“The Big Con”

The annual comic book and entertainment convention Comic-Con kicked off in San Diego Thursday.  The convention visitors dress in their coolest outfit, try to impress other attendees, and spend so much money that by the end, they feel like they know what it’s like to have been on a date.

Excited conventioneers have waited all year for the chance to see excusive footage of upcoming movies, TV shows, video games, and more.  Meanwhile, excited parents have waited all year to have their 30-year old sons out of the house for a weekend.

“Splendor’ed Ending”

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/cruises/2010-11-11-1Acruise11_CV_N.htm?csp=hf

The weary vacationers from the disabled Carnival Cruise ship Splendor were relieved to finally disembark on dry land today. Docking in San Diego pleased the passengers because the city is famous for having working toilets.

Aboard the ship, the passengers had no electricity, cell phone service or Internet. Of course, once they got to their email accounts, they were flooded with palettes of spam.

How bad were the conditions aboard? Once the toilets stopped functioning for a boat filled with 4,500 people, even Somali pirates were like, “No thanks; you guys can just pass right through our waters. Keep it moving. Good luck. Bye, bye.”

“Prints of the School”

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/surveillance/2010-10-29-1Aschoolbusfingerprints29_ST_N.htm

A San Diego area school district will begin testing finger-print scanners on school buses to make sure young students get off at the correct stops. The goal is to make school bus rides and stops even slower.

This teaches children an important lesson about the advancements in technology: It can do everything for you, so you don’t even need to learn your own address.