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My Tribe For Facebook
Grubby Games’ My Tribe has just been turned into a Facebook social game. I played the original My Tribe about a year ago (yeah, I know, I love desert island survival games). The goal in the new Facebook game, like … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming Culture
Tagged BFG, Big Fish Games, Facebook, Farmville, Flotsam's Call, Game Reviews, games, Google, Grubby Games, jewel Vault, latin, mail, My Tribe, MyTribe, mytribe mysteries, new mysteries, reading, ThumbGods
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By Any Other Name
I have a great class at Chinese school this year. Some of it is just luck. I’ve been incredibly fortunate this year not to have a single parent corner me before or after class to tell me how I should … Continue reading
Posted in Raleigh, Teaching
Tagged awesome, chinese, dictionary, education, lessons, my students, RACL, Raleigh, reading, teaching, teaching teenagers
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Eufloria Reviewed
My Eufloria review is up on Bytten. Despite really enjoying Eufloria, this was a hard review to write. I loved the organic-art graphics so much, but as I read and reread my attempts at a review, I started to feel … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Raleigh
Tagged Bytten, Civilization, Dyson, election, Eufloria, Game Reviews, gaming, General, indie games, Raleigh, reading
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For Your Eyes Only
Manager codes for a cash register just strike me as ridiculous. (Some of the other things that have this effect are insurance for rented exercise equipment and plastic severed heads.) It’s like an announcement from the employer that their employees … Continue reading
Posted in Raleigh
Tagged immaturity, pretending to be an adult, Raleigh, reading, troy
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Silkroad Society
This Joymax press release on multiplayer games, virtual societies, and Asian culture, landed in my inbox the other day: Joymax, an independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment for the global market, today announced the launch of a third “Clean … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming Culture, Yantai
Tagged China, chinese, Chinese life, Eric, games, games and relationships, gaming, General, Joymax, MMOs, multiplayer games, reading, Silkroad Online, WomenGamers, WoW, Yantai
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Buzz Off
So, how about that Google Buzz, huh? Google’s last toy, Google Wave, was kind of a flop for me because it seemed like a neat collaborative tool, but none of my friends were on it yet. (On a reread, doesn’t … Continue reading
Cool Breeze
Sometimes when people whine about how their town sucks or there’s nothing to do here, I secretly think they’re just not trying hard enough. Only boring people are bored, and so forth. Also, that feeling of I-hate-it-here is inextricably tied … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina, Raleigh
Tagged cary, Indian food, LOST, North Carolina, Raleigh, random, reading, Stick, videos
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Reading List
A few weeks ago, Harold and I exchanged tweets (why is there no convenient usage for this?) about reading selections, and how revealing a reading list can be. My choices right now are skewed towards travel (No surprise that I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Raleigh
Tagged blogging about blogging, Books, classics, dead romans, election, games, Harold, henry viii, now reading reloaded, Raleigh, reading, sinosplice, travel, twitter
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Wisegal
Wisegal is actually the second time I’ve contributed to a Lifetime casual game. I also helped to test Lifetime / Large Animal Game’s Fashion Solitaire in 2008, although I didn’t make it into the credits. Maybe I shouldn’t make fun … Continue reading
Posted in milestones, Raleigh
Tagged Amanda d'Adesky, awesome, BBC, Brenda Brathwaite, chinese, credits, Fashion Solitaire, games, lifetime, Merscom, milestones, Raleigh, reading, ThumbGods, wisegal
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The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, begins by introducing the protagonist, Susie Salmon (like the fish, she reminds us), who is dead, murdered by a neighbor who’s made smalltalk with her parents a few times. As her community searches for … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Raleigh
Tagged Book review, Books, Eric, family, Harry Potter, mac, movies, moving, my boyfriend, Raleigh, reading, Young
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