I was working on a story about my childhood that features the constellation Orion when the phone rang. Caller ID said it was Anne. “Hey, what’s up?” “Can you go outside?” She said. “Sure,” I said. “Okay. Walk out onto the porch, and look to the West.” I got up from my desk, and made…

I’m playing in the WCOOP again today, and I’ll be live blogging the action over at CardSquad, for those who are interested. You can also download the PokerStars client and search for player “Wil Wheaton” if you’d like to sweat me from the rail. The tournament begins at 3PM EDT, which is in about six…

Like everyone else, I’ve been reading The Interdictor for the last week or so. I’ve even gone so far as to add a live bookmark to Firefox, so I can quickly tell if he’s updated or not. I have found his insights to be very interesting and often moving, like this paragraph from last night:…

In this week’s Games of our Lives, I ask: Ever wonder what Donkey Kong would have been like if the game had talked to you in a weird underwater voice? Or what if, instead of playing a tough little carpenter fighting a giant cool gorilla, you were a wussy little lumberjack fighting a giant lame-o…

I rarely visit websites or blogs directly any more, because I prefer to read everything in Bloglines. I do that because I move among several different computers each day, and — because Bloglines is web-based — no matter where I am, I can see if one of my sites has been updated. I try to…