Comments on: Happy Wil

By: blizno

blizno — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:21:55 +0000

Wil’s blog turned me on to ficlets.com.
Anybody can start a story thread but each addition can only have 1024 characters max.
I looked at a story started by Wil, “They Don’t Come Out at Night” (http://ficlets.com/stories/11739).
Veeeery creepy. There were several additions to the story by other people, all of them excellent. I just posted my second addition. I creeped myself out as I wrote them! I love the direction the story is taking. I wonder if it would be in bad taste for me to write a sequel to my own sequel. I’m impatient to find out what happens.
The challenge of sticking to no more than 1024 characters is very good concision training.

By: Stevil

Stevil — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:59:48 +0000

JB of Brisbane,

J. D. Mackon 02 Nov 2007 at 8:55 am wrote:

“Didnâ€™t you see the â€œJourneyâ€™s Endâ€ episode ST: TNG? Wesley resigned from Star Fleet and is off being a cosmic entity or something for the rest of eternity.”

Indeed it was the “Journey’s End” episode where Wesley discovered his supernatural abilities. Pfffft! Let’s see Mozart do that!

By: MTran

MTran — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:27:19 +0000

“the game that delayed my PhD by a solid year”

Now that is the best product endorsement I have seen since, maybe ever

By: JB of Brisbane

JB of Brisbane — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:30:15 +0000

“Not as funny as when he stopped time on TNG though!”

Stevil,

Can you please tell me in which episode of TNG Wesley stopped time? I only remember Timescape, and Wesley was not in that episode.

As an aside, two sci-fi clubs in Brisbane – Conquest and the Brisbane Doctor Who Fan Club – used to play an annual cricket match for the Wheaton-Waterhouse Trophy, named of course, for Wil Wheaton and Matthew Waterhouse (Adric from Doctor Who). The trophy was so named because the abovementioned actors’ characters were felt to be the most irritating characters in their respective shows. This may be why we never invited Mr Wheaton to be a guest at Conquest.

By: Lyle Gaulding

Lyle Gaulding — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:01:25 +0000

Briefly sat in on a few sessions of a ST fan group years ago. The younger male members HATED Wesley. Never understood why.

By: has

has — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:58:38 +0000

> A mancrush ensues.

…get a room guys…OH! THAT’S NOT RIGHT!!!

By: Jewel

Jewel — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:02 +0000

Wil Wheaton rocks. I love his writing – funny and so down to earth. Good stuff.

By: k

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:14:07 +0000

I used to read his blog.
Yawn.
Sorry.

Hey, who’s going to go see John Glenn and Scott Carpenter tomorrow?
http://www.worldspaceexpo.com/g_appearances.htm
We just spent the afternoon watching, “The Right Stuff,” and my 11-year-old is GIDDY to meet his hero, John Glenn.

By: g

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:03:17 +0000

“Is this the same as Netrek that I played incessantly in grad school? Or is this some weird Apple version, long since gone to wherever dead games go?”

It’s some weird Apple version, one of the first Mac network games. (You played “Netrek”, the Mac game was “NetTrek”.)

http://www.fatlion.com/randy/nettrek.html

By: wil

wil — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:00:35 +0000

Jeeze, Phil, you’re making me blush.

Thanks for the extremely kind words. I’m really happy that you enjoyed my book.

The NetTrek I played was on the Mac, and I think it was different than the ones you guys who had access to real computers — you know, the kind that had more than 4MB of memory — could play.

Snooker: the whole thing was a joke. I figured the best way to take on Anne Robinson (a really sweet woman who was also playing a pretty nasty character) was to be even more nasty than she was. Roxanne and I found something funny to do, and went with it, figuring the audience couldn’t possibly be so easily fooled.

I’ve discovered since then that I gave the audience way too much credit, and when I go to my two or three cons a year, at least one Trekkie furiously accosts me to defend Roxanne’s honor.

Those who are outside the US: Blame PayPal and the US Postal Service for being lame, and making it really difficult for a one-man operation to easily ship outside the US. I’ve added in the outrageously huge shipping fees that are required to prevent me from losing money on books, and I’m updating our ordering page right now.

By: The Centipede

The Centipede — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:50:21 +0000

Heh. Wil Wheaton is perhaps my favorite sort of person: the kind that stepped back, looked at himself, didn’t like what he saw, and changed it. Anyone with that sort of responsibility gets good grades in my book. Looks like he’s turned out to be a thoroughly decent nerdy guy. More power to ‘im.

By: SpikeNut

SpikeNut — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:36:02 +0000

I have fond memories of watching some friends play NetTrek. Especially when they were in the same room playing against each other. Add in some more people in the same room trying to shush the players (as if they were actually trying to work!) and hilarity ensued!

Occasionally Rob still suffers from withdrawl.

Good times, Good times.

By: dc

dc — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:34:27 +0000

this is completely beside the point but you are getting your but kicked in the weblog awards

By: J. D. Mack

J. D. Mack — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:55:39 +0000

Troyon 01 Nov 2007 at 11:30 pm wrote:

>>I think Wesley Crusher needs to get his own command in Star Trek >>the 3rd generation.

Didn’t you see the “Journey’s End” episode ST: TNG? Wesley resigned from Star Fleet and is off being a cosmic entity or something for the rest of eternity. Gosh, *everyone* knows that!!

Uh…or maybe just geeks like me.

J. D.

By: Nadia

Nadia — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:38:35 +0000

Wil. Wheaton. is. awesome.

By: Laguna2

Laguna2 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:09:59 +0000

Boy, he does not even ship to Canada, not to speak of Europe.
Phil,you should really insert a “US citizens only” mark over this Blog entry.

By: Tim G

Tim G — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:59:18 +0000

The one member of my family who watched TNG every week was perhaps the least nerdy. I’m referring to one of my sisters.

Did any ever play Starflight? I would sometimes play that game until the wee hours of the morning on some summer days.

By: gazza666

gazza666 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:11:19 +0000

Seconded Barry. I’d love to buy the book, Phil, but you gotta get Master Wheaton to acknowledge the rest of (at least) the Western World here. We’re cool with extra postage costs. We’re used to it. Just sell it to us, huh?

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:30:39 +0000

I think Wesley Crusher needs to get his own command in Star Trek the 3rd generation.

By: Stevil

Stevil — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:43:15 +0000

Don’t forget about Wil’s comedic stylings on the show ‘Arena’ from the G4 network. His episodes were by far the best of the run. Not as funny as when he stopped time on TNG though!

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:41:00 +0000

Bah – no international orders! Is it still 1990?

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:47:09 +0000

Hmmm, “Snooker. Which means, “to fool someone”.

You had me there for a sec, until I got to your last line.

I’d refer this doesn’t get out of hand here, so I’ll spoil the fun: Wil and Roxanna Dawson were pulling a gag. I thought it was pretty obvious when I saw the show, but a LOT of people took it seriously.

By: Snooker

Snooker — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:33:36 +0000

I saw Wil Wheaton a couple of years back on The Weakest Link, and let me tell you, he acted like a total dick, behaving like a know-it-all and coming on in a really inappropriate way to Roxann Dawson, who was also on the show, in a way that upset her badly because she is married and was humiliated in front of millions of viewers. You can’t always trust impressions you get from a person’s blog; sometimes it pays to see how they actually (mis)behave. It disgusts me that people can be so gullible.