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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => General Discussions => Topic started by: rbcp on February 02, 2011, 03:05:20 PM
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This year's Defcon (http://www.defcon.org/) is August 4th - 7th. Who's planning to go? I sure am. I'm going to get my plane tickets hopefully this month, so I don't screw up and miss it like I did last year.
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Every time one of these things show up I always say I hope to go but in the long run can never afford to make it due to various situations of life. And it always drives me fucking insane. It's more or less the "but you hate people! Yeah, but I love gatherings, isn't it ironic?" kind of thing. Always wanted to go to one of the conventions, either HOPE or Defcon. But I at least know I have a friend in Vegas who lives about twenty miles from the strip I can see or something.
So more or less, I'm working on obtaining funds to show up to Defcon this year. I may suck everyone's dick for a place to sleep on the floor, however.
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So more or less, I'm working on obtaining funds to show up to Defcon this year. I may suck everyone's dick for a place to sleep on the floor, however.
Even if you have to sleep in the lobby or in the street, at least you get to go to Defcon.
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I will be there. I have already booked a hotel stay. :)
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I plan on it, and can hopefully talk IDLR into coming as well.
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i'm so there.
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I might be but there's a lot of time between now and August...
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Booked my plane ticket and hotel room. The Hilton Las Vegas had some pretty decent rates for the time frame I paid $45 a day for two nights and like $89 a day for 3 of the nights. It's a ways from the Rio but monorail stops right there and you can always find a cab in vegas
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CountyKid will be in attendance. Look out for the invites to the "con within a con" spectacular, CountyKidCon or CKC.
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Since el_jefe thinks he's too cool to post on the PLA forums, I'll let you all know that he's booked his room and will be there. Be sure to L O L at him for his lame takeover attempt on #phonelosers a few weeks ago. Jammie will be there too and possibly r0xy. This will be the biggest group of PLA people together EVER. Bring your PLA books and get them signed by everyone.
Quick, someone buy plane tickets for RTF and Trevelyn and Legend.
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Shit yeah, I'm going to totally nail r0...uh so how much are passes usually, like 50 bucks?
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Also, I'm going to be driving there since it's just a couple hours away. I can taxi little faggots around or do airport pick up type shit in exchange for LOTS OF PRESENTS
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I'm bringing Murd0c, personally. Look for a red convertible blasting spacesynth.
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Shit yeah, I'm going to totally nail r0...uh so how much are passes usually, like 50 bucks?
I think they were $120 or $140 last year. They go up every year or two, even though the attendance numbers keep increasing.
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mur0dc better bring some Grand Marnier again.
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mur0dc better bring some Grand Marnier again.
no, no, no, dear God, no, no, no.
i think my liver still has yet to recover from murd0c's libations at HOPE.
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Shit yeah, I'm going to totally nail r0...uh so how much are passes usually, like 50 bucks?
I think they were $120 or $140 last year. They go up every year or two, even though the attendance numbers keep increasing.
they were $120 two years ago, and $140 last year. i haven't heard about any price increases for this year.
my hope is to devise a good talk topic and speak there again. speaking there is pretty sweet...you get in free, you get some friends in free, and you don't have to wait in that crazy-long line for badges. plus, you get to talk about something cool to a roomful of people. what's not to love?
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mur0dc better bring some Grand Marnier again.
no, no, no, dear God, no, no, no.
i think my liver still has yet to recover from murd0c's libations at HOPE.
Haha.I was still amused.
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In theory, some time in the upcoming 3 weeks I'll have the funds to secure a plane ticket. ApprenticePhreak will be there. He'll go to CKC, listen to some people rabble about things he doesn't understand, and get away with murder. He'll especially ride a dead body down six flights of stairs and just claim it's a social engineering technique developed by Dex that he's trying out.
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I'm down to talk about some shit or have rogueclown get me in for free! I'll give an ultra relevant seminar on cross site scripting!
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I'm down to talk about some shit or have rogueclown get me in for free! I'll give an ultra relevant seminar on cross site scripting!
haha, My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself.. i don't even have a talk topic yet, much less a talk acceptance. :-P
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I'm down to talk about some shit or have rogueclown get me in for free! I'll give an ultra relevant seminar on cross site scripting!
haha, My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself.. i don't even have a talk topic yet, much less a talk acceptance. :-P
Just reward linear's 2600 article and talk about that. Net Neutrality is always an interesting topic. And with your talk based off linear's article, you know it'll be accepted! 2600 accepted it!
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I just bought my plane tickets. I'm flying to L.A. and driving to Vegas with Jammie, so both of us are confirmed!
io, aka Samantha from TPS and tinychat is also confirmed. Rappy McRapperson is swearing that he's going to be there, but he hasn't bought any tickets yet. Laugh Track Matt is doing the same.
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Perhaps the biggest meeting of PLA'rs ever?
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Yeah whatever, the demand is great enough, you will probably see me hanging around the hotel. Probably will be too poor to buy a pass to get into the con, but that probably doesn't matter.
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Yeah whatever, the demand is great enough, you will probably see me hanging around the hotel. Probably will be too poor to buy a pass to get into the con, but that probably doesn't matter.
I'm so nice that I'd probably let you borrow mine to get in for awhile. We should organize a giant badge sharing thing.
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I AGREE
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Woot! Rappy iz Gunna try and get out there to perform fer the hackers and hacker wanna beez- Even if cant perform Im gunna be chillin there- Vegas baby!!
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i have wanted to go since i was 11 ....but im poor i have never been within 5000 feet of a conference.....who wants to take me?
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i have wanted to go since i was 11 ....but im poor i have never been within 5000 feet of a conference.....who wants to take me?
As long as you don't push your mom down in another Toys 'r' Us while having a temper tantrum, I am sure that you will eventually come.
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For those that care, here's the situation with me and Defcon:
I always wanted to go but because I was married to someone that thought PLA was retarded, I never went. Now I'm free. I was free last year but still didn't make it. This year I AM DETERMINED TO GO. I must go. This is it!
I'm supposed to be flying to Arizona and driving up there with my man, but who knows if he will be able to. If that doesn't happen, then is someone willing to drive with me from Texas? Or maybe I'll get a greyhound bus ticket. I don't know what to do! If someone rides with me then we can share gas costs. However, he/she might be a psycho. I don't know what my backup plan is, but I am going to go! I SWEAR!
I might be without a hotel room or badge though...I'm really poor...
I also told Rappy if I end up getting my own hotel room then he can perform a concert in my room for about 2-4 hours.
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also - when I do get there, I am prepared to participate in plenty of shenanigans, so bring your ideas and let's rock
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R0xy, 2600 groups usually do carpools so maybe you should see if there's a Dallas 2600 website and ask around on there. Or actually go to a meeting and ask. It's a lot less rapey than asking for a ride on Craigslist.
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I owe r0xy 5 bucks from a few years ago. I'd said I had the Tengen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES game. She was offering five dollars for NES games at the time on Cal's. So she sent me the cash, but when I started looking for my games, I couldn't find them at all.
So when I'm there, because I'm damn well determined to make it, I'll give you back your five dollars.
I'm sorry.
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Thanks AP! I forgot about that but it would be helpful in case I need to um, I guess buy some french fries or something
RBCP - I have not been able to figure out the dallas 2600 info. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I found ONE group but they meet pretty far from me and when I went to their IRC chatroom, no one ever said anything for days so I gave up and quit.
I should probably look into that a little more so I can meet people IRL before august that might be going to DEFCON.
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Did you find http://www.tx2600.org/ (http://www.tx2600.org/), r0xy? There's a contact email address on there. Seems like 2600 websites always suck and don't get much activity. I bet if you go to a couple meetings you'll find a ride since you're a girl and none of the members have ever talked to a girl before.
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Did you find http://www.tx2600.org/ (http://www.tx2600.org/), r0xy? There's a contact email address on there. Seems like 2600 websites always suck and don't get much activity. I bet if you go to a couple meetings you'll find a ride since you're a girl and none of the members have ever talked to a girl before.
I tried hitting a couple of 2600 meetings while I was in Texas. Once with Sabrebutt and a few by myself. No one showed up on the meeting dates even after the websites displayed what looked to be a calender that automatically updated itself to the next meeting date.
I'm thinking the 2600 groups in San Antonio and Austin just don't do anything. THEY LIE.
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Did you find http://www.tx2600.org/ (http://www.tx2600.org/), r0xy? There's a contact email address on there. Seems like 2600 websites always suck and don't get much activity. I bet if you go to a couple meetings you'll find a ride since you're a girl and none of the members have ever talked to a girl before.
Yes RBCP, that's exactly the group I was talking about! They even have an IRC chatroom that nobody talks in.
Oh well...I have a few months to prepare. I WILL GO!
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OhEmGee you gotta come. You can stay in my room if you need a place to crash! Us PLA'ers stick together.
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OhEmGee you gotta come. You can stay in my room if you need a place to crash! Us PLA'ers stick together.
You should let dozens of us sleep on your floor!
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I will be there ! I will have a room with plenty of floor space ;)
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I would need to check my schedule, but if those days are clear, I'm probably able to go. =)
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I will be there ! I will have a room with plenty of floor space ;)
Good, you'll need that floor space so I can have your bed.
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OhEmGee you gotta come. You can stay in my room if you need a place to crash! Us PLA'ers stick together.
Is that legal? I wanna stay with IO, but only if we can sleep in the same bed while spooning. I mean, playing the spoons not cuddling, ew!
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What do you mean is it legal? What leads you to believe it wouldn't be?
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Who is flying in on what day? I am flying in on Wednesday.
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OhEmGee you gotta come. You can stay in my room if you need a place to crash! Us PLA'ers stick together.
Isn't that a bit dangerous, sharing a room with internet strangers? The only reason that ever happens is to rape the unsuspecting, underage, roommate.
Anyway, I'll be there and potentially reconnect with the few people who didn't think I was a compete idiot back when I used this internet persona when I was a stupid teenager on cal's forums. Actually, I would like to meet a bunch of you guys for real, and this defcon I might even make good on my promise to rape the shit out of CK.
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OhEmGee you gotta come. You can stay in my room if you need a place to crash! Us PLA'ers stick together.
Isn't that a bit dangerous, sharing a room with internet strangers? The only reason that ever happens is to rape the unsuspecting, underage, roommate.
I might even make good on my promise to rape the shit out of CK.
If I remember correctly, and I think I do, we split a room at Defcon 07. Forgive me if I'm wrong.
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If I remember correctly, and I think I do, we split a room at Defcon 07. Forgive me if I'm wrong.
You're remembering correctly. Well, at least the parts before before I was able to slip something into your drink.
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Defcon tickets are $150 this year. That sucks. They should at least let us save $20 by preregistering.
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That's a completely ridiculous price.. Its getting expensive to be a part of any subculture these days
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That's a completely ridiculous price.. Its getting expensive to be a part of any subculture these days
Yeah, that's why I'm probably not buying a badge. I plan on just hanging around the hotel and city with all the razor wire and raw hamburger meat i'm bringing.
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We'll have our own con in Samantha's hotel room all weekend.
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Won't be showing up as I was hoping for. Life has a tendency of telling me I'm never allowed to have money to go to cons. OH WELL. I CONTRIBUTE NOTHING ANYWAY.
Would probably end up paying for a room through cream cheese stuffed pretzels and room temperature sodas anyway.
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We'll have our own con in Samantha's hotel room all weekend.
byod murd0c
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This old school mofo will be there. I go by werm. I hope to see all you asshats there.
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We'll have our own con in Samantha's hotel room all weekend.
byod murd0c
no!
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http://www.rhpsvegas.com/
^ Srsly. How fun would that be?
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I booked my room at the Rio today. Likely a smoking room with 2 beds if people need to crash or stash their shit. I reserve the right to refuse admission though. And my bed is off limits. :P I'll be arriving Thursday sometime and leaving Sunday.
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I'm personally going to be flying... to get there
LTmatt and I are gonna split a room @ the RIO.
Anyone want to crash on our floor???
hit me up in the IRC if you do
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My plan is to just sort of show up and hope I can get a hold of somebody while I'm there. If not, I can always sleep in the ol' truck. Yay!
Or hope IDLR decides to come and use his free hotel room credit card rewards.
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I should be there. flying in Thursday ish and leaving sundayish. Hope to find yall there.
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I'll be there around 10am on the 4th of August. Anyone wanna hang out get a drink beforehand?
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Yeah, I'll probably show up around 2pm or something. Not entirely sure if I'm flying solo or riding with the IDLR yet, so can't say with any certainity. Also not sure whether or not I'm actually buying a Defcon badge yet.
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Also not sure whether or not I'm actually buying a Defcon badge yet.
I can't remember if we've mentioned this yet in this thread, but it's not a difficult thing to sneak all the non-badge-buying people from PLA into the vendor and speaking areas. We just loan those people our badges for a few minutes to get them in and then one of us takes all their badges once they're in to let another batch of people in. So I suggest that if money is tight for you, fuck buying a badge. I'll help sneak people in if I buy one. I'll even loan out my badge if I leave the con and if I think I can trust the person not to steal it or do something crazy to get their badge taken away.
Everyone bridge extra lanyards and random badges from past cons to help camouflage the fact that you're walking around without a badge. I'll bring some of my own for others to borrow.
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I love you.
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I'm in Los Angeles and love Vegas, so I'll probably roll out there for at least a little bit if anyone is up for drinks or dinner or something.
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DC19 is cancelled.
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Shit! I'm going to call the airline right now and cancel my tickets. Hopefully I can get my money back.
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Yeah, the Rio filed for bankruptcy. There go my Las Vegas plans.
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I will be in attendance, after all. :nonsense: :nonsense: :nonsense: :nonsense: :nonsense: :nonsense: :nonsense:
Helpful links for traveling within the city of Las Vegas:
Las Vegas Monorail : http://www.lvmonorail.com
Las Vegas Buses : http://www.rtcsouthernnevada.com/
The bus route that runs along the strip runs 24/7 : http://www.rtcsouthernnevada.com/transit/route/deuce/deuce%2811-07-10%29.pdf
Vegas Footbridges : http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=218043089396675442327.0004a92dbb5e929e0e3a4&msa=0&ll=36.110767,-115.151567&spn=0.032937,0.084543
Monorails, Trams and People Movers : http://www.cityrailtransit.com/maps/vegas_map.htm
Vegas Monorail Marked on a Google Map so one can see the stops at lower zoom : http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=218043089396675442327.0004a92e5b20b8c27dbe6&msa=0&ll=36.145586,-115.155945&spn=0.008231,0.021136
Directory of Vegas restaurants that deliver : eat24hours.com
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Can't wait to see all you jerks. Seriously. We're going to have to take a big fucking PLA picture.
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Maybe some day I'll be cool enough to go to Defcon.
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My new plan is to attempt to catch a ride to LV with Sudo, sleep on the streets, and then rent a car and drive home on the 6th. She is not aware of this plan.
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I can't go because I donated all my money to roxy's defcon trip fund. :(
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yall could try and get on pawn stars by trolling the store bring in something retarded to sell
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I can't go because I donated all my money to roxy's defcon trip fund. :(
It's okay, we care about her way more than you.
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I came here from google after searching for a DC19 speaker schedule I could import to my G calendar, only to find there is no such link in this thread. You lied to me, PLA. You lied to me. But at least my account is still active.
I'll be in late Wednesday and out late Monday, and [plug]speaking at Skytalks at 1pm Saturday[/plug].
EDIT: Got all the DC speakers in G Cal, now my fap hand has RSI.
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mgn4v1sua385pukle0ova3vv9k%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles
...and Skytalks:
https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/embed?src=edpjq7oai48bccl3kucbfh9dgs@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles&mode=agenda
...and BSidesLV:
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=e95gbo8ocdu5ne6gd1lpjug4q0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles
...and DC parties:
https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/embed?src=ZGVmY29ucGFydGllc0BnbWFpbC5jb20&embed?showTitle=1&showNav=0&showPrint=0&showTabs=1&showCalendars=0&showTz=1&mode=WEEK&height=400&wkst=2&dates=20110801/20110831&gsessionid=ohR2iqWyrDhFmlj9RMfRAw
Note 303 party is not on that cal. It's 9pm Saturday night but you have to blow Pyr0 for a party pass.
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Note 303 party is not on that cal. It's 9pm Saturday night but you have to blow Pyr0 for a party pass.
Ooohhhh, consider me there!
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Skunkworks is doing a talk about Bitcoin (https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-19/dc-19-speakers.html#Skunkworks).
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Add your own and maybe we can do the best ones!
Things I would like to do in Vegas:
1. Obtain access to a hotel roof, preferably at night
2. ROCKY HORROR!
3. Be an impromptu wedding party at The Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel (We'd probably need to camp it and wait for a couple to come in then walk in as if we're with them. If we go at night, we may not have to wait long. The other night there were two weddings back-to-back). Invite people to watch the hijinks on their webcam (http://www.earthcam.com/usa/nevada/lasvegas/)
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Welp, I just got hired and start a new job tomorrow so I doubt I'll be able to go as originally planned. I'm still going to attempt to at least make a day trip out of it, because most of you jerks need some pointers on how to prank call. And you need to learn at least a little bit about phreaking, jesus!
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Also, I want to hit on Jenn.
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You suck, DBK. I hate you. We should have a romantic dinner in L.A., though. I'll be there a few days before Defcon and a few days after. And you should definitely go there for at least a day since it's not that bad of a drive. I'll let you in with my badge. If I get a badge.
Everyone else - follow me on Twitter. @rbcp and @phonelosers. I'll be updating the @rbcp a lot with my whereabouts and I'll probably be with all the Cacti Radio people and other PLA people a lot. Post your twitter infoz here too! I want to get nonstop cell phone alerts from all the PLA people at Defcon.
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I might not be able to go.
Turns out the dead hooker wasn't actually dead.
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My truck is in the shop right now...it will almost certainly be out before the 7th, so I will almost certainly be going for at least a day. Only possible hitch is gas money, but fuck it. I'm also all for hanging out in sunny So Cal when you're here - keep me posted.
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look for me y'all I will be the drunk fat guy
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look for me y'all I will be the drunk fat guy
Might be hard to narrow down.
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Defcon Links (http://jenn.thisisarecording.com/)
The original version used the widget for all the PLA people but Twitter doesn't seem to like it if you poll frequently
Plus, really wasn't the best idea when this was made with the intent defcon goers use the page on their cell phones.
The Phone Loser twitter list seems a little light...
What else should be added?
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I'm gonna be there :3. since im djing there Saturday night ;p.
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I'll be there. Look for the creepy guy in the white suit with the speaker's badge and lockheed-martin hat.
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I'm here y'all
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I am around. I got my badge after waiting for 3-hours.
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:P It had shrunk to only two hours when I got there, then a little bit later they ran out of badges.
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We should try and meet somewhere this weekend. I am pretty much a walking zombie right now. Also: penis.
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as a minor, I request somewhere not at a bar
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Who's up for a big group PLA picture?
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Yes, hello. Met up with RBCP, Judas Iscariot, murdoc and Roxy in someone's hotel yesterday. For a small fee I can provide the room number and the secret knock.
Some spazzed out girl took us there after identifying someone I was with as... I have no idea. Didn't manage to steal anything but there's always another day or two for that.
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poops , its been fun
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Some spazzed out girl
What a perfect description of roxy! Roxy shows up at our door and makes this huge announcement to introduce recon, and then brings him into the room. I guess she was on an elevator and recognized him from this post on phonewinners.com (http://phonewinners.com/2011/05/pw-what-you-talking-about/). So that was bizarre. You know, he could have had a bag of piss with him, r0xy.
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she recognized me ;) thats me in the photo lulz.
also it was nice meeting you fags. ;p
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Yeah whatever, it was nice seeing you and the drummer from The Roots in the room.
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I didn't meet any of you, but I did get to spoon with RBCP for 3 nights, so nyah.
Actually, no, I think I met r0xy for about 3 seconds.
PS: DC forums are talking about prank calls from people identifying as "Roy" and not having a clue what it meant. Kids these days, don't know their history.
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I think that I was molested during our failed attempt to do some recording on Saturday evening.
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Kids these days, don't know their history.
We should call Child Protective Services on their parents for not parenting their kids correctly
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Yeah whatever, it was nice seeing you and the drummer from The Roots in the room.
My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself. big afro was big.
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We all know DefCon was canceled this year. Stop joking around guys.
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I wish I could've made it. Hope you guys had fun!