Jon sez

I swear, there's some kind of jinx on me. Every time there's some astronomical event, such as the recent Orionid meteor shower, the skies here in Philly cloud over. If you really, really need water for your crops in Pennsylvania, have the ISS dump some trash out the airlock with a decaying orbit that would take it over Philadelphia and guarantee a spectacular light show here. It will start raining here within minutes.

Schedule news: I'm scheduled to be a guest at the 2009 Philadelphia Science Fiction Convention on November 20 - 22, 2009. They haven't emailed me yet with news of what panels I'm on, though...