I have no idea why the site was down for a little bit this morning…but Loren fixed it, and we’re back in business, as they say.
There is a really funny contest going on at Worth1000.com featuring an image of yours truly. You should take a look. It made me laugh out loud.
Some people have emailed me, asking about the earthquakes we had here last night. I didn’t feel them, at all, which is weird. In our old house, if a truck drove by a half-mile away, it shook the whole thing, but in our current house, we never feel anything. I was watching the news at 10 last night, and they were talking about this 4.2 or something that had just happened, and the newscaster says, “Woah! We’re having an aftershock!” so I waited to feel it, and I never did. I’m not too upset, though, because there are much worse things than living in a house where you don’t feel earthquakes. Trust me.
Today, at work, we turn in our pilot for my show. I am so excited! We’ve worked really, really hard on it, and we’ve created something that I am extremely proud of. I’ll post details, as soon as I get the “OK” from the Big Bosses(tm).
One last thing before I leave for work: Today is the last day that you can vote in the 2002 Bloggies, and WWDN is a finalist in a few categories. If you have some time today, you should check out the finalists, and cast your votes. I guess the results will be posted late tonight. Wouldn’t it be cool if we won something?
I’ve spent all my spare time in the last three days reading up on CSS (and getting some very valuable help from my friend Roughy), and I’m getting a very good understanding of the whole beast. Thank you to everyone who sent in suggestions for books and websites. I realize now that I’m going to have to re-write the entire site, which will be a bear, but really worth it in the long run. I sense great things in the future…stay tuned!
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Where (theoretically, would it be? LA?
I’ve been kicking around a WWDN “meet in real life” type thingy…but it’s hella work, and hella time, and I don’t have extra of either at this time…but it would be cool, wouldn’t it?
Hey Shaynie. Love your name BTW. That’s my nickname to my friends “Shaynie” and its unusual to find someone with the same name spelled that way! Y’rock!
Wil, good luck in the Bloggies! I love reading your comments, they seem to go well with Krispy Kreme Donuts! 😛
Notice that Mr. Wheaton (SIR!) doesn’t say a thing about the cost….
Hawaiian cruise for the Monkey Armada! The Admiral’s buying!
Yes. And one day, Mr. Wheaton sir is going to inherit a few mil, hve plenty of time, and he’s going to take his favorite posse members on a We Love Wil convention on a Hawaiian cruise ship.
Yeah. Right. 🙂
hey wil, i don’t kno if this is gonna show up cuz i can’t sign the soapbox and my comments haven’t been showing up latley. 🙁
I posted a comment a few minutes ago too that didn’t show up. It was the best one I’ve ever done, too. I’m sorry you guys missed it.
Hey Wil, I’m watching TNG and I noticed that your part is on the right side. I don’t know why I noticed that. I’m weird.
Yay! Wil won Best New Weblog on the Bloggies! (http://wannabegirl.org/metafirda/2002_01_01_archive.html)
Way to go Wil! See? Now doesn’t that make up for all the red eyes and sleepless nights your pet project gave you? 😉
So, do you get a prize? and is it share-able?
going off on a tangent guys. I’ve just watched the Pregnancy ep of Enterprise that I taped last night, (ok ok, dont laugh. Us brits are waaaay behind!), and girls, Is it just me or is Connor Trinnear…..like……..TOTALLY, Phwoooooaaaar!
Hands up all in agreement?
*sticks hand up as far as she can!*
Yeah! I lurk and voted..Congrats wil…and as far
as “the crashing”(of sites..not earth)Mercury is
in retrograde untill Feb 8th which tends to make
all things related to communication a bit more
weirded out. Also as far as the other sites
problems it just shows to go ya how powerful
WWDN is.
Now may I please ask a newbie question? Oh please
..why do we need a “password” for the soapbox
and why doesn’t “it” remember like “it” does here?
I would have put this in the soapbox but ..see
above..Thanks for your patience with us younguns.
..”it” as in HAL not as in sir..
the post times are still screwy..damn old Mercury
Nobody has mated Wil with Willem Dafoe yet.
I am so glad I am away at school in Arizona instead of in California. I lived in Northridge about four blocks from the eppicenter of the NOrthridge earthquake in 94′ and that was scary. Ever since I have hated them. My cat was acting all freaky last night so says my mom. So it shows you pets can tell you when the earth will move. I hate earthquakes. Hey they are playing four movies this weekend on TNN. Star Trek 2,3,4,and 5. 🙂 WATCH!! I won’t be but that’s only cause I have them on tape and why watch with commercials when you have them on tape?
TUCKER IS HOT AND THE ONLY REASON FOR WATCHING PERHAPS THE WORST STAR TREK EVER MADE!!! Hey anyone wonder why Berman contradicts the TNG timeline with his stupid Ferengi show. Apparently they were known of in TNG but never seen. Now Archer gets to see one. Did this somehow get lost over time so that Picard didnt know. I think Berman is out of his mind.
I like the idea of a WWDN get-together, too–it’s just that I think we’re all pretty spread out across the globe.
I think if it ever did happen, it seems appropriate to just meet in a bar–none of this “rent a hall” stuff.
Who’s in the midwest? Or Wisconsin?
(BTW, JSc, let me know if you ever want to take me up on my “see one of my shows for free” offer.)
Hey, as long as I don’t have to plan it! (; I’m already up to my eyebrows in this huge international research symposium my department is hosting in June.
I’m about as midwest as midwest can get, Rob, since you asked.
Holy shit, Rob.
I’m trying to imagine how a WWDN F2F might go in a Wisconsin bar…
Three chunky, pale guys sitting next to a cardboard life-sized Wesley Crusher.
Guy #1: So… Wonder what Wil Wheaton is doing right now.
Guy #2: Yeah.
Guy #3: Yeah.
Guy #1: *cough*
Guy #2: …
Guy #3: …
Guy #1: *ahem*
Guy #2: You… going to say… something just then?
Guy #1: Uh. No. Just clearing my throat.
Guy #2: Oh.
Guy #3: …
Guy #1: …
Guy #3: It really looks a lot like Wesley Crusher, doesn’t it?
Guy #1: Yeah.
Guy #2: A lot.
Guy #1: …
Guy #3: …
Guy #1: …
Guy #2: I… Nevermind.
Guy #1: …
Guy #2: …
Guy #3: …
Guy #3: Waiter. Check, please.
Spudnuts,
You forgot the part where one of us wants to play darts.
Then we tip a cow.
Rob may be headed in the right direction, It should be in rural NY state, everyone brings sleeping bags, invite neil young, carlos santana, pearl jam, and some hippie female folk singers.
Willipalooza!!!
This is how the trip will go…
DAY ONE
Garden Grove, CA
Breakfast… mint juleps and churros in New Orleans Square.
Board greyhound. Meet driver… television’s Wil Wheaton.
Cavity search by special guests Levar Burton, Scott Bakula, Jafar from “Aladdin.” All shoes, nail clippers, scissors, box cutters, keychains, magic lamps confiscated.
Hollywood Boulevard… Pick up eight hookers.
Score some blow at Studio 54.
Stop at 7-11. Skoal bandits, six-pack orange Slice, and Rand McNally Road Atlas.
Overnight Wal-Mart parking lot, Barstow.
DAY TWO
Barstow, CA to Salem, OR
Watch “Stand by Me” eleven times with live audio commentary.
Offload suicides.
DAY THREE
Richland, WA
Hookers, doughnuts.
DAY FOUR
Richland, WA
5:43 a.m. Group arrested for “grand theft motorcoach.” Wil Wheaton nowhere to be found.
DAY THREE HUNDRED EIGHT
Washington State Penitentiary
Walla Walla, WA
Bluesman trades Rob Matsushita for three packs of cigarettes, toothbrush, and single razor blade.
Life-sized replicas of each group member completed.
Forty-eight faux-Uzis carved from bar soap and covered in shoe polish distributed.
DAY THREE HUNDRED NINE
Washington State Penitentiary
Walla Walla, WA
Spudnuts completes tunnel to perimeter fence.
DAY THREE HUNDRED TEN
Washington State Penitentiary
Walla Walla, WA
Special “animal call” signals go-time.
Group escapes.
DAY THREE HUNDRED TWENTY
Treasure Island
Ocean
Group recovers chest of millions of gold dubloons and rubies, gold, jewels, hats, and gold that was buried in the shiver-me-arggh Davy Jones locker threat of mummy curse.
Ra.
DAY THREE HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT
Unmarked Island
Vanatu
South Pacific
Group establishes protectorate of Wheatonia. Declares war on Shatnerland. Opens diplomatic channels with Coreystan.
wil would have to play gilligan and spudnuts the skipper.
I really feel like I could nail the proffessor role; Rob, You seem more like a mary ann than a Ginger, but you can take your pick.
The Rolf Harris one is a classic!
“I really feel like I could nail the proffessor role; Rob, You seem more like a mary ann than a Ginger, but you can take your pick.”
Why can’t I be the monkey they made the car for? Then at least I don’t have to cross dress.
And if I’M what you have to trade for cigarettes, then where am *I* supposed to get cigarettes?
Boy, you guys have a great get-together planned. . . but you seem to have this fixation with hookers. Now, what are we females supposed to do for entertainment? Or is this a males-only event?
Golly, here I am in Bloomington (just like kendoka – hell, we could carpool) and all you guys can talk about is hookers and cigarettes. I’d make a great Mary-Ann (except I’m blonde), but I don’t know if I want to hang with you guys, now 🙁
Ok, there’s some sort of construction on the next floor down. . . I swear somebody’s about to hammer or drill right through the floor and pop up underneath my chair. Very distressing.
Congratulations, Mr. Wil Wheaton (Sir!) on your bloggie win. Now set up a great *co-ed* celebration fandango. I’m all for it!
Bronwyn said: “Boy, you guys have a great get-together planned. . . but you seem to have this fixation with hookers. Now, what are we females supposed to do for entertainment? Or is this a males-only event?”
I want to make my politics very clear on this one: The presence of women does not preclude the presence of hookers.
Unless the women are wives. In that case, then yeah, okay, they sorta do.
HOWEVER:
Nothing precludes donuts.
Or sprinkles.
What I want to know is how many impostors are going to cliam they’re Spudnuts?
(I bet I know the answer to this one: the real Spudnuts would never tell you he was Spudnuts. It’s sort of a “if-you-meet-the-buddha-on-the-road-kill-him” kind of thing.)
Oh, Rob. I’ll go for (almost) anything involving doughnuts and sprinkles. Mmmmmm sprinkles. But still. . . wives and hookers still don’t equate with fun for me. If the only guys there are married or “hooked-up” with the hookers, we single gals are still a little left out.
And wow. Likening Spudnuts to the Buddha. Spudnuts, did you realize that you were so close to Enlightenment? I am very impressed.
Wow, that sounds like so much fun, what with the sprinkles and hookers and all… and you know I love to get all flushed and sweaty with a group of guys, but that’s because we’re usually trying to beat each other with bamboo sticks.
Kendoka said: “but that’s because we’re usually trying to beat each other with bamboo sticks.”
Dude, that’s Secret Guy Ritual stuff!
And you’re broadcasting it all over the blamed internet.
They take your decoder ring away for that kind of crap.
Damn! That was the funniest thing I have seen in a long time (the mate Wil thing–I say, I say DAMN!). Glad to see the posting is back. I may be a little late. I see spudnutz is back too. Muahahahahahaha!
Well, since I’m not a guy, I don’t have to keep to the secret ritual, do I? (;
Kendoka, you know the male ritual secrets??!!?? Share! Share! Er, no, wait. I probably don’t want to know, do I.
I didn’t realize you were a fellow-female-at-arms. Cool.
Rob,
Sounds like it would be cool–only problem is that I don’t currently know the schedule for the week of the wedding. There’s all the standard b.s… Practice for the ceremony, going to the ceremony, tux fittings, etc, etc, etc. Living in SC, I’m a bit out of the loop in terms of influencing when my brother and his insane fiance decide to plan things.
Let you know when things get closer?
the more hookers the better, i say, and of as many genders as possible.
man-hookers, lady-hookers, robot-hookers, and maybe a couple from tralfamadore to bump it up a little – an extra five genders there, as i seem to recall.
we’re people of the world, aren’t we?
Bronwyn said:
>> but you seem to have this fixation with hookers. Now, what are we females supposed to do for entertainment?
They make boy hookers.
Bronwyn said:
>> Likening Spudnuts to the Buddha. Spudnuts, did you realize that you were so close to Enlightenment?
Shit.
I couldn’t even finish Webelos.
JSc–good deal, let me know.
Spudnuts–I only likened you to Buddha to the extent that we should put the whup-ass on anyone we meet that says they’re you.
I think we all can get behind that one.
But what if it’s really him? Do YOU want to be responsible for taking our Spudnuts away?
Deanna Wheaton babay 😉
http://www.worth1000.com/view.asp?id=6&image=3606&cid=73&eid=1653&view=
Rob,
Had a F2F with a guy from the Lakerboard in Portland.
Found the address of a Korean restaurant in the Northeast near the airport. Hadn’t been to this restaurant, but saw it listed at a number of sites and given favorable reviews.
Turns out the restaurant had closed months earlier and had been replaced by a strip club.
And not the nice, shiny, upscale kind.
This one was about the size of a trailer with six sad guys grouped around a single gyrating female. Low ceiling. Very dark. Stale.
I was late because I kept passing the street address, but all I kept seeing was a strip club and not a Korean restaurant.
I told my friend I’d be wearing a beige baseball cap. And he had arrived on time.
Now…
Say you’re a guy in the club who is not me.
It’s 1:00 on a weekday afternoon.
You’re likely unemployed, an ordinary joe, a simple man with simple views and simple needs, listening to the pulsating throb of Whitesnake, drinking a Bud and eating mozarella sticks, taking in a little mid-day booty in one of the whitest states in the nation smack dab in the heart of Blazer-ville.
Suddenly you’re approached by an African-American gentleman wearing a Shaq jersey whose first and only words are…
“Spudnuts?”
That’s gonna rattle your cage.
hah spud you caused me to spit coffee on the keyboard
you owe me a keyboard 😉
When I first saw that Futurama episode, I thought Bender said, “with flapjacks, and hookers.”
Makes for an entirely different take on the whole situation.
Flapjacks… and hookers.
New promotional idea. Denny’s? IHOP?
Oh wow, just had a vision of an entirely different spin on the Grand Slam breakfast.
Spud,
Well.
That tops MY story.
Wow, Spudnuts, that’s how most conversations go in England, except it’s more like this…
(Let’s pretend the guys are with the cut out again)
Guy #1: I say, there’s a cardboard cut out of Wil Wheaton over there
Guy #2: Good heavens! And I thought that was the real thing
Guy #3: Oh don’t be absurd, he hasn’t moved in over 4 hours
Guy #1: Lovely weather, though, isn’t it?
Yep, that’s right, that’s the best we can do here. It wouldn’t be so bad if someone could actually make a joke once in a while :/ oh well…
A pilot, eh? Sounds interesting. I’m sure it’ll do fine. Needless to say there’ll be about a 3 year wait before any new American show comes over here, but still. We still haven’t finished the Voyager episodes yet! (They’re showing reruns of TNG though – we just had the one with the dimensional door if that means anything. Don’t think you were in it though, Wil 🙁 )
You know what the kids like thse days?
IHOP.
That’s the non-windows version of hip-hop.