As many of you know, I just returned from vacation. My first day back was
kind of crappy, so let's just pretend that didn't happen. The second was
pretty good though! I've had relatively few frustrations with technology,
and I've managed to start getting back in the groove work-wise.
My summer vacation was relaxing, but it wasn't fun. I didn't really go
anywhere, but I caught up on sleep (LOTS of sleep) and I didn't stress out
about anything. I didn't even work on my hobby projects very much, and I
didn't do more than talk about Imagination for an hour or so. I did go to
new york to see my father, my family and some friends, but I got back here
in time to avoid the RNC. That was what I did with my summer vacation and I
ate hibachi and tenth was there too. The
end.
Evil Epilogue:
Today I finally got software suspend to work on my linux laptop. So, of
course, what does any good hacker do when he has done something like this?
take it for a test drive!
What better way to test-drive this than to go warwalking through my
neighborhood. I was lucky enough to find not just an open access point - not
just a high-bandwidth connection - but a linksys device with the password
still set to the default and adminnable through wifi! The connection
appeared to be idle, so I helped myself to a heaping helping of bittorrent
ports and began to make merry in the park at midnight.
So now I'm writing some specs, playing some nethack, blogging, downloading,
and generally having a good time in the park at midnight. Some late-night
joggers have given me some really weird looks.
The best part of this is that I am actually looking at the message "Hello
glyph, the elven Wizard, welcome back to NetHack! You are lucky! Full moon
tonight." while there is actually a visible full moon directly in front of
me.
And I'm thinking... wouldn't it be cool if I had a backpack full of
solar-powered computers with wifi cards and repeaters that I could just
sprinkle around the country... building a redundant, distributed filesharing
overlay network on accidental connections... are there any such devices
available for the average consumer-level evil genius?