I went to ComicCon this past weekend. Wandered around the show floor for a couple hours. Bought a Div (Zero To Drunk in 20 dollars) t-shirt from the Penny Arcade booth. Talked with Tycho for a bit (wearing a company t-shirt rocks... now if only I was working on an announced product...)
I saw Shirt Guy Dom and Seraphim at the Megatokyo booth and picked up a t-shirt and a poster from them.
I attended a polyfoam workshop where a guy showed how to make weird sea-creature looking things out of construction foam (the insulative foam that you spray around pipes when running them through walls). He cautioned against inhaling the fumes given off from the foam, although I think that maybe it was some other kind of fumes that might have been involved in his mental condition.
Later I attended the Keenspot panel (Keenspot: almost as good as porn) and met T Campbell and Tom the Fanboy while waiting for things to begin.
The panel was a lot of fun. Howard Taylor of Schlock Mercenary fame moderated, and at various points Scott Kurtz heckled from the back of the room. Incidentally, the character Gav from Schlock Mercenary does look just like Darren Bleuel who does Nukees. Howard mentioned that he'd like to see a Schlock Mercenary game, which I would also love to see.
Best quote from the panel was when Howard Taylor was obliquely talking about financial numbers and Darren Bleuel mentioned that Howard was being very conservative in the projections. "That's right folks, you saw it here first: The guy with blue hair just accused the guy in the necktie of being conservative."
Ended the night by watching the costume contest from the party area and then driving back home.
Posted by matt at July 21, 2003 11:59 AM