Simpson's Paradox

I’ve got a new review in the July/August issue of Indie Game Mag, talking about Wonderland Adventures: Mysteries of Fire Island.

I don’t think I’m quite the target audience for the new Create-A-Mall, since I don’t really like malls and shopping, but games often take a surprising premise to create a great game. A Nintendo game where you played a paperboy was really popular, DQ Tycoon isn’t like actually working at Dairy Queen, and playing Kudos [...]

Buckwheat Farm is out in Apex, so we drove through old Apex on the way home. Last summer, when we were looking for an apartment, I secretly wanted to live in Apex. Not because I know anything in particular about Apex, just because of Undine Sprague. (Really, it’s hard to work a good Edith Wharton [...]

Last weekend, Stick and I went out to pick strawberries.  We ended up at Buckwheat Farm, where we filled a tray and our mouths with hot red berries. It was summer-day perfection.  After half a tray, we started to get hot and sweaty, and the Nintendo games back home in the air-conditioning were starting to [...]

“Look, Stick, I got spam in Chinese! It says:  I…. good…. mine…. you… not or no… please… compare or comparison… net… not have… you… Um, that’s all I can read.”
“You clearly need to learn the Chinese for ‘Nigerian royalty’ and ‘bank transfer’”

In a move that sounds like a joke, Microsoft is offering $10,000 as a prize for using IE8. They specify that Firefox users need to switch, or get lost! I’ve been accused of blog hyperbole once or twice, but that’s a direct quote from the contest site:
We’ve buried $10,000 somewhere on the Internet and if [...]

I have a couple articles up on the new TechCoquette, including this one on What his Twitter Timeline is Telling You:
Want a peek into your new boyfriend’s mind? Just browse his Twitter timeline!
A guy’s Twitter stream gives you clues about his hobbies, how he relates to his friends, and what wanders across his mind when [...]

Cashier: What adorable Spiderman band-aids! Your kids are going to love them!
Meg: Kids?

I was listening to Obama’s Cairo speech on NPR the other day when the radio cut out and it went to static. My first thought was not that I was driving through a radio dead zone, or that NPR might be having difficulties, but that Obama must have mentioned Tiananmen and gotten censored.
I am more [...]

I have no idea how I went from running to the mailbox each afternoon in hope and expectation, to utterly forgetting to mention this, but… I have a travel piece in the March-April issue of Adventures For The Average Woman. It’s about my trip to Liu Gong Island with Dave, and it looks much better [...]