Hey there.....
This year I'm gonna try and do a live Defcon log or whatever....
So I might as well start now!
Entertaining things to note: Defcon is over the weekend I'm supposed to move out and move into a new place which is like 2 blocks from the place I'm living at now. So in order to go to dc, I have to put my stuff in storage about 2 miles away, and then go to defcon and then move stuff from storage to the new place that is 2 blocks from here. Pain in the ass.
Saturday August 16th
Yay! I finally have all my shit out of the storage place I have to go back on Monday to get a deposit. Its this crappy thing called New West Fest in my town- its another excuse to close off a bunch of streets in Old Town Fort Collns and make everyone who lives here misterable because they can't go anywhere and not have to like park 3 blocks from thier houses. Some people seem to like it they have grills and stuff set up at thier houses. I guess I would like it more if today wasn't the last day i had to move stuff into my apt..
Kinda funny tho: Better than Ezra is playing a set right n front of the store I work at in about 10 minutes
What else? This is day two of no internet That's like no big deal cept I wanna post stuff so you can read it.
Meep.
August 9th
Ok, so i moved. And finally got internet access and here's the final update like a week late or something. --Jackalope
This is the diary: it got totally out of order, so just kinda follow along, in order or out if you would like....
Sunday August 4th
Today started at 10am, getting up and stumbling into the dealers room, where nether of the two tables I was gonna try and sell things at had its occupants present. I stopped by Tommy Pickle's booth where Banshee was covering.
Here's the story...When I got here on friday, I spent some time looking for the person to talk to to get DC passes and I ended up in the Press room and then eventually in the Speaker check in room where I saw V1ru5 of dis.org and this guy in a suit with pictures of the big blue car. He was rafflng a blue chevy used to be cop car off for $10 a ticket.
I'd talked to Banshee earlier in the day: she said she'd hitchiked here.
Black and white ball comes up..and now Banshee has a ride home. Its completely silly.
Ok so anyway:
Today was mostly staying in the Dealer's room helping Green Sector out. Lunch at mr Lucky's at Hard Rock. Back to the dealer's room. After the dealer's room closed, I went to the ballroom with v1ru5 and we watched the crazy wall of shameness, which had degraded into showing the contents of the laptops of the ballroom.
It became time for the Awards, so I'm not sure if you would call this a presentation, but I went there. I heard lots of fun stories about the things that happened at Con.
The wardriving team who won: they heard go West and well..went wardriving in L.A. well, if you're gonna win, why the hell now? This envoked the story of the Shmoo Group from last year using a HELICOPTER to wardrive.
The cowhead from the Scavenger hunt.
Kevin Mitnick and his gf and one other won the hacker Jeopardy. How cool is that?
(hee hee Kevin touched me! he walked by and kinda touched my shoulder...hee hee! maybe i'll get to meet you sometime)
Cannonball run. Let's see, how to enter this from Denver?
So right now its 6:50pm. Pool party time. There's a party at pool 3 that i'm supposed to play at, of course now this isn't going to get uploaded until I get home though, rats.
More later.
Ok, the later part...written on Tuesday night around 12:55am, hm that would be Wednesday morning I guess....
Time passes and I went to the pool party which was being hosted by Vandal and Cesar and a huge table full of every alcoholic beverage possible, suggested by Dark Tangent at the Awards Ceremony Its dark out..
So on the way there we encounter either some hotel security or goons talking to a random person about some crazy incident that had more of less just occured. Typical weird DC stuff, so we keep walking and I jump into the pool.
In the pool I encounter these guys who I later found out was from Houston who were passing around a mystery concoction in a tropicana twister bottle. Being one of the only 2 girls on that side of the pool with normal DC generosity towards girls (ie get them drunk so they get naked) take a drink and check out the fruity goodness. Cesar (eep, or Vandal, memory is super blurred at this point) comes up to me at the pool around now and asks if I want to spin records. Of course I do, so I get out and wander off with Skydog for 10 minutes to get records and head back.
Now for some reason Cesar seemed all freaked out about letting me play, but hey, what can you say? = )
I got on decks and proved my point pretty fast only to be told by an official AP security guard to turn the decks 100% off...well nice one....ok great, its one of my friends stretched out on a pool chair having a bad moment with alcohol. Big frowny frown here. Two reasons: its my friend damnit so i hope she's ok, and it got the party at Pool three and at pool two shut down.
This turned into weird drama for me, which i wont bother going into. I'm nice, and I like my friends so I was trying to help. (somewhere around here, Vandal and I encountered a goon, i think it was Cal -ugh correct me if i'm wrong!- and he was asking us questions about the weird incident with Shatter which was why there was weirdness when I was walking up to pool three)
The story as far as I can piece it together:
guy started screwing with Shatter and eventually hit him. Shatter hit him back, and I think that was that. I wasn't there, so I dont know the whole story, but less the real truth, but I dont think its like Shatter to just haul off and hit someone.
Golgo and I ended up hanging out at the pool an hour or so later after this. Golgo went to hang out with 303 with Cy and they eventually ended up at the bar and missed all the poolside drama. So it was Flea, Golgo, Flea's giant bottle of half and half mixed Screwdriver,and I at the pool talking to everyone who walked past. This was a blast.
The Portland crew came back our way and we decided to have Afterparty with the Green Sector crew. I'm sure this lasted a long time..cept at that point between the GIANT bloody mary I'd been drinking on the initial way to the pool party and the 1/2 and 1/2 screwdriver and 3 beers so I was pretty done which was a bummer.
Returned down to the st tropez where golgo and I participated in Pukecon and felt lots better and went to sleep, only of course for me to be hellahung over the next morning.
August 5th (monday)
Not much going on... got up about an hour later than we were supposed to to pick up KEndra AKA Jiggles and take her to the Fort.
(I will try and remember to write about the Burger King event where I "regulated!" the manager or whatever she was. That was just stupid irresponsible drama caused by employees not paying any attention to the ONLY customers they had in the store as well as in the drive through)
nuff for now.
Saturday August 2nd (written at like 6pmish on sunday)
Hey there I missed a day...mostly because I dont have a laptop, so maybe next year I will have one So I am borrowing a laptop from my boyfriend Golgo to type on and upload stuff.
Saturday:
What I did: ummmm made it to the dealer room at 9:45 and after a quick confrontation with a security guard, I got let in and got to drop off some CDs with Green Sector (thank you soooo much!)...
after that....hm I'm not sure, there's lots of ways to waste time at DC without actually doing anything. I'm the mistress of that, especially since now that i'm busy writing this on Sunday, I have been here since Defcon 7 and still have NEVER made it to any conferences...
(this is where the dinner at hard rock with the haxxxorpr0n.com dvd playing on a apple laptop took place....if you ever want good service, show pornography at your dinner table while you are eating. )
Time passes, and I went to the black and white ball. That was pretty interesting, I got there and the poor dj guy who was spinning before Corrupt Data was like playing the Best Trance Anthems of 2001. The lights there kicked ass, thanks to BINK and his helper monkeys. Corrupt Data kicked everyone's lame ass, that was really really awesome you guys! Thanks for putting the hours to make that set.
My set got plagued with crazy turntable needle problems, but eventually got fixed. I am going to try and post my set on orbiszine.com sometime soon, I have to put some hours in fixing the file, as of yet I haven't heard it.
I had fun, I hope you did too.
After the set, I wandered around with Golgo and Jesse and Bascule...eventually wandering into the Jinx suite...good seeing you guys...and ending up at pool 3 with the crazy pool party. Golgo was hella tired, so we ended up wandering back to the room at like 2:45....
AND came back to our accidental roommate, Mark, asleep in front of the toilet looking kinda like he was preforming some oral on himself...totally sleeping....we tried to wake him up and that didnt work, so Golgo and I opted to take a shower since Mark was obviously not waking up anytime soon. About 45 minutes later, Mark woke up, and promotly tried to get into bed and promtly tripped and fell on the floor..and eventually ended up in his bed.
ok nuff for sat.
August 1st 10pm
Ok so hell with my nice formatting. I am sitting in the main geek ballroom of DC after Golgo has been nice enough to get his computer ready for me to type stuff into it and write things in it.
I will have CDs available starting tomorrow (Sat) at the Green Sector in the main dealer's room...look for all the awesome flourscent shit that glows and there should be cds for like $5 or $6 at the table. Shadowvex's cd is pretty darn cool as well.
I'm glad kinkos is so close to here. I've been there three times today.
I am also missing the forum meeting because of this computer thing, PLEASE come up and introduce yourselves to me! I'll be playing at the black and white ball at 11pm i think..check out the events magazine thing that they gave you at registration.
Insteresting things i have seen today: V1r5s.... A crazy XXX pr0n video for sale in the dealers room...and um, that's about all. Yay they are playing Aphex trin at capture the flag now....
Tomorrow's post will be much more intersting. Being shoved in a car for 15 hours with people does wonders to your ass.
So its like the get out apt countdown and the DC countdown as well.
but first, I have to be a super geek and run a 40 person Magic the Gathering prerelease at the comic/game store i work at today.
7/26/03
Forest Green is in town from San Francisco to play at my friend Corey's party. Cool to hang out with her.
Tuesday Night 7/29/3
Ugh I stayed up until freaking 4am trying to get my kitchen cleaned. Moving is not happy. At least I am working on getting done finally. Now its time to take my computer down, finish the shizz and then make it to defcon so I can add some more rocking news to this thing.
Sunday Night 7/27/3
Yay happiness is a lot of random friends with girlfriends who come to help you move stuff out of your apartment.
Today I got some stuff moved and got the Don't Try This At Home Steve-O video 2. It was worth the $9 including shipping i paid for on ebay. That shit is just like wrong. Its all about the Jackass tour. The fucked up thing is that its about a TOUR. These people went on TOUR to bad college places and sold out all thier shows. I probably would've gone.
These insane people (including me of course) are planning on doing live updates about Defcon while at Defcon..... Check out what else is supposed to be going on and what you missed since you can't be everywhere at once...er can you???
(please link your site to here, so we all know what other crazy people like yourself are up to)
Converge's site: CK3k's Site: http://ck3k.stotan.org/defcon/
This is Fused's site: http://www.th3untouchables.org
Telco88 from the forum's site: http://defcon.pdx-tech.com
Boogah's blog: http://gominosensei.org/
ttye0's site http://www.binarii.com/defcon/defconxi