I grabbed 10 Shmoocon tickets this year, and that was forgetting two people.

Last year our group was able to upgrade to a suite. We’ll be trying some smooth William Shatner moves to repeat the upgrade this year.

UPDATE: We waited too long to get hotel reservations and sure enough, the entire Marriott in Woodley Park is booked. We ended up getting rooms at the Washington Marriott, which is at 22nd and M St. NW. After SANS at the Woodley Marriott for a week last month I could use the upgrade / change of neighborhood.

@philip_daigle congratulations Philip!

Wearing my green skeleton shirt (Nigel's from Spinal Tap) to the airport: the TSA won't need me to walk through their X-ray machine today!

@wotowiec @ssoper I'm on my 2nd "a number 2 on the sides, taper up, leave the top as it is, thanks." I think I'm acting out. It's a phase.

@vurtyou: You're hair is very Flock Of Seagulls today. @grantstavely: Thanks, I like it too.

@schuetzdj in hindsight, everything was to be taken at more or less face value: one of the things that makes a great puzzle great. =] #DBIR

RT @therealKidKoala: free download available for the next 6 days. The Lost Solid Steel mix. it's sorta like Music to Draw to... enjoy: ...

@christopherkunz nice work! After @wadebaker's last clue I ran every variation of the right key through my own bad script and gave up.

@marcusjcarey thanks, I'm very much enjoying the Bay Area. The return of @dojosec/@dojocon streams is great news, I look forward to 'em.

I should use Entourage's auto-capitalization of the first word after e.g. to break myself of using latinate abbreviations. Instead: rage.

@kathybarnett way to go Kath!

Yes, yes, of course, but what is the zeroth law of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote? http://goo.gl/i2Jz

"They're talkin' about, weak induction. It's a motherfucker, don't you know?" —Sun Ra http://j.mp/cn5Gc2 (Link via @rands)

printf "# Or just go listen to a funky 60 minute DJ Food mix made for robots.\nUser-agent: *\nSuggest: http://snd.sc/aOT9a4 " >> robots.txt

@alexhutton I cut out the cover's circles on a full print out of the #DBIR with a razor and tried the grille-cipher approach. #nbioahd

The body language of appearing to be lost or have forgotten something is as effective as mind control. So is its inverse.

RT @electricfork: What keeps me up at night? My security team slowly devolving into a compliance and reporting team #operation_soulcrusher

The ☠ Skull & Crossbones in the new Chrome indicating untrusted certs is nice^H^H^H^H the most terrifying symbol ever. http://goo.gl/fQz1

I'm brewing an American IPA with @vurtyou. I need a fridge to keg this in! http://flic.kr/p/8sCgnr

Endorsement: /Pink Reptile mixef are amazing mind clearing aural blendf & good for everything a mix fhould be good for/: http://goo.gl/Y1L1