Tag Archives: Chapel Hill

Enjoying It Wrong

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Meg

Some days, it’s hard to like things. I’m super excited about this latte! I say, and the internet laughs back at me, a stupid (white, thirtyish) lady with my cliched Starbucks drink. Dumb for enjoying the foam patterns and the … Continue reading →

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Meteolojinx Recanto

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Meg

I wrote this a while ago, right after it happened, but I thought it was too negative, and didn’t post it. Recently, I got into a discussion about whether we’d recommend our rental company to friends, and I had to … Continue reading →

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5 out of 5

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Meg

When I moved to Chapel Hill, I went to career therapy. Career therapy is when you are so deeply depressed that you start going to counseling to deal with it. In counseling, you answer the therapist’s questions and establish that … Continue reading →

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Connect! (And Get Off My Lawn.)

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Meg

So ever since Google Reader ended, I’ve been trying out different feedreaders and wishing Bloglines was still around. I’ve mislaid some of my feeds, and spent a while getting different formats and different services to work well together. If This … Continue reading →

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Video Game Industry Rant — luckysipe’s old man blog

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Meg

Harold has a good post up about monetizing in games, and I wanted to share it here: So, I was at a game demo event a couple of years ago in NYC. This sort of thing was mostly attended by … Continue reading →

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Local Search Terms

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Meg

Harold and I are in the car, when I notice a familiar name on a sign. Meg: Oh, that’s what *local business* is! I’ve been wondering who they are because they follow me on Twitter. I wonder how they found … Continue reading →

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Go Miss Your Flight, Because You Need A Time Machine

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Meg

There’s kind of a trend for writing and talking about how great events used to be, because the only thing cooler than being at an event is being in the middle of things while being unimpressed by it. Like being … Continue reading →

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Book Review: ‘The Wives of Los Alamos’

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Meg

The Wives of Los Alamos is out today, and I’ve reviewed it over at Yahoo. TaraShea Nesbit’s novel The Wives of Los Alamos is told in first-person plural, and yet it never seems like an experiment in a creative writing … Continue reading →

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Failing The Turing Test

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Meg

  A copy-paste of my chat with Delta Airlines It went on like that for a while, while I tried to handle my frustration by imagining the conversation as a moment in text-based Adventure, trying endless variations on Open door … Continue reading →

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The Wife, The Maid, and The Mistress

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Meg

The lives of three women collide in this pulpy 1930’s reimagining of the historical disappearance of Justice Joseph Crater. Justice Joseph Crater disappeared in 1930, leaving behind debts, bribery allegations, and powerful “friends” in high and low places, an angry … Continue reading →

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