Project Noob Box

Some of you may be aware of my penchant for Lan Parties; the gathering of people for the purpose of connecting computers together and playing games.   Now you may say that it's not cool and we are nerds, and those statements would be undeniably accurate.  You'll find we don't mind though as after all, there are worse groups to be associated with such as the Australian Labor Party.

As we have aged these parties have evolved with us.  While it is still best described as several puerile males embracing their computers and eating junk food, there is another group that needs mentioning; the families.  These annexed members now quite often out number the lanners.  Their needs can not be disregarded as it's become as much about them as us.  Disastrous to be sure, but unavoidable.

Inconceivably it seems that there is a limit to the number of times a female can watch "The Notebook" or "A walk to Remember".  The girls have practically begged us to let them play with us*.  So I have come up with a solution.  I disassembled 3 old PC's and installed them in a primitive box dubbed "the Noob Box".  Now we have three spare computers that the girls can play on when they get bored with gossip.  Problem solved.

At this point even I will concede that the Noob box is on the dark side of geekishness.  Enjoying Lans is one thing, building a computer project specifically for it is another.  But what fun is life if we can't explore the dark side sometimes?

*denotes a presumptuous and most likely false statement