Holy crap that was awesome. Thanks for a wonderful time, dude! I did indeed get nerd all over me. I was the guy kinda near the front on your side that had on the "Science, It Works Bitches" t-shirt. Thanks to you and all the other guys and gals that put this thing together. Fucking sweet!

Squee! I think that I might be the very first person who bought tickets for the Seattle show. Row 1, seats 1 and 2, baby! I'll be there with my non-geek girlfriend, we'll see how it goes. :)

HokieSeas... ah Wasteland. One of my all-time faves. I liked rushing into the Atchison (?) tent and killing the pistol-packing baby (along with the rest of the family). That was one of the hardest fights of the game, in my opinion. And the whole "church of the mushroom cloud" thing, genius! Thermodynamism FTW! Sadly, I have never played MULE.

Wil, if you're going to have any free time outside of the Comicon, I'd love to meet you somewhere for a beer or three. Pike's brewery or Elysian Fields or Hales or...

Wil, recipes can't be copyrighted. The eggplant recipe does sound great, though I would also throw in 1/2c or so of red wine.

I never got into cribbage, it always seemed like "Calvinball" to me. I don't pretend to remember the rules, but stuff like "Oh, that jack makes you automatically lose 3 points and go back 3 spaces! If you'd played a 6 instead it would have neutralized the tachyon matrix!" Anyway, I have some great memories of getting destroyed at chess by my dad and grandpa (independently). I'm sure your pod-people will remember the game-playing fondly later in their lives, just as you have. Oh yah, and keep up with the political posts! This is YOUR blog.