The Ultimate Geek Weekend
 

Ok, we all know that Disneyland's birthday is July 17th. But it appears that is not the only geekiness going on that weekend.

The new Harry Potter book comes out then. The ComiCon is that weekend, in San Diego. And Charlie and the Chocolate Factory comes out then, too!

Too bad the Revenge of the Sith didn't come out that weekend as well.

My deal is that I'm kind of bummed that I probably won't see "Charlie" that weekend. I'm a Children's Literature Geek, as well as a Burton/Elfman Geek (and who doesn't love Depp, the perfect third element?). Perhaps the plans will end up including a visit to the DTD AMC on Monday? Perhaps, but I'm willing to wait if need be.

So, is your geekiness conflicting? I know there are some that are juggling things here.

Well, some of us don't have to worry about the Disneyland distraction and can spend the whole weekend curled up with Potter and Burton/Elfman/Depp.

Not that I'm bitter. Much.

I'll get to the New HP eventually - wasn't that excited by the last installment, so I have no burning need to find out what happens next. As for Charlie, that could be fun, but Disney will be my focus this weekend, the rest can wait.

The only thing I will do is possibly escape from the heat and crowds in a theater. Harry....eh.....no biggie. One of us will read it first anyways with the other one waiting. I don't think either of us mind.

But, Disneyland gets my full attention that weekend.

I'm geeking out bigtime. Friday is Wicked, followed by a run to a bookstore for the midnight HP line party, plus a visit to a party somewhere in all that, Saturday, well, I'll have HP in hand, then DL in the evening because I wanna be there at midnight when it's technically July 17th, then home for a quick catnap, into my 50's dress, to the resort at ugly-thirty in the morning to stand in line for the birthday.

I'm going to be SUCH a WRECK on Monday morning!

But it'll be soooo worth it. ;)

I wish I cared more about the book release. The midnight line-up sounds like fun.

Come join anyway! You can appreciate kids getting excited about reading!

I still don't know where I'm going to be getting my book... waiting for d-phile to find out if Compass is having a midnight line party and takes ressies or not (I am SO NOT lining up at midnight w/out being guaranteed my book! Nor am I going to pay $40 if I can get it at Borders for $25).

I'm undecided about the HP release. For book 5 we went to Borders for the release party and won the costume contest with Indi dressed as Hedwig (he was only between 7 and 10 mos old, I don't remember when the book came out). It was so freaking adorable. After the costume contest (which had a really lame prize, btw) we went to Wal-Mart and picked up the book without standing in line. I don't think I have the stamina to make more costumes this year, although I thought of making Indi Hedwig again and making Jade the minute owl (I forget that owl's name). I'll probably just pick it up the next day.

I SO want to see Charlie, but I'll have to see if I can get Michael to run interference with Indi. I'll most likely have to wait until it's on DVD like every other movie.

And, DL, well I'm too far away. Sigh...I guess I'll get a lot of HP read, though.

Well, being a force which drives Comic-con, I'll be there, wishing I was with you folks at D-land.
I want to be there, i wish I could be there, but I will be working my butt off. I will see Charlie later... after con. :)

(Pssst, Traci- 'Pigwidgeon')

I am torn between HP and DL.

Okay, not really. I luv HP, but I have an early flight, so unless they are selling it at the airport, I doubt I'll be getting it until after the Festivus. I can wait. Kind of. Well, I may stop by an all night bookstore or such on my way to the airport.......:rolleyes:

I'll be getting HP at midnight, but NOT at a kid-filled Borders or anything crazy like that.

I will be thanking my lucky stars that I'm not at DL on the anniversary. Because it'll be crowded and miserable, and I would be in a truly foul mood if I were there. Y'all have fun, though.

I'm going with this priority:

1.) Disneyland
2.) Charlie (because I can get to it later)
3.) Potter (because I can read it all betweens, or just get to it later)

Disney's birthday is just once. I'm there. :P

I'm thinking Potter at midnight, sit by the pool and read at the hotel on Saturday. What's happening Saturday night? Oh, right, the drinking! And then Disneyland on Sunday. And, Monday. Unless I have to work.

Oooo, Comic Con just HAD to be on the weekend of the big B-Day!! But, I will con for a few days then rush back to Disneyland for the big day!!

What's Harry Potter?

there is something else geek related that weekend....


I am trying to remember what though...

Memory is the first thing to go...

Hey, I'd love to meet you!
Stop the Pro reg Help Desk and ask for me!

I'll be in that area from Tuesday on.. will you be there for Preview night?

But yeah, stop by, say hello. I love to have my worlds collide!

Cool, I'll be picking up my badge near you since I"m a registered "pro." I'll be there on Weds, so I'll see you there!

Comic Con?!?

Psh. What geeks


622 - Beginning of the Islamic calendar.
1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first mission in California. The mission later evolves into the city of San Diego.
1779 - American Revolutionary War: United States forces led by General Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point, New York from British troops.
1782 - First performance of Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.
1783 - Grants of land in Canada to American loyalists announced.
1790 - The signing of the Residence Bill establishes a site along the Potomac River as the District of Columbia (seat of government) of the United States (see Washington, DC).
1862 - American Civil War: David G. Farragut becomes the first United States Navy rear admiral.
1880 - First woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe.
1914 - Hellenic Holocaust: According to the German Consul Kuchhoff: "The entire Greek population of Sinope and the coastal region of the county of Kastanome has been exiled. Exile and extermination in Turkish are the same, for whoever is not murdered, will die from hunger or illness."
1918 - Russian Revolution: At Ekaterinburg, Bolsheviks execute Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his family.
1930 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
1942 - Holocaust: On order from the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.
1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1951 - The novel Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger published.
1951 - King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates.
1957 - United States Marine Major John Glenn flies a F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 launches off from Cape Kennedy, Florida with the goal to become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
1973 - Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate committee investigating scandal that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
1979 - Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Saddam Hussein replaces him.
1990 - In the Philippines, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1600.
1994 - The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
1994 - The civil war in Rwanda comes to an end.
1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 63.17 to close at 8,038.88, closing above 8,000 for the first time.
1999 - Off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, a plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. crashes with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette on board. All three are killed in the crash.
1999 - Star Wars Episode 1 is Released in the United Kingdom.
2001 - The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas, Nevada for violating a provision of the DMCA.
2002 - Simon & Garfunkel release the album Live In New York City, 1967, a live recording of their January 22, 1967 concert at Philharmonic Hall.
2003 - An Australian research team led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council published a medical study which concluded that frequent masturbation by males may help prevent the development of prostate cancer, marking the almost complete rehabilitation of the sexual practice from a dangerous health risk to a beneficial preventative health measure.
2003 - The Corsicans reject a referendum for increased autonomy from France by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against, and 49.02 percent for.
2004 - Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor of Chicago Richard M. Daley.
2004 - Barclays Bank freezes the bank accounts of the British National Party.
2004 - A fire at a private school in Kumbakonam, India kill over 80 people.
2005 - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, the latest in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series is published in English speaking countries.

Births

1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
1796 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910)
1834 - Franz Adolf Lüderitz, salesman and politician (d. 1886)
1862 - Ida B. Wells, American journalist and anti-lynching crusader (d. 1931)
1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1928)
1888 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
1889 - Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
1889 - Larry Semon, film comedian (d. 1928)
1896 - Trygve Lie, first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)
1902 - Georg Schwarz, writer (d. 1991)
1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer, saxophonist, composer, and arranger (d. 1971)
1907 - Dr. Frances Horwich, American television personality (d. 2001)
1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress d. 1990
1911 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
1913 - Peter van Eyck, actor (d. 1969)
1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea
1924 - Bess Myerson, Miss America and television personality
1925 - Cal Tjader, musician (d. 1982)
1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1946 - Ron Yary, American football player
1947 - Assata Shakur, Black Panther Party member
1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian actor, musician, and politician
1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
1952 - Stewart Copeland, American musician
1956 - Tony Kushner, American playwright
1959 - Gary Anderson, American football player
1963 - Phoebe Cates, American actress
1963 - Fatboy Slim, English musician
1963 - Sre?ko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach
1964 - Phil Hellmuth, American poker player
1964 - Miguel Induráin, Spanish cyclist
1986 - Ubergeek Fej, Swahilian curmudgeon
1968 - Barry Sanders, American football player
1971 - Corey Feldman, American actor
1974 - Chris Pontius, American skateboard enthusiast
1976 - Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player

Deaths

1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1953 - Hilaire Belloc, French writer and journalist (b. 1870)
1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
1981 - Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer (b. 1917)
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
1995 - Stephen Spender, American poet (b. 1909)
1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1960)
2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances

Botswana - President's Day (2nd day)
Catholic - Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Fej is only 19??????


(There are soooo many other things I could add, but I won't.)

Oh well then heck, you'll be getting your badge from my staff! See you then. (Now I have to go search old pics and see who I might be looking for)

On another note, its not nearly as geeky, but I did just learn that Alton Brown will be at Fashion Valley saturday the 18th. And I have to be at Comic-con.... *sobs*

I found it interesting that 1986 apparently occurred somewhere between 1964 and 1968.

Aw crap. I hate when I make a typo.

But when I do, its usually something interesting. I guess that's why chicks dig me. (Unless it's the underwear.)


(Another movie reference that NA probably won't get.)

Nope. Clueless on that reference as well. You keeping track?

I can't go the 17th! I'm going to Vegas (which is almost as good) can't believe I scheduled my trip for that weekend. What was I thinking? Or was I??

You were thinking, "it's gonna be crowded as heck at Disneyland that weekend. Surely Vegas will be less so."

And you are probably right.

Care to explain?

Explain why I don't get movie references 99% of the time? ;)

Actually, you should be the one getting movie references, since you probably watch way more than I do. I have an excuse. :p

From Stripes:

John Winger: Chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear and when I do it's usually something unusual.

I'm out guys... its Tuesday at 8:30am and I am out of reach till after Comic Con. If you know my number, feel free to call.

If you're going to be at con, I will have a MousePod pin on my badge for easy identification.

Bornio, cant wait to meet you!

Have fun at the Con, guys! :)

See ya'all on Sunday, I'm off to Con for the week. Might be some cool Disney news. I understand they're going to have a panel on the upcoming films and Toy Story 10th Anniversary DVD.

Should I report anything to Mousepod hotline?

Of course you should report stuff to the MousePod Hotline!!! ;)

It looks like it's about to rain. Should I report that to the mousepod hotline?

Heh...speaking of weather, it's bloody HOT here today. I'm hoping it'll be better this weekend, but we're still going to cook.

You could always come to WDW and poach.

We'll poach here! It's humid too! YUCK

I'm not so sure I'm wearing the Leopard man jacket and hat for Sunday - I just might show up in Drinking Man regalia instead :D

Con was great BTW. Missed seeing my fellow LoT's. I saw one at a table, but it was busy and I didn't spot a MousePod button, but I looked several times!

Oh well....

And Wicked was, well, Wicked Cool!

Here's a great report on this year's San Diego Comic Con, summed up in one picture...

:cheers:

Yeah, that guys around every year. One of the best! ;)

Alas my MousePod pin was stolen while at con... I beleive it was Friday or Saturday. Silly me had set my badge down on my desk.
You were there Wednesday night? aka Pro hell night? followed by Pro Reg hell DAY? Yeah, I'm not surprised we never met.
I would have been the tall brunette (tall when not next to NA) running around in panic mode.

We'll meet someday. Heck, Ally and I miss each other all the time...

Ack! Sorry about your MP badge!

Yep I was there Weds afternoon around 3pm. I was one that was "escorted" upstairs. Otherwise I would've probably seen you. You guys always do a great job. Every year. :snap:

Now security, that's another story! ;)

Oh say it isnt so! I did the first two groups of escorts of "special groups"!

Being the super of course, I had to make sure my guys knew what to do. And that I knew what they were being asked to do.

(and Jesse and I are in the process of fixing my poor little MousePod.)