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Meeting Wil Wheaton on PerlWhirl Cruise
Meeting Wil Wheaton on PerlWhirl Cruise
- During the March 2003 PerlWhirl / MacMania cruise on the Norwegian Star through the Hawaiian Islands, I met actor and writer Wil Wheaton.
Key Details
- I discovered that Wil was actively teaching himself programming using the Llama book (Learning Perl).
- This sparked a series of long-term friendly interactions and professional crossovers, reflecting Wil's emergence as an authentic developer advocate and geek culture icon.
- This encounter and my interactions with him are immortalized in the first chapter of Wil's 2004 memoir, Just a Geek.
What links here
These facts are as Randal recalls them, but much time has passed for most of this. If you find a factual error, please email realmerlyn@gmail.com.