home from austin

I just got home from Austin, and one of the greatest, superest, funnest, most bestest weekends I’ve ever had in my life.
I’m on about 4 hours of sleep, and my day started twelve hours ago, though, so I’m gonna go fall down for a little while. I’ll put up a trip report as soon as I can get my shit together.

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  2. Wil funnest isn’t a word silly. Since you are sleep deprived……. well enough said 😉 Can’t wait to read your post 🙂

  5. Austin farking r0x0R5! I’ve been living here for 7 years now, and it’s the “funnest” place on Earth. I’m sorry I missed you, Wil. I just got back from a cruise and logged on to WWDN at 7:42pm last night.
    “FARK!” I yelled, giving my wife much consternation.
    I explained the situation – Wil was going to be in Austin.
    She put her hand on my shoulder and gave it a squeeze. “I’m sorry,” she offered, using the same tone she used when I told her Superman died.
    Hope you had a few long pulls of Guinness at Fado’s.

  7. Heh. I know that I used words that don’t exist, and bad grammar . . . I swear, it seemed funny to me at the time.

  9. Just thought this might amuse you … :
    I am reading things for my thesis at the moment. Lots of things. One such thing is called “Science Fiction’s Harrowing of the Heavens”. There’s a paragraph that goes:
    “New faiths win converts all the time, but synchretism should fail as a plausible premise in sf because, while attempting to reconcile an alien religion to human beliefs, it must also assume that the theology of one such faith can somehow accept the other. If the theologies are identical, such a reconciliation is gratuitous since the distinction between such religions may be considered to have been nominal from the start. But if the theologies are in fact distinct, either the superior logic of one will convert (not reconcile) the other, or an impasse regarding First Principles will be discovered – in which case there can occur no logical synthesis of doctrines. Each will deny the other.”
    I found the following penciled addition in the margin:
    Spock would agree with this paragraph.

  11. Hope you had a great time in Austin! Could you do something like that in Dallas too? Unfortunatly, circumstances prevented me from leaving in time to make it. I think the Fates are against me. It was pouring rain here, I had car trouble, and a host of other crap that nobody cares about. That night, as I sat bummed out watching t.v., The Fates took one final oppertunity to slap me in the face. At 7:00pm, on the t.v. came…Star Trek!! You must set right the balance of the universe. You must come to Dallas for a movie screening and book signing and anything else cool you can think of.

  12. Yo, Sib:
    I’m no theologian, nor do I know the context of that quote, but it seems to me it assumes that the religions must, originally, purport to be exclusive and to have an unobscured vision of one truth. To the extent Zen is a religion, I doubt that would hold true.
    But even certain (by no means all) Chrsitian thinkers have expressed the belief that their religion is ONE avenue to the divine and that many others exist. And someone like Joseph Campbell would trace mythic patterns throughout world religions and even fables.
    So, depending on how you define syncretism (broadly as reconciling beliefs or narrowly as merging them), I’m not sure Spock would agree. What say you?

  14. I can’t believe I was in Austin this weekend and missed you!!! Tropical Storm Matthew forced me to return to work on the Louisiana coast early or I would have been in Austin on Sunday. I, too, enjoyed my time there!

  15. So glad you had a great time in Austin! I was at the screening and you signed my books and Hope the wife likes the goofy orange ring that you may use use to renew your vows whenever y’all do that. Or it will be a reminder of how fun and weird Austin is…so that she’ll want to visit Austin also sometime.
    The screening and Q&A rocked.
    Thanks so much for visiting our town!
    Hook ’em!

  17. I blogged the Stand By Me screening and posted some photos. It was really cool. If Wil’s gushing makes you jealous of Austin, just wait until the Austin version of Metblogs launches later this week. We’ll be blogging full-time making the rest of the country jealous of our little town.

  18. Wil – your first sentance is just missing “it was really neato!” 🙂 Can’t wait to hear your trip report.
    ttrentham – thanks for sharing your blog and photos for those of us who couldn’t travel that far!

  20. Glad you enjoyed the A-town (yes I’m one of those tools that refer to it as the A-town ironically. I do not, however, wear trucker hats.) Needless to say we were hella appreciative. Loads of fun, thanks!

  23. Hey Wil!
    It sure was great to see you this weekend. Sharing the experience of Stand by Me with you was fun, and I hope you had a good time at the Drafthouse. You’re a very funny speaker and you definitely gave the crowd a good time 🙂 You were very nice to chat with us all as you signed books, and you were very charming 🙂 I’m glad Austin showed you a good time!

  25. Thanks for coming to Linucon. Your reading was awesome, and the fact that I got to play poker against you in my first tournament ever will be one of my coolest memories for a long time.
    The Stand By Me showing was incredible too. All in all, Sunday was the coolest day I’ve had in forever.
    Thanks for the memories. Hope to see you back here next year.

  26. Glad you had a super-happy fun time down in Austin, Wil.
    ttrentham:
    That’s a wicked sweet blog.
    Fo’ realz.
    -Chris, needing coffee badly

  27. Looking good, Wil –
    photo from thechunk.com – mentioned above by ttrentham (thanks for sharing).
    I’m anxious to read your trip report. Did you fly or drive to Austin?
    L.

  29. Whoooo, talk about grammer. Most bestest? Well, I suppose sleep (and possibly jetlag?) make up for. Looking forward to your report.

  32. Welcome back, Wil! Get some sleep! We’re looking forward to hearing all about your weekend once you’re well rested. 🙂
    BTW, the auction did great! It ended at $89.50! Whoo hoo! Thank you so very much, Wil! The cats, including Wesley Crusher, thank you as well! Bless you!

  34. Funnest is a pefectly cromulent word.
    Sorry about your boys in blue, Wil, but I have to say “go ‘stros.” Cardinals got nothing, I tellsya.

  36. Sweet! (re: comicon comment) My wife and I are going to be at comicon with some friends. Maybe we can get another picture that doesn’t come out totally blurry like the one did from his Austin visit! 2 Wil meetings in 2 weeks. Nice! Look forward to your recounting of your trip.

  38. Enjoyed hearing you speak and participate on panels at Linucon. It was a great time!
    I appreciate your taking your time to visit Austin and spend time at the Con.

  40. I’ve used “funnest” for some time now, and I predict that it will become accepted usage within 50 years. Other one-syllable words take the -er and -est forms of the morphemes (taller, smaller, fatter, faster…), so why wouldn’t “fun”? Can you think of other one-syllable adjectives that use the more-/most- construction?
    Wil’s just a vanguard, showing his erudition and good breeding with his progressive grammar.

  43. Wil Wheaton, you are AWESOME!! Thank you so much for coming to Austin and I am sooo glad I got to see and meet you!! Stand by Me is one of the best movies EVER and if it weren’t for you I wouldn’t have started watching Star Trek, which perfectly complements the rest of my nerdy interests (Star Wars, Jurassic Park, etc. ad infinitum).
    Yayy for you!!

  44. Whoa. When our Fearless Leader uses words like “bestest”, you KNOW he had a good time!
    Welcome back, Wil! Glad you had fun! You deserve it!
    Ayla

  45. I thought “funnest” and “most bestest” were exactly the right words to describe the Linucon experience, especially as I try to put myself in Wil’s shoes. It was fun geeking out with you and I hope I hid my fanboy tendencies sufficiently.

  46. Hi There! I have just put your linx on MyYahoo! & just wanted to say hi. Always have enjoyed your work. Keep it up. I am a writer & I love to either make up words or play with out of use words. Gee wil, you sure have a lot of fans…

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