{"id":254,"date":"2009-07-21T12:37:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2009-08-30T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T18:45:40","slug":"teh-hotness-off-to-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Teh Hotness &#8211; Off to San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/SanDiegoLineup-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego Comic-Con = Long Lines\" title=\"San Diego Line-Up\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/SanDiegoLineup-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nrdland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/SanDiegoLineup.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego Comic-Con = Long Lines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At 5AM tomorrow morning, I won&#8217;t be making comics like every other morning, I&#8217;ll be on my way to the airport for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/cci\/\">San Diego Comic-Con<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know, Comic-Con is the biggest pop culture event in North America &#8211; which, in layman&#8217;s terms, it&#8217;s the biggest gathering of geeks, nerds and freaks who speak English as their primary language.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\">Warren Ellis<\/a> calls it the Nerd Prom &#8211; and that&#8217;s an appropriate title.<\/p>\n<p>I love Comic-Con.  It&#8217;s second only to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">GDC<\/a> as my favorite annual event.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the best place in the world to be a giant nerd and geek out over comics, cartoons, toys, TV and movies.  The exhibition floor is packed with insane artists, crazy toys, awesome t-shirts and tons of hotness.  The panels offer everything from sneak peeks to next years big movies to the discussion on the future of comics as a printed medium.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s A-1 fantaradawesomeness.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be doing a bit of blogging from the floor, courtesy of my iPhone, WordPress for iPhone and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ig\">iGoogle<\/a> providing free wi-fi throughout the convention hall.  I&#8217;ll also be <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shaneneville\">twittering <\/a>random things from the floor as well.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck &#8211; this is going to be a blast!  If you are going to be there, hit me on e-mail or twitter.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 5AM tomorrow morning, I won&#8217;t be making comics like every other morning, I&#8217;ll be on my way to the airport for San Diego Comic-Con. For those who don&#8217;t know, Comic-Con is the biggest pop culture event in North America &#8211; which, in layman&#8217;s terms, it&#8217;s the biggest gathering of geeks, nerds and freaks who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/?p=254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teh Hotness &#8211; Off to San Diego&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}