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jinx

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About Me


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I once decided I wanted to work in the videogame industry. I now work in San Francisco at Ubisoft, a company I have a lot of respect for. I'm proud of the games I help to launch. I'm part of an all-girl gaming team called the Frag Dolls, but I'm not a grrl and I'm not into girl power. I just enjoy playing with my girlfriends and I'd like to see more women enjoy videogames. I can't work up the angst to feel oppressed because I can't think of any time my gender has held me back. I love being a girl. It's fun to smell nice and curl my hair and wear eyeliner.
In addition to playing games like it's my job (!) I'm a hopeless tech geek. I build my own PCs ( meet Samus, my cubit ). I code Perl and PHP. I read historical fiction and fantasy. Sometimes I read history books for fun.
Even though I'm a gamer I think it's important to keep myself in shape, though I go through cycles of being lazy. To be active on a regular basis I run, do bikram yoga, bellydance, and skateboard. In the winter I snowboard. I'd like to learn to surf. Maybe this winter in Australia. :)

My Interests

smelling like vanilla, hot jasmine tea, blueberry muffins, a new game, a boy who smells nice, a jacket with fuzz on the inside, rosebud lip salve, agent provocateur lingerie, stamps in my passport, the first kiss, a feather bed, a hot bath, eating roasted marshmellows one layer at a time, waking up to purring kitties, calvin & hobbes, an accent, a big squishy chair, a pair of worn-in shoes, a new rollercoaster, breathing deep after a long run, dancing until my feet hurt, discovering a new TV series, taking off my shoes and wiggling my toes in the earth, holding my breath for the long shot

I'd like to meet:

err... the dread pirate roberts.

Music:

Tori Amos, Delerium, Frou Frou, Tool, Aria, E.S. Posthumus, Massive Attack, NIN, Fiona Apple, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Gorillaz, Garbage, Thievery Corporation, Jem, KT Tunstall, REM, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, Eskimo Joe, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Movies:

Spaceballs, The Princess Bride, Galaxy Quest, Shrek, Finding Nemo, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Others, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, Serenity, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Dangerous Beauty, Million Dollar Baby, Wedding Crashers, Collateral, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, Lost in Translation, Sin City, Thank You for Smoking

Television:

The Brak Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Spaced, Black Adder, Little Britain

Books:

Kushiel's Legacy trilogy (by Jacqueline Carey), Tir Allain trilogy and Black Jewels trilogy (by Anne Bishop), Sevenwaters trilogy (by Juliet Marillier), Harry Potter series (by J.K. Rowling), Ender's Game (by Orson Scott Card), The Diamond Age (by Neal Stephenson), Calvin and Hobbes (by Bill Watterson), His Dark Materials trilogy (by Phillip Pullman), Memoirs of a Geisha (by Arthur Golden), How to Make Love Like a Porn Star (by Jenna Jameson), Anything Discworld (by Terry Pratchett)

Heroes:

She-Ra, Rainbow Brite

My Blog

Wouldn’t You Know It

After my United flight-from-hell episode after QuakeCon, I can't claim to be a fan of the airline.  The truly unfortunate thing about this is United is where most of my frequent flyer miles are.&...
Posted by jinx on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:59:00 PST

Spoiled Rotten and Loving It

As a general rule the Frag Dolls are very fortunate.  We get paid to play games and travel around the country (and occasionally beyond) to attend all kinds of game-related events. We get free Ubi...
Posted by jinx on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:20:00 PST

Disguised as a Civilian

Last weekend, for what might be the first time since I became a Frag Doll, I treated myself to a little gamer vacation and caught a flight to Seattle to check out the World Cyber Games.  I love S...
Posted by jinx on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:18:00 PST

JRPG-o-Rama

I'm a fan of bizarre jRPG games with unlikely costumes and swords that weigh more than my house. I like plots that give people a blank look when I try to explain them.  I like classic battle syst...
Posted by jinx on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:17:00 PST

PCXL <3 Frag Dolls

Back in July PC Gamer released a video podcast behind-the-scenes of our photoshoot for a very special issue (and I don't mean that in the shortbus sense) of PC Gamer.  Everyone got a chance to se...
Posted by jinx on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:15:00 PST

Bitching About United

My friend doesn't work for United Airlines anymore, which means I feel like I can bitch freely about the company without doing him any harm.  I also get the sneaking suspicion that he's the reaso...
Posted by jinx on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:13:00 PST

Practically Evil

Some people think video games are just a diversion, but if you ask me they show us a lot about ourselves. Mirror of the soul, if you want to get poetic about it. How you act in a world without consequ...
Posted by jinx on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:15:00 PST

Arcade Fire

The Arcade Fire show last night was brilliant. I'm glad I went to it.  My friend Mark had offered me a spare ticket when one of his friends backed out, and even though I only vaguely knew who the...
Posted by jinx on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:17:00 PST

New Stuff: Apartment, Skateboard, Yoga, Bellydance

Time to blog... I have been remiss about recounting my latest adventures.Let's start at the beginning.I have moved ino my own apartment in Berkeley.  I've been here, um, 2 1/2 weeks now and I lov...
Posted by jinx on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:54:00 PST

My Daemon

Funny, I came out as a rabbit last time I took this. I guess it depends on my mood.... or my daemon hasn't settled yet. :)...
Posted by jinx on Wed, 23 May 2007 05:28:00 PST