ShakaCon for the win!

[Deviant Ollam]

Jeff and Ping, you know i love you dearly... but i have to say that these folks here are really going above and beyond in terms of the rock star speaker treatment.

In a half-joking email to the conference organizers the night before we flew out of Colorado, Lopey and I stated that it would be the perfect Hawaii experience to enjoy a proper piña colada on our hotel room's lanai deck upon arrival.

Would you believe that the con organizers picked us up in a BMW, and brought with them a duffel bag containing a bottle of rum, a bottle of mix, a blender, and a pineapple.

Hell yeah.

Jackalope says hi to all, we hope to see many more of you come out here next summer. This con is really evolving and has the potential to be like a ShmooCon/ToorCon of the Pacific Ocean. Check their site (which is painfully bare) for more details on the goings-on here.

[mouseling]

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Glad they are taking such good care of you both. Miss you!


-mouse

[valanx]

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Well, as long as they didn't pick you up in an M3 I suppose it must have been an ok ride! Some of us are surrounded by green floodwaters rather than nice blue oceans- though it hasn't stopped my ability to drink on my deck.

Looking forward to your take on the con, I'm always looking for a reason to go somewhere tropical.

[barry99705]

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Well, as long as they didn't pick you up in an M3 I suppose it must have been an ok ride! Some of us are surrounded by green floodwaters rather than nice blue oceans- though it hasn't stopped my ability to drink on my deck.

Looking forward to your take on the con, I'm always looking for a reason to go somewhere tropical.

Don't forget to wave when the car floats by. I lucked out on the flooding. We had some localized flooding, but nothing serious.

[renderman]

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I hate the two of you. I am so putting in for next year.

[DJ Jackalope]

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deviant and I have full on blended rum drinks going at the con FTW....

[renderman]

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deviant and I have full on blended rum drinks going at the con FTW....

Grumble, Grumble, Grumble.....

[valanx]

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I don't think I want to share my rum with you guys anymore.

Of course, locking it up would be kind of pointless.

[Deviant Ollam]

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I don't think I want to share my rum with you guys anymore.

heh... yeah, people tend to get a little Jack Sparrow around us these days. "oh man... lock up your rum, boys" (or simply, "why is there never any bloody rum?")

Of course, locking it up would be kind of pointless.

hah. this sort of humor tends to follow us around, but people must be mindful of two key points...

1. a true sport-picking hobbiest won't pick their way into anything that's not their property. (or, at least, if that ever happens, people will just poke around and never take anything)

2. we're not nearly as good at picking as people may think. we can talk about this stuff 'til the cows come home and make it all very simple and clear... but we can't all be Barry Wels or Arthurmeister.

[Thorn]

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hah. this sort of humor tends to follow us around, ...

The only good line I know from a movie that centers around lock picking:

Richard Sharpe: Gimme a pick-lock, Cooper.
Cooper: Pick-lock, sir? Catch me with a pick-lock!
Patrick Harper: They did, Coop. But when you got out of Newgate prison, you got another set, and that's the one the officer wants.
Cooper: Do I get it back, sir?
Richard Sharpe: Trust me.
Cooper: It's very hard to trust a man who wants to borrow your pick-lock, sir.

From Sharpe's Rifles

[valanx]

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1. a true sport-picking hobbiest won't pick their way into anything that's not their property. (or, at least, if that ever happens, people will just poke around and never take anything)

2. we're not nearly as good at picking as people may think. we can talk about this stuff 'til the cows come home and make it all very simple and clear... but we can't all be Barry Wels or Arthurmeister.

er, yeah. I'll remember that but if my liquor suddenly transmogrifies into a set of half empty mad dog 20/20 bottles I'm looking for you first. Right after I drink them.

I'd never think to go off and do some B&E, without permission at least. And we like many others have had "that one guy" who broke all the rules established and was henceforth excommunicated and branded with a scarlet D for douchebag.

I know how good our group is at picking (not like we're great I just know our strengths), but we tend to get rusty when working on other projects (we still don't have the antenna up for our Part15 station, stupid lightning storms). I'd assume all of the work you put into Gringo would take away from any actual picking time as well.

[DJ Jackalope]

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2. we're not nearly as good at picking as people may think. we can talk about this stuff 'til the cows come home and make it all very simple and clear... but we can't all be Barry Wels or Arthurmeister.

You SO just completely ruined my image of you.

[DaKahuna]

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In a half-joking email to the conference organizers the night before we flew out of Colorado, Lopey and I stated that it would be the perfect Hawaii experience to enjoy a proper piña colada on our hotel room's lanai deck upon arrival.

Would you believe that the con organizers picked us up in a BMW, and brought with them a duffel bag containing a bottle of rum, a bottle of mix, a blender, and a pineapple.

You're easy. I would have held out for a Mai Tai. Much more of a Hawaiian drink than a pina colada

[Deviant Ollam]

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You're easy. I would have held out for a Mai Tai. Much more of a Hawaiian drink than a pina colada

that's what we switched to after we kicked the first bottles the next morning. heh. all will be documented in photos to be uploaded soon. next year i fully expect you all to be there.

(seriously, who else is now considering it, once you realized there was a damn high-grade con in fucking Hawaii?!?)

[valanx]

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My significant other is willing to forgo my yearly trips to Vegas and the occasional trip elsewhere like Ohio. I'm pretty sure "Hey I'm off to Hawaii for a hacker con" would get me a nice pile of fuck yous and possibly a well placed kick somewhere I'd rather not be kicked.

I have to save vacation time for a trip back to Japan next year, though you are welcome to join me and we'll make a con in Okinawa. Though, depending on your report of the con, I may try to get work to send me.