Stop the presses! Stop them I say! I… hear this, you’re going to love it: I just got an email from no other than Wil Wheaton!!! I mean, this is Wil - freaking - Wheaton we’re talking about, for criminy’s sake!!! This is a HUGE THING, a truly momentous event!!!! Granted, the actual email itself wasn’t very long… and it was in response to my own email to him reporting a possible bug at his site after buying a TextAd to announce the comic, but still… the man had a goddamned prank Operating System named after him at April fools in ThinkGeek for crying outloud!!. That in itself must be enough to give you Geek God status or something. Wow.

For those who don’t know who this guy is, well: He used to play Wesley the wiz kid in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Ok. You know me. I know I may have come off as some kind of trekkie hater at some point or another, but there’s a perfectly good explanation for that: I am.

Ok, I’m not. Truth is, although I do think wasting your time dissecting the blueprints of a fictitious ship is a great way to excise yourself from reality and never get a Significant Other, I can maybe recall more than half of the original series’ episodes, watched most of ST:TNG and movies and I know damned well what a Tribble is. I don’t know. I guess it kind of comes with the territory. You bask in your geekhood, you read, watch, breath and live with it, so you should know not to wear a Red T-Shirt when landing on a strange planet, you recall Playing Dungeons & Dragons when you were a kid (or, um… three days ago), you used to do all those Choose your own adventure books and then try to get all the alternate endings (were those things cool or what?). So, you may understand why I like the man. He’s one of the blog celebrities on the web, posts regularly in Slashdot (I’m aWalrus there btw) and is generally held in high regard in the circle. Plus, he’s just an all around nice guy.

So, for an encore, get your geek on, set your phasers on “Sweet!” and check out his site. You’ll like what he has to say.

— sergio on July 25, 2003