wil’s summer vacation

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I am on vacation with my family, and I’m not especially motivated to do a whole lot of blogging.

Regular posts will resume in about a week.

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  6. For a minute I thought you were going to say your vacation involved playing Fallout 2! I have that (almost) exact picture as an icon at a ton of places, like Plurk most recently. The only difference is it says PLEASE STAND BY across the center, with the gray background. It’s used in Fallout 2 as one of the load screen pictures and I yanked it a few years ago and have been using it ever since.
    Ok, enough rambling. Have an awesome vacation with your family!

  11. Oh good. I was just thinking, “somebody ought to check on Wil… he’s been too quiet” like you’re an elderly relative with painted shut windows or something.
    Glad you’re not breezeless. Or old.

  14. Wait… a week?! But… but your wisdom… your insight… I’ll go through withdrawals!!
    I’m already feeling kinda shaky! Quick! Someone feel my forehead!!

  16. Er…I must admit that I totally geeked out about the 16×9 Indian-head test pattern on this post. That Wil would spend time constructing such a beast is beyond cool. I’m more of a Snell and Wilcox man myself, but the Indian Head has a certain extremely retro appeal, which fits with Wil’s interest in short-wave and other stuff like that. And the juxtaposition with the modern TV aspect ratio…(right; back to the nerd cave).
    A brief Google revealed that it probably wasn’t composed by Wil…but Wil’s use of it is still 97% awesomeness.
    Have a good time playing Rock Band with the fam’, Wil! We’ll see you when you get back.

  18. OK, hands up, everyone under the age of….let’s call it 35…who knows what the image at the top of the entry is without looking it up on the ‘Net? On and Rock the facial hair on vacation, Wil!

  19. Have a great vacation!
    Wowsers, I haven’t seen that test pattern in years. Brough back dusty memories of Magnavox consoles and the dark days of only 5 viewing channels that all went off the air at midnight.

  20. Hurrah for Wil, goody-goody for Anne, and let’s hear it for Nolan and Ryan! Enjoy, and here’s hoping you don’t even SEE most of these posts for the next week. Bonus wish: May you return to discover your con visits are back on — I can’t go, but others will be well pleased.

  21. I’m vaguely disappointed that your face wasn’t photoshopped onto the head at the top, but not enough to send it back or anything.
    Enjoy your vacation.

  22. Cool old test pattern! Reminds me of the old days when all we had was a B&W TV and I’d get sent over to the neighbors to find out what colors things were in Star Trek. (The original series, of course!) Oops, gotta go, I hafta check the tubes in my TV. One has gone bad. Anybody know where I can find a tube tester?
    Have a great vacation!

  23. ~Anybody know where I can find a tube tester?
    Most 7-11 convenience stores used to have tube testers. I remember dad checking tubes from our console TV there several times in the 1970s.

  26. Enjoy every minute with your family, Wil, without a second thought for the rest of the world.
    When you’re back: even though you visited the exhibit in LV and reported on it, what are the chances you’ll come down for maybe an organized WWDN meet at the traveling ST show that conveniently starts in San Diego this weekend? We could set up a group ticket block and take over the joint!
    Just a thought. I’ll be gone all of July, so I’d love to see this happen when I’m around (I’m checking with the museum to see how long the exhibit runs).

  28. Hey, Wil, you’re famous: you were 52-Across in Thursday’s New York Times crossword puzzle. How cool is that? 🙂

  31. Awesome!!! I hope that you are not reading this comment right now because you are on vacation and by the time you see this comment it’s redundant old news!
    🙂 -Darcie

  32. Hey Wil, I just wanted to say, have a great vacation. I also wanted to say that you totally inspired me to do something awesome with my kids (4 and 6)… we made our own Podcast, with GarageBand, of the kids telling a story they made up. My kids are totally geeked out about making some more and sharing that with them is going to be a highlight of our summer I’m sure.
    Thanks! (I’m a superhero to my kids now!)

  34. Lucky you, Wil. You get to escape this irritating heat that is plaguing Southern CA!!!
    Talk about global WARMING!!!
    🙁
    Scott

  37. Hi Wil! Just started reading your blog. Definitely takes me back to when I used to watch ST: TNG all the time with my older brother.
    Anyway, was watching VH1’s I Love The Millennium and who pops up, but you!

  38. Hey bud. I have not been around for a long time I know. I have been in heavy research mode for quite a while now and life has been chaotic and surreal at times. I hope you are having a great vacation with the Family. 🙂

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