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Stick and I went to Play! A Videogame Symphony at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre a few weekends ago. We joined the crazy quilt of blankets, over a carpet of drying pine needles, and unpacked our cheese, olives, Nintendo DS, and those mini wine bottles I keep calling chardonnay shots. We must have been flying the [...]
I have a new piece up on In-game dating: Not just for basement-dwelling nerds up at TechCoquette.
Like online dating on Match.com, eHarmony or other matchmaking sites, couples who meet through World of Warcraft first connect entirely through their words. Game romance still holds some of the spontaneity of offline romance because gamers aren’t logging on [...]
I have mixed feelings about Colleen McCullough. On one hand, she wrote the well-researched and racy Caesar’s Women and other novels set in ancient Rome. On the other hand, I haven’t quite forgiven her for Thorn Birds.
Now, I love Pride and Prejudice.The story is an understated comedy of formal manners and romantic expectations, plus nerdy [...]
For some reason, we’ve been having a problem in the apartment where we can’t both use wireless internet at the same time. Maybe there’s not enough room in the tubes for both of us? This is a crisis in a nerd household, so Stick got on his laptop to fix it.
“Meg, pick a number between [...]
We don’t have cable (we wouldn’t have a TV if Stick didn’t need it for his console games) so I had to find out about the national rickroll through Twitter.
It is so awesome to see a nerd joke make its way into the Thanksgiving Day parade.
“Hi!” I said, after a short wait spent wondering when hold-music went out of fashion and enforced advertising came in. “I have a new phone and I’m calling to set up a password for online bill pay!”
“Ok, what’s your account number? Phone number? Mother’s maiden name? Paternal grandfather’s place of birth? Blood type? And what [...]
I really resented the vote-with-your-ovaries movement among Hilary supporters. A woman president would be nice, but I found the idea that women are a cohesive voting group who should all pick Hilary based on gender kind of demeaning. Not entirely sure why this bothered me so much, since I go out of my way to [...]
Meg Stivison
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Game Reviews, Culture and Commentary:
MMORPGs and Relationships at WomenGamers.com 10/16/06
“Hi-Tech, Low-Stress Game Date“, Bleech Magazine, Summer 2007
Ironforge: The Dwarven Paradise for Azeroth World News 7/18/07 (Also, Letter To The Editor: Proper Etiquette Never Goes out of Fashion, and Stranglethorn Vacation) ***This site is down now, email me for a Word file of these articles***
Montezuma’s [...]
A long time ago, there was an awesome DOS word processing program called XyWrite. It was long before point-and-click, instead there was command line where you’d type in the abbreviations for margins and formatting and so forth. You could set up your own shortcuts easily, too. My dad was a newspaperman at the time, [...]
