In an effort to give MoF readers a deeper insight to our souls, John has put various widgets on the borders of this page: from GoodReads and the ever-present blogroll to his Twitter stream. I like that he called it “Mind on Twitter”, since that essentially defines my thoughts when he invited me to twit: “this is your mind on twitter…any questions?” Twitter, for those of you who may not know, is a microblog that only allows 140 characters for each post. That keeps things succinct and, hopefully, witty.

But I have bit the bullet and now I twit. You can follow my stream here, or wait for us to figure out how to put my stream under MoT. And I’ve gotten in to it! I initially was following just John and a few streams recommended by Dooce, but I’ve started branching out. I’m now following AlmightyGod (who can tweet 141 characters but chooses not to) and BrandNewAtheist (who enjoys long walks on the beach and the Emperor’s New Groove; and maybe not the beach so much). And Wil Wheaton.

Those paying close attention to John’s link to Re: Your Brains last year, will have noted that not only does John know the deepest desires of my 12 year old self, those desires are pretty messed up. While everyone around me swooned over “attractive” men, I went straight for the geek. As you can all see, nothing much has changed in the mean time. Except that Wil Wheaton grew up. And when I went to his website (the one linked to by John), I was quite disappointed; I did not find the man of my grade school dreams but an arrogant geek (I know, I know, “Hello pot, this is the kettle…”). So his blog did not get added to my morning opening-of-blogs-in-tabs. But now that I’m getting his tweets, he is re-rising in my esteem. And that validates the fact that I’ve been in love with him my entire conscious life. (Yes, my husband knows and that’s part of why he loves me…)

So: Twitter has renewed my love for Wil Wheaton and for that reason I invite you all to twit. Anything that has Wil Wheaton in it is good, this is a simple law of the universe (examples: Star Trek, Wikipedia, the Internet).