Sakura Con and does anyone even read this?

So I said the next post would be a Sakura Con recap and that was 3 months ago. So here it is for anyone that actually reads this. Sakura Con was Easter weekend and this year I was smart enough to buy tickets online months before (no waiting 4 hours in line.....or getting DS stolen...see April 2010 post). My 14 year old cousin (who attended the Con last year with me) and I went 2 days this year. Friday night with my 2.5 year old daughter dressed up like a cat, for no reason, and me dressed like Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle. There were good costumes and the second day my cousin and I discovered the anime Black Butler. It is not racist; the butler dresses in black. Overall it was pretty uneventful which my cousin being disappointed that her costume was not recognised by other anime nerds (She was a character from this online tribute game, Ume Tukki) and getting yelled at by a fat Link. Anyway, the next post will be about how I may or may not have received a doctorate degree. Cross your fingers.....July 15th here we come........

Emerald City Comic Con 2011

So, it is that time of year again. Convention time! My friend and I dressed up as Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn and enjoyed ourselves immensely. We met up with other friends who knew way more about comics then we did, which was a good thing. The picture you see to your left should not alarm you...the guns are fake....air guns actually but are good accessories for villains. We got them from some guy as a prop for one pose.

Back to the con, where we walked around looking for free candy. We also met a few cool animators. I saw my favorite webcomic artist, Gordon McAlpin who writes

http://www.multiplexcomic.com/

I also stumbled upon a booth with a couple who were animators on Metalocolypse. The wife was named Daisy Church.

http://daisychurch.com/

We got up the nerve to walk over to the Boondock Saints booth where Norman Reedus (not Sean Patrick Flanery......he was eating a pizza) gave us high fives and started hitting on us. This happened while there was a huge line waiting for their signatures. We did not see the line and got yelled at by one of the fans. We apparently cut and didn't buy anything so we walked away giggling.

We saw crazy costumes which ranged from bad, Butt Crack Princess Leia, to good, Incredibly Hot Captain America (some might disagree with these descriptions). Lots of Harley's were there which made me start to rethink this annual tradition.

The con was fun but driving back home in this get-up was not.

Next post......Sakura Con.

Dr. Watson is a Robot!

I feel like my title is from an Asimov summary. Anyway, I just heard about this robot named Watson that is going to pay Jeopardy against human contestants next week. This article (link below) talks briefly about the coming event and also details past "mental battles" between robot and human.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/10/man-vs-computer-a-gaming-history/?hpt=C2

The robot is actually called Dr Watson because IBM (the creators) feel that it can help in the medical field as an encyclopedic reference for doctors. A link between Sherlock and Robots...can't get much better than that!

!@*/#* Robot

So this blog is called "I Heart Robots!" for a reason. I love robots. There fore when I saw on my radio that there is a band called "Shit Robot", which the DJ called Turd Robot on air, I was suddenly surprisingly pissed. How dare they name their band something so offensive to Robot kind. ON top of it all, I listened to the whole song and they SUCK! They didn't even have the decency to be good. Now I am giving them exposure but I can't help it......I was so disgusted. Am I the robot equivalent of offended old ladies......please make it not be true.

I Can't Get Next to You---Severus

So Seattle is in some sort of Snowpocolypse but I still got to see Harry Potter 7-1. I liked it but this brings me to a song I love. Have you heard the song "I Can't Get Next to You" by the Temptations? I like the Annie Lennox version but the point is, the story is actually beautiful in a kind of melancholy way. It is about a man (or in the case of Lennox, a woman) who has all the power in the world (magic and otherwise) but still can't be with the one he/she loves.....or lusts for. I think that concept is very prevalent in the last Harry Potters. You know, you can't create love, you can't bring back the dead and even if you have magic, no one is safe. Even though it is depressing, I find it kind of freeing.

Well Currently I am listening to NIN Pretty Hate Machine and Trent Reznor totally makes me think of Snape. I love Snape. I guess the song makes me think of Severus.

Fake Mustaches

So, it is a common knowledge that mustaches are funny. Fake mustaches are hilarious.

My husband has a drawer of fake mustaches you buy from 25 cent vending machines in grocery store entrances because "you never know when you might need one." I know this sounds very very creepy but remember when you were a kid and you wanted a quarter so so bad so you could buy that piece of candy, cheap ring or huge sticker from the vending machine. That is what I think these fake mustaches are to him. He has yet to actually use one.

On a trip away from my family, I was talking to him via Skype. This is the year of growing facial hair because he feels it makes him look older. I was staying at a friends house where the resident five year old wanted to talk too. This five year old was very interested in the idea of buying mustaches for 25 cents. Then he pointed at my husband on the computer screen and excitedly asked "is that a fake mustache?"

Are fake mustaches on robots funny? Well, here is a picture. If the mustache is part of the robot's design, is it fake?

Adventure!

Hello Lonely Blog,

I had an adventure today, well as much as I can have one. Though it did not have to due with Robots, I assure you they were in my thoughts...completely.

I started the day at 6am getting dropped off at the Seattle Piers and rode the clipper in a state of half awake. I pretty sure I bought food and tasted the most disgusting coffee EVER made.

I had two goals as I walked off the vessel onto the streets of downtown Victoria for the first time (alone): Find an obscure French comic and get to the Observatory on my own. So I have been to Victoria many times but this was the first time I pushed aside my many illogical fears and just started walking.

Recently I have become obsessed with a comic called "Clues" by a French cartoonist, Mara, I found on deviant art. here is the link

http://kyla79.deviantart.com/

Apparently she got her comics published in France a few years ago and it is a series. However, you can not get them in the US but you can through Amazon Canada....Although, I hoped that since her last post was in 2008, this had changed. Maybe the comic had made it to the New World. It was still in French but I would just make my husband translate them. I wandered the streets for 2 hours, going to 5 books stores. No one had heard of it. This kind of made me sad but I can still order it from Amazon.

I ended up at a great "hole-in-the-wall" Chinese place with free wifi and recorded some thoughts for a robot book...why not?

I took 2 buses (which was way way easier then I thought) to an obscure college and then to the bottom of a small mountain. I walked the 1.5 miles up hill avoiding crazy drivers coming down a winding road. I hate listening to my own thoughts but this time it wasn't so bad. A lot of Robot book thinking.

Next time...maybe a drawing of a robot.