She's so far removed from the world I grew up in that she's almost an alien. Going hungry, seeing my Mom go without so that I could have seconds (and, sometimes, firsts), eating so many fucking eggs and potatoes, duct taping my glasses together because some idiot in school hit me in the face with a basketball and we…

Also: Still grieving over Leonard Nimoy.

One time I asked this girl I knew to the senior prom.

1994, suburbs of Chicago, summer before my senior year of high school. I'm a sexually frustrated 17 year old gay boy and my parents have left me home alone so I'm having a party - nothing outrageous - with my friends. My 18 year old girl friend has brought the 20 year old dude she's screwing around with and he - in…

My husband and I met in grad school and didn't hit it off immediately. We got stuck in the same miserable class together on Monday nights. It talked about music history, and one night the instructor went on an endless ramble about Schubert's "syphilis attacks" and kept saying the nonsense phrase "syphilis attacks"…

This one happened to me, relatively recently.

Oh, and

SAD DAY

I know he was 83 and that is considered a good, long life by just about any measure, but I was still not prepared for a world without Leonard Nimoy in it. Such a lovely man who brought to life one of the most iconic scifi characters of all time. He made so many nerdy kids (and adults) feel like it was okay to be a…

I've already said this, but I can't help but repeat it. My twin cousins played the baby from Three Men and a Baby, which Nimoy directed. He was the nicest guy on the set and treated the girls like a granddaughter.

PS, here he is in a Bangles video:

and some of the hair is so close to heaven it's practically one with the Lord.

I am sitting here at work, banging me head on my desk while trying to figure out how I am going to manage my rent, car note, and other bills, contemplating how to work a second job into my already crowded life, and this woman is sending $1.4M to some guy she's never met because he is saying nice things to her over the…

Despite her two failed marriages, Sarah says, she still believes in love.

All of these things are fair and rational requests to make. Can't see any reason anyone would have a problem with any of them.

Shorter version, if you just want the list of the list of what she says are "Eight things developers can do to make games less shitty for women", paraphrased from my notes... not that a lot of this pertain to action games and probably make more sense if you're thinking about first and third-person shooters, the Arkham…