a couple of weekends ago, the lads and i continued a tradition of very strange quarterly behavior. for over two years, jason, zip and i have garnered confused looks from friends and family by packing up unwieldy computer equipment and hauling said assets to a location somewhere south of atlanta for the better part of a saturday afternoon. why do we do this? a lanparty,my friends. the epitome of geekdom in action. what is a lanparty? break it down. lan, or local area network. party, as in a bevy of like-minded folks intent on amusement. and believe it or not, it’s almost always worth the effort.
i might never be able to explain just why. i know that most folks would never dream of hooking up 30 or more machines just to compete in any number of faux violent video games. so rather than analyse why, i’ll just share a handful of photos from february 8′s gamenight:
- the three of us, setting up camp in an unfinished basement wired pseudo-professionally with network cable.- jason, taking his quaking very seriously.
- the mighty zip, radiating an air of confidence and elan.
- and then there’s me, bearing an unfortunate facial expression and employing a pointless finger wag.
this effort might not inspire a since of understanding, but at least it shows that the people that attend such gatherings are perfectly normal. right?
