Things today that made me laugh until I snorted: Translating a boring work conversation into hula Faygo Rock n Rye soda exploding in a Last Stand sort of way inside Chuck’s motorcycle case Blurting out “stranger danger!” when surprise-hugged by my friend Rayne in the subway Getting my butt handed…

I can’t be self-promotional all alone here, people. I need your help! Vote for meeeee! My proposal is up for voting right now on the South By Southwest Interactive Panel Picker. It’s a geek frenzy over there. Vote early and often. VOTE HERE (login required) Panel Proposal: Video Game Research:…

Happy news! I was invited to be a panelist at the South by Southwest Interactive conference next month, as part of their ScreenBurn track. I’m on a panel called “Funologists live and in person: Guerilla Game Research.” I’ll share my experience starting some low-budget user research cycles for Second Life,…

The Thursday night Linden Lab whisky tasting has degraded in the traditional way. I’m surrounded by tipy nerds, discussing the glories of JQuery. One of my co-workers is wearing a shirt that reads “The Age of Consent Tour 1997″. Nerdcore rap blares from the QA office. Life is good.

Oh yes. The IRC Rap Battles continue at Linden Lab, creators of Second Life. Bridie Linden is in town, and we decided to bitchslap some suckah MCs… Bridie Linden: I got so much chips I swear they call me Hewlett Packard I got so much chips you can have a…

I took a stab at writing a Wikipedia stub on one of my favorite Second Life locations, Caledon, the steampunk/Victorian sim. I’m a Wikipedia n00b, and my stub got flagged for deletion (rightly) due to a lack of notable references. Any of you SL-lovin’ librarians out there wanna take a…

With the recent news of Yahoo’s potential acquisition by vile Microsoft and its prior layoff of 1000 hardworking geeks, there was a bit of an air of piracy in the office last week. Linden Lab is going into another round of recruitment, focusing on web developers, QA folk, and other…

Want $40? Got 90 minutes or so? Want to get paid to check out a 3-D virtual world? My employer and I are looking for local San Francisco people with NO experience using Second Life to help us evaluate some possible changes, tweaks, and/or new features to our software and…