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the last [but not final!] HOPE...
Jul. 21st, 2008 11:57 ami'm sitting in laguardia, waiting for my flight back to chicago.
i'm so tired, but it's the good kind of tired. i was at The Last HOPE all weekend...which really isn't the final HOPE at all; i'm boundlessly excited for The Next HOPE in summer 2010. it was my first hacker con ever, and it was amazing.
a blow-by-blow of the con would be a little nonsensical, and probably very boring everyone who is reading this. either you weren't there and you therefore don't care about the minutiae, or you were there and you lived through all of it with me...and my words will be a pretty poor substitute for your own memories. thus, i won't subject you to one.
still...the phone losers talk on saturday night was a blast. i spend way too much time on the web posting on the PLA forums, and in IRC chatting in #phonelosers, that it was great fun meeting some of the people from there in real life. that was my favourite part of the con...the people. i loved meeting these people and being able to put faces and personalities to what had been words and avatars and handles for so many months, and i loved meeting more people through them, or by just running into them. yes, i also attended several very interesting and very educational talks on phone phreaking, computer hacking, and other wonderfully geeky topics, but that wasn't the main excitement for me.
i had no idea what to expect, since i had never been to anything like that before. but, it was wonderful, and i fully expect to be attending many more hacker cons in the future.
i'm so tired, but it's the good kind of tired. i was at The Last HOPE all weekend...which really isn't the final HOPE at all; i'm boundlessly excited for The Next HOPE in summer 2010. it was my first hacker con ever, and it was amazing.
a blow-by-blow of the con would be a little nonsensical, and probably very boring everyone who is reading this. either you weren't there and you therefore don't care about the minutiae, or you were there and you lived through all of it with me...and my words will be a pretty poor substitute for your own memories. thus, i won't subject you to one.
still...the phone losers talk on saturday night was a blast. i spend way too much time on the web posting on the PLA forums, and in IRC chatting in #phonelosers, that it was great fun meeting some of the people from there in real life. that was my favourite part of the con...the people. i loved meeting these people and being able to put faces and personalities to what had been words and avatars and handles for so many months, and i loved meeting more people through them, or by just running into them. yes, i also attended several very interesting and very educational talks on phone phreaking, computer hacking, and other wonderfully geeky topics, but that wasn't the main excitement for me.
i had no idea what to expect, since i had never been to anything like that before. but, it was wonderful, and i fully expect to be attending many more hacker cons in the future.
