Anyone else going? This will be my 4th year in a row. If you've never been, it's a 3 day drunken costume party for geeks. It's kind of like a mini mardi gras. I don't do the costume thing myself though. I just go with my buddies to drink and people watch. Last year there were over 60k people.
http://www.dragoncon.org/
http://www.dragoncon.org/