Defcon 15 - 2007     

Tuesday

We started out at Quarks Bar at the Hilton for the annual Tuesday at Quark's Bar at the Hilton night. Got there around 7 to start out with some dinner. Someone found a free mini-warp core breach with entree coupon at the monorail, so my first drink was free! Then I had a second, then a third... Freak was also drinking a bit, I believe he hit someone with a chair, then tried to attack me. My drunk-fu is apparently better, because I dodged his attack and he ended up crashing down on a table, which then crashed down to the floor. We were asked to leave shortly later... It was only around 11pm, so we headed over to a hotel across the street from Caesars where some people were drinking. This is where my memory gets spotty, but I apparently got mobbed by some cougars and I ended up grabbing a boob or two... Fortunately for me, they thought it was funny. Then we went across the street where I proceeded to borrow about 30 "do not disturb" signs off the doors, find a half-renovated floor, then accidentally wandered into the employee entrance... Then finally returned to the party at the Ship Bar.

         

Wednesday

Rained a bit in the morning, so they had to close the pool so people couldn't get wet. By the pool. Jim got drunk early on, had two run-ins with hotel security, then passed out in the room. We even ran over his toes with the wheelchair and he didn't even twitch. We had planned to go to the Tipping Point party, but they suck, they didn't throw a party this year. Fortunately, SPI somethingorother threw one at the ultratrendy club Tao at the Venetian. We got in an as goons, drank a bunch of alcohol, and kept asking the nice waitress to bring out something vegetarian. They never did. Screw you SPI! The waitress did get a kick out of Flea's Drunken Whores sex positions shirt though. We found a guy who said he was jewish, so I told him to show us his Jew Gold. It turns out he was wearing a gold star of david necklace. Outside while smoking, flea was roughhousing with a guy and accidentally ended up dropping him onto the concrete from about 3 feet up. He hit hard, but jumped right back up, whew! Apparently when they kicked us out it was $100 to get in the door, and there was a long line.

                   

Thursday

Set up the DefconBots arena in the contest area, but outside of that I have no recollection of Thursday...

Friday

During the day was practice for the DefconBots competition. It all went pretty well, several teams practiced and tweaked all day. Around 8:00 we headed over to the iDefense party at Body English at the Hard Rock. Trinity had to get back to be beer betty at Hacker Jeopardy at 9, so we had to drink quickly. Even on the short time table we were able to get hammered, set up a VIP area upstairs, have a private strip show from our girls where we blocked out all the other tables from watching, had security walk by us several times even though we were blocking half the walkway, and then they finally sent up the head of security and he took our ropes from us. We made it back in time for HJ where I proceeded to get more drunk in the front row and yell at the stage... At some point I filled my cargo pocket with ice and had a mobile ice chest which ended up dripping all over the place and numbing my calf, but it was still a good idea :) Around 4am I went by the robot contest and there were three teams still practicing.

   

Saturday

Robot contest went pretty well. We got started right around 1pm with six teams. Apparently there was a seventh team, but they had broken a part the night before and by the time they got it fixed we were already too far through the double elimination bracket to be able to fit them in. Sorry guys! The contest took about 2.5 hours, the elimination bracket worked really well, but it was a pain to have to move bots around when they needed to recalibrate often.

After dinner there was a nice chill penthouse party. Unfortunately, a bullshit call came in to hotel security that someone had thrown a can of beer out the window. The window isn't over anything, it's the east facing penthouse. The only thing below it is the roof of the parking structure, and the window cannot be seen by valet or any other rooms. So, the only place someone could have seen it would be the garage or the sidewalk. I get the feeling they just wanted to shut us down. Fortunately, no one was arrested, no one trespassed, and no problems came back on the room since we shut down the party so smoothly.

Just as we were getting kicked out, Jackalope was going on at the White Ball so we headed for that and got to see a Priest led mosh pit happen right in front of DT, that was funny. Eventually I got to the Ninjas party which was awesome. The room was way too fucking hot, but what do you expect from a mass of dancing hackers? I stayed there for hours, it was great.

   

Sunday

Had to go on stage at Closing Ceremonies to present the robot contest. Went pretty well, I need to work more on staying close to the microphone. It's a bit intimidating to go on stage in a room with a few thousand people, but it gets easier every year. After that was goon swim, where I de-teched before I went out there so I only got thrown in with my waterproof camera on me :)

Late that night was Penthouse movie night. Very laid back, stayed up until 4am watching parts of Aqua Teen and Ghost Rider, then all of Idiocracy. Good ending night.

                                                             
And three movies:

Monday

Met up for lunch and bid those remaining a farewell. Got a few pictures of the construction site next door where a half-finished concrete floor had apparently collapsed that morning. Made it home around 7pm!

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