AstroNerdBoy bloviates and rambles about different things.
You know, I’m very unimpressed with Marriott Hotels, or rather the one hosting Starfest 2008. This is supposedly a 3-star hotel but things are just not right. I already mentioned the lack of a Sci-Fi channel, but this I found a bit more annoying. Despite the fact that this is a convention weekend and the hotel is pretty full of…
After our arrival, it was time to score our rooms and then score our passes. So, we decided on some restaurant Russian roulette and ended up at Great Northern Tavern. Neither of us had been here, but it had the feel of a bar and grill joint. We were wrong. It was an overpriced joint with some normal sounding dishes,…
Well, Lepidus and I should be at Starfest 2008 as this post gets published. If we hadn’t planned this long before I decided to buy my condo, I likely would not have gone, but since the tickets were already purchased, the reservations made, and arrangements made to get the time off (since I don’t have vacation), I thought, “Oh well.…
After Leonard Nimoy spoke, the stars of the old Buck Rogers show, Gil Gerard and Erin Grey, spoke for an hour and a half. Marc was a big fan of the show but I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a single episode. As such, I really wasn’t interested in seeing what they had to say and took off, leaving…
The main reason I decided to come to Starfest 2007 was Leonard Nimoy. The chance to see the man who played Mr. Spock in the original Star Trek series was one I couldn’t pass up. Indeed, had he not come, I doubt I would have gone to Starfest this year at all. To have Mr. Nimoy autograph something cost $60…