Wow...traffic...

So I was looking at my traffic stats for the past couple weeks, and I should go to San Diego Comic Con every month it seems...were they to have San Diego Comic Con monthly...and if I were in Southern California to make it even semi-feasible. But there wasn't a slight uptake in traffic to the site here, there was an exponential increase in traffic. People must have been looking for pictures from the show floor. I do hope that everyone enjoyed the pictures as provided. I also hope that nobody things I came away from the con this year with a negative impression of the show. There were lots of great things to do and see. In fact, there was an embarrassment of riches to be had at San Diego this year (and likely the past few years, and I expect going forward into the future). The issue I have is with the size of the venue as even with taking over the whole convention center, all 125,000 of us were packed in fairly tightly.

Tonight I watched my traditional birthday viewing of Star Trek II. This time, however, I rented a HD version of the movie from iTunes and watched via my AppleTV. So a brief report may be in order. It looked KINDA better than my DVD. But this is a movie from 1982, so while it is on film and theoretically could be scanned in for HD, there is only so much that you could expect from it. It's also the theatrical print as well, not the extended version currently available on standard definition DVD. I may have to try again and rent a more recent movie in HD to see if there is a strong, noticeable difference in picture quality.

Speaking of Star Trek...the Las Vegas Star Trek convention unveiled another set of four posters with the rest of the recast Enterprise crew...

For those playing at home, clockwise from top left are the new Mr. Sulu, Scotty, Chekov, and Dr. McCoy. Of course, at San Diego, we had the first set of four posters made available to the public...

Top left clockwise are the villain of the movie, Nero, Uhura, Kirk and Spock. I'm back to running a little cold on this movie to just hoping that it doesn't suck. My fingers are crossed...