Re: Wil Wheatons: Just A Geek

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Author: Joshua Zeidner
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Subject: Re: Wil Wheatons: Just A Geek
Well I havent written it off just yet... I will read it before I
start ripping on it. The pic on the back is totally lame though.

-jmz


On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:26 PM, David Huerta <> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Joshua Zeidner <> wrote:
>> http://www.amazon.com/Just-Geek-Wil-Wheaton/dp/059600768X
>>
>> Anyone read this?  Another Burton Barr find... looks somewhat lame by
>> the pic on the back, which is Wil sitting at his Geek Desk, with lots
>> of Geek Books, drinking Geek Beer (stout lager), and laughing at some
>> unidentified Geek Joke.  A bit too excessive for me to take seriously,
>> looks like his agent is trying to rebrand him to the nerd crowd (he
>> used to be on Star Trek).  Should be interesting learning what the
>> marketing world thinks of Linux users.
>>
>> rule of thumb: Once and Actor, Always an Actor.
>>
>
> A friend of mine met him at Comicon PHX earlier this year.  Weaton
> noticed his PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) shirt and started talking about
> geeky stuff with him.  He's been a geek figurehead for more than a few
> years now.
>
> Plus that desk not terribly over the top geeky; The Defcon badges,
> binary clock, Mac G5 ad, nerf gun, and framed poster of the First
> Cylon War are worse, and that's just my living room.
>
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