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Just a Geek

Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise

By
Wil Wheaton
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
June 2004
Pages:
304
Description
Wil Wheaton has never been one to take the conventional path to success. Despite early stardom through his childhood role in the motion picture "Stand By Me", and growing up on television as Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", Wil left Hollywood in pursuit of happiness, purpose, and a viable means of paying the bills. In the oddest of places, Topeka, Kansas, Wil discovered that despite his claims to fame, he was at heart Just a Geek.
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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction

    1. This Monkey’s Gone To Heaven

  2. ACT I

    1. Chapter 1 Where’s My Burrito?

    2. Chapter 2 WIL WHEATON dot NET

    3. Chapter 3 SpongeBobvega$ Pants

      1. OCCASIONALLY GLANCING UP THROUGH THE RAIN
      2. IF YOU LIVED HERE, YOU’D BE HOME NOW.

  3. BREAKING NEWS

    1. The World Has Turned

  4. ACT II

    1. Chapter 4 Stop Me If You Think That You’Ve Heard This One Before

    2. Chapter 5 Last Place You Look

    3. Chapter 6 Balance

  5. ACT III

    1. Chapter 7 A Sort Of Homecoming

    2. Chapter 8 April’s Fool

    3. Chapter 9 Alone Again, Or . . .

    4. Chapter 10 “You’re Gonna Be A Great Writer Someday, Gordie”

  6. ACT IV

    1. Chapter 11 The Wesley Dialogues

    2. Chapter 12 All Good Things . . .

    3. EPILOGUE: Hooters 2: Electric Boogaloo

    4. Appendix The WWdN FAQ

      1. STAR TREK
      2. STAND BY ME
      3. OTHER WORK
      4. THE SITE
      5. OTHER QUESTIONS

    5. Appendix Selected Interviews

      1. BBSPOT.COM
      2. SLASHDOT.ORG

    6. Acknowledgments

    7. Further Reading

  1. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
Just a Geek
By:
Wil Wheaton
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Print
  • Ebook
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
June 2004
Print Release:
August 2009
Ebook Release:
February 2009
Pages:
304
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-00768-3
| ISBN 10:
0-596-00768-X
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-80631-6
| ISBN 10:
0-596-80631-0
Ebook ISBN:
978-0-596-80218-9
| ISBN 10:
0-596-80218-8
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About the Author

  1. Wil Wheaton

    Wil Wheaton may be one of the most unusual celebrities of our time. Born into stardom with the movie "Stand By Me", and then growing up on television as Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", Wil was in the spotlight nearly his entire childhood. Instead of burning out as a child star, he left fame behind and became a computer specialist in what Hollywood might consider the middle of nowhere: Topeka, Kansas. Now, Wil considers himself "just a geek", and both Dancing Barefoot and the forthcoming biography Just a Geek are about his journey in rediscovering himself and coming to terms with what it means to be famous, or, ironically, famous for being previously famous.

    View Wil Wheaton's full profile page.

Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The first draft of this book was written online, using Blogger, then Greymatter, and finally Movable Type. I took all that material and moved it into OpenOffice.org 1.0.1. Along the way, I used gEdit, Kwrite, and occasionally vim (sorry, but I couldn't find the text editor in emacs). The first rewrite was done in Open-Office.org 1.0.2. Then I hosed the the gdm login manager on my Linux machine and moved everything to my iBook. The entire final draft was completed in Apple's TextEdit. Mary Brady was the production editor and the copyeditor for Just a Geek. Philip Dangler was the proofreader. Darren Kelly and Claire Cloutier provided quality control.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book and produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign 2.0.2 using Adobe's Syntax font and Shy Font's Movie Poster.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Julie Hawks to FrameMaker 5.5.6. The text font is Adobe's Bembo; the heading font is Syntax; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The cartoons for each Act were drawn by John Kovalic, Director of Dork Tower (http://www.kovalic.com/).

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