I made a techblog post about shmoocon labs last night. It turned out reasonably sane for being trashed at the time. I guess I’ve got a lot of experience at writing while drunk at this point. Mechanic that was supposed to come this morning is MIA. Good thing I magically got the day off I guess, as otherwise I would have missed him if I had to go to work. I took Shuttle Express on Mattw’s recommendation to the airport on my way out of town, and it was pretty slick. Online reservations and all that, but I still feel better about supporting mass transit so I took the bus home. On the way out I needed to leave for the airport before the 11 started running and that night owl route is just too confusing.

Anyways. Shmoocon is a lot of fun. I definitely like that its small enough to still feel like it’s knit full of good people but big enough to basically take over a hotel. When a few of us wandered to another hotel Saturday to mess around we ran into like four groups of people we had been drinking with earlier, so it’s a lot of fun seeing people you know. Since I tend not to make friends with random people that I don’t have anything to say to, labs is a great opportunity to work with people and thus get to know them. I’m not particularly a fan socially of the hacker-raver scene which can limit how much I socialize with this crowd, so I value finding these sorts of people. Plus cons can be a little boring for me when I don’t have anything to do. I’m a big doer, so I love Shmoocon because I get to help Ken run the network. People generally thank me for doing such things, but it’s really my nature. I just prefer to be doing something. Besides, you learn a lot from deploying a network on the fly like that if you take responsibility and get involved, it’s just hard to get involved sometimes. Doubly so when you’re dealing with security people who don’t want to give out passwords and stuff.

No word from mechanic, so the house and I are going to go get some grub methinks.