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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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H0H0 '94
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12.29.94
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What was left of the almost non-existant x-mas spirit was totally
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washed away as I packed for the five day trip ahead. One day in the van
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each way, three days of relaxing, learning, and partying. The destination
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was h0h0con in Austin, Texas, put on by Drunkfux. For those out there that
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haven't heard of h0h0con, let me tell you a little about it. It is probably
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the most popular hack/phreak convention held each year. That about sums it
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up. If you haven't heard of 'hack/phreak' then just kinda read along and
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learn about some of teh sub-culture that exists out there.
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The reason for this file: To let people who missed h0h0con, know
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how the con went, and to entertain people with our trip's story. Many
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humorous events occured, I managed to take a ton of quotes(mostly out
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of context of course), which will be included in here. Material from
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this article very well could be used for blackmail against any of my
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friends... since I will cover my own tracks no doubt. Whee.
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The people: Myself, which someof you may have become familiar
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with through these files. Deadkat, sysadmin of corrupt.sekurity.com,
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primary editor of CoTNO zine. ThePublic, long time member of the computer
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underground. Cavalier, founding member of TNo, once again in the scene.
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Voyager, absent minded #hack_faq editor. Rage, upcoming silent type
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experiencing his first computer con. Blair, or Ms Public as she was often
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called.
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Thursday night rolled around, and we slowly met at Deadkat's
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place. Some checked mail on the board, two finished packing, and
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others just messed around wasting time waiting for Voyager to arive
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with the van that would lead us to the promised land. Thirty minutes
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of arranging the van was well worth the time and comfort level that
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was provided for the twenty hour drive.
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After a quick stop at the local Safeway and liquor store nearby,
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we set off on the highway driving through our favorite stopming ground
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DTC. Ten o'clock hit when we were finally settled in and technology
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overflowing. In the front were the radar detector, CD Player, and cooler.
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Two or three backlit screens from various laptops lit the van and gave it
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an almost radiant glow. With a NIN CD playing, Deadkat and myself proceeded
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to back up each other's hard drive, and copy files so we both had good
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copies of our file libraries. ThePublic sat in front of us messing with
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his newest motorola flip phone, no doubt thinking of some new mod to add
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to it. Blair had commandeered Cavalier's notebook so that she could play
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Space Quest 1(0 day!!) during the first leg of the trip.
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We had estimated 9 hours or so to make the first major stopping point
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Lubbock, TX. It was there that we would fuel and grab some dinner before
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continuing on toward Austin. During the first leg of our trip we had a great
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talk about the underground scene in the past, present, and what the future
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held. Very intersting to look back at who was who, and where they were
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today. Sometime while playing _My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult_, we
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all thought about how these were the best of times, and the freedom
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we held. It isn't often that can just strike off in your own direction,
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and have total control of what you do, and where you go. Being with great
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friends and having a good reason to get together, brought it all to a
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climatic vacation that we all desperately needed. I don't know about you,
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but daily routines and work drag me down in a fierce way. As a side note,
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the whole drive could only be done by 3 of the 7 people. Myself, Cavalier,
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and Blair were the only eligble drivers. ThePublic had been 'discouraged'
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from driving to to an incident at the last SummerCon where he kinda rolled
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a car, and almost killed him and Voyager. Voyager, who has been in two
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wrecks in the past month alone was also discouraged from any night driving,
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and would only be allowed to drive if someone was watching him the whole
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time. Deadkat, although being the second oldest among us, has no license,
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and thus no driving ability for this trip. Rage had procrastinated a bit
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too long in getting his permit/licence. Lamers :)
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Other conversations of interest were about the recent internet
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hacks by the ILF, and speculation of who the group consisted of. (BTW:
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the list posted on alt.2600 is not at all correct). While I was sleeping,
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the others had a wierd conversation(i assume) where the topic was
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'Flaming Sperm', and I don't know if I want to get filled in on that one.
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Almost every other topic imaginable was brought up and discussed since we
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had plenty of time to kill.
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Friday
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Throughout the night, most of us crashed, since we knew we wouldn't
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get much sleep at all. Three days of partying and learning new stuff was
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well worth some missed sleep. As the sun came up and the drive continued
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to be dull(we were driving through Texas after all), TP got one of his
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motorola flip phones with his special mod. He had routed a wire from the
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phone's speaker so that it could interface with a tape adaptor desigend
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for portable CD players. Translated, whatever was broadcasted over the phone,
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could be played through the van's speakers. Hypothetically, if he entered
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the right numbers in test mode on the phone, he could have scanned in on
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other conversations, and allowed everyone to hear it. So I was driving
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thinking about what he could do, while DK was thinking about scanning
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other channels to help find neat conversations, and we enjoyed that leg
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of the trip. But we didn't really do anything illegal of course.
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During the drive through Texas, a few hours out of Lubbock, I met
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a nice man named Mr. Edwards. He was a member of some club that had neat
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badges and carried guns. I had the pleasure of being pulled around to the
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back corner of our van, and asked several questions about where we were
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going, and what I was doing driving so fast. I had come over a hill doing
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about 65 MPH or so, and he gunned me doing 71 somehow. When I asked him to
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see the radar, he told me that I could look at it, but it didn't have my
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speed on it, since he was gunning other people passing along. Hmm. Sounds
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a little funny to me. I think he was really jealous that he wasn't in the
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back of the van, moshing with the rest of the crew. I do believe the van
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was bouncing a little more than most vehicles on the road at the time. It
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may just be me, but I think they pick on out of state drivers like that
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knowing full well I won't take the time to drive back down to dispute it.
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Of course, since I live in another state, I don't exactly have to drop the
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check in the mail. Decisions...
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Just outside of Austin we made another stop for cokes, bathroom,
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and to pick up shoepolish. We couldn't just drive into h0h0 without elite
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messages all over our windows! The side windows receive our 'TNO' logo,
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"K0de patrol - 31337", "303 krew - no phear", and "h0h0 94". The elite
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windows and the USWest flashing light on top of the van alerted all to who
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we were, and to phear us.
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The drive in was uneventful, and Austin was quite like other major
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Texas towns. Either way, it was different, because it held H0h0con!! We
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stopped at our hotel to check in, and get situtated. Five minutes later,
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we went to the right hotel to check in(good one Voy). We pulled up to the
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right hotel and started carting stuff in to the room. Two beds, 7 people,
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one bathroom. During the trips we noticed a group of guys in the room above
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us that kept staring at us as we emptied the van. DK and myself donned our
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USWest hardhats, and that clued them in that we were there for the con as
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well.
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Seven o'clock rolled around, and warnings of the con being overun
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with feds had already hit us. Descriptions of people 'talking into their
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thumbs' and 'definite feds' were rampant, and seemingly, no one at the con
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was to be trusted. Didn't sound like a good start, so we emptied our pockets
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of all elite information, and decided to skip our outfits until we knew it
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was safe. Wouldn't want to get busted on the first night of the con! We
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drove over to the Ramada South in someone else's car since Cavalier had
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dissapeared with the van. The guys in the room above us carted us over in
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two trips. I know TP had a great time riding in the trunk on the way over.
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The lobby was half full of teenagers wearing almost all black, so we figured
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we found part of the convention. Being the social sluts we are(heh), each of
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us headed off in a different direction and started meeting people. It was
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only a matter of minutes before we started finding a lot of people that we
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had previously chatted with over BBSs, or the net, and finally had the
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opportunity to put faces with names.
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It took an hour to go throughout the lobby, meet people, check out
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the two h0h0 rooms, and find out what had been happening. The report of
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feds infesting the place was somewhat wrong, and the most we saw was a
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ton of hotel security(gee..wonder why) and a few possible feds. TP managed
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to talk to Drunkfux(organizer of the con) and rounded up DK and myself, to
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go visit him in his room. Five minutes later Voyager tracked me down and
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drug me out of Dfx's room, so that I could go to GrayArea's room. The topic
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there was the ILF, their attacks recently, and who they were. In an upcoming
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issue of GrayArea magazine, she will be interviewing members of the ILF that
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have given her an exclusive online interview.. look forward to that.
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A strong desire for food hit several of us during our talks
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throughout the hotel, and a small band of us grouped together to walk to
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the local hamburger joint. On the way, I was bombarded with request for
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making a trojan that would kill a renegade board. Bad move. I consider
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BBS hacking to be pretty lame in that aspect, or at least in killing the
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board. If you want to use a trojan to snag files or something, that is fine,
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but don't destroy for little/no reason. Food run over, we headed back to
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the con to see who else had arrived.
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For the next two hours we sat around and talked with anyone and
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everyone we could. That is probably one of the best things about cons of
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this nature, is the openess, and willingness to trade information, and
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talk about anytyhing. As things started to wind down(if that can be said),
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we headed back toward our hotel for a few hours of rest. At least, they
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did, I had no intention of sleeping when I had direct net access and a
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hotel room under someone else's name.
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Sleep eventually came, and abruptly left a few hours later, it
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was time for the con to start.
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Saturday
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When we left the hotel, we were decked out and ready to have a blast.
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DK and myself were wearing our lineman's handsets, bell hardhats, and other
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misc USWest paraphanelia(sp). Our 'kode patrol' van caught more eyes as we
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drove up, and we hopped out. Our group headed straight downstairs for the
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signup process and to hear the first speakers. While in line, we passed out
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disks containing all the issues of F.U.C.K., CoTNO, and the most recent
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version of the hack_faq, so as to better spread the word. The wait was
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short, and we had a chance to read other literature people were passing out,
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including how to join the CIA. :)
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Once in the room, we spread out again, a few of the guys heading
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toward various vendor tables, and the rest getting decent seats. After
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everyone had crowded in and taken the seats, Drunkfux got up and began
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the con officially, and outlined the agenda for the day. He went through
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a list of speakers, break times, other activities, and threw in some tips
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for us while we were in the hotel.
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First Speaker: (forgot his name) brought up Commercialism of the
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net and how it was going from here on out. He mentioned local companies that
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charged US$300 a month to create and maintian a WWW Home Page. His argument
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against this was, the company designed a page for you(with your input of
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course), set it up so anyone could reach it, but did nothing to let people
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know it was there. The company never advertised that all those home pages
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were sitting there waiting to be viewed, and did nothing to attract other
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net viewers. From here he went on about some other BS that 95% of us
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were quite familiar with, and concluded by saying the net was going to
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become "the Indian Nation". During his speech, someone stood up and said
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"Sounds like the net is anarchy" as if he was suprised. Applause resounded
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after that comment.
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Second Speaker: 'Internet Master'. The topic for his speech was
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standards on the net, and how futile they have been. (This was a little
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more technical info, and standards of IP transfer protocals, etc, not
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standardizing other things). Two things to note out of his speech, is
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how bad some people are when it comes to standardizing.. IPVersion 6 is
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not backwards compatible with Version 4. That alone shows you that people
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aren't trying to make things go in the right direction, they just want
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their soft controlling as much of the net as possible. Last year alone,
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137 'standards' were released for protocals..all unusable by most.
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The next string of speakers were all members of the Prometheus
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Project, which I will go into a little more over the next few paragraphs.
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The goals of the group are as follows: Architecturing an underground net,
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establishing digital cash, generalize all encryption routines in the
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various unix's, establish and develop client/server cryptography, and
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the education/advocacy of encryption.
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Douglas Barnes was the first to get up and introduce us to the
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project, the current status, and give us an outline as to what they had
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been doing, and what they were planning. During his short speech on
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kinds of cryptography, he brought up an amusing point that should sit
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in the back of your mind somewhere. "It is always cheaper to send Vinnie
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and Dino to beat the keys out of you." - Which he called 'Rubber Hose
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Crytoanalysis'. If you are not sure what this means, read a basic file or
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two on encryption and how it works. From here he detailed the different
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kinds of encryption, gave us an idea how secure it was, speed and efficiancy
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and other aspects.
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Jeremy Porter was next up, and he continued on into the idea of
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Digital Cash Payment System being utilized in the near future. The
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presentation consisted of outlining almost every possible way to establish
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digital cash, and various ways of banking through a 'global network', in
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this case, the internet. He broke down the four following ways of banking
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via nets: Netcash, First Virtual, openmarket, and Digicash. Using those
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four methods, he then broke them down further and compared/contrasted by
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bringing up important issues relating to them. Cost of system, Anonymous
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transactions, Reversibility, Scalability, Reliability, Security, Fraud
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Resistance, and Appeal to the Merchant. I won't go into details on this,
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but will share a chart he developed to sum it up.
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Cost Sec Reverse Scale Merch Priv Fraud
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netcash 5 3 8 7 4 3 5
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f.virtl 5 8 7 4 9 7 9
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openmkt 3 3 5 5 3 8 10
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digicsh 2 2 2 7 3 1 5
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1=Best 10=Worst
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Averages: Netcash 4.875
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F.Virtl 6.25
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Openmkt 5.625
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Digicsh 3.125
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What all of that means, is that the idea of a digital cash
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system, is apparently better in most aspects than the other proposed ideas
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of doing banking on the net. Since digicash is still being developed, they
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believe that it is the idea of the future, and the most secure/reliable
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way of doing cash trasnactions. This is definately something to keep an eye
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on in the future.
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Third Speaker: _ McCoy (didn't catch his first name). His topic
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was estalishing underground networks, and how they work. Fundamentals of
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building a hidden network are using existing tools, making it invisible
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to observers, limiting traffic analysis, and using a secure crypto for
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information. The core components of this type of network are Client software,
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firewalls, and nodes/hosts on the net. He went on to detail how a person
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could feasibly establish an underground net from the ground up, establish
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security and privacy for it, and maintain it without it being noticed. After
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his speech, I have no doubt in my mind that he has an underground net already
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up and running somewhere on the net. For more info on this subject:
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URL http://www.io.com/user/mccoy/unternet.
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Before the third speaker, we took a break for lunch and fresh air,
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but to keep the continuity of the topics, I went a little out of order.
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During the lunch break, someone passed out a disk that just said "Readme"
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on it. Deadkat checked the disk on his notebook and found it had 13 .com
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files, and 5 .zip files. Each file was about 3k, just big enough to be a
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virus. After the disks were passed around, someone mentioned "Give viruses,
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the gift that keeps on giving". After our lunch run to Taco Bell(ever notice
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how there is one close to you no matter where you are?), we came back and
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took different seats and prepared for the next string of speakers. As we
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were waiting, I met a journalist from Austin that will be starting a new
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online zine in the near future, and I am slated to be one of his first
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interviewed. Funfun.
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Death Vegitable was the next speaker, and his topic was one that
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made people fear the uneducated goverments. A guy named Michael Lantski
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(didn't catch what state) was recently arrested for material on his
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BBS. Apparently, an 'undercover' agent called into his BBS, and logged on
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as a 14 year old kid. From there he DLed some files about making pipe bombs,
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made his case, and had the sysop arrested. When he first went to court
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the judge said something to the effect of "This guy is not a criminal, he
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doesn't belong in jails". Later, the judge said something like "this guy
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is as bad as the people who bombed the world trade center"...just because
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he had files on making pipe bombs. The judge also set bail at $500,000 even
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though most murderers only received a $200,000 bail in that state. He was
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then sentenced to 28 months in jail. Point of all this: The first ammendment
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should protect cases like this. Death Vegitable had written those pipe bomb
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files when he was 15 (he is 21 now), and a sysop who had those files was
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jailed for 28 months due to them. His lawyer was quoted "I don't want to
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mess with first ammendment stuff". How lame. DV later went on to tell his
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ideas on explosives, and mentioned "if you blow your arm off, that is just
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explosive darwinism" or something like that.
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Next came the fun part of the con..the raffle. Drunkfux is the
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master of dragging up the most elite of items to be raffled off, and
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this time was no exception. I would like to first rub in the fact that
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I was the first person to win something, and I know you all will
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be breaking my doors down to get it. I am the proud owner of an autographed
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Vanilla Ice poster. Thpppt. Other neato prizes included:
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-New Kids on the Block Merchandise
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-AOL Disks with 10 free hours
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-Porn CDRoms
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-Tracy Lords Videos
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-'Ugly' HOPE Shirts
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-Play Cell Phones
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The good prizes that I recall:
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-Back issues of 2600
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-A Phone Booth
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-Manuals
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-A keyboard (donated by Voyager)
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-Modems
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-Old (hard to find) t-files printed out
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Overall, the raffle was a blast, even though all the dweebs got the good
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prizes. After the last item was raffled off, Drunkfux announced the next
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speaker, and took his seat.
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The second to last speaker was Damien Thorne, writer for Nuts/Volts
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magazine, cellular hacking demi-god, and overall great guy. His presentation
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started out with a video of a news report on cell hacking, that most of us
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had seen, but still got a kick out of. His next video was his own creation,
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and showed a lot of scenes of cellular 'stuff' timed to a groovy tune that he
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had picked out. He is still working on the video, so keep an eye out for
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it. :)
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Netta Gilboa was the last to hit the stand, carrying her laptop
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and setting it up on the podium. After loading her prepared speech, she
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began. I would include her speech in here(verbatim) but I wouldn't want
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to bore you really...so here are some interesting lines from it. I have
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the whole thing on disk since she offered to copy it for anyone, and if
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you want to read the whole thing, mail me and I will forward you a copy.
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Highlights: [my comments in brackets]
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"Treasure tonight..at the rate we're going, there won't be many cons left..
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As a community, you need my magazine as much as an individual I need some
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of you[we need her magazine? heh]...Stop judging each other so harshly and
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having a double standard which allows you to be accepted while you tear down
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everyone who is (take your pick) fat, female, black, j00ish, gay, old, press,
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handicapped, etc. It is so much easier for the feds to tear apart a group
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that is already divided... Not surprisingly, the story brought all sorts of
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brushes with law enforcement ranging from copies of Gray Areas being seized
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(as a hacking tool) in the busts of hackers in Colorado...[She mentioned us!]
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Unfortunately, my crystal ball shows that a lot of the people I like most
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are going down too for things they did[according to her, she has a complete
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list of who will be busted this year]...1995 hasn't started yet but it's
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gonna be a very rough year... I have no choice but to reveal that all of
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my Net acounts have been compromised[fuckin hackers!!@!]... Santa brought
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me another present this year and the Internet Liberation Front has chosen
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me as their exclusive voice..."
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Even though Netta was supposed to be the last speaker, a hacker
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sympathetic lawyer took the stand to answer any legal questions people had
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regarding hacking, phreaking, and other devious arts. We decided to leave
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since we knew what we were doing was probably deemed bad by the government.
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Saturday Night
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6th street was the destination for almost everyone it seemed. The
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street was reputed to be the best party spot in the whole town, and 'everyone
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will be there'. We loaded up the party van with ourselves, and proceeded to
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drop by a liqour store for 'spiritual guidance' during the night. We found
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parking under the highway in a public parking area. Found it somewhat ironic
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that a couple guys were down there making money off it, by 'parking' cars.
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Although they were just directing traffic and 'watching your car while you
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were gone', they didn't ask for money, but hinted at tips since they can't
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legally ask for money for services on a public parking lot. Not a bad idea
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though..they probably make more than I do.
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We didn't even get to the end of the first block before we stopped
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at one of those huge gyro-dealies where you strap in and go spinning around
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at all angles. DK was the first to fork cash over to enjoy the 'ride'.
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For almost ten minutes he thrashed about and spun wildly while we made jokes
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about throwing rocks at him while he was strapped in. Voyager was next in
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line, getting used to being tied down in a big wheel, and adjusting
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to having little control over the direction he was travelling. He eventually
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got the hang of it, and was soon spinning around having a blast. Last up
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was Cavalier, probably the biggest and 'baddest' among us. Ten minutes after
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he started, he could barely walk up 6th street without having to stop due
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to a greater desire to alleviate his stomach of what was in it.
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It took Voyager all of three seconds to find us a resteraunt when I
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said I was hungry. Of course, he didn't look to see what they served, he just
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led us in and asked for a table. Turns out we were in a cajun seafood joint
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that sounded quite good to all of us. The tables we sat at were covered with
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paper and a cup of crayons hinted that we were to have fun drawing while
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we waited for our food. DK, Voyager, Rage, and myself sat at our table, and
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that was the focus of dinner because Cav was sick as hell, and decided fresh
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air and the bathroom to be better places for him. TP and Blair took off
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outside since she didn't care for seafood and they wanted to hang out
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together some. After placing our orders with our extrememly hot waitress,
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the four of us proceeded to litter our table with bell logo's, our handles,
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and other catchy phrases. We figured the next people sitting here would
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get to read it, or it would be hung on the wall with others that we saw
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as we sat down. As Rage was completing a nice drawing of a cell phone,
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our waitress returned with several bowls of what we assumed was our food.
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She asked who had ordered the sausage and Rage quickly spoke up, and quickly
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regretted it. She took the bowl and dumped it in front of him on his graffiti
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and proceeded to ask who had ordered the shrimp and sausage. I didn't know
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if I wanted to raise my hand. It ended up that we were all to eat with
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our hands, and our food on the table. Quite unique to most of us, but we
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adapted and began to eat.
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I am fond of taking quotes from our conversations and using them
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in files like this or CoTNO, so I kept my ears open. Throughout the first
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part of the meal I missed a lot, and desperately wished I could remember
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them, but oh well. Voyager gave me some paper and his pen so I could write
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a few down, but ended up losing them. The only ones of note you can guess
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about...
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"I can't write with this shrimp piss around." - Dis
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"Wonder what part of the pig they made this out of?" - Voy
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Part of our meal was spent opening our food with our hands. I had
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the pleasure of ripping the heads off each of the shrimp I ate, while DK
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enjoyed breaking a crab apart as well as ripping the heads and legs off
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each of his crawldads(or is it crawdads). Amazingly violent, but quite
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tasty I thought. Either way, the food was good, and the amount of culture
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we received at that sitting was more than we were used to. Everyone finished
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eating, so we gathered ourselves up to hit the street again, ready for the
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new year to come and go like a new code (had to put one lame simile in there
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somewhere).
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Current laws dictate that you may not have an open container of
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alchohol on public streets, and may not imbibe it if you do have it.
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Since we had three bottles among us, it was new years, and we don't give
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a shit about the law, we kinda indulged ourselves. Due to the fact that
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the streets were littered with police, and thousands of other people, we
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had to disguise our drinking. Group Hugs were quite frequent among us.
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As the group got together to hug each other signifying their love toward
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the others, one of us would kneel down and chug like hell. How touching eh?
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It took less than two hours to finish two of the three bottles we were
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carrying. We had walked a mile or so up one side of the street, and noticed
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that things were thinning out, so I led the group across the street and
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back down the road toward where we had come from.
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Back down the road we went, most of us considerably more happy
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than we had been going up the road. It took a little longer to get back
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to our starting point due to various stops along the way. The most memorable
|
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was a rad store that sold everything from posters to comics, from stickers
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to bongs, and other rad stuff. DK and I argued over buying some new Clockwork
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Orange shirts that we saw in there, that neither of us had seen anywhere
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else, but our desire for gas money on the way home was a bit stronger.
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We eventually reached the party van and piled in to kick back and relax
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for a few minutes before heading back out.
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While relaxing, I missed the first sentence of a conversation that
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I regret now. The second sentence should tell you why: "If you like an
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enema, you'll dig this" (- Deadkat). Silence filled the air along with
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scared looks and curiosity. After several comments and jokes about what
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he had said, we had ascertained that he was reffering to Yagermeister, our
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third bottle. Jokes died down and we eventually became a little more quiet,
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only to be interupted by another great quote: "Its deer blood?!? You didn't
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have to tell me that" (- Rage). I didn't even ask where it came from, but
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shortly after he handed me the same bottle to pass along. Funny how one
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bottle can produce so much humor, even without the liquor.
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DK and Rage finished off the bottle before we gathered the energy
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to go back out and face the crowd. The new year was less than 30 minutes
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away, giving inspiration for a hurried pace. Wouldn't want to miss that
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critical second and be in the wrong place would we? Three blocks up held
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the biggest group of people, a huge countdown clock, and the most noise,
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so naturally, we stopped there. The new year came, and we rejoiced, and
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screamed and toasted(handshakes since we were out of fluids) to having
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a decent year behind us, and a potentially good year to come.
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Things wound down from there, and we headed back toward the hotel
|
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to catch some sleep. It was our intention to crash, and then go back to
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the hotel to visit more people from the con since a lot would still be there.
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|
Our plans were changed for us as we arrived back at the hotel. A decent
|
|
sized group of people had grouped in the guy's room above us, and we went
|
|
to join in on whatever was going on. We found out that eight of the people
|
|
had been waiting for us, so it ended up being fifteen people in our small
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hotel room. Quite the party eh? Cellular was the main topic, with other
|
|
people talking about the scene, and what was happening in it. We tried
|
|
to break away after a while so that we could do some stuff of our own in
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our room. We had grabbed Damien Thorne, Plexor, and yLe since all three were
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well versed with cells. It ended up being a pretty big crowd since most
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everyone from above followed one person or another down to our room.
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The next three hours were spent mostly teaching other people that had come
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in the room. Everything from net hacking to diverting, to a little system
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hacking. All in all a fun time.
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Fours hours of sleep and we were back up and ready to go. Most of us
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had had good nights, and most of us woke up just fine. Rage and myself were
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less fortunate. It seems TP and/or Blair kicked the shit out of him, waking
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him up sometime on Sunday morning. That alone didn't wake me up, but after
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several minutes of annoying 'tapping', I told someone "Quit tapping on the
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table", I later found out, they weren't 'tapping' on any table. Breakfast
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and fresh air were taken first so we could all fully wake up. TP and Blair
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|
stayed behind in the room relaxing and playing Space Quest 1 again.
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Cavalier drove us over to the Ramada where we could chat about whatever and
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|
say our goodbyes(and hello's in some cases) to people. Most of the
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morning and early afternoon was spent talking to various people and just
|
|
hanging out in the hotel lobby. As time passed, people thinned out, leaving
|
|
a much smaller crowd. We had lost Cavalier earlier while the four of us
|
|
were being social. Afternoon wound itself into evening, so people started
|
|
making dinner plans. During the debate about where to eat, and who was
|
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to drive, Drunkfux mentioned that he wanted to interview TNo. We had planned
|
|
to do it after dinner, but TP and Cav showed up, so we all sat down on a long
|
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couch and began right then.
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|
It took almost a full hour to complete it, mostly because of our
|
|
commentaries, or opinions on each other's comments. Drunkfux ended up asking
|
|
very little, since DK and Voyager asked everyone questions for him. It was
|
|
a blast having the whole group there talking to someone else about our agenda
|
|
and past accomplishments. Voyager had a blast insulting police officers and
|
|
law enforcement in general while a local officer watched on the whole
|
|
proceeding. We gave our advice to whoever ends up watching the video and
|
|
wrapped things up. (I am cutting this short because I hope the video of the
|
|
con will contain the highlights of our interview, or he will make the whole
|
|
thing available to us later).
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Japanese was the first idea on food, and everyone had agreed at some
|
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point or another, yet we ended up at Chuck E Cheeses. Pizza was close enough
|
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for most of us. We ended up taking a bunch of people including Damien,
|
|
ourselves, and a few others. During the ride, someone popped in Offspring
|
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and we began our mosh...again. I do recall getting my head smashed against
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a camera, so watch for that on video somewhere. :)
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CeC's was quite different than most of us remembered as kids.
|
|
Instead of being littered with arcade games, there were tons of kids games,
|
|
rides, and a big play area. In one small corner were about 15 arcade games,
|
|
all older than us it seemed. We took turns ordering our food and drink, and
|
|
were happy to note that we each received tokens for the game with our food
|
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purchases. Voyager and I headed toward the small area of games to see what
|
|
was fun. I noticed Swampe Ratte deep in his game of Centipede, so we kept
|
|
heading back. Eventually we found Gauntlet(elite game) and watched as
|
|
Rambone, Count Zero, Death Vegitable, and one other battle their way through
|
|
the maze. Drunkfux came in to let them know their pizza was ready, so
|
|
Cavalier, Voyager, and myself took over their game for them, and proceeded
|
|
to kick some ass. Our fun only lasted a few minutes as our pizza was ready
|
|
as well.
|
|
Fortunately for us, the tables were aranged in such a way that we
|
|
could all sit at one long table. Just as we sat down, Chuck E Cheese himself
|
|
started speaking to us. What..don't you remember the live show at that
|
|
place? We took turns cracking jokes about what he said, and the video's
|
|
they showed advertising 'new movies' that most of us had passed up last
|
|
summer. Drunkfux took turns eating and getting us on camera, and that night
|
|
alone promises some funny event on the h0h0 tape that is to come. The best
|
|
quote I could get for that night came from Rambone: "Can I buy beer with
|
|
these Chuck E Cheese tokens?".
|
|
We dumped everyone off at the hotel, saying our farewells from the
|
|
van as Cavalier drove off. On the way back we gased up the van, since plans
|
|
had changed and we decided to leave that night. As soon as we arrived at
|
|
the hotel, we made mad dashes between the van and the room loading everything
|
|
up. Yes, we had 7 people in one room to cut down on costs, and I think
|
|
Voyager *accidentally* told the receptionist two people would be staying.
|
|
Oops. It was midnight before we were off and on the road heading back to
|
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Denver, most of us quite tired. I was the designated driver for the first
|
|
leg since Cavalier was barely able to stand, and it would give him a
|
|
chance to sleep so he could drive later. The entire ride back was basically
|
|
uneventful due to everyone sleeping the whole time. I don't recall seeing
|
|
TP, Blair, Rage, or Voyager awake for more than ten minutes for the first
|
|
10 hours of the drive. DK was up most of the time to watch the road and
|
|
read some new lit he got during the con. I couldn't keep myself awake
|
|
enough to read or write(this file), so it is a little late in coming out.
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That about sums the trip up, sorry to drag it out. A lot of the
|
|
stuff mentioned in here was more of a 'location joke' and you just had to
|
|
be there. If you ever have the chance to go to h0h0, or any other con like
|
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it, I would definately recommend it.
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Logikal Nonsense has a new number, and is published now. Give it a call
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and check it out. Corrupt.Sekurity.Com is officially down so no more
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FTPing there for the new files. I am also glad to see(and kind of surprised)
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that these files are now up on the WWW. I guess Johnl(see below) is doing
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it, and I appreciate it. If you would like to submit an article or ideas
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to be published, mail them to jericho@netcom.com or get in contact with
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me another way. I still call Celestial Woodlands, Purple Hell, and a few
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other boards. The directory structure on netcom has been changed, so
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double check it when you are on there looking for new files.
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= Wulf's Den 303.699.WULF E.L.F. (NUP) 314.272.3426 =
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= Dungeon Sys. Inc. 410.263.2258 Celestial Woodlands 409.764.2843 =
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= Plan 9 716.881.3663 Logikal Nonsence 814.861.7282 =
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= FTP.WINTERNET.COM - cd /users/craigb/fuck =
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