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Pre Convention Gallery - Thursday, August 31, 2006

ChrisReid: We all booked tickets to go to the new Georgia Aquarium. It's located a short walk from our hotels in downtown Atlanta.

LOAF: I've said it before and I'll say it again: Blonde has the best shirt in the universe.

Frosty: Sword Play ain't too shabby either.


ChrisReid: It's the biggest aquarium in the world.

LOAF: Sure, *this* world.

Frosty: It's probably the asymmetrical-est also. Just saying.


ChrisReid: Look! Fish.

LOAF: I kept thinking we'd walk around the giant tank and then see it from the top. And we circled and circled and... then there was a giant window.


ChrisReid: Tricky. This part isn't an aquarium at all. It's a giant touch screen. When you touch fish that swim by, text bubbles pop up with information about them.

LOAF: But each information was different, so you could touch the same fish forever and keep learning. The world of the 21st century is amazing.


ChrisReid: We found ourselves in a huge tube underneath the main tank. Silas looks hungry.

LOAF: There was a moving sidewalk, but it wasn't moving.


ChrisReid: The tank was full of stingrays.

LOAF: I like their little smiles.


ChrisReid: The aquarium is also the only one in the world to have four whale sharks.

LOAF: I'm sorry, I didn't get the number of aquariums or the amount of whale sharks.

Frosty: It must be fun to be gigantic.


ChrisReid: Crabs.

LOAF: Crabs... in love.


ChrisReid: There was a shark and stingray petting tank we all checked out. Two days later, the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, was killed by a stingray.

LOAF: How is the Crocodile Hunter like Dallas? Both killed by stingrays! But seriously, it's no laughing matter: don't go kill stingrays, because they're great.

Frosty: Unless you discover that they're incredibly tasty.


ChrisReid: They kind of hover near the surface and flap their wings until you touch them.

LOAF: I was going to touch a shark, but Halman ruined it. Now CNN is telling me that Stingrays are evil 'close relatives of sharks'. Damned liberal media.

Frosty: Nobody really believes when you tell them the stingrays would float to each person in turn and, staring at you, patiently wait to be poked. It was a satisfying experience all around.


ChrisReid: The petting zoo also had a slide.

LOAF: The slide was left over from the David Lynch Childrens' Museum.


ChrisReid: The shrimp petting tank seemed pretty dirty.

LOAF: There was all kinds of shrimp. Big shrimps, medium shrimps... small shrimps.


ChrisReid: It was located in a mock shrimping boat.

LOAF: But I'd rather have joined that pirate ship, than gone to Botany Bay.


ChrisReid: Penguin attack!

LOAF: Tremors, too.


ChrisReid: Apparently this is the largest piece of glass in the world.

LOAF: Actually, I read on the internet that it wasn't glass at all but some kind of special plastic that is even more see-through. I was going to for the obvious transparent aluminum joke, but it would have taken years to figure out t he dynamics of the matrix.


ChrisReid: Seals eat a lot.

LOAF: I'd like to sea her lion, if you know what I mean. Seal the deal... eh, this material is wasted on you.


ChrisReid: We got a group picture before entering Deepo's 4D undersea theater.

LOAF: You can tell it was before because we're all still very happy.


ChrisReid: At the very end, they had nice colored fish.

LOAF: I see three Finding Nemos and a Shark Tale.


ChrisReid: After the aquarium, we went to register and pick up our convention badges.

LOAF: For some reason the 'L' line was marked 'R'.


ChrisReid: Since Atlanta isn't overcrowded on Thursday, we went to Steak & Ale next to our hotel. I wish I was eating this right now.

LOAF: That is neither steak nor ale.


ChrisReid: Halman got snails to eat.

LOAF: Because he's a dynamic thinker.

Frosty: Clownboat.


ChrisReid: Another group picture.

LOAF: As usual, my pal Death gets the short end of the stick.


ChrisReid: Back at the hotel, Teo showed up with his nerf gun.

LOAF: We didn't see much of Teo. He was playing some kind of murder game the whole weekend. Or we were. I forget which.


ChrisReid: Here's Frosty making a batch of ice juice.

LOAF: The Kool-Aid was orange?

Frosty: These were the prototypes. By the end of the con, and after several handoff miscalculations involving impact-related spills, I had this mastered.


ChrisReid: All LOAF needs is irc, a tall glass of ice juie and a soft whale shark.

LOAF: My new whale shark is very, very soft.


ChrisReid: Before it got too late, a bunch of us went down to the gym.

LOAF: You actually photographed Halman doing a cartoon double-take.


ChrisReid: And then we rested up. The convention began the next morning.

LOAF: Go suck a sack of Frosty, sack-o.

Frosty: Those brown things are great. At one point I had accumulated 3 of them and 5 pillows. It was luxurious.

Continue to Day One



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