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Those are the kind of dice you make jewelry from!
Testing the theory that one can not have too many dice
Just before I went out to GenCon in August, I wrote: I have one request, which I hope isn't unreasonable: I'd like to test the theory that you can't have too many dice. If I see you at GenCon, would you give me one gaming die? I'll bring home as many as I get, dump them all on my office floor, ...
I wish we could have had more time to chat on dice! I was carrying 3 with me for you to choose from, but Munchkin die came out first (hehe, I can see it in the picture!). The others were some 20+ year old D20s that could have told some stories :)
Testing the theory that one can not have too many dice
Just before I went out to GenCon in August, I wrote: I have one request, which I hope isn't unreasonable: I'd like to test the theory that you can't have too many dice. If I see you at GenCon, would you give me one gaming die? I'll bring home as many as I get, dump them all on my office floor, ...
Dice angels are great and all, until you end up laying on caltrops, er..., D4s :)
Testing the theory that one can not have too many dice
Just before I went out to GenCon in August, I wrote: I have one request, which I hope isn't unreasonable: I'd like to test the theory that you can't have too many dice. If I see you at GenCon, would you give me one gaming die? I'll bring home as many as I get, dump them all on my office floor, ...
Happy birthday good sir! So sad to not have been able to make Comic-con. I'll be sure to drink something from the Stone Brewery, and perhaps bake something (non-bee containing) in your honor.
Oh, since I can't provide you anything awesome except via the interwebs, I would like to point out to you that you are currently the 76th most followed account on twitter. I love that your "what to expect when you follow me on Twitter" post dates itself by listing a scant 53k follows. But don't worry, the rate of people looking at your socks hasn't increased as much. Only 9300 persons have :)
It's my birthday!
And I am having the best birthday, ever! Thank you to everyone who has wished me happy birthday on the Twitters, and if July 29th is your birthday too, happy birthday to you! (Image by Chuck Gamble, found at WIRED's GeekDad blog.)
Well shit. I guess if I'm on your home turf, I have to come! I think I can stand to miss another viewing of Dr. Horrible, as I watch it often enough already. Not to mention... BEER!
in which we combine wil wheaton, books, and beer. (mmmm ... beer.)
Last year, I went to the Stone Brewing World Bistro and Gardens for an event they call Book and a Beer. It's pretty much what it sounds like: I read from my book while people drank beer. Then I signed my books while I drank beer. Then I ate dinner and had some more beer. Then we drove around loo...
Only just came across this, you should get a kick out of it: http://friendlyhostility.com/d/20090126.html
wil wheaton vs. text 2 speech
There's quite a dustup at the moment about an editorial the president of the Author's Guild wrote in the New York Times, railing against Amazon's Kindle 2, which has a text to speech feature that he claims creates unauthorized derivative works and should be stopped at all costs. I'm not the only...
Most definetely! Let me know if you'll be in town any extra days surrounding. I think you need some more bee lasagna.
just paint what you see
Five (Three sir!) Three quick Sunken Treasure items: 1. I was interviewed for the Lulu blog about the book. Fun fact: It was while I was writing the answers for this interview that I sent Twitter the fateful question about $5 DRM-free PDFs. I finished my answers and sent them back right before I...
Personally, I prefer print copies. I love the idea of the kindle, but... books are so awesome! So if I only have access to/money for a digital version of something first, it's likely I would later buy the print version as well.
Will you be at ECCC again this year?
just paint what you see
Five (Three sir!) Three quick Sunken Treasure items: 1. I was interviewed for the Lulu blog about the book. Fun fact: It was while I was writing the answers for this interview that I sent Twitter the fateful question about $5 DRM-free PDFs. I finished my answers and sent them back right before I...
How awesome? SO AWESOME. I was talking about that a few days ago because Seth Green has just appeared on the show. "Why couldn't Wil be a character like that? SRSLY!" I hope it works out!
In which wil goes "O_o" but retains his grip on reality
I thought I'd completed this week's LA Daily column on Friday, but when I opened it up yesterday afternoon to give it one final look, I realized that it didn't work at all. It's fine for a blog post (and will likely show up here sooner or later) but it just doesn't work as a column. As you can i...
Awww, they almost asked my question but discounted it as a bullshit question ;_;
'You've got the biggest one in HOW many counties?'
Hope to see you at CP dinner/auction, was great of you to call in and help out LRR!
desert bus for hope 2008 begins
Hey Kids, it's your old pal Wil Wheaton here, and this is a post about a whale. WAIT! NO IT ISN'T! IT'S A POST ABOUT AWESOME PEOPLE WHO DO AWESOME THINGS THAT MAKE WITH THE HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY! Ahem. Allow me to introduce a few things: There's this fantastic charity that my friends from Penny A...
Hear hear! I've never understood the urge to intentionally make someone else feel bad, especially why they're putting their personality and creativity out on the line.
I will guess and hope that your name on YouTube is actually you, and just find it hilarious that you were flagged as spam. (Or someone really did steal your name for posting purposes =\)
the best thing i have ever read on the internets
Jonathan Coulton: Really? This is a good use of your time, to make someone you’ve never met feel bad just because they made an amateur fan video about something they really like? Where’s your thing that you made and put online for everyone to see, you chicken-shit cockhole? He writes this in res...
I hear this song at least once a day from the local radio jazz station. It's always a treat. The music always brings to mind a song by The Stranglers, "Golden Brown".
joe morello is a god
Take Five and check this out: (This is from the classic jazz album Time Out. Video via Indie Laundry)
I managed to snag myself an "I Hope You Like Text" for the few seconds it was available this weekend. I would clean out their store if I had the funds!
Another set of really awesome and mostly geeky shirts: http://www.bustedtees.com/
get dressed
There are two new shirts in the Penny Arcade store that rock my world. One is inspired by this comic: The second needs no further introduction. Sadly, TypePad just flat out refuses to display the image I so carefully cropped and uploaded (three different times), so you'll just have to go ...
Thanks for attending, being awesome, and donating your time and self to the charity.
P.S. Madden sucks!
the joy of mutually geeking out
While at the Child's Play dinner, I told Twitter: Without knowing about my message to Twitter, Major Nelson then told Twitter: Heh. Awesome. We ended up geeking out at each other a whole bunch after dinner was over, and I'll eventually be on his podcast, which will rule. The Child's Play d...
I'm sure the second 150 books are shipped, RockBand will be up and running ;)
I highly suggest buying real drumsticks rather than using the pair they give you.
G3: GiR, Gridskipper, Geekdads
I'm having a lot of fun processing book orders. The floor of my living room is a carefully-designed collection of alphabetized order and shipping labels, numbered boxes of books, and the all-important List of 300. I should get through the first half today, and the remaining half should go out on...
This has been my favorite story of recent. I "lol"ed a few times, and I'm not sure if it's because I'm so geeky that I get it, or because I understand it all from Anne's point of view as well.
I would also like to add on my request for your tofu curry recipe. I can't find enough good recipes for either of those two things, much less together :)
that's just how i roll
Last night, while we made dinner, Anne said, "I don't speak geek, but I wanted to ask you . . . did you have fun at D&D?" I stopped chopping onions and said, "Oh yeah! It was so awesome. It was a pretty classic hack and slash dungeon crawl that could have been straight out of The Keep on the Bo...
Having recently purchased a house in a large neirghborhood with many schools nearby, we were expecting many kids. We only received 3 trick-or-treating packs, one of which was my husband's sister =\
We now have a very large bowl of candy to try and avoid.
the thursday hangover
When I woke up this morning, my head was throbbing, I felt sick to my stomach, and my whole body felt toxic. "Oh my god." I thought. "I have a hangover." I kicked off the covers, and sat on the edge of my bed, my head in my hands. "This doesn't make sense," I thought. "I drank two beers in four ...
Wil, the preregistration attendance is at 22,000 (I think that's turnstile, so 7000+ actual bodies). That's just to start. Wait until the walk-up registrants start flowing. Lots of books!
I think many people (like myself) lurk and don't actually comment, or perhaps just read your blog though a sydicated feed (Livejournal for me).
A question regarding PAX and my books
From now until it's done, I'm working on my speech for PAX, pulling together all the notes and ideas I've had over the past several months into what I hope will be an entertaining talk about arcades, classic gaming, and the current games I love. Even though I've read and entirely agree with Char...
I think you might be underestimating your selling ability at PAX, what with the guestimation of 30,000+ attendees.
a few more vegas and pax updates
I'm a bit of a mess at the moment, spread way too thin among all my travel and convention commitments this month, and dealing with the sadness and reality of taking Ryan to school in ten days. Throw in both of our birthdays last week, Anne's this week, Nolan's next week, and you've got a very st...
I too am an enforcer (read: PAX volunteer), and am THRILLED to have you attending. (Sorry to sound fan-girly here) I own and thoroughly enjoyed your books and 'demanded' on Eventful many moons ago in hopes you'd take a jaunt up the coast.
I can assure you not everyone is a WoW addict or FPS style gamer. Many up us still cling tightly to our roots of NES/SNES/Atari/etc, or came from D&D (or other tabletop/board/card games). I would love a round of Guitar Hero against you :)
so i'm going to be the keynote speaker at PAX . . .
Back in February, I recounted the first time I met Gabe and Tycho from Penny Arcade at Comicon: I have always enjoyed Penny Arcade, because -- like pVp and Dork Tower -- it has characters I can care about and relate to while I'm laughing at myself, or them, or (usually) both. I talked to Gabe a...
I too, am one of the many readers who don't comment... But I always love your blogs and own both your books :D
I will admit, that I do read the blog via a LiveJournal feed, but when the site was up I would turn there for the extras and to read comments (though shamefully hide and not leave my own). Cheers!
less than you think
Moving back to wilwheaton.net becomes less and less of a priority every day. The number of people who read what I write via some form of syndication outnumbers the number of people who come to the actual site, and the number of you who take the time to comment (which actually means a lot to me -...
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