{"id":534,"date":"2006-04-14T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2006-04-14T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-15T00:08:00","slug":"like-diddy-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Like Diddy Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6250\/621\/1600\/rooster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6250\/621\/320\/rooster.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On Tuesday night, six men met in a darkened room to compete for glory. The fundraiser was a success in that it actually took place, the tech stuff all worked, people had a good time, and decent money was raised. It was a failure in that only seven people showed, but rumor has it the first iteration of an event like this is always poorly attended. I have many ideas for next time, so we&#8217;ll see if I can&#8217;t make this something a little bigger.  If you&#8217;re interested, my man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reid.cx\/?blog_id=31\">Del<\/a> has some pics up of the event &#8212; well, the set-up for the event, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.petercumbo.com\/\"> many<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/awebshite.blogspot.com\/\">fine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberjocks.com\/\">folks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gabsosteel.blogspot.com\/\">who<\/a> donated prizes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bungie.net\/\">Bungie<\/a> sent a box full of knick-knacks. I ended up with this little red dude as part of my 2nd place prize. Now Rooster* lives in my office, and I&#8217;m just not sure what to do with him. I feel he needs to be on display, both to up my geek cred (a necessity, since I dress like a management stooge and have to work with the IT guys) and to advertise for the next event. But where, and doing what? I am accepting suggestions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">*10 <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">B A Start<\/span> points to anyone who can guess why I named him that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday night, six men met in a darkened room to compete for glory. The fundraiser was a success in that it actually took place, the tech stuff all worked, people had a good time, and decent money was raised. It was a failure in that only seven people showed, but rumor has it the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}