Morning commute/2600 meeting.
Looks like we’re a little behind on the blogging… writing today about stuff that happened 2 days ago, but oh well..
Here are two pictures that I took on Friday morning –
A shot of the street on my way to work, near the subway stop:
This is a view from the inside of the office I work in:
After work on Friday, I decided to check out the Manhattan 2600 meeting. I’ve been wanting to go to one for many years, just to check it out (they have them in California too–I made it to one meeting once for like 20 minutes at the downtown mall in Sac, but that didn’t really count.) I figured the metting in Manhattan would be bigger and have a lot more stuff going on.
What I saw was an interesting hodge-podge of people—pimply-faced 16 year-olds who are hardly even noteworthy, leftovers from the good-ole days in the 70s and 80s, the ‘core’ group that included the editor-in-chief, the author of the Kismet wiresless sniffing tool, and various organizers of the upcoming HOPE conference. And then there were guys like me who are just into the latest technology, like to solve other people’s computer problems, and who don’t know evertything, but can definitely talk the talk. The meeting was a lot more informal than I expected–there wasn’t any schedule or speaker or anything, but it was good enough that I think I’ll go again next month.
February 5th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Okay…I’m going to expose my Butte County environment and state that I have never heard of the 2600 meeting so will check out the weblink you posted and learn something new today! hehe
February 6th, 2006 at 12:04 am
like woah! did you actually talk to emmanuel goldstein…!!#$! err, i mean eric corley. hehe..
and hey, wasn’t i with you on that trip to the 2600 meeting in the 916, or did you just describe it in such vivid detail i remember it as if i was there?
February 7th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
okay, checked it out and HOPE is not not like UNICEF or the World Health Organization! hehe, now my brain ventures out of a fog and one of my computer professors liked this stuff. It was funny, he was also the entire networking/trouble guru for the college and there were still a bunch of firewall stuff so he couldn’t enter financial aid site, he said it was funny like he would even want to, but “who’s watching the watchdog?” hehe you would have liked this professor Eric, a real computer rebel!