Craptop battle more like it. First, I must say that the bar at Nocturnal was like being back in high school. I was standing there for five minutes while good looking people would come up and get immediate service. And it wasn’t even that crowded.

The actual laptop battle was eight geeks with preprogrammed tracks on their laptops pretending to play things. My friend made it past the first round where they went head-to-head two at a time. In the second round he lost to a guy playing ambient music which, to me, sounds like the crap they put on public radio at night to help people get to sleep. I left soon afterwards when this guy started mixing in noises from a cheap 80’s video game. Ah, well. It was fun hanging out with the kids. If I was judging it, the funkier stuff would have won and the whalesong crap would have gone back to the new age store. OK, so it wasn’t as bad as whale songs, but you get the idea.