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Great post. I wonder if you've heard of Lenore Skenazy and her "Free Range Kids"? She calls the constant worriers "helicopter parents" because they hover over their kids constantly.
She wrote a book about it - here's an Amazon link .
which started from a column she wrote about letting her 10-year old son ride the subway.
Bad Influence Mom
A little back story: in the early nineties, when I was in college, I went on a ski trip to Colorado. We have relatives who live out there and at the time of our visit, a young cousin was training as a ski jumper. We went over to the practice hill to watch him. He wasn't doing anything like the 90...
As opposed to "damn, damn, Evil Wheaton" as the recursive (or is it recursed) Wheaton?
more stupid cell phone videos and the return of evil wil wheaton
In a couple hours, I'll be on my way back to Los Angeles for a few days, so I can work on The Big Bang Theory. I obviously can't say anything about the episode, but I got the script last night, and it's just hilarious. I can't wait to see my friends there again, and bring a little Evil Wil Wheat...
That was fun. If you want to see another awesome version, check out the Blue Man Group's version in their show "How To Be A Megastar 2.0". I'm sure it's on YouTube somewhere but really it's awesome to go see the whole show - it was one of the best concerts I went to last year.
The Who's Baba O'Reily, played using only items from Think Geek.
I watched this while trying to drink my coffee this morning. I say "trying" because I just sat here with my mouth hanging open until the whole thing was over. This is pure brilliance. Anyway, it seems appropriate to share this as I'm going out the door to start work on The Big Bang Theory: ...
Whenever someone talks about cloning themself, I feel bound to remind them to re-read the Calvin & Hobbes story arc where Calvin clones himself with the transmogrifier....
I'm not going to post the link - people rip off Bill Watterson's amazing work all the time, and no matter what you feel about copyright there's no reason to annoy the guy.
not exactly time enough at last
I'm heading out to Tucson at the end of the week for a con my friend is running called RinCon. It sounds very similar to the laid back gaming cons I cut my geek teeth on when I was a teenager, and I'm really looking forward to it. I plan to play in as many games as I can during the weekend, and ...
Yeah we heard what kind of things you were up to from Yellin' Bird
Q'Plah!
The obligatory post-comic-con, uh, post is forthcoming, but I'm a little buried in various ... things ... at the moment. So, please enjoy this semi-relevant commercial from 1979: I totally had one of those when I was 7, and my prize was a sheet of iron-ons. I remember being so excited when ...
Hey if Shatner shows up (he is an "author" according to the books) see if you can get him and Henry to rock "I Can't Get Behind That" from Shatner's CD.
i'm getting as sick of announcements as you are, so here's some more announcements
I'm not thrilled that my blog has recently been filled with announcements instead of original content, but that's sort of the way things are shaking out in my life right now. It's not bad, because I'm incredibly busy and working on awesome crazy ideas, but I feel like I'm kind of neglecting some...
You and Anne can do this sort of thing because you have 'Radar Love'!
P.S. for another funny about songs, check out the hilarious way to defeat the Borg beginning here: http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/090312.html
From the Vault: the safety dance
Last night, Nolan went through my iTunes library so he could put some of my awesome music on his iPod. He's been after me for months to give him Radiohead, The Beatles, Tool, Decemberists, and a lot of my 80s stuff. While he looked, the following exchange occurred: Nolan: Why do you have The Sa...
Has anyone hacked the game to at least add new scenery? For example, cruisin' past Gil Grissom and Walter (in blue sweater) as you arrive in Las Vegas, or going past some famous gunslinger as you leave Tuscon?
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...
Has anyone hacked the game to at least add new scenery? For example, cruisin' past Gil Grissom and Walter (in blue sweater) as you arrive in Las Vegas, or going past some famous gunslinger as you leave Tuscon?
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...
Star Raiders, and Star Raiders II, were two of the only computer games I ever really enjoyed (no judgement, somehow they never "click" with me - perhaps because all I can think about is how they're programmed).
I think they'd make a great retro Nintendo DS cartridge, but no one at Atari/Infogrames or whoever owns it now seems interested in a reissue.
If you know anyone in the game development biz, maybe they can talk some sense into them.
The Geek in Review Returns!
Hey guess what? I'm writing the Geek in Review for the Suicide Girls Newswire again. Instead of a weekly column, it'll be monthly, and a new column will go up on the second Wednesday of every month. Today's column is called "... when the MCP was just a chess program." The earliest video games d...
Star Raiders, and Star Raiders II, were two of the only computer games I ever really enjoyed (no judgement, somehow they never "click" with me - perhaps because all I can think about is how they're programmed).
I think they'd make a great retro Nintendo DS cartridge, but no one at Atari/Infogrames or whoever owns it now seems interested in a reissue.
If you know anyone in the game development biz, maybe they can talk some sense into them.
The Geek in Review Returns!
Hey guess what? I'm writing the Geek in Review for the Suicide Girls Newswire again. Instead of a weekly column, it'll be monthly, and a new column will go up on the second Wednesday of every month. Today's column is called "... when the MCP was just a chess program." The earliest video games d...
Wil - I don't know if you'll ever be in a series regularly again, but the work you do (Walter on CSI, Floyd on Criminal Minds) is great.
Maybe you're going to be a Charles Lane or William Schallert - someone who acts throughout a long life, but always doing different stuff.
Criminal Minds: That's a Wrap!
This is the sixth and final post about working on episode four, Paradise, during season four of Criminal Minds. I spoke with CliqueClack.com about some of my production experiences, and I have a gallery of images from the shoot at Flickr. Please note that I've done my best to recreate my interac...
Wil - I don't know if you'll ever be in a series regularly again, but the work you do (Walter on CSI, Floyd on Criminal Minds) is great.
Maybe you're going to be a Charles Lane or William Schallert - someone who acts throughout a long life, but always doing different stuff.
Criminal Minds: That's a Wrap!
This is the sixth and final post about working on episode four, Paradise, during season four of Criminal Minds. I spoke with CliqueClack.com about some of my production experiences, and I have a gallery of images from the shoot at Flickr. Please note that I've done my best to recreate my interac...
Wil! It was a storefront! Were they not for sale?
When my wife (who of course is as awesome as Anne, but from my perspective, not yours) and I travel, and something like that shows up, it almost always travels home with us.
the brass was phasing tunes i couldn't place
Anne and I went up to Oregon this weekend to visit her grandmother. We try to make this trip at least 4 times a year, and the Autumn trip is always our favorite. The changing leaves, and cool weather restore a lot of our hit points, and this year getting away from the chows in the house gave us ...
Wil! It was a storefront! Were they not for sale?
When my wife (who of course is as awesome as Anne, but from my perspective, not yours) and I travel, and something like that shows up, it almost always travels home with us.
the brass was phasing tunes i couldn't place
Anne and I went up to Oregon this weekend to visit her grandmother. We try to make this trip at least 4 times a year, and the Autumn trip is always our favorite. The changing leaves, and cool weather restore a lot of our hit points, and this year getting away from the chows in the house gave us ...
As long as we're posting halloween-related stuff, here's a cool one related to "Day of the Dead" (All Saint's Day, the day after Halloween, celebrated mostly in Latino countries)
http://www.vivacalaca.com
(tried putting anchor tags around it but I guess they're filtered out)
Anyway, the animation and music are both cool.
happy october
Matt Fraction asks: How soon is too soon for Mad Monster Party? There is no such thing as too soon for Mad Monster Party?, Matt. BEHOLD!
As long as we're posting halloween-related stuff, here's a cool one related to "Day of the Dead" (All Saint's Day, the day after Halloween, celebrated mostly in Latino countries)
http://www.vivacalaca.com
(tried putting anchor tags around it but I guess they're filtered out)
Anyway, the animation and music are both cool.
happy october
Matt Fraction asks: How soon is too soon for Mad Monster Party? There is no such thing as too soon for Mad Monster Party?, Matt. BEHOLD!
Creative Commons used to have their own directories of music and they had a heck of a lot of ambient stuff (I have a great ambient version of Ellington's "Caravan" from that source by Binary Beats, album Adventures in Ambient) but they've restructured and I can't find those pages. CCMixter seems to have a lot
this post has everything to do with ambient music
After years of various things coming up and draining the funds we've squirreled away to work on the house, Anne and I are finally able to afford to have some much-needed work done on our house (thank you, everyone who bought Happiest Days!) We should start sometime in the next seven days, and so...
Creative Commons used to have their own directories of music and they had a heck of a lot of ambient stuff (I have a great ambient version of Ellington's "Caravan" from that source by Binary Beats, album Adventures in Ambient) but they've restructured and I can't find those pages. CCMixter seems to have a lot
this post has everything to do with ambient music
After years of various things coming up and draining the funds we've squirreled away to work on the house, Anne and I are finally able to afford to have some much-needed work done on our house (thank you, everyone who bought Happiest Days!) We should start sometime in the next seven days, and so...
Had a series of them - 400, 800, 130XE..
Yeah we typed in a heck of a lot of programs, too, but I want to take this opportunity to ask if anyone else enjoyed Star Raiders/Star Raiders II as much as I did, and if you don't think the pair would make a totally awesome DS cartridge?
have you played atari today?
Around 1981 or 82, I learned to program - if you could call it that - on the Atari 400, copying programs out of magazines, one uncertain finger at a time. I also learned the proper way to cuss out a computer when I'd miss a comma or make some other mistake, getting nothing more than SYNTAX ERROR...
Had a series of them - 400, 800, 130XE..
Yeah we typed in a heck of a lot of programs, too, but I want to take this opportunity to ask if anyone else enjoyed Star Raiders/Star Raiders II as much as I did, and if you don't think the pair would make a totally awesome DS cartridge?
have you played atari today?
Around 1981 or 82, I learned to program - if you could call it that - on the Atari 400, copying programs out of magazines, one uncertain finger at a time. I also learned the proper way to cuss out a computer when I'd miss a comma or make some other mistake, getting nothing more than SYNTAX ERROR...
Monday's is _about_ metahumor, so wouldn't that be metametahumor?
"Wil apparently never met a metametahumor he didn't like" would then be a metametametahumor
Recurse me at will, Wil.
metahumor ftw
My love of metahumor probably comes from the same place as my love of obscure references, which can be traced, in part, to MST3K. John Kovalic has been killing me with the metahumor this week, so for my fellow members of the metahumor appreciation society, I present Monday's and today's Dork Tow...
Monday's is _about_ metahumor, so wouldn't that be metametahumor?
"Wil apparently never met a metametahumor he didn't like" would then be a metametametahumor
Recurse me at will, Wil.
metahumor ftw
My love of metahumor probably comes from the same place as my love of obscure references, which can be traced, in part, to MST3K. John Kovalic has been killing me with the metahumor this week, so for my fellow members of the metahumor appreciation society, I present Monday's and today's Dork Tow...
Hey - hope whatever it is works out; however here's an idea:
You know how web comics folks do "guest strips" for each other? Maybe you could find someone to do a "guest geek week" for you!
life is what happens while you're making other plans
For a couple of months, I've been making plans to return to the Tulsa Trek Expo as part of the 2008 Geektour. I know there are a number of people who have been planning to come to the show because I'm on the guest list, and I know I'm going to disappoint a lot of people, but I've had to cancel m...
Hey - hope whatever it is works out; however here's an idea:
You know how web comics folks do "guest strips" for each other? Maybe you could find someone to do a "guest geek week" for you!
life is what happens while you're making other plans
For a couple of months, I've been making plans to return to the Tulsa Trek Expo as part of the 2008 Geektour. I know there are a number of people who have been planning to come to the show because I'm on the guest list, and I know I'm going to disappoint a lot of people, but I've had to cancel m...
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