Less than 24 hours until Nerdapalooza

Posted in bart, meetings, geekery, defcon, bbq, food, curry on August 11th, 2006 by MarkBallew

I need to be to Bart by 6:30am to catch my train to get a ride in Oakland to attend Nerdapalooza ‘06. It’s going to be like a vacation after my trip to Defcon, which was also like a vacation. Yes, I still need to post those photos and do a run down, but for some strange reason I am hyper and sugar buzzed. Maybe it was something in the curry I had at Naan ‘n Curry for dinner, or I’m excited for yet more geekout time.

I plan to:
* Drink (Jason is driving)
* Swim (not while drunk)
* Geekout
* Eat bbq-like objects

Now if I could only sleep. I guess I will just sit here and bounce on my yoga ball in front of the computer until I get tired.

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The final ramping up for Defcon

Posted in mark ballew, linux, geekery, hacking, defcon, tshirts on August 1st, 2006 by MarkBallew


The room is reserved, the Wiki is updated and tshirts and hats have been printed for Hacker Jeopardy thanks to BigEdog.

I haven’t even selected what talks I’m going to yet, I suppose I’ll update that tomorrow. Even though some people have flaked, it is still going to be the biggest turn out of my friends doing anything, ever, plus meeting new people I’ve never met before in person. I even printed up business cards for the occasion.

So let’s say you are going to the con, and you want to track me down? Well, look for me in the official llama-tipping shirt, you can’t miss it. These are printed coutesy of Finnie.org, of Finnix fame. He’ll be handing out CDs of his Linux distro — ask him for a signed copy. Beware, I will be representing the pro-zombie platform this year, so if you run Windows, I might just try to eat your brain.


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