October 2006: Mid-NerdFest Dance

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October 2006

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In this exciting episode, our hero learns an important lesson about the importance of teamwork when he and his estranged colleagues have to come together to defeat an old arch-nemesis. No, wait, that was this week's episode of Popular Sci-Fi Television Show. This month... lots of stuff happens. As usual. And it makes the month go quickly, and it also makes us want to write about it - which explains the unusual punctuality of this update.

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Mid-NerdFest Dance

First, NerdFest = Awesome. It's this competition between Hillcrest (my building) and Main Campbell Hall (the other honors community) to see who is "better" as determined by a predetermined slate of 9 events. However, it had been decided that after about half of the events that we would have some kind of social event. This is what the powers that be decided to do: a dance in the style of a High School mixer. It had a really good turnout, with around 2/3 of the residents of both buildings at least making an appearance. Here's how it went.


Setting up for the dance with our DJ, Sexy Mitch. Here, a bunch of people help him finalize his playlist.
	The partygoers arrive and admire our wall art, including some programming code and a pair of taped up glasses.
Continuing around the room, there was: a pocket protector, the batman symbol, the spiderman symbol, DDR arrows, and the number i.
	Greg and his polygamous dates.
The two coolest guys at the party. Some bully broke my glasses when I told him that I was going to a nerdly dance.
	Some more cool posters: This would be the opening tag for a dance in HTML.
And this would be the close tag.
	Vange led the group in a line dance of sorts.
Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting, these two especially.
	And some people danced in the only way they knew how, with DDR arrows.
Thriller, complete with some coreography.
	Apparently Greg visited the 1930s to learn his dancing techniques.
The party was encroaching on the DJ's personal space.
	The Conga Line snakes its way through the partygoers.
Ssssssssllllllllooooooowwwww shutter speed.
	Look at those Main Campbellonians go!
Aww, poor Mitch. All alone, with nobody to dance with. Oh, and Happy Birthday, Elaine.
	Apparently there's something hardwired into Virginia Tech students that makes them behave oddly when Enter Sandman starts to play. I mean, I was worried about the structural integrity of the floor.
"w00t," says Jeremy. w00t indeed. Comments on this picture include "You make an old man proud, Peter"; "I always suspected you were a lady's guy, Peter"; and "Hot, with a capital H."
	It's fun to stay at the YMCA. Or Hillcrest. I mean Hillcrest.
And now for some posed shots: Kevin and I, complete with slide rule. Note my official TSA attire.
	And Mitch and I doing some fake modeling shots.
Look, I brought some cables. Doesn't everybody have cables?