LAN Parties

The ultimate geek party. I've been to several of them for World of Warcraft, but only found out today that they have a name. LAN Parties. They occur when geeks amass at one house to play computer games with each other (ex. Diablo 2, WOW, . Computers can be found anywhere there is room for them, with cables running across the room like an Indiana Jones trap.

It's the ultimate group of friends. No one's going to care if you're wearing makeup (in my case) as long as your character is useful and you can wait your turn for loot drops. There's no awkward conversations about who's going out with who and 'what do think of her flakiness'. It's all, 'Let's keep to the walls so we don't draw the enemies' fire too soon,' and my favorite, 'Can anyone use this purple? It's not compatible with my characters armor/weapons'. Music to my ears.

There are friendships, enemies, and as I found out the hard way, mercenary farmers. That gets to be a touchy subject around friends when they kill you all for 'invading their turf'. Just wait til you have a group of level 80s and go hunting, my friends.

Trust me.

Cracked.com

I'm still waiting to become a staff writer at Cracked.com. Supposedly, a few days after you reply to a specific thread and say "I wanna write comedy for Cracked!" or some such variation, the staff will look over all of the posts and give the members access to the writer's workshop (along with a rather odd title, "Purveyor of Dick Jokes").

One month later...

Nada. There are a few people on my page of the thread that have been approved, but nothing more. I have an article ready and everything. Go cry me a river, you say? Well, it just so happens that I agree.

So, here I am trekking through the online jungle to find other websites that let people submit material. (-,-)