After a bout of vehicular difficulties, we hit the road for the second time, just a bit late.
Then we made the mistake of using the George Washington bridge, and if you're going to wait 2 hours to to pay an $8 toll, you may as well take a photo of it.
We finally arrived at the party after 11:30PM on Friday, it's a hostel in a converted barn.
Jason Scott was giving a screening of his documentary 'Get Lamp'
The main computer hall, an amazing clash of decor and inhabitants.
Meanwhile, the firepit is all warmed up.
A 'spirit taken' circles the folks around the fire.
It was a great night to see the stars.
My countrystyle accomodations.
Ferris and cTrix represent.
Barzoule cooks up lunch on the grill.
Todd and the_kat present their entries in the @chef competition. The secret ingredient was apricot flavored black tea. They made a tea-smoked Lobster and apricott tea ice cream.
Jimmythehorn's entry, a lamburger marinated in the tea with apricott preserves.
Yom!
The GAMBIT sponsored dinner was delicious.
Oxygenstar plays his set before the compos.
cTrix does his Amiga-based dance music.
The room is packed.
More of the packed room.
Jimmythehorn, the fire master, builds another nice one.
Lovely effect.
Bratwurst roasting over an open fire...
Metoikos presents the awards.
Krue accepts a prize for his wild compo entry, a USB flashable Colecovision cartridge system.
Madbrain and Coda accept a prize in the 8-bit music compo.
cTrix accepts his first trophy for 8-bit music.
Luis Accepts his trophy for interactive fiction.
Nom de nom and RV6502 accept their prize in the old school demo compo.
Phoenix of the DC5 takes a prize for "Scrollerama".
cTrix takes another a trophy for the Syntax Party Crew's old school demo.
Tims won first place in freestyle graphics.
Coda takes another award in freestyle music.
cTrix rounds out the hat trick taking 1st place in freestyle music.
The @chef winners, the_kat, Jimmythehorn, and Todd.
The competitor curtain call.
Jason Scott, bw, and madbrain in the kitchen.
Ferris and cTrix compose an @party collage.
Tims used these 'blinders' to stay focused while creating his winning graphics piece.
The hostel manager keeps quite a few bees, and is coming in from a session of maintaining her hive cluster. The End
