WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5

Have a good snooze and looking forward to the report!

Wil funnest isn't a word silly. Since you are sleep deprived....... well enough said ;) Can't wait to read your post :)

Have a good rest wil!!

Rest up dude. I'm looking forward to reading your post soon.

Austin farking r0x0R5! I've been living here for 7 years now, and it's the "funnest" place on Earth. I'm sorry I missed you, Wil. I just got back from a cruise and logged on to WWDN at 7:42pm last night.

"FARK!" I yelled, giving my wife much consternation.

I explained the situation - Wil was going to be in Austin.

She put her hand on my shoulder and gave it a squeeze. "I'm sorry," she offered, using the same tone she used when I told her Superman died.

Hope you had a few long pulls of Guinness at Fado's.

Glad you made it home, amigo. Glad Austin showed you a good time. We were damn glad you have you.

Heh. I know that I used words that don't exist, and bad grammar . . . I swear, it seemed funny to me at the time.

Funnest is totally a word. People who don't realize that need a more better understanding of language!

Just thought this might amuse you ... :

I am reading things for my thesis at the moment. Lots of things. One such thing is called "Science Fiction's Harrowing of the Heavens". There's a paragraph that goes:

"New faiths win converts all the time, but synchretism should fail as a plausible premise in sf because, while attempting to reconcile an alien religion to human beliefs, it must also assume that the theology of one such faith can somehow accept the other. If the theologies are identical, such a reconciliation is gratuitous since the distinction between such religions may be considered to have been nominal from the start. But if the theologies are in fact distinct, either the superior logic of one will convert (not reconcile) the other, or an impasse regarding First Principles will be discovered - in which case there can occur no logical synthesis of doctrines. Each will deny the other."

I found the following penciled addition in the margin:

Spock would agree with this paragraph.

You fail English? That's Unpossible!

Glad to hear you had a good time, and I look forward to seeing the report.

Hope you had a great time in Austin! Could you do something like that in Dallas too? Unfortunatly, circumstances prevented me from leaving in time to make it. I think the Fates are against me. It was pouring rain here, I had car trouble, and a host of other crap that nobody cares about. That night, as I sat bummed out watching t.v., The Fates took one final oppertunity to slap me in the face. At 7:00pm, on the t.v. came...Star Trek!! You must set right the balance of the universe. You must come to Dallas for a movie screening and book signing and anything else cool you can think of.

Yo, Sib:

I'm no theologian, nor do I know the context of that quote, but it seems to me it assumes that the religions must, originally, purport to be exclusive and to have an unobscured vision of one truth. To the extent Zen is a religion, I doubt that would hold true.

But even certain (by no means all) Chrsitian thinkers have expressed the belief that their religion is ONE avenue to the divine and that many others exist. And someone like Joseph Campbell would trace mythic patterns throughout world religions and even fables.

So, depending on how you define syncretism (broadly as reconciling beliefs or narrowly as merging them), I'm not sure Spock would agree. What say you?

Hey wil,

You should listen to the crown, why you ask? coz there fantastic

I can't believe I was in Austin this weekend and missed you!!! Tropical Storm Matthew forced me to return to work on the Louisiana coast early or I would have been in Austin on Sunday. I, too, enjoyed my time there!

So glad you had a great time in Austin! I was at the screening and you signed my books and Hope the wife likes the goofy orange ring that you may use use to renew your vows whenever y'all do that. Or it will be a reminder of how fun and weird Austin is...so that she'll want to visit Austin also sometime.

The screening and Q&A rocked.

Thanks so much for visiting our town!

Hook 'em!

Austin was fabulous!

I blogged the Stand By Me screening and posted some photos. It was really cool. If Wil's gushing makes you jealous of Austin, just wait until the Austin version of Metblogs launches later this week. We'll be blogging full-time making the rest of the country jealous of our little town.

Wil - your first sentance is just missing "it was really neato!" :) Can't wait to hear your trip report.
ttrentham - thanks for sharing your blog and photos for those of us who couldn't travel that far!

And I nearly kicked your arse at Poker too. :p
I will get my revenge! :D

Glad you enjoyed the A-town (yes I'm one of those tools that refer to it as the A-town ironically. I do not, however, wear trucker hats.) Needless to say we were hella appreciative. Loads of fun, thanks!

hope to see you in Dallas in 3 weeks!!! :D

for Dallas Comic con!!!

If I come!!! :)

Wil, Austin loved you too. Thanks for visiting and you are always welcome back.

Hey Wil!
It sure was great to see you this weekend. Sharing the experience of Stand by Me with you was fun, and I hope you had a good time at the Drafthouse. You're a very funny speaker and you definitely gave the crowd a good time :) You were very nice to chat with us all as you signed books, and you were very charming :) I'm glad Austin showed you a good time!

First time here. Great set up. One day I may get my new blog half as good!

Thanks for coming to Linucon. Your reading was awesome, and the fact that I got to play poker against you in my first tournament ever will be one of my coolest memories for a long time.

The Stand By Me showing was incredible too. All in all, Sunday was the coolest day I've had in forever.

Thanks for the memories. Hope to see you back here next year.

Glad you had a super-happy fun time down in Austin, Wil.

ttrentham:

That's a wicked sweet blog.

Fo' realz.

-Chris, needing coffee badly

Looking good, Wil -
photo from thechunk.com - mentioned above by ttrentham (thanks for sharing).

I'm anxious to read your trip report. Did you fly or drive to Austin?

L.

4 hours sleep, 12 hour active and you need another break already? Heh :) Young people today...

Whoooo, talk about grammer. Most bestest? Well, I suppose sleep (and possibly jetlag?) make up for. Looking forward to your report.

Welcome back 'home' Wil.

Hey Wil, I'm glad you had fun in Austin! I just knew that one day you'd end up doing something at the Alamo.

Welcome back, Wil! Get some sleep! We're looking forward to hearing all about your weekend once you're well rested. :)

BTW, the auction did great! It ended at $89.50! Whoo hoo! Thank you so very much, Wil! The cats, including Wesley Crusher, thank you as well! Bless you!

Welcome "home," lad. I also reccomend at least an hour of quality time with the female unit before you worry about us :)

Funnest is a pefectly cromulent word.

Sorry about your boys in blue, Wil, but I have to say "go 'stros." Cardinals got nothing, I tellsya.

Yeah, rest up Wil, you'll need your rest when you come up to Penguicon in April.

See you then.

Sweet! (re: comicon comment) My wife and I are going to be at comicon with some friends. Maybe we can get another picture that doesn't come out totally blurry like the one did from his Austin visit! 2 Wil meetings in 2 weeks. Nice! Look forward to your recounting of your trip.

Glad you had a great time! Can't wait to hear about it.

Enjoyed hearing you speak and participate on panels at Linucon. It was a great time!

I appreciate your taking your time to visit Austin and spend time at the Con.

Wil

Rest up bro. Looking forward to seeing your report from Austin

I've used "funnest" for some time now, and I predict that it will become accepted usage within 50 years. Other one-syllable words take the -er and -est forms of the morphemes (taller, smaller, fatter, faster...), so why wouldn't "fun"? Can you think of other one-syllable adjectives that use the more-/most- construction?

Wil's just a vanguard, showing his erudition and good breeding with his progressive grammar.

Shhhh... Wil is still sleeping.
(And a well deserved rest it is...)

Do tell when you get rested.

Wil Wheaton, you are AWESOME!! Thank you so much for coming to Austin and I am sooo glad I got to see and meet you!! Stand by Me is one of the best movies EVER and if it weren't for you I wouldn't have started watching Star Trek, which perfectly complements the rest of my nerdy interests (Star Wars, Jurassic Park, etc. ad infinitum).

Yayy for you!!

Whoa. When our Fearless Leader uses words like "bestest", you KNOW he had a good time!

Welcome back, Wil! Glad you had fun! You deserve it!

Ayla

I thought "funnest" and "most bestest" were exactly the right words to describe the Linucon experience, especially as I try to put myself in Wil's shoes. It was fun geeking out with you and I hope I hid my fanboy tendencies sufficiently.

Hi There! I have just put your linx on MyYahoo! & just wanted to say hi. Always have enjoyed your work. Keep it up. I am a writer & I love to either make up words or play with out of use words. Gee wil, you sure have a lot of fans...

Dammit. Now I'm really wishing I had ditched the family for that Sunday morning poker session. Oh well...

I LOVE YOU WIL!

Get some well deserved rest and report back later.

Glad you had a good time Wil I am looking forward to the details when you are refreshed.:)

LOL... Glad you had fun! :o)

Hey wil! You should SOOO Be the new host of the late late show(With Wil wheaton!)

Wil, you should totally come up to Portland and do a showing of SBM at one of the McMenamins theater pubs (http://www.mcmenamins.com). Portland loves you and your signings at Powell's in Beaverton have gone SO well!

PS - We should all start letting Conan and NBC know about the aforementioned idea for their new host!

A little birdy (full of Schlock) told me that you went home with a good number of "Heart of the Anomaly" cards. What would a guy have to do to get one of these from you? With the requisite signature? I'll be at Penguicon 3.0, and I'm not above bribery...

Thanks for coming to Austin and talking to us at the Drafthouse! You speak like a writer... and I mean that in the nicest possible way. I totally agree with the post that said you would make a great new late late show host.

aren't you arrested yet? I mean rested? You should be rested by now. Time's up! ;-P

YES! Wil on Late Night!

That gets a goat throw \m/ :)

Austin huh? AUSTIN HUH?

Ah! Goerge W Bush country! Fun is fine as long as it didn't make you Baby Bush stupider!

It won't be long before we see Wil Wheaton play in the Celebrity Poker table on BRAVO, baby!

Oh. My. God. I just looked at the Alamo website and they have a 12 hour Degrassi marathon!! With Snake and Joey in person!! How f*cking awesome is that???!?!!! Any place which does an event like that must be cool. So I hope you feel pretty special, Wil :o)

We printed up 1000 copies of the "Heart of the Anomaly" munchkin card (+2, +4 for gadgeteers, +1 more if signed by Wil Wheaton; this is an original limited edition Space Munchkin card, officially blessed by Steve Jackson and with original John Kovalic artwork of Gilly the Perky Goth wearing a heart-shaped diamond pendant ala the Star of India or some such). Wil did not know about this card before he sat down for Celebrity Munchkin.

I dealt one into Wil's starting hand, and convinced Eric Flint to ask Wil for an autograph right before they started, just to get Wil's pen away from him in case he was carrying one. (The other four guests at the table all had pens, for taunting purposes), but Wil was so distracted (I'm guessing by playing Munchkin with Steve Jackson, or perhaps by keeping his cards close to his chest as if he was playing poker) that he didn't notice he had to _sign_ it to get the +1 for several minutes...

The game itself was _FUN_ to watch. I'll let Wil write about it, that's not why I'm posting.

Why I'm posting is that during cleanup after the con, we found the second box, with the other 500 copies of the Heart of the Anomaly. (We gave Wil 100 or so, and distributed the rest of the first box around the con.) But we still have 500 of them, it seems.

John Kovalic wanted 100 copies (preferably with a few of those signed by Wil, for the +1 bonus of course). That leaves 400...

We printed up 1000 copies of the "Heart of the Anomaly" munchkin card (+2, +4 for gadgeteers, +1 more if signed by Wil Wheaton; this is an original limited edition Space Munchkin card, officially blessed by Steve Jackson and with original John Kovalic artwork of Gilly the Perky Goth wearing a heart-shaped diamond pendant ala the Star of India or some such). Wil did not know about this card before he sat down for Celebrity Munchkin.

I dealt one into Wil's starting hand, and convinced Eric Flint to ask Wil for an autograph right before they started, just to get Wil's pen away from him in case he was carrying one. (The other four guests at the table all had pens, for taunting purposes), but Wil was so distracted (I'm guessing by playing Munchkin with Steve Jackson, or perhaps by keeping his cards close to his chest as if he was playing poker) that he didn't notice he had to _sign_ it to get the +1 for several minutes...

The game itself was _FUN_ to watch. I'll let Wil write about it, that's not why I'm posting.

Why I'm posting is that during cleanup after the con, we found the second box, with the other 500 copies of the Heart of the Anomaly. (We gave Wil 100 or so, and distributed the rest of the first box around the con.) But we still have 500 of them, it seems.

John Kovalic wanted 100 copies (preferably with a few of those signed by Wil, for the +1 bonus of course). That leaves 400...

I am still very bitter that I didn't get to go. Insert sad face here.

Bestest, shortest Wilest post EVAH!

Thanks for coming to Austin, Mr. Wheaton!

And I really appreciate that you signed "a couple of Star Trek things" for me and my friend, as well as the books.

od0_ital said: "And I really appreciate that you signed "a couple of Star Trek things" for me and my friend, as well as the books."

I second that thank you! Wil signed *much* more than the two books for me over the course of the weekend and never once gave me the "For the love of god will you stop asking me to sign stuff!" look that I honestly was expecting. (And I know it was a lot because by the end he didn't have to ask me my name to personalize it anymore. And I wasn't even wearing my name-tag any more.)

You're a class-act, Wil Wheaton! Thank you so so much.

cheers!

No Wil, the funnest has to be watching you in "Python". I am constantly involved in one torrid love affair with one B-movie or another, and "Python" is the current love. I would love to hear a story about the making of this movie! (And why purple hair?)

I'm glad you had fun in Austin. I'll get there someday...

did i mention how i live the other side of the world? i really wanted to be at the greatest, superest, funnest, most bestest of weekends!
it would have bin even better had i been there ;p

now i must go cos i have cramp in my finger.................*sob at missing out, big time*

Wil, I totally wanted to see you at Alamo but the show was sold out before I could get tickets. I'm kicking myself for missing it.

I'm glad you had a great time in Austin. Come back soon. It's only the best city in Texas.

Wil Wheaton is listed as a guest at the Dallas Comic Con next week -

http://www.scifiexpo.com/dcc.asp

- only a few hours drive away from Austin.

I went to this event in Austin. It was totally awesome, memorable, sweet and fun. I took my soon-to-be 12 year year old daughter who is interested in movie-making, thinking it would be a good experience for her to see Stand By Me and hear Wil talk about his experiences. I found it was one of the most interesting "celebrity-in-attendance" events I been to at the Alamo. Very relaxed and intimate, and just the type of thing that is great for my daughter to experience... especially to hear the stories about working on Stand by Me. I am really grateful that Wil came to Austin and I sure hope he cooks up some way to come back soon....
Come by after Plano! It's my daughter's birthday!

I wish I'd been more in-real-time and been able to get one of my livejournal friends to fangirl for me...

will you know sleep is good for the soul... chill out... you´ll come back more refreshed :)

heidi
baby sleep

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