Neverland

Today was a ridculously long day. Anne and I are working on our friend’s movie (she’s the hair dresser and I’m one of the actors), and we’re shooting it really, really far away from where we live…so we drove something like 160 miles total today. We also had to juggle where the kids were going to go before and after school, and what we’d do with Ferris for the day. We are going to have to repeat this for the next 8 days, and I have a very strong, and new-found respect for families with 2 working parents, who have to deal with this sort of thing every single day.
The shoot went really well, today. All the actors are wonderful! They’re all from the theatre, so they know what the hell they’re doing, which is not something that usually happens on low budget movies. The whole crew is really wonderful, too, and we’re all having fun, and getting good work done, too.
Tomorrow afternoon, I have my second callback for the producers for this MOW. If you’ve got some mojo to spare at 4:30 PST tomorrow, send it my way, and I’ll be forever grateful.

Awesome!

Guess what?! I just checked the results of the 2002 Bloggies(TM) , and I swept my nominations!!!
I am so proud, and so humbled, and so excited!! I share awards with websites like Slashdot, FARK, MeFi, and Little, Yellow, Different!
I have worked really hard to make this website not totally suck, and I love it that so many people enjoy coming here (90,000 of you a month, eating up close to 25 gigs a month), and I am so giddy that you cast your votes for me, and WWDN. There is so much more that I want to do with this site, and, not ever being content to rest on my laurels for too long, I will be building some really cool stuff over the next couple of months.
I want to thank some people, since I don’t know when I’ll ever get to give and “acceptance” speech again…but first, I’d like to call attention to the plight of the…haha. Just kidding.
I would like to thank my wife, for enduring the website-as-other-woman, and my step-kids for hearing, “Not now, I’m working on my website”, but still asking me to play with them the next day.
Loren, Josh, Ben, Ashley, and Logjamming Hosting, for helping me get this thing going in the first place, and extra-special thanks to Loren and Roughy for really helping out with some techincal issues.
Jim and .drow for some bigtime behind the scenes help.
A huge debt of gratitude is owed to Noah Grey, who wrote Greymatter, the weblog program that I originally used, and Amy, who helped me fix Greymatter and get all my old entries exported into MoveableType, which I am currently using. I also have to give recognition to Ev, and Blogger, which was so easy to use, and so reliable, I was able to continue this weblog, even while I was having hellaproblems with GM and then MT.
Finally, I want to thank the entire community of people who read and contribute to WWDN. Whether you’ve been here from the beginning, or if you’ve just found us recently, you guys have added a great deal to this lame little website. I consistently get emails praising the thoughtful discourse we have here, and the fact that most of the people who read and post to WWDN are smart, thoughtful people, who will argue issues, not personalities, and I am proud to say that we’ve had some great arguments here over the last 6 months or so, without a single stupid flamewar.
For those of you keeping score at home, here’s the categories that WWDN won:

  • Best Merchandise of a Weblog
  • Best Tagline of a Weblog
  • Most Humorous Weblog
  • Best American Weblog
  • Best New Weblog

    • and…

  • Weblog of the Year, 2002

I am humbled, shocked, awed, excited, and extremely grateful.
Thank you.
/me does the happy dance

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166 thoughts on “Neverland”

  1. First time ever posting…but since I frequent the site at least once a day, let me say, congrats!

  3. Already emailed you with congrats, and wish to do so again, IN PUBLIC!! Recently found you and now I, too, check at least once a day to see how things are going. Will be thinking about you on callback day. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!

  5. WOO HOO!!!!!!!! Congrats Wil! Excellent to hear the shoot went well and you’ve managed to sucessfully juggle the duties of “family man!” Tough job man keep it up!

  9. Congratulations on your achievements! I just wanna say that you are so much more cooler in my eyes seeing as how you update your own website. Well, take care.. I’ll be back again. 🙂

  11. RE: “and I love it that so many people enjoy coming here (90,000 of you a month”
    In reality its probably about 5 or 6 of us nerds coming here about 15,000 times a month; We just keep clicking refresh all day long. I like to wear my Spock Ears.
    But since we did this for you, Can we stay at your house now when we are in town? We have been trying to come up with a place to meet. We could camp in your back yard, just leave your windows open so we can have something to observe.

  12. Congrats Captain of the Enterprise!
    A small step does the website take but imagine all the people watching….!
    Cool!

  13. YAY!!! Weblog of the year…and so many others! What are you going to do with that awesome prize from Jish… I’d hang it up right above my comp!!!
    Congrats… this means we all get tanked to celebrate, right? 🙂 Love the site, and so do the rest of us. Can you tell?
    -Jess Lat

  14. Hey, a note on your “Neverland” comment, Wil…
    I’m sure that you would do this, but make sure Ferris is secure. Kids generally understand if you’re going to disappear for awhile, but animals don’t: they just freak out because you’re gone.
    Heh. I’m an animal lover; looking out for all the animals in this world…

  15. Grill (where demons go to hang), about nine-ish, we’re all drinking ourselves into a new time zone.
    Blueman, you’re in charge of getting the cigarettes–I’ll be traded for them, that’s my job.
    Spudnuts is on hooker/donut detail.
    Kendoka, you handle the gigalos–and you can take that however you want.
    Mandy, you’re on flapjack patrol.
    Hot Soup Girl, put the whup-ass on anyone who claims to be Spudnuts.
    JSc–we’re also gonna need 49 plastic spoons, a copy of “Kubla Khan,” a Pixilvision camera, and, if possible, a blow up sheep. I may have saved mine from my bachelor party. I’ll explain later.
    Wil…um…I guess you can be in charge of finding the life size cardboard photo of yourself.

  16. The above (which would have looked better if I hadn’t accidently cut of the first line) is all of our instructions for the big celebration at the Rainbow Bar and Grill…

  17. Your page makes me happy! Your page kicking other pages asses makes me ecstatic! GO WW! GO WWDN! WOO

  18. Well done, Wil, and everyone else who’s contibuted to WWDN.
    I think, since there’s over 90,000 a month I’ll need to get a WWDN t-shirt, or something, so other WWDNers will be able to see me in the street and wave our secrect geeky wave –
    OK, maybe not.

  22. More than happy to make this an award winning website. People are coming to my site from here and I am overjoyed! I’m sorry they have to look at my meager geocities offering, but thanks for dropping by anyway!

  23. WOO! Dude, you totally won! I’m in shock and awe and that drink you mentioned is calling me. Oh look… you play GTA? I can’t play that game. I keep running into light poles. My experience with the latest kind of games is summed up in once sentence. (Scotty is my brother, btw). Anyway, the sentence:
    “Scotty? Where’s the fire button?”
    Yep. Anyway – You won you won you won! You rock! Woohoohoo! Uh. I’m not full of much to say today, nothing important or intelligent. So many people here. Wow.
    Nacey.

  28. I think everyone’s forgetting something very important.
    WW.N has only been “up” per se since, say, July or August. Mr. Wheaton (SIR!) has actually spent a lot of that time correcting the early bugs, upgrading, correcting the bugs from upgrading, downgrading, sidegrading, and correcting the bugs from sidegrading before deciding He is going to upgrade yet again.
    Real online time for WW.N as we currently know it?
    Maybe 4 months. Maybe.
    If Mr. Wheaton (SIR!) swept every category His site was nominated in with just 4 months of “real” uptime, imagine how incredible He will do next year.
    I predict a complete sweep.
    Except maybe for Best Canadian Weblog.
    And maybe Best Use of Cheese in a Weblog. Roughy has that one cornered.
    JSc

  30. Dude! You rock the Geek Nation!
    You rock the bloggies!
    You just…rock!
    Congrats Wil…..time to pass that tequilla bottle for a round on the house methinks. 🙂
    ~Kaylin

  32. Way to go Wil, congrats!
    Comments: Cool site, newish reader (since early January – saw your interview on /. and came on over!) You are a geek. 🙂
    And I mean that in the nicest possible way as “The geeks shall inherit the earth”.
    What about celebrations for us in Aussie land?
    Hmmm … on second thought, maybe I should just learn to teleport – think of all the traffic issues you wouldn’t have to deal with 😉

  33. Whoa, multiple responsibilities here! OK –
    Wil – Break a leg at your callback! That’s about the same time as my Aikido class, but I’ll be sure to send some positive energy your way.
    Rob – I’ll do my best rounding up those gigalos for you. I’ll tell them they can play with my swords. (Why do guys get all excited when a woman says that…?)

  35. You mean, there isn’t gonna be an awards banquet? How can you properly celebrate when there isn’t scads of food about?

  39. okay, mr matsushita – i’m onto it.
    i’ll be circulating amongst you all with a list of spudnuts’ linguistic eccentricities, listening keenly.
    any impersonators will be detected and dealt with in the usual fashion. i’m assuming that’s what the copy of ‘kubla khan’ is for.

  40. I’m sure all the wil-o-philes are going to pour hot boiling oil on my head for this but: Are you for real, Wil? I mean, this is akin to being excited that you won a school election.
    I’m not trying to be mean, I honestly like your site and think you’re a stand-up dude (hell, I even bought a box of wil-branded chocoloates for my gf) but who really cares what “The Bloggies” think? I would think somebody as independently minded as yourself would understand that.

  41. Go Uncle Willie! I feel so (sniff) proud. Young Ensign Crusher’s all (sniff) grown up now! When you manage to save the galaxy, remember your linkees back here on Earth! ;^)
    Okay, I’ll stop being a drooling Trekkie now.

  42. You won everything?!
    Way to go Wil!
    *Does double backhanded Rimmer Salute*
    We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy! etc etc….

  46. Congratulations! I would say something witty and clever, but I can’t think of anything, and everyone else here takes care of that anyway. So again, congratulations, you deserve it, and best wishes for the movie thing tomorrow. I have butoh right at 4:30 and will be chanting “ohmmmm” or something, so it’s an appropriate setting to send good thoughts.

  48. Go Wil! I promoted you in my livejournal and apparently people did vote! As someone said, you can’t escape the trek factor.
    Congrats!

  49. good vibes, man, freakin excellent. i’m proud to know your website and to have grown up not only on tng but a net great enough to bring happiness to people’s lives. congratulations

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