The Adventures of Monkey Business

   Event : 

   Monday,  29th  January - Burn's night dinner. Compsoc's attempt to eat
   REAL food and not drink coffee for one night. All the haggis, nips and
   tatties  you  can  shove  down  your throat. Oh and whisky wouldn't go
   amiss.

   Report :

   Well, it started off ok. Me, Paul and Simon did most of the cooking of
   course,  as  we  get  to  about  as  real life as we can get. So, Paul
   attempted  to  make Microsoft Haggis v2.0 - a bit like haggis, but not
   the  real  thing  of  course.  But  it  did  do  a  pretty good job at
   pretending  to  be  it. Anyway, besides Mark and Micheal moaning a lot
   about  what's  not  being  do  right,  I  thought  we did an ok job of
   cooking.  Of  course,  the  Weakest Link was on while we eat the night
   away.  And one by one left and PotatoHead was the last one to leave at
   11pm  -  it  was  relatively quiet night - the whisky wasn't even half
   drunk. Anyway, as usual, I got lumbered with the washing up afterwards
   ... Geeks eh?


   Event :

   Friday,  2nd February - Coding night. This game thing will finally get
   away  on  my  kitchen table and Mark's laptop. (Yeah, anyone who has a
   laptop, bring it).

   Report :

   After  coming  back  from  a very tiring rugby training session, I was
   greeted  by  the  prospect  of  having  Compsoc  round  for  a massive
   all-nighter coding session. Oh boy, the fun eh? So, having half of the
   geeks  arriving  by  9.30pm, we had to wait ages for the other half to
   turn  up  before  we could start - not mentioning any names - Micheal,
   Mark and Paul! So, after waiting and watching loads of tv, it was 12am
   before we could start. Pretty good going eh?

   Another  2  hours followed while we talked about what this game was to
   entail  and what it was to include, until I said to them that we can't
   possibly  start  writing  a game which included a virtual environment,
   RPG,  chat  and  networking  all  in  one  go  -  it'll take years for
   professionals  to  it,  so  how can we have a go as our first project?
   After  another  hour of convincing them of this, half the kids decided
   to  leave - Paul to start of with, so I think he lose at least 10 geek
   points  for  not making it through the night. Not to mention Bruce and
   Alex left soon after too ... We had a brief interlude of Mark noticing
   a fire across the block. I told him to leave it - but after persuasion
   from  him and the Monkey that we should phone the Fire service, I did.
   The  woman  on  the  other  end of the phone didn't believe me at all.
   Which  I  was  a  bit annoyed about. I passed the phone to Mark and he
   convinced  her  to  come  and check it out. So after not believing me,
   they sent 3 fire engines round to make up for it! Anyway, they managed
   to  put  the  fire  out and the rest of the night entailed me and Mark
   installing Linux on Alex's laptop, and David playing some random game,
   while  me  and Micheal decide to work on the version 1 of this virtual
   environment that we were suppose to write.

   In  the  pipeline  ...  The  Compsoc "The Weakest Link" Night. Can you
   imagine?  All the "Weakest link" you can ever watch. All the imitation
   of Anne Robinson too. Can you afford to miss it? I think not!