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ghelix wrote:

A ton of stuff worked real good, but my favorites:

   - all night music videos on hacked xboxes
   - the segways
   - the caffiene purchase area
   - cDc allowed to setup in back of main area- they provided a lot of comic relief.
   - thousands of hackers swarming around three main areas
   - all the quality talks (goes without saying)  My favorites in no order: culinary hacking, project mf, tracksploit, RMS, and live social engineering

The music/videos were perfect for keeping me awake to hack all night in the mezzanine, however, it would have been the fan-frickin-tastic
if the videos were from the old MTV latenight show called 'AMP'. 

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amp_(TV_series)"

However, beggers can't be choosers, and I myself have had a very hard time locating a lot of those vids. If anyone here knows where to find 'em, forum mail me.

Also, I really enjoyed the tall-boy various flavors of jolt. Very useful, and thoughtful, and stored good in the room fridge.

cDc was a riot, i really hit it off with those guys, and they bring a lot of culture of their own.  It's a profound testament of irony that such a group should emerge from Lubbock, TX of all places.

ghelix wrote:

The music/videos were perfect for keeping me awake to hack all night in the mezzanine, however, it would have been the fan-frickin-tastic
if the videos were from the old MTV latenight show called 'AMP'.

also, a big fav of mine from the 90's was the MTV Liquid Television. those might be easier to find than AMP. heck i have all of the Aeon Flux series from Liquid Television if people were actually interested in watching that late at night.
overall tho, it was a good idea for the music/videos through the night. great place to go sit after we came back from the bars.

ghelix wrote:

cDc was a riot, i really hit it off with those guys, and they bring a lot of culture of their own.  It's a profound testament of irony that such a group should emerge from Lubbock, TX of all places.

oh and YES always keep bringing back cDc. they have been a fav of mine for years now. plus they also kept me well stocked on the candy necklaces.

emmanuel wrote:

I'd like to know if anyone needed a jolt in the middle of the night when these guys were gone. In other words, is their presence needed around the clock?

there wasn't a moment, late at night, when there wasn't a hoard of people still roaming the mezzanine. i don't know if the Jolt was "needed", but i'm sure if it was there to purchase..they would have.

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emmanuel wrote:

I'd like to know if anyone needed a jolt in the middle of the night when these guys were gone. In other words, is their presence needed around the clock?

The easy access to snacks was missed late at night.

emmanuel wrote:

I'd like to know if anyone needed a jolt in the middle of the night when these guys were gone. In other words, is their presence needed around the clock?

Yes please, if at all possible. Their presence was indeed sorely missed.

Rob T Firefly wrote:

Vending machines would just be asking for trouble in so many ways, it's got to be human snack vendors if anything.

Agreed.

The Jolt Cans were good - cheap, decent food, like veggies or fruit would be good, too.

Oh, and to whoever brought over donuts to the FSF table, they looked yummy. RMS seemed to enjoy those.

I've said it before but...
"I've got my two litre bottle of Shasta and my all Rush mixed tape."  -Fry.

naxxtor wrote:

A little OT but did any "Hacker Videos" get played?  I sent arsney HVTV1 but I never heard if you guys actually played it or not. 

And you guys and Jolt - you know it costs about £1.50 a CAN over here and you can only get it from specialist importers like cybercandy.  You can get pseudo bulk discounts, but it's still twice as much as your average drink here.  Did you have any Code Red, though?  Mr Spyblog bought one of those not that long ago and said it was awful, but I've never had it myself.  That might be an idea for a panel - classic hacker drinks.

Sorry, not really added much to the thread but just totting up another reason to kick myself for not going.

being a "long" time drinker of Mountain Dew, i was severly saddened when they put out Code Red. it tastes like Mountain Dew with cherry cough syrup. ick. i didn't see any Code Red selling at the con, and as hard as it was to find Mountain Dew in NYC, i'll assume it wasn't being sold.

it was there ...

arseny wrote:

it was there ...

i apologize if my request for drinks was already available at the convention. I did not attend, but i've only seen mention of Jolt being there, so i decided to throw in my 2 cents

richard wrote:

I don't think vending machines are that bad of an idea... provided you put it somewhere special.

Just have one machine.
Keep it immediately adjacent to the Security Desk. There was *always* one of us there, 24/7. Keeps the hijinx to a minimum if people know there's always someone there.

Maybe keep it turned off and facing the wall during the day, forcing people to use the "human machines"?

It turns out getting a vending machine is REALLY complicated, since the hotel has its own vending company, other vendors are scared of coming. Also, it's a pain in the ass to bring a machine in for 3 days.

The guys we had were really good, they were there most of the day and had lots of drinks. Unfortunately they had to leave at night. Maybe next time we can come up with some way of vending drinks from the security table like you mentioned. I can already think of a few ways of doing without losing the vending guy any money.

sugar free anything is nasty should be outlawed

The other thing with Jolt is that for some reason Jolt's marketing people decided to change the shape of the bottle to make it incompatible with ANY vending machines. One of your sales channels is vending, but because of your stupid design you completely dissolve it. Redbull sells special mods to vending machines that allow the smaller cans to fall out correctly. This is what a vending machine renter guy told me.