Comments on: Comic Con schedule now online

By: that sounds fun

that sounds fun — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:09:10 +0000

that sounds fun

You must put a lot of work into blogging this much!

By: Naomi

Naomi — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:34:06 +0000

Speaking of sci fi, have they invented a working teleport yet? Because damn, I wish I was in San Diego! (Wrong side of the Pacific, as it is.)

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:14:11 +0000

Hey, Phil. I’ll be searching you out. Will you be available for signings after your panel?

Oh, and Adam Savage is on two panels.

Friday 10:15-11:15 The Big Bang Theory Screening and Q&A (Room 6CDEF)
Saturday 7:15-8:15 MythBusters Q&A and Sneak Preview (Room 6B)

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:21:18 +0000

I’m very much looking forward to your panel! This is awesome ³.

By: Naked Bunny with a Whip

Naked Bunny with a Whip — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:20:27 +0000

Too bad the only con I can afford to attend this year is Midwest Furfest. Knock ‘em geeky, Phil.

By: Phil Plait

Phil Plait — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:55:47 +0000

Updated: I’m a dork. I didn’t link to the schedule in the post! I just added it. Sheesh.

By: yumenoko

yumenoko — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:16:55 +0000

Woohoo! This is the best news I’ve had since coming back from vacation. I will so for sure attend your panel. I will highlight it on the schedule now since, yeah, there’s like a kazillion things going on again this year and I seriously have to pick and choose.

By: Ronn! Blankenship

Ronn! Blankenship — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:53:40 +0000

# Phil Plait Says:
July 11th, 2008 at 11:34 am

6′6″? No, I’m like 5′10″, and maybe a hair shy of that since I got a herniated disk a few years ago.

I rely on my reputation to clear the path.

- – -

I am roughly the same height and find a walking stick works wonders . . .

By: Phil Plait

Phil Plait — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:34:22 +0000

6’6″? No, I’m like 5’10″, and maybe a hair shy of that since I got a herniated disk a few years ago.

I rely on my reputation to clear the path.

By: rob

rob — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:53:04 +0000

hard to sidle up to them? Phil, aren’t you like 6′ 6″ or something? seems to me they will be scrambling to get out of *your* way:

“holy crap! there is that astronomer guy! he’s big and he’s BAD! get outa his way! aargh!”

By: LiteraryAlchemist

LiteraryAlchemist — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:31:56 +0000

Avoid Hall H, Phil… It has the lowest return on investment at the convention:

1. The lines are tragically long (HOURS).
2. It’s set up to seat something on the order of 4,000 people, I believe.
3. The activities held in there are NOT panels. They are marketing/promotional gigs for high profile movies – hence the short nature. There’s practically no chance you can get to a microphone to ask a question, much less time to actually observe good Q&A like will be the case in your panel.

By: AndyD

AndyD — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:12:37 +0000

Damn! Sorry, wrong article. It’s those damned grey holes.

Sorry. Please trash these comments when you get to them. I’ll repost in the appropriate thread.

Sorry. (Geez I’m dumb)

By: AndyD

AndyD — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:10:52 +0000

I’d best be careful. I regularly stir people up at work by suggesting they are a black hole of intelligence – then I make loud sucking noises whilst gesticulating with a motion that suggests my brain is being sucked out in their direction.

It’s funnier than it sounds. Trust me, I’m in advertising.

In future I’ll refer to it as a chromatically-neutral hole but I think that might confuse the people I direct it at.

By: Gail

Gail — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:47:08 +0000

Ack!

I will try to make this panel, it sounds SO COOL.

By: tenacious

tenacious — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:40:52 +0000

You got to post pictures of you in your costume! (Who are you going as again???)

By: Plasmafrag

Plasmafrag — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:53:36 +0000

No firefly people?

By: mln84

mln84 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:48:15 +0000

Doh, I must have skipped a line in my first reading.

/slinks away.

By: mln84

mln84 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:47:01 +0000

Wil Wheaton, too!