I used to watch Star Trek TNG on occassion and was on the outer fringes of Wesley haters. Nothing I was really passionate about, but I could understand why people were so anti-Wesley.
I was never a Wil hater though. I loved Stand By Me to death. I really enjoyed that movie and have seen it several times. (Especially since some of it was filmed near my hometown in Oregon.) And now that I've read some of his blog entries over the last couple of years, I have just that much more respect for the guy.
I'm going to be going down to L.A. in a couple of months to get my brother in geocaching. I can drop it in a cache then, or if the owner of the bug objects I can drop it sooner in a cache a few miles closer to L.A.
Wil, if you are one of ones tracking this bug, drop me a line if you want me to let you know details of when I'm going down and the cache I'm going to visit. Would love to hand this off to you in person and shake your hand.