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HARdy HAR HAR HAR...

Posted on June 26, 2009
...as if i weren't going to enough cons this summer, i finally came around to the inevitable. today i broke down and bought my ticket for this year's installment of hackers on a plane, and i will be going to HAR! ^.^i will not be doing the HAR and PlumberCon trip...

i dare you.

Posted on June 21, 2009
i'm trying out for american idol tomorrow, and i was printing out and signing the release form that they make all prospective contestants sign. one of the passages cracks me up:"I understand that I may reveal, and other parties may reveal, information about me that is of a personal, private, embarrassing or unfavorable nature, which information may be factual and/or fictional...

news that is, in fact, not very useful to crack smokers

Posted on June 11, 2009
there was a reporter at the 2600 meeting last friday, and apparently he found me interesting enough to write an article about me.this makes me happy. :)

stuff

Posted on June 08, 2009
this morning's xkcd is made of win:by the way, i'm not dead. i've just been crazy busy with hackerspace-type things, since the geek prom is less than a week away. (eep!) today was the first day in a long time that i didn't make it out to the hackerspace, but i had a very good reason for that...

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*bounce*

Posted on June 01, 2009
my Jeopardy! audition is today at 3pm!!! i am already bouncing off the walls.wish me luck!(and then please, please come say hi to me at my first night as quiz-mistress at Chief O'Neill's tonight! /shamelessplugforsuperfuntrivia)

blago <3 geek prom

Posted on May 30, 2009
i think Jeff just won the prize for Best Geek Prom Flyering Ever:speaking of Geek Prom, all of you in Chicago should come! it's on June 13 from 9pm to 2am, at the Co-Prosperity Sphere (3219 S. Morgan St.). it's a combination science fair and dance, and it's only $10 for a single and $15 for a couple if you buy your ticket in advance...

i haz a geek prom date!!!

Posted on May 28, 2009
Rob is coming to geek prom!SQUEE!!!! :-D

you may now call me quizmaster nicolle.

Posted on May 28, 2009
do you live in Chicago? if so, i know what you're doing this Monday night, and each Monday night for the foreseeable future: pub trivia.a bunch of friends and i have been going to Chief O'Neill's, an irish pub at the corner of Elston and Albany, for pub trivia on monday nights for the last few months...

News Crack Smokers Can Use: May 26, 2009

Posted on May 26, 2009
memorial day weekend is finally over. if you're like me, you celebrated the holiday with lots of tasty beer and meat. however, if you're like the target audience of this little feature, you probably paired your memorial day goodies with a fine crack rock...

crack smokers, overheard

Posted on May 23, 2009
one of today's overheard in new york posts was too pertinent not to share:Annoyed commuter: Shut up, you jobless crackhead piece of shit!Crackhead: Fuck you, man, I got a job! I sell crack.--A Trainthe contributor didn't provide any information of what became of the crackhead...

the hazards of hackerspaces...

Posted on May 23, 2009
the problem with belonging to a hackerspace is that it's such a rich fountain of projects to get involved in, and you wonder how you're going to have time to do them all.case in point...i'm already working on the twitter bot. my theremin has been on the back burner for a while, but i really need to carry it over to the space, troubleshoot it, and get it working before geek prom on june 13 so i can show it off...

you're a rorschach test on fire...

Posted on May 22, 2009
proof that i'm not the only one who thought mathnet was the bee's knees:i

now that's thinking with your dipstick!

Posted on May 21, 2009
according to the april 19, 2009 issue of news of the weird:Biologist Michelle Solensky, of Ohio's College of Wooster, reported late last year in the journal Animal Behavior that male monarch butterflies are such calculating inseminators that they even decide the optimal level of sperm necessary for reproductive advantage...

it's coming...

Posted on May 21, 2009
i present: the most epic event in hackerspaces history:PPPWRS from Jeff Kantarek on Vimeo.that's right...it's the Pow-Pow-Power Wheels Racing Series! we're getting together in teams, tricking out Power Wheels, and racing them. i am so excited about this!!!and, if you're in or near Chicago, and want to start or join a team...

facebook weirdness

Posted on May 21, 2009
a rather odd thing happened on facebook today.no, it wasn't the fact that one of my friends' accounts was captured by a phisher, and sent out messages to everyone on her friends list that they should check out some facebook clone site. sadly, that's all too common...

i'm speaking!

Posted on May 19, 2009
who has two thumbs and is giving a talk at Defcon this year?THIS GUY.*bouncebouncebounce*i send in a proposal to speak about legal concerns in starting a hackerspace about a month ago. i thought it would be a timely topic, since hackerspaces have been popping up around the country quite frequently, and there appear to be a lot of groups in america interested in getting them started...

brain machine!

Posted on May 19, 2009
i finished my brain machine this afternoon, and took it for a test drive. it works perfectly. i saw lots of pretty colours and shapes, and i was thinking far more clearly once i took the glasses off.in other words, i'm pretty glad i made it, and now i can take a little trip whenever i need to clear my head.

News Crack Smokers Can Use: May 18, 2009

Posted on May 18, 2009
i failed at life last week, and was so tired from scavhunt and other non crack-related shenanigans that i did not provide the crack smokers of the world with any News. for that, i am sorry. however, i am back, and i have a few new suggestions for how to stay out of trouble...

???

Posted on May 16, 2009
i'm at ps:one. showing on the projector is an old teenage mutant ninja turtles cartoon...with german subtitles.i don't know what's more wtf: the subtitles, or the actual english dialogue.

back...

Posted on May 10, 2009
i'm back in chicago from an epic road trip around tennessee and kentucky.more details later, since road trip judgment is in five minutes, and then regular judgment.wish us luck.

the south?!

Posted on May 07, 2009
road trip rendezvous is in an hour.we're going to dress up in costumes that are strange hybrids of greek gods and southern characters, and take a ride down to kentucky and tennessee.the south won't know what it it.

this is [sic].

Posted on May 06, 2009
if you've ever had to deal with the clusterfuck that is the blue book, today's courtoon is brilliant.

scav: the prequel

Posted on May 06, 2009
it's the calm before the storm.it's 3:30 in the afternoon, i'm sitting at GASH HQ, and all is quiet. people are resting, working, meandering.in eight and a half hours, all will be madness. in eight and a half hours, the scavhunt list comes out, and it will be four days of focus on it--and detachment from everything else...

DEFCON mystery challenge

Posted on May 05, 2009
the DEFCON mystery challenge sounds like it's going to be ten kinds of amazing. they suggest teams of five.of course, the question is--who's in on this with me????

enough of this swine flu crud already...

Posted on May 04, 2009
the only excuse for kissing with swine flu masks on is if you're doing it ironically.otherwise...just stop it. far more people come down with normal flu than swine flu--and more people die of regular flu than swine flu. the whole "omgpandemic!" thing is media fearmongering, no more and no less...

News Crack Smokers Can Use: May 4, 2009

Posted on May 04, 2009
usually i do about four stories a week. however, april showers bring may flowers, and this may, the true stupidity of the crack smoking public is flowering like never before. the seedy depths of the interwebstubes have provided a bumper crop of stupid things people have done this week in the name of crack, and i'm passing the savings [and edification!] on to you...

a notacon recap, finally...

Posted on April 29, 2009
and, just in case that lockpicking video i posted a few days ago was not enough, i've got another video of shenanigans in which i partook at notacon. this time, it's me doing a speech at "whose slide is it anyway"...a completely improvised speech based on powerpoint slides i hadn't seen until i was in front of the crowd...

:)

Posted on April 28, 2009
i'm hanging out at the space right now.tomorrow, i fly to new york city to see some weirdo.life is good.

News Crack Smokers Can Use: April 27, 2009

Posted on April 27, 2009
the first heat waves of summer are descending upon us. that's the funny thing about crack...it's not seasonal. as much as crack smokers love to stay warm in the winter by smoking crack, the crack also helps keep them cool [or, at least, high...] in the summer...

gringo warrior

Posted on April 26, 2009
hey, look! it's me! on The Youtubes! at notacon! attempting to pick locks and beat up mexican guards while blindfolded!

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