Well, the day came and went. Undoubtedly some of you are scratching your heads, trying to figure out what an Electrabbit B-Day LAN Party is. Let’s break it down (yo, yo): “electrabbit”, short for Electronica rabbit, on in other words, “Alex the Techno Bunny”:http://www.kyleandkelly.com/vids/techno-bunny.shtml. His birthday (or b-day), was on February 28th; he’s now a healthy spoiled three years old. It sounded like a good excuse to party.
*Disclaimer:* if what follows seems to ramble a bit, you’ll have to cut me some slack as “I was under the influence”:http://www.kyleandkelly.com/scribbles/family_news/bleh/, so to speak.
I had been wanting to host a LAN party for awhile now, so everything just kinda fell together; hence the Electrabbit B-Day LAN Party. For those not steeped in geek terminology, a LAN party is when everyone brings their computer. All of the computers getted hooked up to a network (the LAN), meaning they are all interconnected; kind of like a minature version of the Internet.
There are a variety of multiplayer video games out there that allow everyone on a network to play with each other. From “killing each other”:http://wormsarmageddon.team17.com/ to “waging war”:http://www.blizzard.net/war3/ to playing “puzzle games”:http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/pop-pop/, there’s quite a variety. Enough variety that we were up until 2:30 AM playing 
It was quite the scene in our basement; picture ten computers packed into one room, with all of their attendant cabling. We had power strips plugged into power strips in something reminiscent of “A Christmas Story”:http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:61491. The center of the table, which had the network hub (a piece of hardware for connecting computers together), was a massive mess of cables converging on one point.
To top things off, we decided that since this wasn’t just any LAN party, but an Electrabbit B-Day LAN Party, it needed a definite Electronica/Techno/Rave theme. The only lighting down in the basement was provided by two black lights, and “glowstick bling bling”:http://www.buyglow.com/ was prevalent. Background music was provided by a mix of “mainstream electronica”:http://www.calvin.edu/archive/abstraction-chat/200402/0607.html and “Lord Slumber’s”:http://www.siteslumber.com “The Best Electronica You’ve Never Heard”, AKA lantracker. To top things off, we took the recipe for a “kitty litter cake”:http://www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/dessert/cakes/kittylittercake.html and modified it slightly, replacing the kitty poop with Snickers Poppables for rabbit droppings.
We broke the video games up with several rounds of Hillarium, which Josh (my cousin) won. His prize was a selection, drawn out of a Meijer bag of mystery, from my collection of dollar store video games; he got lucky and drew out “Oregon Trail”:http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/ot1.gif (speaking of, how’s that “WCW Nitro”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00002SW4Q/002-5580212-4383218?v=glance going for you Katie?).
As usual, I dominated in the video game aspect.
In closing, a quick thank you to those who came, and to those who didn’t (come on John, 800 miles is nothing for a party this cool). We especially missed Robb’s horde of death monkeys. Over and out.
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