Heads up: The combination of me still being at Pagan Pride tomorrow and our internet being broken again (yeah, not happy with Comcast right now) means that a plot summary is virtually impossible tomorrow. I'll get caught up during the week, swear.

PSA: Because Comcast is terrible, our home internet is presently out of commission and will probably stay that way until Tuesday when eustacio will have time to call them and complain. I'm only able to post this because somebody on our block left their network unlocked. So don't expect me to be posting a lot or in direct email communication until then, ( Read more... )

Yup, I've officially reached that point in each Olympics where I pretty much conclude "yeah gymnastics scoring is bullshit," get really annoyed for a little while, and then proceed to forget about it for 4 years.

My latest article at Gamegrene was literally just published: A Tale of Two Characters. More reflections on representations of the genders within games, with a side order of talk about that Mage game you are probably all still sick of hearing about. Enjoy ( Read more... )

On the downside, my cell phone's battery is back to not holding a charge and my iPod is broken AGAIN. TECHNOLOGY. This combined with one extremely tired dayzdark is leading to us not going to the dmnsqrl pig roast today, which sucks. But at least we will see those people at Convergence in a couple of weeks ( Read more... )

Here is the current tally of Technology Beth Owns That Has Broken In The Past Month ( Read more... )

At gaming last night, we were joking about how over the course of the last few weeks, I have wrecked an iPod and a hard drive. I commented that it was the return of my anti-technology entropy field (which, in one memorable summer, caused me to go through three monitors, four mice, and a full reformat of my computer...IN TWO MONTHS) and said that I ( Read more... )

I returned home from my dim-sum-and-a-movie night yesterday to discover that the screen of my new, less-than-one-month-old computer Skynet had been replaced by mysterious squiggly blue lines. Rebooting provided me with the error message "NTLDR is missing", which some research showed to be related to the win.ini file being corrupted. But for some ( Read more... )

This is funny to a very tiny subset of people, but to them, it will be very funny, so I'm posting it ( Read more... )

Do you ever have one of those days when you feel like something is messing with you ( Read more... )