Chris Gerling

I’ll have a more detailed writeup of my experience at Shmoocon this year sometime during the week. For now I am relaxing back at the Hak5 house and thankfully have the day off tomorrow to recover from what was one hell of a weekend.

I managed to attend G Mark Hardy’s talk as well as Simple Nomad’s which were both excellent as expected. The live show we did on Friday had a bit of a “glitch” and no audio made it to the recording. These things happen and we’ll rebound from it. I made some new friends and contacts, and learned a lot of fun new things as usual.

surbo from http://www.i-hacked.com got us into Katsucon Friday night, and that was a total blast. Saturday was the Shmoo party and that was a lot of fun as well. The alcohol tab lasted a LOT longer this year than last. I didn’t do too much drinking though.

More later, as I need to unwind.

We’re only two days away!  It seems this conference just gets better each year it runs.  I wonder if there will be a bigger venue next year, haha.

The live show is ~9pm Friday and should be really fun.  We’re having some very cool guests.  It will be the last time I will be having alcohol until after my surgery unfortunately, but I will enjoy it.

If you or anyone you know has an extra Shmoocon ticket I would like to get Christine in.  There only seems to be one left on ebay worth pursuing and I don’t know if I will be at the computer in 4 hours to take a shot at it.

Somehow I managed to snag a $150 open registration ticket.  The $75 tickets were all reserved in under a half second from the time the webserver hit 12:00:00 amazingly.  I had even synchronized my system’s clock to it, but alas, no dice.

Happy New Year to everyone, and I hope you all had as good a time as I did last night.