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.
Entirely Different
“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.”
Posted in New York City, virtual life
Tagged #goplayyourvideogameswoman, Marcus, monkeys, my virtual life, New York City, virtual life
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How To Tell If It’s Snowing
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.
Posted in New Jersey, New York City
Tagged commute, Figment, New Jersey, New York City
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Wicked Awesome
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?
Posted in New York City
Tagged New York City, pretending to be an adult, quotes from work
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Angry Birds
“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.”
Posted in Maine, New Jersey
Tagged #goplayyourvideogameswoman, facebook games, games, Google, Maine, Marcus, New Jersey, Pandora, Skype
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When Contextual Ads Attack
Sometimes Facebook gets a bad rap. But I love Facebook, I mean, I defended Facebook back when MySpace looked like an actual competitor (That links to my old Rolling Dice column in the long-dead Faster Than The World mag). I defended Facebook’s first privacy oops over public feeds. I’m fascinated by what Facebook and social media are doing to society, and to romantic relationships.
But Facebook hasn’t been returning my love recently. This was not my favorite targeted ad ever.
Ouch.
That one got me thinking about search terms and ad targeting, and I didn’t really like where that was going.
But after this, Facebook, I don’t know if we can be friends anymore.
I'll have you know, Facebook, that I'd spring for the full price boob job.
Posted in New Jersey
Tagged Facebook, Faster than the world, New Jersey, weirdly meta
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Prima Porta Augustus
Not saying I talked on and on about Venus imagery and the return of the Parthian standards, but this statue of the Prima Porta Augustus was later used as a landmark, as in “Hey, Meg, I’m back at the statue you like.”
Posted in Las Vegas
Tagged Augustus, classics, Hiro Protagonist, julio-claudians, Las Vegas
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Digital Experience
Presenting Next Island at Pepcom.
Via my work blog, Next Island at Digital Experience » Next Island News
Stays In Vegas
My dad picked me up at the airport coming home from Vegas, and he asked me how my trip had been.
I complained that I couldn’t take full advantage of the endless free booze because I was working. I told him that the games and tech world is harder for me because everyone else just wears a suit but I’m a girl so I have to sort out a whole ensemble. And how my flight back was kind of hellish, how I didn’t have enough time to catch up with journo friends or get to know awesome new friends, and how I felt like I barely scratched the surface of CES and Vegas, but I was also running purely on coffee and adrenaline.
“I’ll have the special, with the mashed potatoes instead of the fries,” my dad said.
“What?”
“Just giving you some perspective.”
“Thanks, Dad.”
Posted in Las Vegas, New Jersey
Tagged CES, coffee, games, Hiro Protagonist, Las Vegas, New Jersey, newark airport, not a f*cking waitress anymore
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