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My wife and I have a non-profit foundation that raises money for organizations like NAMI, Planned Parenthood, and others. This month, we're doing a fundraiser for the Pasadena Humane Society.

For a few years, I've written these silly tweets that are excerpts from a book that doesn't exist, called [i]A Guide To Being A Dog, by Seamus Wheaton[/i]. It's all the funny things that my...
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I love this whole album, and just found out she's coming to the Wiltern in October ... but it looks like the show's sold out.

FML.

August 23rd is the official birthday of Wil Wheaton dot Net, which went live on this day way back in 2001, in all its ugly hand-coded glory.

I didn’t know then that this blog would change my life, begin a new career for me as a writer, and eventually give me a second act in my life. It’s been one hell of a journey...
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I think I have a mild summer cold. I'm sneezing like crazy, I have a headache that won't go away, my throat is irritated, and I don't have the energy I would expect to normally have.

It could be allergies, but the symptoms aren't responding to any allergy medication, so that's making allergies an unlikely source of this unpleasantness.

This has been an update on...
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Earlier this year, I became completely hooked on the podcast Serial. I wasn't alone, as it rocketed to the top of the charts in every podcast directory, and became A Thing for about three months.

Ever since it ended, I've been looking for something to pick up where it left off, in terms of pacing, compelling subject matter, production quality, and intellectual stimulation. I expected...
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My sleep tracker says that I slept for 8 hours last night, but it’s lying. I slept for about 3 minutes, because I spent the rest of the time I was in bed trapped in a stress dream that touched nightmare territory from time to time, but was so weird it’s worth sharing.

I was in a play, but I didn’t know my lines, or...
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I have to run out to work (I’m finishing an audiobook job today), but before I go, I wanted to share this gallery of super weird and interesting things I made yesterday using Google’s Deep Dream.

It’s surprisingly satisfying to make these things, and it’s a whole lot of fun to tweak the various settings to figure out what they do.

I’ve loved magic since I was a little kid — In fact, I still have some of the magic-show-in-a-box sets that my aunt Val gave me when I was growing up — and I always wanted to be a member at the Magic Castle, but I couldn’t, because I wasn’t a real magician. Recently, though, the Castle changed its rules, and started allowing a select...
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