Defcon 14, Las Vegas, NV, Aug 4-6, 2006

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[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

The woman in 3569 has such a "please, get me this creep's hands off of me" look.

[hollow-hope.livejournal.com]

That's Jeri Ellsworth, one of the smartest ladies I know. ^^ She taught herself Verilog with no prior experience or formal training in electronics/logic, and has implemented an entire C64 in it for FPGAs (and later mass-produced masked VLSI designs).

If you've bought one of those "C64 in a joystick" things, she's the one that designed it. =) (The core silicon bits of it anyway). It's real hardware, not a software emulation like a lot of "games in a joystick" devices are! You can even access some of the C64's expansion buses by soldering connectors to pads on the device's mainboard.

So yeah, because of her sheer awesome geek cred, lots of hax0rs slobber over her, even though she's older than most of us (she's 32). That said, she looks damn good for 32 (and is cute by any measure, at least I think so). ^^

It's cool that she kept coming by where I was sitting for CTF to see what I was hacking on. I was pretty flattered. I've known her since 2000 or so, but it still flatters the hell out of me when I actually do something that impresses her. =)

[ioerror.livejournal.com]

hot damn.

[oygevalte.livejournal.com]

Perhaps she'd like a 38 year-old who was hardware and software hacking back in the proto days she remembers? :D ;) Apple ][, anyone?

*still knows 6502 assembly*

[oygevalte.livejournal.com]

Looks like this was the Burning Man pre-party. ;)

[helger.livejournal.com]

32 is a perfect age.

In general, DefCon is definitely different from scientific conferences on say crypto. Different crowd. Different habits. Different clothes. More show off. Interesting...

[hollow-hope.livejournal.com]

Hey I was hacking in 6502 (well, 6510) assembly at CTF, which is what she came over to check on. =)

Knowing the guys (or girls) she pays attention to for more than 30 minutes, you have to have some pretty damn good credentials. I usually see her with people who did stuff like designing parts of the Amiga custom chipset, wrote major applications from the period that EVERYONE used, or created damn impressive expansion devices that let limited systems do things nobody expected. =P

[oygevalte.livejournal.com]

Alas, my geek fu is not strong. At least, not in console machines...

I am the go-to guy on EFI hardware and software for motorcycles, though. :D In fact, I wrote the only book on the subject. Is that cred enough? :D

[littlelordchaos.livejournal.com]

... why does my big brother strip for the camera?

Jeri Ellsworth

[foxgrrl]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth

I thought that she looked familiar when I saw her go by on roller skates, but I didn't realize it was her until after the con. She looked different than the last several times I've met her. And I guess my brain wasn't associating her with DefCon at all, even though I ran into her there last year. (We mostly cross paths at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, and a Commodore convention that I forgot the name of now — it was in Vegas the weekend before DefCon this year. Last year they were on the same dates, so I traveled back and forth between the two.)

That guy feeling her up posing with her, was the guy who was trying to talk me into doing some network security/forensics contracting work for NASA.

[genetikayos.livejournal.com]

Comparing my experience to your pictures, it is hard to imagine that they are the same event. It looks like you had a great time. Those are the perks of knowing so many people.

Since I've started watching your LJ, I've really enjoyed your photography. Thank you very much.

BTW, poke whimsywanderer to update.

[genetikayos.livejournal.com]

Ah, I figured out part of your secret. You only post the very cream of the crop. What does "l" and "p" indicate in your picture directory heirarchy?

Yeah, she takes 10,000 pics

[whimsywanderer.livejournal.com]

Then takes the time to sort them out and get good ones. But still. Her skill at managing to capture something a little bit more is reallt phenomenal don'tcha think?
N' I've updated...but I din have much to say....

[foxgrrl]

"l" is for Landscape oriented photos, "p" is for portrait. Grouping them together makes it easier to fit them on a web page without any large gaps in random locations.

And, a lot of the stuff I don't post, isn't too bad either. But, I just find it a little bit more boring, and I don't want to waste people's time. Some of it has technical faults (blurred, underexposed, etc.), and even for many of the subjects I do post here; I'll have taken three to five, almost identical photos (Maybe with slightly different composition or exposure), and then I only post the best looking one. Since I switched to digital I've been much more lax about getting the perfect shot the first and only time. I'll also burn through a lot of exposures just taking pictures of trees and rocks and stuff, and lately, shooting 10 megapixel movies at 5fps. (Which I haven't had time to post yet...)

[hollow-hope.livejournal.com]

I was *GETTING DRESSED*, that's me putting ON clothes. -_-;