Congratulations.
Now you've learned a valuable lesson......geeks NEVER give up :)

Social life, family, sports...a real geek craves not these things................

Give me a W:
*W!*
Give me an I:
*I!*
Give me a L:
*L!*

YYYYYYAAAAAYY WIL!!!

See, now, that wasn't that hard - was it? *DUCKS* Love the picture, Will...

Hey, Wil, come to my show at Amagi's on Monday night at 8 and I'll come to one of your ACME shows. Deal? You won't be disappointed.

Finally! Comments!

But once again, I'm late.

(3 people would get that.)

The picture scares me! reminds me of that Staw Wars episode 1 pic with Anakins shadow showing that he is Darth Vader!

Love it great job, the picture on the other hand is weird and freaky but hey arn't we all..

The style looks fine to me. I prefer iddy biddy. Besides bigger doesn't always mean better you know

To me, it's an image that conveys both mystery and a sense of movement. It's stark and foreboding, yet innocent and hopeful. Since I am not a Wiliologist, I am left wondering about the significance of "7".

Bigger is soooo much better.

At least, that's what chicks tell me.

Isn't that leaf placed very strategically, tho?

I think the picture shows a youthful joy in simple pleasures...but then again...art is what you bring to it. :)

Have a wonderful Sunday,

Blessings,
Insipida

I think the styles just changed in front of my eyes... BTW Wil, you never mentioned that OJ piece you did on BBSpot, didya? He so had it coming. :-)

Sweet, glad you got this working again, gives me inspiration to go and try to do it on my site. Not that I have 1/100th as many visitors as you, but eh, anyways.. Good job.. :)

Kudos to the chef.

Is it just me, or does Wil's hand's shadow look like a rabbit?

BTW, the new font gives the site a much more prefessional look. They're gonna think you've got 'your people' doing it for you.

Good to see things getting back to normal. I was sorry to see Ishmael go from the reading spot, but Lord of the Rings is a worthy replacement. Hobbitses, gollums and orcs, oh my!

hey wil, i found your site thru mjolir.org and been reading for a while.

Glad to see you had a good holiday and finally got things movin and shakin with MT.

:D,
Chantelle

rotate the bottom of the pic to the right...talk about your mad hare! hehe

send it to Art Bell's site...the Shadow People are real!
#:o)

Hey Wil good to have you back!...Well you weren't really gone...er..but we were. No, we just couldn't talk, um, or something. Anyways hello again. :)

'sup, w-dawg?

haha, anyways. I take pictures like that all the time. You're turning into me.. at least photographically.

bring the soapbox back. grr

Yeay. Nice pick.

It's a Rabbit! No, No...wait...*thinks*
It's an alligator? A Giraffe? I GOT IT!
It's a three toed Amazonian Red tailed Caniverous Tree Wee?
*Laughs*
Why am I thinking Peter Pan would do something like this?
Kudos.
~Kaylin

Great job Wil! LOL, looks likeyou and Loren did a lot of work last night kudos to y'all!

I just wanted to make a comment because I can. :)

The Shadow knows!

Willy Boson, Former Boy Genius, proves he still has what it takes."Boys and girls, let the picture be a warning to you. NEVER approach a UFO. Especially one from Mars that is armed with a heat ray. And if you do, do not flash the peace sign. Or you too will wind up nothing more than a stain on the sidewalk. (No humans were harmed in the making of this public service announcement.)"

Hey Wil,greetings from Germany!
VERY cool site and picture,never thought you´d be THIS freakin´cool!
You got a lot of fans in Berlin addicted to your site,we all love it-keep on the great work!
Matthi

Hi Wil!

Nice to be able to post again! Thanks very much.

Rowan

PS OK, I know I never posted much before... but now I can.

I like the pic! I have to say that my bet is that Anne is just saying 'Hi', and your throwing the peace sign.

Either that or maybe it was on your 7th anniversary.

Anyway, just wanted to show my support to ya!

Troy

Hmmm...

Just a wild guess, but I'm thinking the posse likes the ability to give the mighty Wil-dawg some love.

I like how things are a "no" answer for awhile...then they're reconsidered.

You're going to be a nightmare for a father when those guys become teenagers.

Glad to see you got it up and running. I drove Loren nuts getting trying to get MT working over at my site. But it's sooo good......

Looking good, Wil! Congrats on getting MT up and running. I'm about to battle with it myself for another blog I'm going to start, so it's nice to see that you succeeded. Gives me hope! :)

I'm glad we can finally reply! Very cool! Well, that's about all that I have to say.

Damn. Well, color me impressed. How many cans of Jolt did this take you?

might wana check out http://www.nphp.net/ since this looks like a post site, probley better then what your using now.

i dig shadow pictures. it's like taking a photograph within a photograph, however fleeting it may be. :-). cheers

Wil, just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work you put into running this website. I think we sometimes forget that you have a real life too. So THANK YOU for your time and energy!!!!!

Hey Wil, we all appreciate you working on wwdn when you have the chance/ patience.

JUN! Yer on my aim list, but I haven't talked to you cuz it's just not the same hehe..

Anyways I thought I'd bring up the fact that Stand By Me is on the university movie channel this month. In other words they show it about 4 times a day. My roomate had never seen it, so I made her sit and watch. pretty cool.

So for us NOT clued in types..Does it mean if we
posted to you during the "transition" you did
not receive it? Is it in the neverworld? whatever
..Cool pic..very secret idenity-ish. I agree with
"troy"..betcha switched..am addicted to this site
only!!!THANK THE HEAVENS..or nothing else would
ever happen around me..best

Wil, that shadow totally still looks like you! It couldn't be anyone else!

brandy

Best picture of Wil ever!

I have seen better of Anne!!!

Welcome back everyone and thanks Wil for all of your hard work.

Damn Wil...your wife is HOT! lol

Huzzah! Congratulations on your victory. One small step for geekdom, one giant leap for Wheaton.

Have really enjoyed the site and have it as one of My Faves (am on AOL) Thanks for fixing a comment space!!

I see you're both members of the A.H.P.A. (American Hand Puppets Association)!!!!!!!!!

Congrats, Wil! I'm so excited for you, I'm full of vim! Well, full of something...

yay. comments.

Geeze, You're right Wil, computers suck!!!! Let's see, note to self...call Bill Gates and tell him Windows Sucks too!! Thanks for all of you work on the website!!! Looking forward to posting, unless I get trolled....

ooh. i never posted here before and i probably won't again... i feel all out of my depth!
but i love reading your journal, wil, and i mailed you a few days before you announced you'd no longer be answering mails.
*ahem*
heh
take care

Damnit!!!!! Thanks for all of YOUR work...geez, duh!! Now I'm a troll!

Wil, you're having probs with your website, I'm about to destroy my satellite dish. Piece of trash, it has a "light dusting of snow" on it and can't lock onto the damn satellite. I'm getting really annoyed. I've heard all their excuses now, the clouds are too fluffy, the sun is too bright, migrating birds. It's about 40 feet up so I thought I would fix it by hitting it with a snow ball to get rid of the snow, if that makes any sense. I spent 45 mins throwing snow balls at it until the neighbor opened his window and started laughing at me. I'll have to get someone out here with a crane to dust it off for me. Let this be a warning to anyone thinking about a mini-dish in a wintery area. Jumping Jesus...

Hey Wil,

Great to see the comments are back!

Site is looking great!

Cheers!

Animosus, aka Bardicmisfit from Fark, checking in with this comment:

"Whoa. I can post comments now. Neato."

Dude you rock! And we all love you no matter what. :)

Glad to see you got it all worked out. I know that is a great feeling. Kudos(not the granola bar) to you.

hey hun,
aww your site is soo cute! congrats! i go to it everyday and i just wanted to tell you that you were *great* in stand by me and its my favorite movie and i love you soo much!
love jess

Late, but anyway:
Well done, Wil! Now you get to see the posse's reactions/responses again. I felt voiceless there for a while *grin*

Wow, comments AND archives!! Thanks for all the work getting stuff back on your site ... glad I found your site, I come here like every day now.

Oh my God! The comments are up!

Nice work, Wil! Know that all of the time you lock yourself in your room to work on this is appreciated by all of us.

Now I can suck up to you in front of the whole world!

Reminds me of the cover of the last Steely Dan album (yes, album, not CD - I'm *that* old).

Until this very second I didn't realize what a void there was in my life - a void filled only by that mysterious stud-god of the net, Sir Jun. It's good to be back.

MEXICAN WAVE FOR WIL GETTING HIS SITE BACK TO NORMALALITY AGAIN!!

*stands up*

*sits down*

Yea! Comments. Congrats, Wil and good work. :)

Finally!

I've been visiting the site for, like, a couple of months and now I can post! This is awesome!

Congrats, Wil!

Woo hoo!

The fact that we can finally comment again only slightly obscures the fact I have precious little to say.

But still--yay!

Oh my goodness....this is so cool! I hope it always works. The shadow picture is very funny. It is actually clearer than the pictures I take! I visit this site at LEAST once a day....Bravo to Uncle Willie for getting certain things to work out! *if your happy and you know it, clap your hands wooohooo*

Horray comments!!! Wil I love your site. I use it to entertain guests when they choose to venture into my dorm room. From the geek friends to the political friends to the nice friends. your site makes me look cooler. :) (and Roughy's site but thats another story)

I only hope that the predictably massive amount of comments you get(especially when the Farkers get wind of this)will not hinder your ability to post on a regular basis, as before.

yay! i've so missed being able to read everyone's posts & babble mindlessly in my own. =)

I love the site, and now that the comments are back, I can get back to the nightly laugh-so-hard-I-almost-wet-myself routine.

*does the weird elbow thing*Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! ummm... yeah... It's not 12:30 a.m. or anything...

Anywhoo, Wil, nice to be able to make comments again, smarta$$ or otherwise...

As for the pic, hehe... Very cute! lol

Great that you got to do this update, and even greater that we get to post comments, mindless dribble for the amusement of others...

Hey I knew you could do it!!!I always had faith it will get done- remeber to try not to burn you self up in the process-"the candle"

Hey Wil excellent! Now I can comment on your sight. Its awesome!. I just finished watching the Golden Globes and am soo upset LOTR didnt win a dman thing!!! I'm glad you got the books up though as a recommmendation to read.Keep up the good work on the site. You'l hear from me again, promise, I'm a real tawker! LOL

Hi there, Wil!! I'll be honest, I came to your website out of curiousity because I heard all this talk about you and doing the VO for River Phoenix and Stand by Me and all this... and so I haven't been as long of a faithful reader as I'm sure most of these other people have been... but you're quite an interesting and seemingly down-to-earth person! I think it's really nice of you to devote so much time to reading everyone's comments and even replying back to some, which is not a small feat.

As a little girl [embarrassing as this is] I used to watch Star Trek just because I thought you were so darned cute... albeit I was clueless about what Star Trek was all about. I'm glad you seem to have grown up, which, I'm sure, everyone eventually has to do at some point in their lives, and you've settled down and all that...

Keep your life interesting.. monotony is a killer! Good luck in all that you do, and I hope to see you on the big screen soon!

-Maichelle

sweet, comments are back! Now we can once again have a running critique of wil's stream-of-conscienceness. :]

Um, Wil, might I humbly recommend making backups?

Way to go Wil!!!!
Congrats on your new job!
Everyone- I missed reading your comments! Welcome back!
And now- my band plug:
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- find em and listen to them!

Uber cool. I finally get to comment. I've heard about the comment section. I read comment archive by the tons, in hopes, nay, in dreams that one day, I too may join the masses in showing my appreciation to Ol' Unca Willie and all he's done. Yay, though I walk through the digital valley of death, I see a light, that light has come to fruitition in this section.
I'll stop now, and just say, yay!

Later all!
___________________
Before we 'Move every zig, for Great Justice', Yatta ruled the world.
G-i-double-ee lives!!

It's the simple pleasures in life that mean the most... like having the comments back. We've missed them so. :)

...and another YAY! for Unca Wil, as he's been seleted to judge the the most ultimate Photoshop contest between Fark.com and Something Awful! How ultra-cool and what an honour and all that!

Now, can he fit it inbtween everything else he has to do? I raise my hand to offer to help, as I can't Photoshop to save myself, but have LOLed many times at both site's effots.

...how cool...

Ooh, finally a place to typey-typey stuff... and as for the photo, in the words of Terry Pratchett - "Do Deformed Rabbit, it's my favourite."

Best shadow effect ever is the "Brocken Spectre", which is seen when climbing. The sun has to be right behind you to project your shadow into the clouds and mist. The effect is a gigantic 3D shadow which looks quite unearthly. You often get "glories" as well, when a rainbow appears around the head of the shadow. And, to complete the wierdness, apparently you also can only every see your own. (Google for it folks.)

There's only two typos above, although it looks like there's three - honest! (Insert "weirdness" and "ever" where appropriate). But it's a German mountain, not "broken"...

WOOO HOOOO!!!!

Poor Wil, it almost sounds like he went through childbirth to get the thing running. (Well, as much as 2 guys would know about it anyway.)

Way cool, Wil!

When you started mentioning MT a while back, I took a look into it. Easy to install and more customizable than I could imagine.

w00t!

=) Good job.

Was worried aboucha there for a sec.

Cool and the gang, man. Its always nice to put inane comments down forever in your archives. Now if only we could see a return of the automated reply.

best. Automated-reply. Ever.

wow. what a relief! during the time that the comments function has been bust, i've actually had to find other ways of expressing myself. now, thank god, i can finally put away the freaking macrame and that half-finished opera set on the international space station...

yeah, i've also just been watching the golden globes here in australia (heh, did we clean up or what?) and, likewise, i'm about as disappointed as i expected to be about LOTR's lack of prizes. frankly, how can ron 'sit on it potsie' howard can beat out altman, the cohen brothers, jackson and lynch? am i in an alternate universe?

oh that's right. and titanic was the best movie made in '98. i forgot.

sorry to get movie-bitchy - i've just been getting drunk with my most media-savvy friends and shouting at celebrities on the television, so i'm a bit hyped. what was with that weird girly touching-my-hair-like-a-bimbo gesture that rachael griffiths made during her speech? strange. and harrison ford's expression during ben affleck's banal drawl thanking him for his slab-faced action career? he looked mortified, like he wanted to crawl under the table.

but i digress. what i really meant to say was 'good on you, will, for bringing back the voice of the people'. we've been craving the power, the power to launch our ineffectual opinions into the blank unresponsive netherworld. and now we can.

for the power of greyskull!!

An opera based on the ISS? Hmmm. That sounds as though it could have legs.

Two star-crossed lovers kept apart, not by feuding families but instead by a faulty pressurisation valve on the link to one of the labs. They sing of their loneliness and isolation, and also about the atrocious toliet facilities. There is a touching moment when one of them uses the Canadarm 2 to inscribe a touching poem on a solar panel. Then the entire station explodes for no adequately explored reason (in true Disaster Area fashion, which I suppose makes this a dreaded Rock Opera).

Probably not as good as the classic "Human Slaves in an Insect Nation" though.

I just can't type today. Must be something in the water.

Oh my god! You're back! Great job! Looking forward to reading the comments. Even the smart ass ones.

hurray! Just when I was watching 'Lonely Among Us' where you were knockin' da boots. `8r)

Is it me or is Wil wearing HUUUUUUGE pants!

Sooooooooo...when do we get a live broadcast???
RFB forever!!!!!!!!!!!

demandingly yours,

Mike

its not wil's commnets anymore... its the GOVMINT tracking yuo with homeland securiyt stuff... EVIL GOVMINT!!!11

cool pic thuogh... nice ass..PHALT!!!11

"And there was much rejoicing..."

"Yea."

Whew! I almost had to get a life there. I would like to add to the love *Yah Wil!* Congrats on getting comments up and running.

I also wanted to agree with the people who said "Thanks for taking the time away from your real life to make this site". I think it says a lot about who you are that you are willing to keep up this kind of connection to your fans.

Good luck with judging the photoshop contest.

OK now that I've come across as a total fawning dork I will go away.

Hey Wil -

Just another voice from the wilderness crying out a hearty 'congratulations' on getting MT up and running. I started investigating it myself after you mentioned it here, and have it up and running on my site, too. If it weren't for you, I may never have known...(grin).

This is regarding the MLK speech on your site.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Wil YOU are MY hero...alot
of people would say it detracts from your "coolness" factor..but "NAY" I cry..I cried
at reading it again and I am overwhelmed at the
core of your sensitivity..OK I'll shut up now..
seriously to paraphase U2 "..for the Reverend
Martin Luther King ..SING"..("IN THE NAME OF LOVE)
Wil Wheaton you rock!

Love the picture!

I second bluecat's response of the MLK speech. Being British, I never really understood the importance of Dr King's life and work, but, after reading it thoroughly I can understand what an influential man he really was. Thank you for enlightening me. I now feel most humble.

And on a lighter note............Cool photo and (more importantly), nice butt dood!

(good luck on the bloggies, btw)

You have a big head. hee hee

aww..that's not nice...
that's a really neat shot actually *sigh* I really spenmd too much time doing photography

I must say, Wil, I am a very big fan of yours from Stand by Me and I loved you ever since I saw you in Stand By Me and Star Trek: TNG. I have another boyfriend that looks like you, though. He has the same features as you and I just want to say "Oh, my God! This is Wil Wheaton!! The boy from Star Trek!!" So cute, too! And I am anxiously hoping what Star Trek X is like!! Sorry, if this is off-topic, but I am finally glad I met this talented boy! http://pics.teencelebsplus.com/wheaton/Wheat019.jpghttp://pics.teencelebsplus.com/wheaton/Wheat024.jpg

Hi, everyone.

Richard

I agree with Richard, i've always been a big fan since Stand by me. nice job on the site :o).

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