Category Archives: New York City
Withdrawal
My bank likes to shut off my account for potential fraud. This is for my protection, it’s usually set off when I do potentially fraudulent things, like travel, buy expensive things, or shop online, and it probably happens to me … Continue reading
Love, Honor and Velociraptor
It is the night before Hugo’s wedding. We’re sitting in his living room, with almost twenty-four hours before he’s going to be making a lifetime commitment, as he’s starting to write his vows. I have seen Hugo pull off some … Continue reading
Best Men
I mostly know Hugo’s best man, Samir, through stories of their drunken antics from the year that Hugo and Stick were roommates, and I lived in Yantai, China. So I’ve heard secondhand about the time Samir locked himself in the … Continue reading
Things I Have Learned About Games
Behind every bright pink videogame promotion is a female game dev headdesking in frustration.
The Age of All-Nighters
The editors of InTheSnake wrote me to let me know they’re taking my flash fiction submission for their October issue! I’m completely thrilled. After I told Twitter, I had to come up with a short summary of the piece for … Continue reading
Maker Faire
It turns out that I’m the last person in the New York area to find out about Maker Fair, a grown-up science fair, a tech show, and a craft fair all at once. And a indie music concert. And a … Continue reading
Kill Boar-A-Thon
This is how Chip, my friend and one of our game’s QA testers, let me know he was working on a grindtesting project.
Why Harold Hates People
Hipster Barista Girl: So, do you, like, work for the space program? Harold: No. This is a Starfleet shirt.
Magic Dating
From the now-famous bad date story, between a desperately shallow girl and a guy who’s good at collectible card games: We started talking about normal stuff—family, work, college. I told him my brother was a gamer. And then he casually … Continue reading
Go, Go, Godzilla!
Go, go, Godzilla!, by Simpson’s Paradox When I checked in at the Empire State Building, SCVNGR challenged me to snap a photo of Godzilla attacking. So I grabbed Godzilla from Harold’s desk and set him up with a tourist-y postcard.
