Linuxfest Wrapup

Well, yesterday was a pretty busy day. After sleeping in (happens when the night before you go to watch a Hockey game at your buddies place, and you don't get in till 3:30am due to checkstops on the highway), I rushed around to pick up OJ, Cuvarak and Arcterex and headed to the border of the good ol' USA. The crossing was pretty uneventful, and to Arcterex's dismay, he did not get a body cavity search.

The actual Linuxfest was ok. They got a lot more people then they expected, so much so we couldn't get into the Maddog presentation because the room was so packed. I'm ok with that, since I have heard Maddog speak like 3 times, but it would have been nice for some of the others to get an opportunity. Cuvarak snuck a peek a few times and got to listen in, but the rest of us went outside and enjoyed the sun. Of course, by this time we scored all the shwag we could, and I walked away with a Knoppix CD, FreeBSD DVD, NetBSD box set, a few shirts and a pretty good book entitled "Inside the Security Mind" by Kevin Day, which was a great find to add to my Security Library.

After a pretty good presentation from Crispin Cowan on the wrap up from the last DefCon hacking content put on by the Ghetto hackers, we decided to bail and head down to a friendly pub and drink back a few beers with Illiad. In the process of drinking some pretty good Guiness, a deck of cards was found and a killer game of Hearts broke out between seven of us. OMG did I get spanked. And I was one of the few people who knew how to play. *sigh* Never played with so many people. Made the game much more interesting.

Once we had enough of that, we headed back to Canada and ended up at Arcterex's place to watch Minority Report and snarf back some pizza. I originally thought it was going to be a corny movie, but it ended up being pretty good. Finally content with being out for the day, we wrapped up and I was home in time to catch the end of SNL.

Today I am just taking it easy and auditing some of my code. I twisted my ankle in Bellingham a bit (this was BEFORE the beers to make it even more embarrassing) and my ankle has swollen to a point that I have to stay off it. I think I will just lay back and let the day flow by for a change and just enjoy laying on the couch, reading source code on the laptop and relaxing. TTYL