Thursday 7-8-04 --pack things up 2200 -head to work 2220 -work all night Friday 7-9-04 0650 -leave work, head home 0730 -final check, everything loaded in car 0750 -hit the road 0905 -stop for toilet break 0910 -on the road again 1005 -arrive at bus station in Allentown, PA 1030 -catch bus heading to NYC 1235 -arrive in NYC at Port Authority Bus Terminal 1240 -take subway to Hotel PA 1250 -arrive at Hotel PA and get 5th HOPE badge 1255 -check into Hotel room 1305 -take stuff to room 1315 -meet with friends in the back of Wireless Panel 1400 -return to room and finish unpacking 1430 -purchase special "5th HOPE" lockpick set 1440 -head to Sbarro for pizza 1550 -up to 18th floor for Kevin Mitnick 1800 -after Kevin's keynote, time to hang out 1830 -met up with Lou for him to take stuff to our room 2000 -time for Cip'z presentation on Hacking Nanotechnology 2040 -Cipz lights up room with Microwaved lightbulb 2100 -Cipz performs extra demonstration in area "D" 2100 -I watch the extra demonstration while listening to "Off The Hook" on 99.5fm on my Walkman 2200 -listen to presentation on Hacker Spaces area "A" 2300 -listen to presentation on Pirate Radio area "A" 2400 -time to head to room and relax Saturday 7-10-04 0830 -time to wake up 0900 -breakfast time 1000 -experimenting with my laptop in my room 1100 -Lockpicking demonstration 1300 -Steve Wozniak "The Woz" keynote 1500 -time for a short break and snack 1600 -The Kismet Story Presentation 1700 -AS/400 Presentation 1800 -watched part of the cDc Hacktivism panel 1900 -time to hang out for the evening 1910 -Beer run -time for Corona 2000 -Bypassing Corporate Restrictions panel 2100 -hang out downstairs with cipz at the help desk 2130 -cipz starts drawing quite a bit of attention with his talk about Hacking Nano 2200 -cipz decides to do another demonstration in his room for a group of people 2205 -I grab supper at nearby McDonald's and take it back to cipz's room 2220 -people start congregating in cipz's room including Cheshire Catalyst 2230 -cipz does in-room demonstration for group 2310 -after demonstration, someone gets the idea to find the Triple H Ranch for a HOPE party 2320 -we leave the Hotel for Brooklyn, to find the Triple H Ranch 2350 -we arrive in Brooklyn at the subway station at Morgan and Harrison Ave. 2355 -we start walking one way and decide it's the wrong way 2356 -tried another route Sunday 7-11-04 0000 -walking 0005 -still walking 0020 -we are still walking and not finding anything 0030 -we find a gas station and ask for directions, some guy offers to take a few of us for $5 a person, no one takes 0040 -directions are no good, we ask someone on a bike 0045 -our biggest (probably strongest) guy in the group bails out on us and taxis back to the Hotel 0050 -we definitely decide that we are lost while walking past old junkyards with junkyard dogs barking at us and a building with an alarm going off 0100 -we press on (see map of Triple H Ranch walk for details) 0110 -ask another guy on bike, he sends us the wrong way 0120 -ask a final guy on a bike, he finally sends us on the right path back to the subway station 0130 -as we are about to give up, we spot some guy that takes our notice, something about him seems to suggest that he might know something about the party 0132 -we ask him, turns out he is headed there, so we decide to follow him 0135 -he takes us down the street in the direction from the subway station that we were first going to walk (Murphy's Law) 0140 -turns out he is right, after walking no more than 4 blocks from the subway station, we are finally there -time for lots of Baccardi and 7-Up 0340 -Jer and I decide it's time to head back to the Hotel and get some shut-eye 0410 -I get back and meet up with Lou 0430 -we finally get to sleep 0900 -time to get up 1030 -I head down to Coney Island to take some pics and do some sightseeing 1220 -time to head back to the Hotel 1305 -go to presentation on Urban Exploration 1400 -time for Jello Biafra keynote, I hang out with Lou in the back and play around on the network 1600 -Social Engineering panel!! 1720 -Social Engineering runs over and ends, time for the final break of the day 1800 -panel on How The Net Worked 1900 -the 5th HOPE Closing Ceremonies 2010 -it's all over with 2100 -time for some last fun, head to 14th St. Taco Bell to see them "socially engineered" into shutting their cash registers down for a 5 minute "upgrade" 2130 -head back to the Hotel 2200 -pick up some souvenir goodies from the conference (keyboards and mice) 2220 -final pics, time to say goodbye to the 5th HOPE 2230 -grab a few more pics from Times Square and Grand Central 2300 -head back to Hotel room, drink some Corona while sorting my pics from the whole weekend Monday 7-12-04 0200 -finally get some sleep 0755 -wake up and pack up 0810 -visit Starbucks for morning coffee 0830 -return to room 0900 -drink coffee while making sure everything is packed up 0930 -check out time 1000 -time to catch the bus out of NYC 1220 -arrive in Allentown, PA, it is pouring down rain 1240 -head for home 1505 -arrive at home 1506 -start wondering why I left NYC to come home to the "middle-of-nowhere" in PA Tuesday 7-13-04 0130 -head back to work to be bored for only a few more weeks, hopefully, but also can't wait for the next HOPE in 2 years