DC Nightlife, Underground, Hak5

Obviously I’ve neglected to mention much about what happened outside of Shmoocon this past weekend, mainly because I wanted the Shmoocon posts to be about Shmoocon, and not much else.

So here we go:

DC Sleeps Alone Tonight

I had never really partied in DC before, and it makes VA Beach look like an elementary school playground. There are so many places to go, it’s a bit overwhelming. I should’ve paid more attention to the actual names of the places we went, but I know The Reef, Bourbon, and Adams Mills were pretty decent.

Friday night involved roughly 50 people from the podcaster meetup at the Chipotle near the Marriott Wardman. It was basically a train of geeks bar hopping, and while we didn’t cause any damage or get into any trouble (c’mon, geeks!) it was very entertaining.

Saturday night was even bigger, with the entire Adams Mill bar being taken over by Shmoocon people. Picture well over a hundred geeks talking about linux or hacking or whatever with a billion attractive women walking around, and those women finding themselves lacking attention. Well okay i’m fibbing a little, but hey this is semi-professional right? :)

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

I think one thing a lot people never really understand is how massive the hacking community is. With roughly 1200 people in attendance, there were people from all walks of the industry around. Everyone there was probably the enemy of someone, but we all got along and learned a bit from each other. I did notice that a large percentage of those there were affiliated with the government in some fashion, either military or as a civilian employee.

Hak5

I had the pleasure of running into the guys from Hak5, and befriending most of ‘em. I have to work on getting my presence up on their site though, haha. We definitely had a hell of a time in and around Adams Mills on Saturday and I’m looking forward to hanging with them again. Go watch their podcast if you haven’t, and hit up their site at http://www.hak5.org