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August 3rd, 2008
04:56 pm - My Crazy Weekend
Do not be suprised if this gets bigger as you refresh the page, because some much went on from the 17th to the 22nt of July that I barely remember myself. I now know what it is like to be murd0c.
So, the first thing on my list was the Jajo Fundraiser. There was a very good turn out, not my kind of people...if there is one thing I hate more than snooby slutty colage age art people, its drunk snobby slutty colage age art people. Overall everything went great and a ton of money was made. I should have pictures and video soon on here and my website after I do some errands, I also have some vids to put on YouTube of this and HOPE.
But before I get into HOPE, I also saw The Dark Knight in IMAX at 4:00 AM in the morning and it was well worth it. The movie was fantastic, best movie I have seen since The Matrix and on IMAX everything was so fucking huge I felt I was going to fall into the screen. If you have to see it than see it in IMAX. Still have not seen any other movie besides Wall-E wich was also excelent and I hope to get my ass in gear to see the rest. In short, this review sums it up nicely.
So after that it was time to sleep in the lobby using my super lounge chair and it was time to get my badge for hope. This is not detailed and my memory is fuzzy so bare with me here.
I got my badge by threatening the badge booth people and I head upstairs to a put together Mezzanine. It was very cool when it was all set up, with the vendors and Club Mate, the only drink that looks like piss and tastes like nothing. Project Telephreak gave us free phone calls, though there was one asshole there that I pwnd latter with a PLA sticker. I need to avoid that man in the future.
I wish the AMD project was up full and not still beta testing and crashing, but that ended up being the coolest thing at the con. I talked to some of the guys and I hope to pitch to the GDC MetaGame Group to use the RFID's in our badges so we can make fun floor games.
There were also a ton of artist there and it was all very cool stuff, good stuff that Jajo would be looking for. Here are some of the talks I saw at least in part:
- E-Mail: Descendant of the Telegram
- Hacking Cool Things With Microcontrollers
- The Attendee Meta-Data Project
- Monumental Women Who Influenced Today's Technology
- The New York City Taxi System: Privacy VS Utility
- How Do I Pwn Thee? Let me Count the Ways...
- Hacking the Mind, Hacking the Body: Pleasure
- Instalation Art in HOPE Space
- Reprimand Panel
- Bagcam - How Did TSA and/or the Airlines Manage to Do That to Your Luggage?
- Safecracking
- Hackatter Premiere
- Social Engineering
- Graffiti Research Lab Extravaganza
- What and Who is Anonymous?
- Grand Theft Lazlow - Hacking the Media by Laughing at Them
- Adam Savage Panel
- No Tech Hacking
- Closing Ceremonies
Lost to see this year, lots I missed. If you want to see them, you can find most of the talks on torrent here!
I had my own private panel in the Off-Track Zuse room titled "Video Game Homebrew VS Piracy". For a panel that was unlisted, with a lack of video game related stuff, no visuals, no demonstrations and only a few fliers for advertisements...it was fucking awesome. I had 4 people from the start and it ended up being at lest 16 people I counted who all ate it in. I am excited, I have two years now and I figure if that was the last minute talk and it turned out like that, I am very curious to how an Offical Listed Super Duper Version at a con would turn out.
Video of that will hopefully be coming soon!
What you can watch is our PLA Panel wich turned out better than I imagined it. We were packed with people and they fell for every single joke we planed and some we did not! I almost lost my bag there but then again I almost lost a ton of things at the con, including my awesome self-made Vader on a Segway T-Shirt from The Hacktory. If you would like to what went on you can see the abridged version below.
Or You Can Download The Entire Thing Here!
So afterwards we hung around and people took some pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.com/jammie718/071908HOPEPLAPanel
http://picasaweb.google.com/superherogirl/TheLastHOPE
Then we headed up to the Radio Statler project room and talked bullshit for two hours on radio. You can hear the entire mess at this link.
After that I took the A down to the L and went to Brooklyn to the Hacker Half-Way House Party. It was a very awesome party with lots of drinks and hot chicks, too bad the AC was broken and we were all baking in there.
Videos and pictures of this will also come soon!
So I then took the same rout back to Hoteln Pen where I tried to rest in the hammock room but they had loud videos there and after being disturbed by "Crack Heads Gone Wild", I shit you not that is what it was called, I left. Leo's room was full, so I ended up sleeping on the 6th Floor with the secret room on the leather couch.
After I woke up I ran into Chechire Catalyist and I took a picture of him. I need to send that to him latter on. I also added him to Twitter, I had no idea he had one.
So I was dicking around mostly while panicking about my potentially lost shirts when I got them back and I attended the closing ceramonies.
Then I went back home after helping Rob and everyone clean up and was rewarded with shwag from all the past HOPEs. It was one of the best times of my life and I cannot wait two years from now when I have some real shit to talk about for once.
Sadly, the bad news is that the IGDA meeting I lost my old SD card. The good news is that it is in a friend's Wii who comes to these meetings all the time so I am going ot ask him next meeting if I can get it back. I would go balistic if something happend to it.
On the tool front though, I have new tools! These include a very compack multi tool, keyhole saw, blow torch and more. By September, I am going to be like Felix the cat with his bag of tricks! Hay, everything I put in there ends up being used in emergencies at least once, and I mean everything! @,@;
So yup that is pretty much it. When I get home I have a flurry of phone calls to make and I will have finally got my external hard drive to solve my space problem. 500 gigs here I come!
P.S.
Alex Rogan-er-Robie....you rock!
-- Jordan
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