Nerdflu sucks. Nerdflu happens when you attend ComicCon.  It's what happens when thousands of people congregate in a small room, and many do not shower. Nerdflu is aches, pains, loss of voice and the dreaded ComiCough.  I thought to avoid it by not going to the main hall.

Yes, I went to Comiccon and didn't even go in.  Why?  Well, I knew if I walked the floor, I'd either buy something or punch someone.  And besides, anything worth buying at Comiccon is a choking hazard anyway.  So I stayed away.  Yet all my coworkers went in, and we work together. So I got the cough.

Also, working 14 hour days for two weeks prior can leave you…um..susceptible?

So, now I suffer.  Been a week already. I need more sleep.  Tomorrow, I hope to get it.

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Avatar Trailer: hmm, if Cameron breaks the uncanny valley, will the next boundary be that of plausibility? Avatar may look 'real', but will we buy human speech and emotions coming out of faces that are not 'human'?  As Pixar proves time and time again, once you get past the "Gee Whiz" factor of new technology, you return to "Can you tell me a story?".  Pixar and general animated features couch anthropomorphic actors in fully imaginary worlds.  We accept the rules of that world because it all fits.  But if you cross-breed it with filmed reality, the rules of this world apply.  And it's hard for us to accept as truth a character's bad expressions, when compared to a living, breathing actor (For reference, watch almost all mixings of puppetry and animation with live actors in the 1980's).

It's a neat step:  True 'photorealism' in CGI films.  But once that hill is climbed, there's still miles to go…

Alright, a prize to whomever deciphers where my Facebook slogan came from (and Raf, you can't play). http://www.facebook.com/DanielLoyd