Tag Archives: New York City

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

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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

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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.  

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Why Harold Hates People

Hipster Barista Girl: So, do you, like, work for the space program? Harold: No. This is a Starfleet shirt.

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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

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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.

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Lady Pop Pop

Meg:  I’m turning on my Lady Pop Pop* — tell me if it gets annoying, ok? Harold:  I am putting on my headphones anyway listening to man music I thought for sure that would get a reaction Meg:  I’m sorry, … Continue reading

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Social Games Today

Korby Sears from Social Games Today and I talked at Casual Connect. I’ve been wanting to work with Korby for a while now, and it was pretty awesome to finally meet in person and chat about how TVs suck free … Continue reading

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True

Figment: How’s your day? Meg:  Um, I started to tell you that I have Optimus Prime problems but that sounded stupid. Figment: Is this for your game? Meg: Will be. If *long and involved situation* and *detailed time consuming issue* … Continue reading

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Chinese Newspaper

Roy and I were making our way back after a happy hour for Next Island and friends… that turned into several hours.  We got on a mostly-empty 7 train, and found an abandoned Chinese newspaper on the seat, so of … Continue reading

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