{"id":1755,"date":"2012-03-03T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T18:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2012-03-03T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T18:50:07","slug":"how-crazy-is-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/how-crazy-is-comic-con\/","title":{"rendered":"How Crazy is Comic-Con?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How crazy is Comic-Con registration? I logged on at 8:00am this morning to get in the waiting list and by the time I cleared the “waiting room” for the signup page (at 9:10ish) it was completely sold out. This is what I saw when it finally “let me in” to register:<\/p>\n

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I hate to do it, but I have to lay the blame squarely on Gmail. Comic-Con sent me a registration form, I clicked on the link at 8:00am, just like they told me to …<\/p>\n

The wait is over! Comic-Con 2012 badges will go on sale at 8:00 a.m. PST on Saturday March 3rd, 2012. To access the EPIC online registration website, click the following link:<\/strong> (link deleted for security reasons)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe link kept timing out, as one might expect from an overloaded system, but after 5 or so minutes of click … timeout, click … timeout, I started to get suspicious.<\/p>\n

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But the problem wasn’t in the site … it was in something Gmail was doing to the URL. Clicking on it didn’t work; copying the link location didn’t work. Copying just the text and pasting it … got me in at 9:10AM.<\/p>\n

Too late.<\/p>\n

Ah, Gmail, can’t live without you, but every once in a while…<\/p>\n

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BANG! ZOOM! To the moon.<\/p>\n

Oh well, here’s hoping I get in as a professional like I did the last two years … this year I have even more claim, I guess, as I have a second book out, appear in two more books, and am involved with Blitz Comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crossing my fingers!<\/p>\n

-the Centaur
\nPictured: Lots of stuff. Fair use and whatnot<\/a> … parody<\/a>, informative commentary<\/a>, transformative<\/a> and educational uses, and so forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How crazy is Comic-Con registration? I logged on at 8:00am this morning to get in the waiting list and by the time I cleared the “waiting room” for the signup…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,4,63,5,3],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-across-the-transfinite-canvas","tag-dragon-writers","tag-san-diego-comic-con","tag-we-call-it-living","tag-webworks","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}