[LA.pm] Geek Banquet

[Benjamin J. Tilly]

How many in the geek community don't know who Wil Wheaton is?

He counts himself as a geek.

Therefore he is a geek celebrity. :-P

Cheers,
Ben

"Ofer Nave" <ofer at netapt.com> wrote:
> 
> I think geek celeb means more people who are famous in the geek community,
> like Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Andrew Morton, Richard Stallman, Eric
> Raymond, Lawrence Lessig, Larry Wall, Randal Schwartz, Damian Conway, Dave
> Thomas, Matz (ruby), Guido Van Rossum, Sam Ruby, etc.
> 
> Though I wouldn't mind Wil showing up, of course.  :)
> 
> -ofer
> 
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, James Pitts wrote:
> 
> > Wil Wheaton definitely qualifies. Lacking a role on a TV series or a
> > major open source project, a geek celeb would have to have made at
> > least a million friends on myspace ;)
> >
> > One person who would be cool to have as a guest of honor is Mary
> > Rajskub (who plays the role of Chloe O'Brian on 24). She's the 
> > best television geek yet. Any leads?
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lynn_Rajskub
> >
> > - James
> >
> > --- Conrad Heiney <conrad at fringehead.org> wrote:
> >
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> > > > Two words:  Wil Wheaton.
> > > > On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Samy Kamkar wrote:
> > > > > Now what exactly defines a "geek celeb"?
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
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