it's official: we rock, and that sucks?

[fox]

so i was up all night morning playing in the Williams Trivia Contest with sanj, ellen_fremedon, miraielle, darthrami, strange_selkie and associates, and after careful tabulation it turns out that the team of Deine Mutter Ist Geekenwermachtstaffle (Your Mother Is A Geek Army, i.e. us) is the winner.

which means that (a) we have to run the next trivia contest -- note that not one of us is actually in Williamstown, MA -- and (b) something Very Big has happened because remote teams don't win, and thus pretty soon fire will rain down from heaven and only the worthy will be saved, or something.  i don't quite get what the big stuss is, except in the way that the first time anything happens it's a harbinger of the sort of change people who do traditional things don't like.  and i can get behind that.  but i also like winning.  so, cool, and the odds are overwhelming that i can't be in Williamstown to help actually run the actual thing in may, but whatever, it has been and will continue to be fun.  :-D


oh, also, welcome-back bop at college tonight, and cannons_at_dawn came by for a bit, and that was cool, and then she left and i stayed, and kept drinking, and things are fun.  i like my college and my college-mates.  they are cool.  but i should probably go to sleep now, and see if i can't groove myself back into this time zone.

Comments

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

There was actually an entire argument about whether to use ein or not - S arguing for ein and the girl from Germany arguing not for it, and there was some quibble with the spelling as well, but I forget exactly what that was - it was supposed to be -el, not -le, and for a few heated minutes this was Very Serious Business, apparently. I was hiding in the corner.

But the wehrmachtstaffle part was completely made up on our part, we were waffling with words for army and words for brigade and words for squadron, and decided just to smush them together.

[datlowen.livejournal.com]

Aha. That makes sense. I feel better now that I'm not actually calling out someone who lived there.