DefCon X

[bolson]

Thu Aug 8 01:18:29 PDT 2002

Thursday night, old friend from 7th grade on, Genevieve, comes up to SB.
Saw Minority Report, good, I think. Good while watching, minimal after 
effect. Friday morning we drove to Las Vegas for DefCon 10 (or 'X' or 
'0A', depending on your preferred numbering system). My car's "Check 
Engine" light only came on a couple times near the Nevada border. I think 
I'm going to have to get used to living with an increasingly piece of shit 
car over the next few years. Got there in time for the last two sessions 
of the day, they had started at 11am, which we could have made if we left 
at 5am, but we left around 9. oops. Decent dinner. Back to the conference 
area to hang out with all the other hacker types there. Gen spent much of 
the night trying to get her linux laptop working on the network there. The 
network was a bit flakey, my Mac was partially working on the net since 
around 4pm, but I got it stabilized that night and didn't have any 
problems after that.

Random milling about and trying to be social with other people who also 
aren't terribly good at it is often futile.

There were lots of little lecture-workshops to go to. About half of them 
sucked and didn't have anything either useful or entertaining to say. I'd 
like to say there were lots of really good hackers there, but 
unfortunately that doesn't include all the lecturers.

Friday night was good. It was definitely a party night and I got dressed 
up for it. Black dress shoes and socks. Black shorts. White shirt. Dark 
Escher tie. And most of all, the hooded black bath robe. I was 
complimented on it a couple times, most satisfyingly by the girl I 
proceded to flirt with for the next hour. There are nice hacker chicks out 
there! At UC Davis, appearantly.

Then, at about 2am sunday morning, Gen got her networking functional.  
After checking her email and such, she insisted that I escort her back to
the hotel room. I would post a picture of the sexy vinyl she was wearing, 
but I think she'd object. Anyhow, I left nice hacker davis girl with my 
email address and haven't heard from her since. Even with my escort, Gen 
got a couple random driveby hoots. Better, I suppose, than the 5+ she said 
she got on the way between hotel and confrence.

Drive back sucked. 7.5 hours in hot nevada/california desert afternoon. 
And with engine weakness, no AC up hills. Got home fine eventually, and so 
ends my trip to defcon x.

Thu Aug 8 01:39:14 PDT 2002