WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5

All the world loves a lover. We love you two.

Yep, thats my goal. You have a rare gem.

That's so cool!

I swear I'm not making this up: when I came home from work yesterday, my wife gave me that shirt as a present. I'd seen it years ago in someone's .sig, and told everyone I could find.

Awesome!

[Side note: Thought about wearing that one to interview a prospective cantidate for our group today. I don't know that his english is going to be up for that one, so I opted for the T-shirt that came with the Robotech game for PlayStation 2 instead.]

*falls into sugar coma*

This is... this is... seriously, they should turn you too into a chick flick. I'd have it on loop all the time. *sigh*

cough, cough-----sorry i was just choking on the saccharine

My wife owns an 'I Love My Geek' shirt, I never thought about what I'm wearing when she has it on. Normally it's a Megatokyo, Real Life Comics or MC Frontalot.

No wonder my freinds think I'm a bit sad :)

*sigh* that was so freakin cute i think i need a very strong drink: so jealous.

Life is good in geekville when our wives understand us. I myself have been blessed with a wife who some would say is, herself, a geek. She loves RPG video games. She wants to go out and get an X Box now just because of Fable! Can't say I blame her. It looks fantastic. I need to get her one of those I (heart) My Geek shirts, though.

I so, so needed to read something like this, this morning.

On our walk around the neighborhood last night,through the cooling almost autumn air, my sweetie told me to quit reading news sites for awhile because I was becoming filled with anxiety.

So take a break and check out favorite web sites that make you feel like there is good in the world, he said So I just did, and now I do.

Life is really so simple. All each of us really need is someone we can love and trust.

Thanks, Wil.

Yay. I love seeing other geeks in love. *scowl* However, this made me want to hug my husband, who is presently about 20 miles away.

Darn you.

Well, looks like I'll be taking my coffee black today, I got my daily dose of sweetness right there...

*plays Muse Feeling good*

Wil... you the daddy... you the man... you the geek!

Anne... you are fab!

i love seeing the world through eyes of angels!

Andrea xx

I've always had partners who loved their geek. It is a good thing. There's a goofiness in such a relationship (e.g. "Now everyone will wonder who your geek is!" "Uhm. Probably not. ...") that I absolutely love. Other people sometimes don't understand it (I had a boss who felt I was whipped or that I shouldn't be goofy or something once. I don't think he ever clued in that there's strength in being goofy. Or whatever.), but who cares?

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Too cute!

God is Love. Love is Blind. Therefore, God is Stevie Wonder.

A bit of high school geometry/love humor for two incredibly loving people. You guys rock! \m/

I'm actually on thinkgeek as "Geek Groupie" wearing that I

I'm actually on thinkgeek as "Geek Groupie" wearing that I

Urk. Those got royally horked up. One more try.

I'm on thinkgeek wearing that I

You already ran some errands today??? You posted this at 7:52AM. I hope you wrote this yesterday and posted it today. Or am I just such a slacker that doing errands before 8:00 is inconceivable?

It's something geeks put in the water, I think. How else to explain that I get all fluttry when mine starts talking about bilabial fricatives in conlangs?

Next time post a warning.. I just ate lunch.. now I'm gonna be sick...

Aww. Go on with your big geek self!

My boyfriend (a total Trekkie and geek) gave me that t-shirt over Labor Day weekend. I laughed out loud, and thought (and still think) it was the best present I've ever received. I'm looking forward to wearing it in concert with one of his Transformer or code shirts.

Today he pointed me in this direction. I am so happy for you and Anne, Wil. There are way too many girls out there who have yet to figure out that geeks are the best kind of significant others, and that their geekiness is what makes them so valuable.

Mmmm. I totally forgive the Jenna Jameson comment now.

Geeks totally rock.

That is all.

I got my wife one of those shirts. She got me the GEEKISSEXY (KISS in red) for Valentine's Day. I rarely wear mine, but she wore hers. Now that it doesn't fit her anymore, she cut hers up and put it on a jacket and gets asked about it all the time.

Kinda cute to hear stories about random people asking "So who's your geek?"

*sniff* That's beautiful.

And strange, but true, my son wore that shirt the other day (he's 23), and much to his shock, I actually knew how to read it correctly.

Beautiful post. Love rules.

Little side note here--Would anyone be able to tell me where to get that t-shirt? Much appreciated.

That's awesome! you are so lucky. :)

I hope that you always have that same sappy, make other people nautious kind of love for each other.... because its about the only thing that really matters. in this life. ;)

awwwww, this post just oozes with love! So nice to read.

KK

Anne is such a rockstar!
and the weather has been amazingly fall-like! Woohoo! No more blistering heat!

I love to read it when you talk about Anne! You two are so wonderfully perfect for each other! Maybe my husband and I should get each other that shirt, seeing as we are both geek minded and still crazy in love after over 20 years! ;)

Way to go Ann. As a geek wife who proudly wears her "I (heart) My Geek" t-shirt, I've got to say that is a great story. My husband is almost always wearing a linux oriented tshirt, so it is obvious that's he's my geek. We combined a romantic weekend at a B&B with WizardWorld Texas last year for a truly geeky and sappy experience. Geek wives rule!

I didn't realize there were so many of us lucky geeks out there who buy these shirts for our significant others! Either that or the world has gotten that much smaller...

Ingrid, the shirts are for sale at www.thinkgeek.com (come on, Wil's got a sponsored link on this page!)

Wil, I have a "10 kinds of people" shirt, too (from thinkgeek.com). I, however, love wearing it in public - I enjoy watching the reaction on people's faces when they read it and try to figure out its meaning. Most people's eyes just glaze over when I try to explain it to them.

My wife likes it, too, now that I've explained it to her. It's fun being a geek. ;-)

Wil I think that it is just fantastic that you and Anne love each other so much and still act like newlyweds. It is such a rare thing these days.

OH! MY! GOD!

Way to go Wheaton! >:#
Make me look like an unthoughtful dork.
NICE!

Really though, that is a nice little slice of life. It makes me want to call up my wife and make up for the big fight we had last night.
I think for it to really hit the mark though, she would have to read this first.
:)

You guys are so cute it makes my teeth fall out.

[tangent]BTW, converted a longtime trek fan. got him to read D.B. and I will be lending him JAG in a day or so. One reader at a time. [/tangent]

Sincerly; your loyal minion

My sweetie recently gave me a T-shirt from thinkgeek.com too:

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Awwwww...how sweet.
Yeh, Im in that odd mood, but then 'His Way' just aired.
I want a binary shirt!!!!
Did you tell Anne what it really meant?

I'm so stealing some of those lines *grin*

And it's nice to see that somebody else in the world owns that shirt.

Whoa, its cold and dark right now in Holland (at 20:20) and it is storming and raining. Hey i think i will put on my OpenBSD T-shirt and see how my wife will react. Nah, just kidding (not about the weather though, it is realy nasty outside).
Will, i realy hope you know how LUCKY you are (just as i am after 13 years off mairiage and still in love). Darn, i know i am typing things the wrong way. Grammar is (i think) improving, but it still sucks, don't it ?.

Anyway, \m/ rock on and keep on rocking dude.
As a new and far away friend would say, vaia con dios.

(Freeman, was that correct spelling right ?)
Lots of love,
Leon

I remember Anne wore that shirt when you did the EFF Barney deathmatch a couple years ago. I thought that was so cute. It still is!

Sounds like a conversation at my house. People in love make me smile.

Love the story Wil, but I have to make one Uber Geek correction... It should be "there are 10 kinds of people" otherwise the joke doesn't quite work (ten being 1010 in binary, 10 being two). Sorry, just the Computer Engineer in me coming out. I'll go put him back in the closet now.

::sigh::
love is grand....

A L L Y O U N E E D I S L O V E .

-- Lennon/McCartney

Its Nice that you guys have such a loving realtionship keep the passion burning!:)

Greetings,
Oh... *sniff*

The first thing I did, outside of wiping a tear away, was to tell my fiance (online, of course) to go here, and see if anything was...familiar. :)

It's a lovely, loving, sweet, and silly story. Just the way it should be.

My fiance and I always wonder if we're weird (almost certainly true, but...), being pretty regularly relaxed with each other, and saccharine, sappy, and silly. Nearly everyone else we know treats relationships like business deals, or something, so serious, so much tension... The voluntary peek into another the happiness of another geek helps mitigate that a lot.

Thank you for sharing that!

That could SO easily have been a conversation between me and my wife. Ain't it fun being both married and *still* madly in love with each other?

I love that joke about "10 kinds of people..." I will have to get that shirt.

Talk about displaying your geekiness- I once saw a car with the license plate "su root". That was cool.

:) Oh I'm all Piglet smiles now!! I love it when you write these stories.

'Course, now I got Queen's "Somebody to Love" running through my head, but that's okay.

Super sweet story Wil, well done!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Aww, this is so cute! And just for the record, I envy your nice weather. It's currently 43 degrees and raining in Colorado Springs.

Geeky tshirts rule! :)

You're sickeningly cute. You know that, right?
(I need a geek of my very own.)

Hehehe. This sounds SO MUCH like me and my wife, right down to the t-shirts (I (heart) my geek) and the "10 types". Even the numbers for love (our arbitrary standard is seven - for no good reason - or "bigger than a breadbox").
She was laughing at me just last night when I was telling her about how cool it was that I could add a hires map to Celestia (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/) of Kennedy Space Center. She said to me, "You're such a nerd", at which point I went into an extended rant about the difference between geeks and nerds. That just made her laugh harder.

M_Nicodemus wrote:
Love the story Wil, ... It should be "there are 10 kinds of people"

I am a little scared - I automatically translated the statement into binary (read "ten" and translated it into "10" and thence to binary two.

Another idea - you have all these geek couples sighing and us geek singles envying. How 'bout a geek match up thing?

Ah, *hugs both of you* that's adorable. I love lovey stories!

nice.My teeth are rotting away as I type, but still, nice. My pc smells like a box of lemon freshened borax laundry detergent, but, still nice.

Aww. You two are so sweet.

HAHA! My girlfriend and I have the same exact shirts (that is, she has the I my geek, and I have the binary one). We call them our "matching shirts!" Most excellent!

OMG, my DH has that same shirt. :-) I don't have any shirts that say "I love my geek" though.

Speaking of t-shirts, my DH will only wear t-shirts. Did you know that t-shirts aren't just t-shirts? He has good t-shirts, old t-shirts, geek t-shirts, vacation t-shirts, logo t-shirts, etc. I'd say that we spend more than our fair share of our hard earned money at thinkgeek.com.

In November 1995, we went to Comdex in Las Vegas. Those were the days when the net was new...anyway, we acted like idiots just to get free t-shirts from different vendors. He's still wearing some of them! Back then, we were in college so it was a cheap way to replenish your wardrobe.

Do you really own all that cool stuff on the back of your JAG book, or did you just borrow it for the photo shoot? I don't think you should change your binary tee when you go out anymore -- why not show the world how smart you really are? :-)

Later,
L.

My God, Wheaton. I want to throw up.

A little bit is fine, Wil, but blech!
It's like when I eat too many Krispy Kremes.
First donut? Great. Second? Good.
Sixth? I want to throw up.

It's just like that.

We all love Anne's geek! Thats WHY we're here
right?

That kind of writing..the honesty..the truth...
is what made me a WWDN addict.

AND VERY PROUD OF IT TOO!!!

Thanks you two..it was beautiful.

I am a single Geek... I was feeling down before I read it. The story was good. When I read the comments and saw how many ppl are in geek-love I felt alone again

*Sigh*

I want a shirt like that. "Do they come complete with a Girl this Geek could love?"

Maybe I will just buy the new BATTLEFRONT! Feeling better already.

I always love to read your stories about Anne. It makes me realise that all the silly lovey dovey things that are going on in my new relationship right now....have the potential to continue long into it.

And like yours I hope they do continue. Because its these silly little things that make you feel so good and make me realise one reason why I am in this relationship.

(And slightly off topic. To the person who made the second post - Angela Peterson. Are you Angela Peterson of Bakersfield, CA. Formerly of Newcastle, Australia? Or is it just a funny name co-incidence?)

most people do not get to be so lucky .. life is not a fairy tale.

To everyone who gets it: isn't it wonderful?

To everyone who doesn't get it: I sincerely hope that someday, you do.

That's so sweet. Times like those are what makes being married so incredible. When you can think about how much you love someone for no apparent reason at all. Aww... makes me miss my husband! Must email him now!

where are the guys like you on the east coast? oh, thats right, they all go to the west coast.

Aw, you guys are soooo cute! :^)

Thanks for sharing!

Wil,

"Love is a many splendored thing...
In the morning mist,
Two lovers kissed,
And the world stood still..."

That's all I remember of this old tune.

And it's VAYA con Dios, Leon.

Freeman :)

I love my geek too.

M_Nicodemus: note the funky symbols around the sentence that the word you have a problem with appears in. They're, like, significant and stuff. :-)

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!

I feel like crying!

:)

Scott

Very Sweet!

It kinda reminds me of something that happened yesterday. I have a deli and my teenage son usually comes in at lunch so he doesn't have to eat the school food. (We have an open campus at the High Schools here.)When he was about to leave to go back to school, he had a sad look on his face. I said, "What's up?" He said, "You haven't given me a hug in two days!!" I said, "I think you're wrong, but just in case, I'll just have to give you an extra big one".

He is 16 and isn't afraid to let his friends know that he loves his Papa.

Too cute, too Lovely.
The next book should be about
you and Anne.

Colleen

sorry Wil, Anna...

but I'm borderline diabetic now...
so I have to watch my intake of such "sweets"

:)

Don't you just hate it when people interrupt your jogging... Oh... nice story.

Awwww... this is why I hate going to a women's college!

About this post, Matthew S. Schwartz said
"It's like when I eat too many Krispy Kremes.
First donut? Great. Second? Good.
Sixth? I want to throw up."

Umm.. Matthew, I have to ask:
Why the hell do you eat past donuts numbered four and five? ; )

I'm just jealous, Wil. Been married over 20 years and we've seriously lost some of that silliness.

Still, I love my wife THIS (picture two arms held googolplex feet apart) MUCH!

Jack, thanks for the link. I was looking for it in actual clothing stores. How silly of me.

This post reminds me of my sister(who the t-shirt is for) and her geek fiancee. I haven't seen a love that true between two people for a long time. It makes me so happy knowing that their future looks so beautiful. If Wil and Anne can still be crazy in love, I know that my sis and her fiancee will be too.

ZOOKS! I thought I was sappy! :-D

Wil: I just got your book"just a geek" and Iam on pg 76 and it is awsome. I have alot of questions though, do you think you could answer some of them? If so my email is cody_harrell2000@yahoo.com

I know you will probbly never write to me but hey... it is worth a shot. if you do then you do and if you don't then you don't, If you don't I wont think anyless. I know you are busy. well tell every body I said. bye

Cody

About this post, Chuck Field said:

"Umm.. Matthew, I have to ask:
Why the hell do you eat past donuts numbered four and five? ; )"

Yeah, that is a good question.
I've only done it a couple times, mostly as experiments to see how many donuts I could eat before feeling nauseous.

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And Wil: If you had written the story in May, I would have gotten it. But after the July breakup, I don't get it anymore. I sincerely hope I get it again someday.

Wil: I told my wife about this post lat night when i got home from work. She told me that she would rather not tell others that im a geek. this sux. first you get to be in movis and in sttng. and now you get a cool wife.

i hate you :)j/k

Jim says: "M_Nicodemus: note the funky symbols around the sentence that the word you have a problem with appears in. They're, like, significant and stuff. :-)"

Ahhh! Thanks Jim, all I can do is plead lack of caffeine and spending to much time staring at 1's and 0's to recall that other number base people use.

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Aaawwwww.... Too cute. :)

It's always nice to see or hear of couples that make me and my husband not look quite so disgustingly mushy. ;)

Wil, you *do* have the Wally Pleasant album "Songs About Stuff", right? Y'all's theme song is on there - track #7, if it weren't obvious. ;)

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Hey Wil we can't leave messages and congratulate you for being CAPTAIN Crusher because you've not put a comments link on the last entry!
Congrats Anyway.

Good cause and glad to see you supporting it. Some people thought you should've gotten your own ship on NG may be one day you will in one of the movies.

Have a great day!
Just love your website.

the july break-up? i must've missed that.

"Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"

Nice blog.

Um, okay, yeah. This entry just made me hate being single even more than I already do. But I forgive you, Wil. The world needs more sweet guys like you, and certainly more sweet guys who aren't afraid to say, "I love you," to their significant other.

-Vanessa Nichole

Wil, you *do* have the Wally Pleasant album "Songs About Stuff", right? Y'all's theme song is on there - track #7, if it weren't obvious. ;)
Posted by Kilbia at September 22, 2004 09:58 AM

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I can't believe someone made reference to a Wally Pleasant song!!! Now THAT'S obscure!! Kilbia, you rule!

Incidentally, my wife and I are such geeks, we included a quote from Wally's song "First Love" in our wedding program!! (OK, we had other songs in there too.)

You guys are (arms wide open) THIS cute!

::melts::

Thanks for giving me something to hope for.

Awwwwwwwwww... You two are so cute you make me want to vomit all over a puppy. ;o)

Thanks for sharing this story. My email signature has the 10 kinds of people line which I really like. I enjoy the personal touch you give your website and enjoy reading about the closeness you and your wife share. I too am a geek, no doubt. I'm one of those people on your website daily that don't normally post. This is my first ! Alan

Heh. Speaking of geeks, this came up on a message board (of a Trek Chat no less). Its calculating your 'inner geek'. Im 37.47657 % geek. Was hoping Id be higher....http://www.innergeek.us/

Wil,
Such a sweet entry. You two have got it bad.

FG

Aw! You and Anne are so sweet together, my teeth ache! =P

But seriously, that's one cute entry! Thank you for sharing it.

Hey Wil and Anne,
The gift you have we are all searching for. Nourish it and let it grow. You give me the warm fuzzies!
Love is everything that people want and need and you have it....lucky ducks!

Christ my teeth hurt.

floating on the water, you're just like a dream.

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