irtluhc, urox
We drove home, exhausted, and decided we'd rather not have to drive back and forth to San Francisco the next 2 days, so picked up a hotel room for Saturday night on Hotwire (for cheap, and it turned out to be the Grant Hyatt, on Union Square -- I suspect we were paying way below the rack rate for the room; it was a pretty damned nice deal).
On Saturday, we drove up rather later than we perhaps ought to have, went and checked in super-early to our hotel and went down to the Moscone Center to head straight to the main room (2000, I believe) for the J. J. Abrahms (Yay!!!) and Kevin Smith talks. Since we didn't arrive super-early, we didn't get the opportunity to get an autograph from J. J. (aww), but it was cool seeing him live. J. J. rocks. It's a pity about Tom Cruise being in his movie. :P I want to see Kevin Weisman in the rôle instead (wouldn't that be hillarious and cool?)! :> Kevin Smith was extremely funny as usual, and it wasn't repetition of material we'd heard at WonderCon 2005 or Comic-Con 2005, which was cool. He is an un-ending font of unrepeatable jokes. There was a Pixar presentation after Kevin Smith which was ... alas, pretty damned dull. I never thought I'd walk out of a Pixar presentation, but we did. We had a bunch of things we wanted to do and it ... was not really exciting. I forget what we did, but at some point we went and had Japanese food at the sushi restaurant in the Metreon (review: rubbish; don't bother!), followed by some Just Desserts dessert and a *$$. Back in the exhibit hall, urox
Got less sleep than I'd have liked in the very comfortable Grand Hyatt room as we had to wake up kind of early for some reason which totally escapes me. Bought urox
Anyhow, it was quite a whirlwind weekend.
Francis took some cool pictures (as always), though some people weren't quite so keen on the candid pictures of them. :) There's a picture with me in it (looking rather scruffy, as I hadn't [still haven't! eeg!] had time to trim my beard or shave) in the DTI album. =) There's also some more pictures ... and even a few more. I took some pictures too, but I haven't had time to download them off my camera, let alone do anything with them.