Anime

Future Travel Considerations, Part 2

by W4JDH
I touched briefly on electronics in the last post. Okay, maybe not so briefly, but I think I should do a better job of surveying what I’d be carrying and what charging I would need. Current potential devices (as of Oct 2025): – Personal laptop (Acer Swift X) – while I believe this will charge ... Read More

Future Travel Considerations

by W4JDH
I wrote a post on Pocket Networks yesterday about solo travel considerations related to the project chronicled on that blog, and I mentioned that actual deepdive into the actual onebag travel bit would be on this blog, so here we go. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to attain true “onebag” status where all ... Read More

Conventions, Sans Cars

by W4JDH
A few years ago, I wrote about attending Anime Weekend Atlanta without needing to rent a car. I was looking at the area around where AWA used to take place a couple days ago, and learned there is a CobbLinc bus route that connects to MARTA’s Red/Gold line that goes to the airport that has ... Read More

A New Convention to Write About: The Sakura-Con 2025 Post

by W4JDH
Hi there! Just over a year ago I moved to Seattle, and the weekend after I arrived was Sakura-Con. I had to work that weekend, so I didn’t go to it. Not to be defeated, I reached out to friends to see if anyone wanted to go this year, and one of them, the most ... Read More

The AWA Post, Ver. FINAL (Provisional)

by W4JDH
Well, it’s that time of the year again, though with a little bit of difference to it. You see, AWA is moving from the venue it has been for the last 20 years to the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta as well as moving for the first two years at this new venue ... Read More

Back on DreamHost for Now

by W4JDH
Last night, I moved my domains and their respective DNS hosting back to DreamHost until I can get settled elsewhere. I also put a ticket in with Coloblox that I wanted to derack my gear and discontinue service. It’s kind of bittersweet as not only am I going to have the gear deracked before this ... Read More

The AWA Post, Vers. 2021 and 2022

by W4JDH
Yikes! It’s been ages since I wrote here… What today’s post will be is a combination of con reports for AWA in 2021 as well as last weekend’s 2022 edition. 2021 I wasn’t going to keep my hotel reservation until the Atlanta Braves made it to the World Series, which they eventually won. I’d initially ... Read More

AWA XXV

by W4JDH
It’s been over a week since I got back from attending Anime Weekend Atlanta for the 16th year in a row, and if I had to be honest with myself, this really was the best one ever. It had nothing to do with the convention’s content but rather had to do with getting to hang ... Read More

Anime Weekend Atlanta, Sans Car

by W4JDH
Hi there! I’ve changed jobs since the last post, and my new job has me running all over town doing computer work! I was at one of my company’s clients in 900 Circle 75 Parkway one day this past week, and the office I was working in overlooked the pedestrian bridge between the Cobb Galleria ... Read More

Scaling Back

by W4JDH
Every year I’ve looked at Anime Weekend Atlanta as more than a chance to hang out with friends from out of town because of the rather unique situation having several laptop wielders in the same hotel room can present. Therefore, I come up with all sorts of hair-brained network schemes to get everyone online from ... Read More