... the story so far... So today marks the end of the junket phase of the Comic Con trip; I checked out of my hotel, and now I'm on my own recognizance. A and I (and it's hard to refer to someone on a blog by the letter A, even if that is her real name) are wandering together, and now she's feeding me lunch. But we just got out of the panel for The Big Bang Theory, moderated by Adam Savage. Adam is made of awesome from top to bottom, and did a great job coming up with clever questions for the panel. The entire cast was there -- how cool is that? -- and the two creators, Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre. Prady has legit geek cred; he went on and on about Trek and being a programmer. That was very cool. Or whatever word you use for geek cool.
The cast was fantastic. They said they were all friends, and it's so obviously true (they rented a boat yesterday here in town and spent the day together). Their chemistry was palpable, especially between Jim Parsons (Sheldon) and Kaley Cuoco (Penny). They were too cute. And they obviously all love the show. It was funny; none of them is much of a science geek, but Parsons did give a brief lecture on ice melting in water (which, when he was done, looked out in the audience and asked if it was right, and I yelled out "It is!" to laughter) and an example of the Doppler Shift -- though he was asked for a definition, not an example. Sheesh! Laymen. The questions from the audience were better in general than most panels -- again, I think a love of the show was coming through. There were lots of laughs from the case and creators, and at least once I saw Lorre and Prady considering a suggestion by the audience very seriously. So far, this was far and away the highlight of the meeting (besides being on a panel, of course). And there're still about two full days to go! Woohoo! Oh -- I went to dinner last night with some folks from Discover Mag as well as some of the crew from the TV show Eureka -- Jamie Paglia is one of the creators of the show, and was on my panel. I thought he was great, as were the writers too. I gave Jamie an advance proof copy my book Death from the Skies!, so let's hope we see an impending asteroid impact or a nearby gamma-ray burst on the show soon. :-)
