Author Archives: Meg

After a month at a certain AAA studio, the jokes just start making themselves. #blog

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Meg

After a month at a certain AAA studio, the jokes just start making themselves. #blog

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Airport

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Meg

Heading out to Madison with Harold.

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‘Careful’ by Randy Anderson

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Meg

Careful by Randy Anderson opens with Tyler returning to his tiny hometown in the Pacific Northwest after his father calls to tell him that his mother’s in the hospital, but refusing to say why. This sets the tone for the … Continue reading →

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JPodding

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Meg

 So it turns out that I don’t love JPod as much as I previously thought. Sure, there was a completely genius part where our hero, Ethan, can’t quit his job because he’s been kinda-sorta-promised a promotion to assistant production assistant … Continue reading →

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Memorable Activities

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Meg

I was assigned a new team at the core studio, and found this at my new desk.

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Or Something

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Meg

I’ve been reading a wonderful reinvention of Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid, and it’s full of clever references to Austen stories, or jokes about Twilight,  or literary snark in general. I’ve been highlighting a passage on practically every page, but this … Continue reading →

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Blog Birthday

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Meg

April makes ten years that I’ve been blogging, which is longer than I’ve done just about anything. I even blogged from behind the Great Firewall of China for two of those ten years. In honor of my decade writing my … Continue reading →

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Grab It Magazine

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Meg

I have a new piece in Grab It Magazine talking with Nate about his amazing work in game audio. (He has more to say about sound design than I do.) Grab It is a new iPad magazine focusing on indie … Continue reading →

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Things I Am Not Good At, Part 5,473

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Meg

I’ve been taking 40 to work at the game studio. It’s about a 30-minute drive from my apartment,  if I don’t encounter any traffic, accidents, construction, or Mercury being in retrograde, so I have to leave pretty early because apparently … Continue reading →

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JPod: Continue? y/n

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Meg

I just started reading a secondhand copy of Douglas Coupland’s JPod, and it turns out the previous owner has annotated it, adding another layer of marginalia on a novel that has instructions for ramen noodles and software bug reports in … Continue reading →

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