{"id":553,"date":"2007-05-07T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T22:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/05\/07\/another-indoor-byte-bash\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T17:14:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T22:14:36","slug":"another-indoor-byte-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/05\/07\/another-indoor-byte-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"Another indoor Byte Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/487812367\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/190\/487812367_cf6834f1b0.jpg?w=840\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/487812367\/\">Hero of the guitar<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/nicmcphee\/\">Unhindered by Talent<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tEach year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morris.umn.edu\/\">UMM<\/a>&#8216;s computer science folks have a end-of-the-year picnic called the Byte Bash. This year&#8217;s bash was Saturday passed, and unfortunately upheld the recent tradition of icky weather, being cool, damp, and dreary. Consequently we had it inside in the lab again.<\/p>\n<p>Thus instead of frisbee and hacky sack, the afternoon was devoted to highly geeky pursuits, including Sub-Evil Boy playing way too much &#8220;Guitar Hero&#8221; (pictured above).  We also ended up grilling large numbers of brats and burgers on little indoor electric grills, which just isn&#8217;t the same as charcoal outside :-).<\/p>\n<p>Still, fun was had, food was eaten, officers for next year were elected, and inflatable Mazda balls were juggled.  If you want to see too many pictures, head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nics_events\/sets\/72157600183936344\/\">my photo set from the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Back under quarters classes didn&#8217;t end until June, and we usually had <em>great<\/em> weather for the Byte Bash.  Since switching to semesters, however, and ending in early May, the track record has become <em>much<\/em> spottier.)<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hero of the guitar, originally uploaded by Unhindered by Talent. Each year UMM&#8216;s computer science folks have a end-of-the-year picnic called the Byte Bash. This year&#8217;s bash was Saturday passed, and unfortunately upheld the recent tradition of icky weather, being cool, damp, and dreary. Consequently we had it inside in the lab again. Thus instead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/05\/07\/another-indoor-byte-bash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another indoor Byte Bash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,17,11,20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-8V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":551,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/05\/05\/24-hours-of-flickr\/","url_meta":{"origin":553,"position":0},"title":"24 Hours of Flickr","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"5 May 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Popu, originally uploaded by fraud_art. 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