Category Archives: Chapel Hill
Checking The Boxes That Must Be Checked
I recently started taking an online class. The first thing I need to do to take my content class (which is a prereq to a program I want to apply for) is to take a mandatory orientation class on online education. … Continue reading
Videogame Zinesters Revisited
IndieCade East inspired me to reread Anna Anthropy’s manifesto/memoir/guidebook Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form. Rereading on a Kindle is particularly interesting, … Continue reading
Some Days I Really Love The Internet
I recently built a Tumblr that’s automated to just find Instagram photos of flowers I like, backlink the photographer, queue and then regularly reblog them to a pretty layout, so that whenever I feel sad, I have a whole page of lovely new … Continue reading
Still Life With Yggdrasil
My friend Allison has this on a necklace, she wore it a lot in college. Actually, I’m not sure sure if she wore it every single day, but that’s how I picture her in my head, and so, every time I see … Continue reading
Oddly Accurate Fairy Sim
My Sims’s goals are to talk about her job, work on her novel, become a better writer (because writing skill is distinct from actually completing assignments, isn’t it?) and be worth $20,000. In case you’re wondering if I’m going to … Continue reading
I’m really enjoying taking more photos, playing around with Instagram and Pixlr, and finding a good one to post here every week. It’s a good mental practice to keep my eyes open for small details of everyday life that are … Continue reading
Still Life With Alcohol
Lifehack: Eat small portions of diet food all day, so that you take one sip of the house cocktail, and are immediately hammered.
The First Hero: Saving the World on a Grecian Urn
The First Hero, from BeGamer, is a short point-and-click adventure about a young champion on a Greek urn, I mean, a young champion in mythical Greece. You’re not, as far as I could tell, any particular mythological hero, just a young champion … Continue reading
MyFitnessJerk And The Constant Error Message
I’ve started using MyFitnessPal, an app to track food and exercise. I’m aiming to lose about 5 pounds before summer, but more importantly, I want to make sure my stressful-day fries and my just-this-once candy don’t become everyday food. The process of recording my … Continue reading
