PreThanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner
Historically, these were hosted by Chris. It started back in 1989 when Chris, Brian and Eric were living in Sutton Apartments. Chris provided the turkey, and some trimmings, and people brought other dishes. Also, it has become one of the classic times to introduce new geeks to the group. In 1996 it was hosted at Adam's father's house. In 1997 and 1998 it was hosted at Steve's apartment.

[Starting year confirmed as 1989 by a 1991 email invitation from Chris calling that year's one "the 3rd annual Pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving."]

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Davin's end of semester party
I lived in the dorms for my first 3 semesters at UB. Then, in Fall 89, I moved off campus to 4801 North Bailey Ave (sharing with one of my ex dorm suitemates, Adam Rosenberg). So, since I could, I decided to throw an end-of-semester, pre-finals, study-break party. I invited all the people that I knew in Buffalo: the cs people, my dorm friends, and my friends from Hillel. The party went okay, except that it rapidly broke into those three groups!

The next December, I threw another one of those parties. And again the year after. In May 92 (my housemate at that time was Bud) I threw a party too, and it became a semi-annual event from then on. As the years moved on, a greater and greater percentage of the people there were csgeeks, but I still invite a whole bunch more people than just the csgeeks list.

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Dancing on the last weekend in October
It began in 1989 as a celebration of Brian's birthday. A group of us started going out to dance in Niagara Falls NY on the last Saturday night in October. This is a cool night, because it is an hour longer than other nights, due to the time change. Also, it is usually the Saturday nearest to Halloween. We used to go to a club called The Late Show, because it admitted under 21's too. However, it changed management and then closed in recent years, so in 1994 we went to Fusions instead. There was no annual dancing event in 1995. In 1996, this weekend coincided with Matt and Sandy's wedding - so there was indeed much csgeek dancing that night!

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Movies on Friday nights
Friday night is the standard csgeeks movie night. Some number of us usually go to a movie most Fridays, with the number ranging from 3 up to more than 15, for popular movies.

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Greg's Start of Semester Barbecue
Since Fall 92, Greg has hosted a barbecue on approximately the weekend prior to classes starting. This has taken place rain or shine or snow! ("Ain't propane wonderful" - Greg) This tradition ended when Greg left Buffalo (first to Rochester, and then to Detroit).

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Racquetball
Since about 1994, more csgeeks have taken up playing racquetball. Or, it might be that case that we only then discovered that others also played racquetball. Anyway, the rqb players include: Adam, Alistair, both Chris's, Davin, Elyse, Greg, John, Raf. In the latter half of 1995 we ran a Round Robin racquetball tournament, in order to generate initial rankings for a Ladder. The Ladder tournament never got off the ground. However, many of us who are in Buffalo (together with a bunch of non-csgeeks) still play racquetball regularly.

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Weekly TV
Beginning when Babylon 5 started airing, there have been regular TV-watching sessions at the apartment in Amherst Manor. It sort-of migrated from gaming into "non-gaming" and TV watching. Initially it was just B5, but then also XFiles, Millenium, etc. And then also Crusade, when it began 1999.

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Usenet
Like all good geeks, reading Usenet news is a must. However, here is a set of interesting/fun newsgroups that a fair bunch of csgeeks read:

• clari.living.bizarre
• rec.humor.funny
• sunyab.mlists.dev-null
• sunyab.offline
• sunyab.cs.offline
• comp.risks