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Well, this was my first LayerOne and in spite of some bumps in the road I would certainly have to say "good con overall. A+ honest organizers... small size, quality info, good tunes, drinks, and friends. would buy again"
Folk will kick in with their own summaries, photos, etc. here when they get home, unpacked, decompressed, etc. Thus far, i've already seen a number of good photo collections and videos popping up online. Heh... one of the more impressive things I got to be a part of that weekend was a bold new step in the whole "pwnz0ring the Master Combo lock" field.
I cut a padlock shim on the fly... out of paper. Heh, believe it or not, that works now (particularly on the newest, super-cheap combo locks that can be seen in multiple colors)
Here's the montage I made with some good footage that i had on the laptop when flying home
Lope pointed out in an email to me that Flea's recording of this is also online.
A few good photo galleries have surfaced already...
Quiet's gallery (and my favorite photo in there... Queeg passed out in the Gringo cage)
IT's gallery (and my favorite entry there... can you believe someone thought it was a good idea to give a household product the same name as a date-rape drug?)
heh, and no... this is not a photo of my pick stuff for sale. didn't want people seeing that and thinking noid invited me to the con so i could fleece folks for all they were worth. <plug> i do have some new, pro-grade kits, however. they wind up costing me about $45 to acquire the parts, the cases, etc. and ship them wherever i'm speaking. $50 will let you pick one up from me. </plug>
It was a small con as it has been in the past, but not small on content. The only major complaint I had pertained to the hotel. They took every step that they could to indicate to us that they didn't want us there and made it very hard to have a good time.
All in all, and others are free to disagree, I think that cons of this size are a BLAST when they take place at the cheapest most dirtbag hotel you can find that is a reasonable distance from the nearest airport. Look at NotaCon... in a shitbag toilet like Cleveland at the Holiday Inn. (a hotel where the head of security came up to the top floor party at like 3 AM with the music still blasting and said to us in the doorway, "look... can you please guys do what you can to adjust those windows? the pot smoke is really getting bad in the hallway here whenever you open the door. kthxbye")
Compare that to the Hilton, who raped everyone on price, threatened people with expulsion for having the audacity to drink their own alcohol in any public place (or even for drinking their own personal alcohol in a room if you have someone in the room who isn't a registered hotel guest in that same room... that's right, room parties were met with police and threats of non-refunded-expulsion from the premises.)
I'd love to see noid, evil, and their crew consider having LayerOne at some no-name motel on the edge of the city... someplace with 50 to 100 rooms in a large L-shape that overlooks a pool with no lifeguard and possibly a dead possum that we'd have to fish out on day one. Talks either in the lone conference room or simply poolside... with the whole place rented out at like $45/night so that no one complains about noise, booze, public sex, etc.
Just my $0.02.
Overall, though, yeah... you missed out if you weren't there. If we're not at the Hilton next year, I can guarantee I'll wanna come back and bring Gringo Warrior with me.
Heh... oh yeah... one last bit of awesome. The winner for Gringo Warrior this time around was a 12-year-old girl who (I believe) learned to pick at the con and by the end had tackled the whole course on the "hard" level in under two minutes.
Folk will kick in with their own summaries, photos, etc. here when they get home, unpacked, decompressed, etc. Thus far, i've already seen a number of good photo collections and videos popping up online. Heh... one of the more impressive things I got to be a part of that weekend was a bold new step in the whole "pwnz0ring the Master Combo lock" field.
I cut a padlock shim on the fly... out of paper. Heh, believe it or not, that works now (particularly on the newest, super-cheap combo locks that can be seen in multiple colors)
Here's the montage I made with some good footage that i had on the laptop when flying home
Lope pointed out in an email to me that Flea's recording of this is also online.
A few good photo galleries have surfaced already...
Quiet's gallery (and my favorite photo in there... Queeg passed out in the Gringo cage)
IT's gallery (and my favorite entry there... can you believe someone thought it was a good idea to give a household product the same name as a date-rape drug?)
heh, and no... this is not a photo of my pick stuff for sale. didn't want people seeing that and thinking noid invited me to the con so i could fleece folks for all they were worth. <plug> i do have some new, pro-grade kits, however. they wind up costing me about $45 to acquire the parts, the cases, etc. and ship them wherever i'm speaking. $50 will let you pick one up from me. </plug>
It was a small con as it has been in the past, but not small on content. The only major complaint I had pertained to the hotel. They took every step that they could to indicate to us that they didn't want us there and made it very hard to have a good time.
All in all, and others are free to disagree, I think that cons of this size are a BLAST when they take place at the cheapest most dirtbag hotel you can find that is a reasonable distance from the nearest airport. Look at NotaCon... in a shitbag toilet like Cleveland at the Holiday Inn. (a hotel where the head of security came up to the top floor party at like 3 AM with the music still blasting and said to us in the doorway, "look... can you please guys do what you can to adjust those windows? the pot smoke is really getting bad in the hallway here whenever you open the door. kthxbye")
Compare that to the Hilton, who raped everyone on price, threatened people with expulsion for having the audacity to drink their own alcohol in any public place (or even for drinking their own personal alcohol in a room if you have someone in the room who isn't a registered hotel guest in that same room... that's right, room parties were met with police and threats of non-refunded-expulsion from the premises.)
I'd love to see noid, evil, and their crew consider having LayerOne at some no-name motel on the edge of the city... someplace with 50 to 100 rooms in a large L-shape that overlooks a pool with no lifeguard and possibly a dead possum that we'd have to fish out on day one. Talks either in the lone conference room or simply poolside... with the whole place rented out at like $45/night so that no one complains about noise, booze, public sex, etc.
Just my $0.02.
Overall, though, yeah... you missed out if you weren't there. If we're not at the Hilton next year, I can guarantee I'll wanna come back and bring Gringo Warrior with me.
Heh... oh yeah... one last bit of awesome. The winner for Gringo Warrior this time around was a 12-year-old girl who (I believe) learned to pick at the con and by the end had tackled the whole course on the "hard" level in under two minutes.
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