Category: Asides

~80% of library workers are female. The convention center made the wise decision to switch a few signs and create more women’s restrooms. This led to the fun of watching women enter the bathroom, see urinals, and come back out looking confused and worried as they check the sign.

I expect the online game development conference to have a different gender ratio.

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We drove through New Hampshire on a convention trip last year. The welcome center advertised liquor.

Our path to IMGDC went through Wisconsin. The welcome center advertised, “Cheese, gifts, fireworks.”

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I am here in sunny Minneapolis. My hotel is literally across the street from the Mall of America, which would be great if I liked to shop, but maybe I will poke my head in. I am here well in advance of IMGDC for another conference; if you are in town early, I am told that the exhibits hall for the Public Library Association will be stellar, and you can make back the cost of an exhibits-only pass by finding a few free books that interest you (a few months before they are published). (Not exactly what the exhibitors are hoping for, but I do post reviews of the books.)

Having driven most of yesterday, I felt as though I had fallen off the world. All day without my continuous news and internet feed! Insane! But I am obviously not so far out that I cannot blog. I need this internet thing since I wrote someone’s number down and left it by my computer at home. Bother. Isn’t my cell phone supposed to know these things? Anyway, e-mail remains the best way to reach me, granted with a delay because it is no longer continuously on.

My thanks again to Craig from Voyages in Eternity and Ethic from Kill Ten Rats for getting me into IMGDC. I expect that I will see folks there. I had been planning to suggest some sort of blogger get-together, but I noticed a 5-hour official after party on the schedule. That seems like a natural Schelling point. I am leaning towards the development track for my time at IMGDC, so sorry Nic if I miss your chat.

Comments are open if anyone has recommendations, requests, commands, etc. Cell phones are lovely things for on-site coordination of efforts. I will be sure to post comments from/about sessions afterwards, but I might not have much to say until then, having fallen off the world and all. Which is not a shot at Minnesota.

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I will be at The Indie MMO Game Developers Conference in Minneapolis, March 29-30 (and the Public Library Association conference the days before that). So, who wants to chat over dinner or something? My plans are flexible.

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There are days I wish I was slightly higher on the schizophrenic scale, because I feel I could be a much more prolific blogger if I was simply bat-shit crazy.

It helps. Another variation is to argue for and against the same things in the space of a week, which can lead to some rather odd sets of comments. Not that I have done that much this month…

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Previously

I have deliberately waited a month to see if not having one of these as a recent post reduces the amount of WoW porn searches reaching us. If so, February’s searches will have fewer tentacles. And if not, oh well. We’ll find out next time! But first, what dirty dirty things led you to Kill Ten Rats in the first month of the year?

Continue reading January’s Searches

Anyone on our blogroll without a gaming-related post yet this year has been removed. We still have your info, we are just not displaying it. If you become live again, please let us know.

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Happy lunar new year! We’re in charge this year, woo!

Tobold has his own mini city. It’s like Sim City, “Only there is no gameplay. The only thing you can do is to post links to your city…” Great, so we can send him thousands of useless little people by clicking on the link once a day and getting all our friends to do the same. By the look of it, we can flood him with criminals if no one clicks the link to add security. You know, if you are into that.

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Over at my book blog, I received the following pair of comments last night. I am reprinting them in their entirety because I love that the internet lets adolescent girls express themselves fully when someone gives their favorite book an insufficiently positive “read it” recommendation. Arguments are soldiers, so there is no daylight between “agrees with me unconditionally” and “villain who must be silenced permanently.”

Anonymous said…
OK, I’ll tell you this right now..reading this ‘spoiling’ reveiw was a waste of time I’ve read this book and it is amazing the reason it is so long is amazingly obvious, the author has drawn out the book so everyone no matter how large or small the attention span can read and understand her yearning and longing, Stephenie Meyer is an amazing author and I deeply look forward to reading another book by her i have read all of them Twilight, New Moon, and the amazing as usual Eclipse to follow, I can’t really believe that the writer of this review can say such a thing it is utterly ridiculous and i pitty anyone who agrees with or for that matter reads this putrid discription of New Moon….I hope you fully understand my hatred for you and your obviously slow mind….you shouldn’t be aloud to voice your opinion online, in the world or ever honestly.

Anonymous said…
never ever say anything outloud, ever again you don’t deserve to be able to talk.period.end of story.i personally dont care if you dont like this book i just cant believe that you would say such a think…i pitty you and i hope you understand that i fully and utterly hate not you but your horrid outlook on this completly wonderful book…

I have honestly never been prouder of any feedback I have received. I wonder how she would feel if she knew I have an advance copy of Stephenie Meyer’s next book.

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