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Given the caveat that 97% of the photos taken of me to this day are far worse than this one Wil, the caption for this shot MUST be:
"Derp?"
Commented Nov 28, 2010 on in which teenage me is a deer in the headlights at WWdN: In Exile
in which teenage me is a deer in the headlights
Most of us are awkward teenagers; it's a class feature that stays with us until we level up to our twenties. But most of you didn't have your awkward teenage years play out in front of the world, preserved for future generations to enjoy, thusly: Talk about deer in the headlights! Everything a...
Hey Wil, all -- I was really happy to see Wil spinning tales about Car Wars recently. Among many other table top games, I really enjoyed playing Car Wars during the 80s.
I haven't picked pen and paper gaming back up since the halcyon days, but I have participated in a few Play by Email Autoduels. There are a couple of PBEM Car Wars groups with recent activity; one of the strongest is headed up by Jimmy Anderson over at the Madhatter's Inn, home of the AADA chapter of the Midsouth Auto Duelist & Handgunners Attack Team:
http://www.cwhnj.com/madhat/carwars/default.htm
Car Wars' turn based system lends itself better to PBEM than most games; I talked to Jimmy earlier today and he'd be happy to have you all cruise over for a look at his archive of PBEM Autoduels for your edification and to stoke the embers of old school Autodueling.
If enough of you twisted his arm you *might* tear him away from Darkwind long enough to referee an Autoduel for you, but watch out! Among the rusty vets (like myself) and the host of greenhorn duellists trying to make their mark, there be dragons thar!
Lesser known heavyweights and at least one bonafide AADA World Champion (John Blaylock of SHAAG -- Southern Hitmen Autoduel Assassin's Guild, 2049-50 AADA World Champ) are known to buckle up and test their chops in the arena.
Drive Offensively and make sure ur Gold Cross premiums are right up to date!
PS: I'd also like to thank Tom Hanks, tho Mazes and Monsters wasn't his peak of awesomeness, lol.
Commented Sep 21, 2008 on never forget your roots . . . at WWdN: In Exile
never forget your roots . . .
"Do you play D&D?" I gasped. According to our ultra-religious school, D&D was Satanic. I looked up for teachers, but none were close to us. A hundred feet away on the playground, another game of dodgeball was underway. I involuntarily flinched when I heard the hollow pang! of the ball as it ...
::ninja::
/smokebomb
Commented Sep 20, 2008 on i be a pensive pirate, me hearties at WWdN: In Exile
i be a pensive pirate, me hearties
Yarr! It be 2008's Talk Like A Pirate Day, me Buckos! Shiver yer timbers when ye gaze 'pon me plastic pirate hat. It be small, but 'tis got an elastic strap and staples, to stay on in a stiff breeze. Now I'm set to wonderin' . . . what shall I plunder today?
That shirt is an alembic full of alchemical goodness, transmuting lame into teh awesome!
Commented Sep 18, 2008 on at long last, your wait to own an 8-bit version of the infamous clown sweater has come to an end at WWdN: In Exile
at long last, your wait to own an 8-bit version of the infamous clown sweater has come to an end
Remember when Rich Stevens made that cool little 8-bit version of me, and dressed him in an 8-bit version of the infamous clown sweater? Rich and I thought it would be mighty hilarious to take the 8-bit version of the infamous clown sweater, and put it on a soon-to-be-infamous T-shirt that you...
What!?! No Lego Wesley cameo? Inconceivable...
Commented Sep 11, 2008 on pretty much the coolest thing you'll see today at WWdN: In Exile
pretty much the coolest thing you'll see today
(via boingboing )
"I have at least one broken rib (Doc can't see more, but suspects) and torn cartilege at my sternum. 6-9 weeks recovery. Diagnosis: PAIN."
Did your doctor look like this, perhaps?
http://tinyurl.com/5wh7zn
Commented Aug 14, 2008 on can i break just one rib? at WWdN: In Exile
can i break just one rib?
Though based on actual events, some of this has been . . . enhanced . . . for dramatic effect. On Friday, I took Anne to the Moonlight roller rink for her birthday. It was totally awesome, and we had exactly the kind of fun we remembered having when we went to roller rinks as kids, which was kin...
There isn't much useful advice in the world (including Jim Jarmusch's advice not to take any advice, I guess) but yours to aspiring authors is pretty good.
1) Don't be a dick.
2) Don't be afraid if something you create sucks.
3) Get going! Put some words on the page, produce some projects.
Useful constructive advice is surprisingly hard to give, nice job Wil.
Commented Jul 28, 2008 on at long last, your wait to see me, wil wheaton, interviewed at comic-con has come to an end at WWdN: In Exile
at long last, your wait to see me, wil wheaton, interviewed at comic-con has come to an end
I'm home from Comic-Con, and in that weird state where I'm too tired to be coherent, but too adrenalized to go to sleep. It's pretty common to feel this way (like I've eaten a bag of Guatemalan Insanity Peppers) at the end of a long day at a con. There's an accumulative effect, though, for epic ...
@twitter_wilw Yeah man Who Live @ Leeds is one of the all time classic rock n roll live records.
Ain't no Cure for the Summertime Bluez. The Who, Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream -- add a dash of Motorhead and early Black Sabbath and you've got your original !RAWK! right there.
BTW, dude how are you not following me on Twitter so I can just Tweet this back @you?
Commented Jul 15, 2008 on in which i'm interviewed by comicmix at WWdN: In Exile
in which i'm interviewed by comicmix
About six weeks ago, I met writer Chris Ullrich in Pasadena to be interviewed for ComicMix. We talked for about two hours, and he ended up with a transcript that's so long, they're splitting the interview into three parts. Part one is up today, and rather than excerpt it heavily, I'll just quot...
Lego Wesley installs iso-linear chips like they're 2x4 bricks.
Commented Jun 28, 2008 on i think the planet is trying to tell us something . . . at WWdN: In Exile
i think the planet is trying to tell us something . . .
North Pole ice 'may disappear by September' Arctic sea ice is now retreating so quickly that scientists say there is now a 50-50 chance that it will have gone completely by September. [...] The Arctic is seen as an important indicator of the potentially catastrophic changes that scientists say...
Tractor beams are Lego Wesley's specialty.
Commented Jun 28, 2008 on i think the planet is trying to tell us something . . . at WWdN: In Exile
i think the planet is trying to tell us something . . .
North Pole ice 'may disappear by September' Arctic sea ice is now retreating so quickly that scientists say there is now a 50-50 chance that it will have gone completely by September. [...] The Arctic is seen as an important indicator of the potentially catastrophic changes that scientists say...
Lego Wesley grows strictly organic heirloom tomatoes and has had Seth McFarlane's celly number four three years.
Commented Jun 28, 2008 on wil's big news of the day at WWdN: In Exile
wil's big news of the day
I was picking tomatoes in my back yard yesterday afternoon when the phone rang. Caller ID said it was my manager. I picked it up and said, "Mister Black! What's up?" "Seth Macfarlane wants to work with you tomorrow," he said. The next thing I knew, I was looking into the concerned faces of my w...
Dude, weak: "Captain Tightpants." Screw you guys, I'm going home.
Lego Wesley is anatomically correct.
Commented Apr 26, 2008 on Introducing Lego Wesley Crusher at WWdN: In Exile
Introducing Lego Wesley Crusher
This was given to me as a gift at the Phoenix Comicon. Isn't it cool? Sometimes, I sit here and look at it, and I'm tempted to call up my friends and say, "Hey, I was just wondering if you have a customized Lego figure of your Star Trek character on your desk." Then I realize how pathetic th...
Lego Wesley once created a cloaking device by refractioning the Lego Enterprise's acrylonitrile butadiene styrene structural composites utilizing fundamental phase uncoupling of the forward deflector array.
Commented Apr 26, 2008 on Introducing Lego Wesley Crusher at WWdN: In Exile
Introducing Lego Wesley Crusher
This was given to me as a gift at the Phoenix Comicon. Isn't it cool? Sometimes, I sit here and look at it, and I'm tempted to call up my friends and say, "Hey, I was just wondering if you have a customized Lego figure of your Star Trek character on your desk." Then I realize how pathetic th...
Lego Wesley's other coupe is a Millennium Falcon -- and, yes, it does do the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs
Commented Apr 26, 2008 on Introducing Lego Wesley Crusher at WWdN: In Exile
Introducing Lego Wesley Crusher
This was given to me as a gift at the Phoenix Comicon. Isn't it cool? Sometimes, I sit here and look at it, and I'm tempted to call up my friends and say, "Hey, I was just wondering if you have a customized Lego figure of your Star Trek character on your desk." Then I realize how pathetic th...
Yeah Wil, dunno what you did to your $PATH environment variable but the home directory file permissions thing should have been a matter of:
$ chmod -R 775 /home/wil
Don't fear the command line people; the first time you complete two weeks worth of robotic pointing and clicking with ten minutes of command line, you'll never let go of the command line interface again.
Like the Linux/Mac/Windoze debate it's not a matter of one or the other but right tool for the job. Command line for some jobs, graphic interface for others.
Another fun CLI gotcha is trying to move a bunch of files to a temporary directory, but forgetting to create the directory first...
A series of:
$ mv file1 tempdir
$ mv file2 tempdir
$ mv file3 tempdir
$ mv file4 tempdir
$ mv file5 tempdir
Deletes the first four files and leaves you with file5 renamed to tempdir because without a target directory the shell thinks your'e trying to rename your files. D'Oh!
Ah, the poigniant heartache of dataloss... You do have backups don't you?
Peace,
Barton
Commented Mar 1, 2007 on 10d10t at WWdN: In Exile
10d10t
I've written a few times about how I love technology, and how technology, which is supposed to make our lives easier and less stressful, often does exactly the opposite. Today, I almost wrote about how much I hate technology, but I couldn't do it; it's not technology's fault that I'm a fucking i...
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