See what happens in Portland...

Not sure how to send multiple images in email on my iPad, so this one will have to wet your appetite for the "Sally's 40th birthday party" blog entry. Always a class act huh? The theme of the night was the '40s... how was I to know they didn't mean 1240 AD?

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Guess where we are?

Mount Hood under the wing of the plane means were back in Oregon for a couple of days! Sally and her friend Lisa are both celebrating turning 40 and Sally's dad is turning 70, so it's non stop partying all weekend... Except for me. I have a major rush job on at work so I ended up sat in the hotel at a laptop all day today :-( On the plus side, check out how nice the iPhone 4 camera is...

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Nazis in Space!!!

Could "Iron Sky" be the greatest sci-fi Nazi movie ever?!? It could if you donate to it's making ;-)

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ComiCon 2010 day 3

The final day of ComiCon 2010 found us checking out...

  • The Ghostbuster mobile
  • KITT from Knight Rider (no David Hasselhof to go with it though unfortunately)
  • The General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard
  • Stan Lee! I always though Stan was awesome, but seeing him live for the first time upped his awesomeness rating +5
  • Super Happy Fun Time with John Scalzi and Wil Wheaton, which included great stories such as how Wil thought he had a celebrity stalker after receiving an anonymous (but really from John) velvet painting of Wesley Crusher in a clown sweater; and the unveiling of a new painting depicting John as an orc being attacked by Will in a clown sweater riding Unicorn Pegasus Kitten!

Find out more about Unicorn Pegasus Kitten on John's blog - http://whatever.scalzi.com/ - or Wil's blog - http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/

           

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Comicon 2010 day 2

Another long day at Comicon! Unfortunately Sally forgot to bring the camera so I had to use my iPhone to take pictures - or at least thats what we thought until we got home that night and Sally realized that actually she did have our camera all the time!!! Grrrrr...

Anyway, terrible photos all, but you can vaguely see people like...
  • Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day talking about "The Guild" a web show that Felicia writes & stars in, and Wil joined the cast. I'd heard of it but never seen it before so we watched episodes 1 & 2 last night when we got home - its very good, pokes lots of fun at World of Warcraft players
  • Jonathan Frakes & Levar Burton from Star Trek The Next Generation signing autographs, with Aarom Douglas from Battlestar Galactica in the background
  • Lou Feringo! The 70's Incredible Hulk himself. God knows how old he is but he's still in phenomenal shape
  • Jon Schneider from The Dukes of Hazard
  • And finally, too small to see, but there is Wil Wheaton, Levar Burton and Jonathan Frakes on a panel reminiscing about Star Trek: TNG, and other things they have done. You'd be amazed how many geeks grew up watching & worshipping Levar Burton for his work on "Reading Rainbow" :-)
We also saw James Marsters, who played Spike on Buffy, give a talk. Major surprise, he really isn't British!!! Working with Anthony Head (who is English) on Buffy, he recalled how Anthony would always be coming over saying "We dont say it like THAT!", which really helped with his accent :-)

Other weird factoid - Jonathan Frakes was also on Dukes of Hazard for an episode! As well as Heart to Heart and many other one-off guest spots on 70's shows.

         

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Comicon 2010 day 1

First day of Comicon. We got there before 11am and stayed till almost 8pm! It helped that there are tons of different things going on, and we got to hang out with my friends Jordan and Fabio, and chatted to Daniel and Donna from Monster Commute. There were tons of people in great home made costumes from every scifi movie / tv show / comic / anime you can think of. We took pictures of just a few of them and will have to try and get many more tomorrow.

There were two main highlights of the day though for me:

First we got to spend an hour listening to Keir Dullea (Dr. Dave Bowman) & Gary Lockwood (Dr. Frank Poole) reminiscing about starring in the classic 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". What made it even funnier was the fan who showed up dressed as HAL from the movie, complete with glowing red eye and playing back clips of HALs dialog, prompting Gary to shout "Keep him away from me, he already killed me once!" and Keir to ask him "Can you open the pod bay doors HAL?". Unfortunately the HAL costume only came down to the guys waist and then there was denim shorts and some skinny legs ~ nicely explained away by the announcement that HAL was doing "casual friday":-) Later on in the day I saw them again and got them to sign a poster from the movie, although I felt a bit guilty for interrupting Keir while he was chatting to his wife on the phone - oops. I've been a big fan of Keir's since I saw 2001 as a kid, and it was great to meet him as he's a genuinely nice guy.

The second highlight of the day was Will Wheaton's Awesome Hour! If you grew up watching "Star Trek: The Next Generation" then you'll remember Will as Wesley Crusher. What you may not know is that he's a really good story teller and hilariously funny. He kept a packed hall of geeks laughing as he reminisced about trying to get his kids (weened on modern day gaming systems like XBox 360 and Sony Playstation) into the simple delights of the original Atari 2600 :-) From their initial "It's lame, you're lame!" responses they quickly found themselves addicted to the same games we all played back in the 80's. His hour+ on stage was being broadcast live out on to the web, and its worth looking out for, I'll post a link if I can find it anywhere. Sally's favorite moment came when Will was asked if his wife was a nerd. Will replied no, but she's been around me for so long no that she's picked a lot of it up, so she's like "Nerd Adjacent". Sally couldn't stop laughing at that one, and has now adopted the title for herself, grrrr!

And finally I know some of you geeky boy mates of mine will be extremely jealous to hear that yes we did briefly see Felicia Day today, and we'll be seeing much more of her tomorrow... along with Jonathan Frakes, Levar Burton, and possibly some Rock Band with Will Wheaton...

                 

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A Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead

Beatles V's Zombies mash up...

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Tribal Man

Started messing around with Brushes on the iPad, here's the first picture I kinda like - "Tribal Man"

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Earthquake in Phoenix?

Laying on the couch watching Zombieland and playing with my iPad when suddenly the couch started shaking a little bit. Sally & I looked at each other and both said "Was that an earthquake?" and according to Twitter it might have been. Tweets coming in from all over the valley suggest that maybe it was an earthquake in LA that we felt out here too? More as we hear anything...

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Baseball as you've never seen it before

Found myself at a baseball spring training game this afternoon. Not understanding the subtleties of the game, I instead decided to show you what baseball might look like on a lot of drugs :-) Note that the first picture is the real baseball... just in case you were unsure...

                           

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