GenCon 2013 Part 1 — the Wheaton Conundrum
Last Wednesday night I almost met Wil Wheaton.
Let me rephrase that. Last Wednesday night, I almost inflicted myself upon Wil Wheaton. I was standing with Scott Lynch at the Diana Jones Award, held the night before GenCon begins, and not ten feet off was Wil Wheaton, bigger than life. Well, actually, he was appropriately life-sized.
As I saw him and briefly considered introducing myself, several scenarios played through my head.
Scenario 1: Visceral
Me: I have noticed that you are Wil Wheaton, and I wished to say that it’s really cool that you are, and how nifty it is that you are in the same room with me.
Wheaton: I praise you for your observational skills, for I am Wil Wheaton. And it is, indeed, a nifty room.