2600 blog 07-11-02 2100 -packing 07-12-02 0810 -leave house 0900 -visit rest stop 0907 -leave rest stop 0925 -enter Turnpike 0950 -drive thru tunnel 1015 -exit Turnpike 1030 -get sorta lost from confusing road signs 1032 -on the right track again 1035 -try to find first stop 1045 -almost there, but with lack of adequate maps must make phone call to guide me to first stop 1050 -make first stop to pick up friend 1110 -arrive at bus terminal, get ticket 1130 -drive to second friend's house 1145 -eat lunch at Burger King 1245 -board bus for NYC, suitcase started to fall apart some 1450 -arrive at NYC bus terminal 1500 -take subway to Hotel Pennsylvania 1530 -waiting in extremely long line to check-in 1550 -finally checked in and in room, most everyone one in group meets there 1605 -pick up h2k2 badge 1615 -go with one friend to Wall St. to see if we could get to stock market before 1700 1630 -on way to Wall St. 1640 -arrive on Wall St., try to find stock market, end up walking wrong direction 1650 -walk to Pier 16, check out some shops 1710 -walk to WTC remains, could have kicked myself for not having camera with (left it in hotel room) 1730 -get back on subway to head back to hotel 1800 -got back to hotel and went to convention 1810 -went to presentation on LPFM, 18th floor 1900 -presentation was over, caught up with cips 1900 -stayed for next presentation on the new FBI 2000 -went back to hotel room to meet up with everyone 2020 -back to conference to hang out 2120 -caught some of a film on sat tv hacking 2150 -went across street to get some food at Sbarro, got sausage pizza 2200 -watched movie "Owned" 2359 -time to hang out downstairs -got to ride staff elevator down to 5th floor 07-13-2002 0000 -back in hotel room all 7 of us got set up to sleep somewhat 0020 -downstairs in "mezzanine lobby" 0030 -cips does lockpicking demonstration -starts attracting some people -one dude was a locksmith who had lots of pointers -another dude hung out for awhile -somewhere along the way someone brings in a cell phone jammer -bernie s shows up and they take it apart -I decide that now I must get my camera -I go back to room and other people are sleeping, manage to find my camera anyway -head back down and get some pictures -bernie s puts jammer on spectrum analyzer and it seems to perform well 0200 -cips spots street cleaner outside and goes out to find more brissels -don't see him for 2 hours -meanwhile I continue to hang out in "mezzanine lobby" -at some point in time I finally manage to pick a lock 0400 -I am getting tired and decide I should try to get to bed -then I catch up with cips and he is hungry -we go back to room and tim is hungry too -the 3 of us go out looking for food -during this we see some dude pacing a street corner talking to himself -we find a diner and decide to get breakfast 0600 -time to finally sleep a little while (I had been up for 24 hours) 0900 -I am somewhat awake and hear housekeeping try to access our room for cleaning we had the door locked so they couldn't 1000 -time to totally be awake and get a shower -I discover that my suitcase was totally falling apart and needed to do something about it -came to solution that I would try to repair it with ducktape first, then if that didn't work, try to get a new one -managed to get a shower 1100 -Kmart time -got more film -got extension cord -got extra soap -somehow got the employee discount 1145 -back to room 1200 -set out on journey to find Internet café with cips 1210 -back at the one same street corner see same dude pacing and talking to himself 1220 -we find Kinko's and use a public terminal for a little bit 1250 -grab soda at McDonald's 1300 -back to convention for presentation on computer viruses 1400 -attended presentation on password probability matrix 1500 -attended presentation on hacking for community radio 1600 -time to go downstairs for Cult of the Dead Cow extravaganza 1830 -time to head out to Times Square for food -some black activist group was demonstrating about the evil of the white man, funny -checked out a couple of steak places and Friendly's 1910 -finally decided on some Pizza from Pizza Hut -took pizza back to hotel room for human consumption 2002 -decided to wander around convention for a while 2100 -attended presentation on spying 2200 -Jello Biafra made an appearance, wouldn't be complete without him or cDc 2359 -time for the showing of "Freedom Downtime" 07-14-2002 0000 -"Freedom Downtime" 0200 -headed downstairs to room for a little bit, cips was in hallway working on presentation -had to do a #2 ;) 0230 -time to go to level M to wander around a little while -caught up with napalm and spent some time playing with Solaris 0430 -time for some sleep again 0930 -up and awake -noticed that housekeeping tried to access our room again -caught up with one maid later on and had her clean the bathroom 1000 -went upstairs with jer for his speech on dual citizenship 1040 -attended last few minutes of fun with pirate radio and shortwave 1100 -rode elevator down to lobby, got to ride elevator with Bernie s 1105 -time for Kmart again -this time I got a map of NYC -ducktape -scissors -watched woman get in argument over free shampoo with cashier -somehow got the employee discount again 1200 -time for lockpicking demonstration -it was funny when they picked a lock in 5-6 minutes that was "un-pickable" 1330 -went back to hotel room for shower -managed to fix suitcase with ducktape -during shower got water all over bathroom floor -old clothes got soaked, oh well 1500 -decided to make up for not having my camera with me Friday when I was to WTC remains, so I took the subway down there to get pictures -also got pictures of Pier 16 1515 -arrived at Fulton St. 1525 -got pictures of Pier 16 1540 -got pictures of WTC 1545 -took subway back to hotel 1600 -time for cips' presentation on hacking nanotech 1620 -had to cut out for presentation on social engineering -eg managed to get extra info over phone -bs managed to get someone's reservations changed 1700 -stayed for presentation on hacking the invisible world 1800 -watched presentation on proximity cards 1900 -time for h2k2 closing ceremonies, can't believe time went soo stinking fast -had some prize giveaways, didn't win anything though, but it was fun 2010 -well h2k2 was officially over except for cleanup 2030 -time for packing up and leaving 2040 -checkout 2050 -got on subway to get to bus station 2105 -had to walk forever to get to bus terminal from subway 2114 -just made it in time to ride bus back with cips and jer 2140 -tried to call friend about staying the night at his house sorta halfway between bus terminal and my house -he wasn't there 2320 -got back to bus station 2330 -took back way to friends' house 07-15-2002 0100 -arrived at friends' but he was sleeping when I got there 0130 -got some extra gas, snacks, and drinks and left for home 0300 -arrived home and about puked since I know that I will be bored for the rest of the summer 07-16-2002 1420 -finished writing this blog