The party last night was pretty insane, although without incidents as geeks are generally pretty decent drunks. I was the victim of a concoction that will probably become widely known as the “Evil Server” which had enough alcohol to put me down early enough to miss the IHOP adventure.

I am without a hangover, however, so I spent the last little while testing out a new gallery I hope to use with this blog so that I can embed pictures, or at least manage some of the photos I want online without having to use an external service, or the clunky interface that Coppermine has. Hopefully Gallery2 has a more streamlined interface. The URL is http://chrisgerling.com/pics/.

Hak5 Live starts up this month, which will have a little different angle than the regular show. I am going to be doing something for the next one most likely, gotta get to work on that.

I’ve also started looking into Second Life again after an interesting conversation/demo last night.

My referral link is http://www.secondlife.com/?u=f35129373e05bb0717abf5bb66873ff2 so if you feel like joining, I get something out of the deal I think.

Obviously I’ve neglected to mention much about what happened outside of Shmoocon this past weekend, mainly because I wanted the Shmoocon posts to be about Shmoocon, and not much else.

So here we go:

DC Sleeps Alone Tonight

I had never really partied in DC before, and it makes VA Beach look like an elementary school playground. There are so many places to go, it’s a bit overwhelming. I should’ve paid more attention to the actual names of the places we went, but I know The Reef, Bourbon, and Adams Mills were pretty decent.

Friday night involved roughly 50 people from the podcaster meetup at the Chipotle near the Marriott Wardman. It was basically a train of geeks bar hopping, and while we didn’t cause any damage or get into any trouble (c’mon, geeks!) it was very entertaining.

Saturday night was even bigger, with the entire Adams Mill bar being taken over by Shmoocon people. Picture well over a hundred geeks talking about linux or hacking or whatever with a billion attractive women walking around, and those women finding themselves lacking attention. Well okay i’m fibbing a little, but hey this is semi-professional right?

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