WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5

Ok, that may cross the line from Geek to Nerd.

But I'm just kidding since I LOVE the Wargames shirt!

Cool threads Wil. :) But don't you think it is too early to be putting clothes on backwards? *laughs* Drinking that beer already, huh? :)

Sweet... a shirt that supports the SQL ANSI-92 standard. No MSSQL nonsense.

Do you have any shirts that can help me learn a bit more about "inner joins" and "outer joins"?

Mysql.com is confusing. I think it would be easier to learn via a WWdN fashion show.

--AJ

Hey! I saw your cute little butt on VH1 the other night. Just wanted you to know that you're still as cute, if not cuter.
Hope you and the fam have a wonderful weekend.

Nicole

[sexy voice]

Nicole, are you talking to me?

Because you posted right after I...

[/sexy voice]

Oh.

Oops. Never mind.

What Nicole said.

It was great to see your book and the website on television.

And keep rocking the sideburns.

That shirt cracks me up every time I see it.

One of my favorite "geek" lines that crossed over to RL is "mv your_opinion /dev/null".

What VH1 show was Wil on? Will it be replayed?

The Wargames t-shirt is the best. I really miss that movie and ofcourse the talking computer.

AJ--- I about fell out of my chair. Too funny! Thanks for the laugh!

Now, this is the Wil Wheaton we all love. Good post Wil. Made me smile...probably because all the similar things I've done like it.

I really liked the movie war games. I hadn't thought about that in a long while! It would be cool if somehow you could get using fiberoptics
1) movement on the red arcs across the shirt

2) the writing to light up

and

3) the cursor to flash at the end of the sentence like it's waiting for its next command

Gotta love SQL humor! Here's another one I like. Check out the description of this blog: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/

I love that website. I want the one that says "I (heart) my geek" and about a dozen others. One that my husband REALLY needs is the one that says "No, I will not fix your computer." I'm telling you, I'm getting a 900 number for tech support for my family to use. That's the only reason his sister ever calls. It goes something like this:

"Hi Trevie. What's up?" (read really fast with a bit of a high pitched voice)
"Nothin' much. What's going on?"
"I'm good. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh and by the way. Can you tell me how to do *insert computer question here*"

Anywho, love that site.

My best ThinkGeek shirt moment ever was Christmas, 2003. I opened up one of the TG things my parents got me to find the STFU shirt.

My parents bought me the STFU shirt.

Then my mom asked what it meant. She'd seen the examples on the site, but didn't realise they were jokes.

That's right, my parents bought me a shirt telling its readers to Shut The Fuck Up without realising it.

Definitely the funniest thing my parents have ever done for me.

And if you like science shirts, I just had to pass this one on for all you evolution fans:
http://www.cafepress.com/darwinposse

And if you like science shirts, I just had to pass this one on for all you evolution fans:
http://www.cafepress.com/darwinposse

I'm thinking of getting the SQL shirt. So far I've gotten the 'man woman' shirt, PEBKAC, and the PvP Djörk shirt. Quite satisfied, but I still have to expand my geekwear.

Now if only ThinkGeek made pants... >>

maybe just me - but users are people. They don't know geek. They know other things. Doesn't mean they have no clue. Part of my job means I hire IT people alot. I never hire the 'users have no clue' set. They're just arrogant pricks who think they're better than people who know less about computers than them...Yeah... the CFO of this company fortune 500 is clearly an idiot cause he can't code perl..... (or not ?)

I have the "I'm blogging this" shirt and the "I [heart] My Geek" shirts, but my boyfriend always makes me change when I wear the ...Geek one because all of his non-work shirts are manga/comic related and he doesn't want to get teased!

argh. gave in and ordered the "roses are #..." t-shirt. Posting tempting links is bad, bad ... :-)

Okay, Quanta, we do NOT need ThinkGeek pants. I can see it now... boxers that say "Wanna see my really big hard drive?" And then they'll have a joke pair with "big hard drive" crossed out and replaced with "old floppy drive". Yeah... :)

(*laughs out loud, holding his sides*) Oh ghods above yes! That universally humbling moment, when you realize you are never smarter than the Universe! Have a good weekend, Wil.

Your a *True GEEK* Wil.... hehehehehe

My mother once gave me a shirt that read "If assholes could fly, this place would be an airport."

My then-boss's comment, when I wore it to work: "Very funny. Don't ever wear it again."

Nerd! I dub thee NEEEEEEEEEEEEERD.

We love you. Obviously. Never change.

Brandi: Are you saying that boxers that say /dev/wang wouldn't be sexy? What about pants covered in binary that name all the parts they cover?

I can't believe you're condemning the pants idea before you see the true horrors it could bring. :D

He he he. Love the Schrödinger's Cat T.

I wanna t-shirt that reads:

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don't."

There are exactly 10 kinds of people in this world-- those who understand binary, and those who don't.

D'oh!!!

ThinkGeek carries that binary shirt.

That reminds me about how I still need the "I don't work here" shirt. Honestly, some people just can't tell the difference between a blue vest with a big yellow smilie face and a mostly black Hawaiian shirt....

Think Geek is the greatest. I love the Wargames shirt. My best friend got me the "Schrödinger's Cat is dead" shirt for my birthday and I am wearing it right now. My next shirt from there is going to be the PVP one that says "Joss Whedon is my master now."

That's the most hilarious thing I've ever read... but in a good way.

One of my friends was wearing the Schrödinger's Cat shirt today.

Ya Knooow ... if you folded your shirts properly, you would have noticed that your shirts were worn out! So, as a public service, I found this link to a short video "how to fold a shirt" in 3 seconds.... talk about cool ... after you watched it, I bet you'll try it too

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/fold.php

HART

I'm still laughing at the title. I happen to live in the "oh hey-this plaid shirt looks great with these flowered pants" capital of the world -- Okinawa, Japan.

I swear, they all get dressed in the dark... Lots of fun on shopping trips, though!

Glad to see you're back with the living, Wil. Take care of yourself.

i'm getting the Joss Whedon t-shirt for every female member of my family...i'm getting the geek love poem and the WTF? t-shirts for myself. just gotta get that first paycheck!

"Oh Ohh, I really couldn't say
Oh no, I really couldn't say...

Take me high on your silent wings
And I swear I'll do anything for you"

"SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue" would yield the same result, saving 2 valuable keystrokes. Amateurs.

Remember Wil-san...
Wax on... Wax off... (repeat)
As for the back of Ryans' Shirt, it says...
"Schrödinger's Cat is Not Dead"Which MAY mean the cat may not be alive, but Undead!(Note to Self: It's time do get out of the dungeon and back up to the surface for some fresh air. P.S. Watch out for lyncathropes and vampires, etc. P.P.S. Time to take battleaxe in for 8,000 monster sharpening)Uh...I think I'll slide out the backway now... - Dusty

Wargames

I loved that movie!

Ironic, too. That moronic imbecile of a president of ours is actually bringing us CLOSER to nuclear holocaust than away from it. Every Muslim and their cousin wants to blow up the United States by any means possible as we experiment and develop a new class of nuclear "smart bombs!"

:-(

I love your shirts, Wil!

Um, I don't know who Schrödinger is and I've never heard of Think Geek. Maybe I don't belong on this blog.

Or maybe I should only read Wil's entries about poker and movies.

That's the cool thing about this site (and the cool thing about the man himself). There's something for everyone :)

Very cool shirt I've gotta submit this to Digg. If you're a fan of slashdot you will be blown away by digg.com.

haha, that was good AJ :D :D :D

ps. go to check http://groups.msn.com/standbyme thanks :)

The cat is not dead or alive until you wear the shirt...God knows what happens to the cat if you wear the shirt inside out. The cat's blood is on your hands.

*snerk*

Must have been one of those days!

Oh, on a totally unrelated note, I was at a comic convention today and saw a genuine Wil Wheaton autographed picture for sale. Didn't have enough money for it. Oh well! I'll just have to track you down in person! ^_^

Hey Wil,

Hi from Bavaria, where I've spent the past week at European Southern Observatory at a meeting... on my way home, waiting at the Munich airport for the next flight...

I have one of those users=0 t-shirts. Each time I wear it when I'm on travel, I get the secret thumbs-up from all the other geeks on the plane. ;)

spacewriter

Somehow it's a comfort to know that Wargames is still remembered by some. Loved the comments.

It's also good to see that you're passing your geekdom on to the next generation so to speak. I am working on the same with my kids.

;) Till next time--

Elfqueen

Shroedinger was one of the early researchers into Quantum Mechanics. The hardest thing to grasp about QM is the fact that it is impossible to precisely observe any individual quantum object (like an atom, electron, or photon). Instead, you can only take individual measurements of individual objects, and taking a measurement disturbs the object meaning whatever measurement you just took immediately becomes invalid. This leads to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, and the weird way of looking at the universe that QM forces on those who study it.

Shrodinger's Cat is a fictional victim of possible murder found in a thought experiment of Shrodinger's designed to illustrate quantum weirdness. The basic setup is you have a cat isolated from the rest of reality inside a box. In the box with a cat is a single radioactive atom with a known half-life, and a dose of poison that will be released on the cat when the atom decays. Poor cat -- I wonder what Shrodinger had against them? Anyway, say the half-life of the atom is 10 minutes. So, after 10 minutes have passed, there is a 50% chance it has decayed, triggering the release of the fatal poison.

However, because the experiment is unobservable, there is no way of knowing if the cat is alive or dead. The only thing you can say about the cat is that there is a 50% chance it's alive and a 50% chance it's dead. Quantum Mechanics calls this a "superposition of states" which is a fancy way of saying "it could be one, it could be the other, and we can't know for sure which it is until we take a peek".

Having a properly scientific mind means you can't make any assumptions about the state of the cat. It is incorrect to say the cat is alive, and it's incorrect to say that it's dead. You just don't know until you open the box. This way of thinking allows for all of the weirdness you see coming out of QM these days, like the various "many worlds" theorems that say that ever quantum event splits the universe into parallel universes. So, under a Many Worlds interpretation of QM, Shrodinger's Cat is alive in one universe and dead in a parallel universe, and we'll never have access to the other universe.

Once you open the box and see if the cat is alive or dead (QM doesn't allow for the superposition of states to survive observation, so there's no chance you'll ever see a zombie cat being both dead and alive at once), you'll have "collapsed the wave function" and observed that one or the other possible results have occurred.

The whole idea behind Shrodinger's Cat is that it is an analogy, a philosophical experiment carried out in the mind. No cats were (or were not) harmed in the making of this comment.

I own the SQL statement shirt. It's one of my favorite geek shirts, and sometimes people ask me what it means. I was wearing that shirt when I met Wil at a book signing. I must have imprinted it on his subconscious, and he buys it like a year later. Yeah that's it.

Thank you to Vex for the cat explanation...now who can yeild the geek code translation? Users have no clue? is that it? I think that hurts...I USE my computer to read Wil's blog.

No hard feelings...saw you on the 100 greatest child stars! You beat out Jerry O'Connell. We are so proud.

You: out of T-shirts

Us: Many surplus tees from ChimaeraCons 2004 and 2005, need to raise funds for ChimaeraCon2006.

Want one, at the bargain price of $10 (black and white design) or $15 (color)?

You know where to email me.

Gilder

Very funny about putting the SQL shirt on backwards! Classic!

It reminds me of that geek saying, "People who don't know SQL (pronounced SEE-QUEL) say S-Q-L"

OMG...I became the best wife ever when I purchased the 0 rows returned shirt for my hubby at Christmas. We met on the math and science team. Need I say more? BTW, just purchased the Just a Geek book and we're fighting over it at night. It's freakin' sweet, and hysterical as all get-out!

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