Meg: I’m listening to all my bad music before you come work with me!
Harold: Oh, that’s ok, I’m pretty laid back with music.
Meg: You only say that because you haven’t heard my awesome Lady Gaga / ABBA mix tape.
Harold: Yeah… I might not be that laid back.
(I started to post an apology about how this actually came out as a hard copy around Christmas, but posting about it has slipped my mind because I’ve been so busy with the killer monkeys and timetravel at my day job. Then I realized that I’ve been busy with killer monkeys and timetravel at my day job!!! and rather than apologizing about it, I did a little happy dance.)
Anyway! Last spring, I helped out with Passionfruit Games’ first title Tiger Eye. The game was originally released as a downloadable game in May 2010, but it’s now available as a hard copy, with a box and disc and all that. I haven’t seen it in a store yet (see previous re: monkeys), but I’m sure there’s an another in-aisle happy dance in my immediate future.
“…and then I had a really productive telephone meeting about the magazine, and what direction we’re taking it in.” Marcus told me. “Well, actually it wasn’t on the phone, we were talking on Vent, while playing WarCraft.”
I usually make fun of Marcus’ non-digital lifestyle and lack of technical familiarity, so I was pretty pleased to hear this, and I wanted to blog about it. I found a pen in the litter of nail polish and lipgloss next to my bed, but didn’t have paper available, so I wrote a couple notes on the back of my hand.
Marcus. WarCraft. Vent as phone.
Then I hung up and went to sleep.
The following morning did not begin with me adding a clever post to my blog. Instead, it began with me frantically trying to scrub enoph sa tnev tfarcraw sucram off my face.
Boss: Your <project> looks amazing! How did you manage that?
Meg: I don’t drink coffee and flirt with boys ALL DAY, you know.
Boss: Could have fooled me.
“I gotta hang up and get back to work,” I told Marcus the other day.
“Right, you have to slay monkeys and rescue new players.”
“No, no, the boars are killing newbies in this area. The talking monkeys have capitalization problems. Entirely different issue to deal with.”
“Go play your videogames, woman.”
Wait until someone asks you if you’re going into the city tomorrow, and then, just as you begin to go into your Hulk rage, because obviously you go to the city for work every day (and twice on Sundays, as Figment would say, in his inimitable Hollywood/Midwest way), look out the window and see if there’s a blizzard.
Boss: What’s our login for <site>?
Meg: Oh, you can sign in as MegIsWickedAwesome.
Boss: Was <company name> taken?
Meg: No. Why do you ask?
“Ever since we played Angry Birds in Maine,” Marcus said on the phone the other night, “I’ve been seeing it everywhere. I guess it’s becoming pretty popular.”
I just barely restrained myself from pointing out that Marcus is hardly the barometer for what’s hot in recreational tech. Other cutting-edge tech products to which Marcus has recently been introduced include Pandora, Twitter, Facebook games, and Skype.
“I’d heard of Skype before,” he insisted, “but it hadn’t really been contextualized for me.”
“And you didn’t type it into Google? Wait, you’ve heard of Google, haven’t you?”
“Go play your videogames, woman.”
