(Note I said TEE hee and not TEA hee)

Why so serious! About health care.

http://digg.com/comics_animation/Al_Gore_Invades_on_San_Diego_Comic_Con_Con_Goers

That doesn’t mean that he may not have hired his own private security but it most likely won’t be the secret service.

Also, FTR, while I missed last year’s Comic-Con, I did go in 2008 and was only vaguely aware of the AHA conference — And, mind you, I’m anal-retentive. I know. Shocker. So I suppose that if it does turn out that someone of Gore’s stature — President or Veep, or a Ghandi/Mother Theresa/other icon of peace/charity — attended AHA in 2008, then there aren’t any additional concerns. But as it stands, my level of concern is around Orange or so. I always stay at a hotel in Hotel Circle and have been in many an insanely packed Trolley at the end of the day as it is, so I’m kinda paranoid about the traffic and transit issues.

Speaking of Hotel Circle and transit/traffic issues: When I booked my room via Priceline on Tuesday, ahead of Hoteloween, I did research on the Bus Schedule. Due to the budget cuts, the MTS has cut Sundays from the bus route that includes Hotel Circle. Those of us that don’t do rental cars are more than a wee bit screwed for that day if the transit system doesn’t either reinstate the Sunday schedule by then or doesn’t at least run a special shuttle bus between Fashion Valley and Old Town. SOMEthing so that we can get to the Trolley station on our direction of the route.

— Rob

President Gore? ;-)

I suspect that this is exactly right. I can’t find in my websurfing a list of who the speakers were at earlier AHA conferences, though they always talk about offering “recognized keynote speakers.” It’s possible that the roster of speakers is so much better than in years past so that they require more hotel rooms & resources this year to accomodate higher-profile speakers and whatever increased number of attendees will come to hear them speak…