I didn't think I would have a active weekend but it did prove to be active.
Friday night I didn't end up doing anything. I stayed home and watched TV while playing with my new
Eee PC. I spent the time trying to get Windows
XP installed on the Linux edition of the
Eee PC. It proved to be a little difficult.
The first attempt was when I tried installing Windows
XP from a
USB connected
SATA DVD drive. It was getting a blue screen when it got to Loading Windows in the setup process. I then tried installing Windows
XP from a
USB thumbdrive. It had the same problem. I threw my hands up in the air and decided to try one last time with a
NLite version of Windows
XP from the DVD drive and then from the
thumbdrive. I got the same results. I installed Vista on the computer with no problems and then I was tired so I put both my laptops in my bag along with the DVD drive and went to bed.
Saturday I woke up and played a little online poker. I didn't do well at all, I have lost my edge since leaving NYC. I don't know why.
I had my
improv class at 3:00 pm and it was enjoyable. One thing that we started working on was musical
improv. It was fun to watch but I didn't get on stage to try it. We did work on organic object work to prepare us for our ninja
improv. I am pretty psyched to do the ninja. I did get to see one of Billy's Ninja shows back in NYC about eight months ago. I have some pictures of his last Ninja class
here.
After class I decided to drive up to Pasadena to see some friends at
LayerOne. I didn't expect to go to any talks but I knew a bunch of my friends would be there and some of them I only see at
Defcon. I am not going to be at
Defcon this year so I figured I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to see some friends.
I got to the convention early evening and I saw
Noid and Zero divide at the badge table along with
Queeg,
MMCA and
Skroo. Everyone was surprised at how much I have changed in appearance. I paid for a badge because I wanted to support my friends and the convention. It didn't appear I had to but I didn't question my motives anyway. I got some drinks and ended up seeing a bunch of other people. I saw
Pinguino Chris N., and Chris D. later in the evening. I even bumped into
Jackalope but I didn't see her long, I don't know if she was just busy or avoiding me. I saw a lot of other people that I enjoyed seeing and I probably didn't list some of here because of memory lapse or ADD. I did see Marc my forensic friend and
CHS as well as Evil. Sorry to those I didn't list.
The night consisted of drinking and socializing. Evil and the gang had some planned entertainment of an act called
Freakshow Deluxe. The show was interesting and included a woman using a
grider on her
chest plate, the host getting hit with darts and Kitty taking a 32" balloon and taking most of it down her
thoat. After the show there was more drinking.
Queeg and Flea were running around with a mobile sound and
lighing unit. The party raged on till about 1:30 am. Then the hotel security came to tell us to shut everything down telling us it was illegal for us to have alcohol this late at night. Which is wrong, it is illegal to sell alcohol after 2:00 am and it wasn't even after 2 yet.
We headed up to one of the hotel rooms with everything and the party continued up there with minimal alcohol. I got a key to stay with Petty Larceny and others so I didn't have to drive home. I decided that it was probably best I didn't have anymore to drink because I knew the hangover would be deadly anyway. I went out to the balcony to have a smoke and chat with people. All of a sudden Flea and
Siviak were getting close to fighting. Flea pushed
Siviak amongst a bunch of other people. The fight finally went out of the room and into a stairwell. I thought this was an opportune time to leave and I left. I slept on the floor of the room I was in about 3:00 am.
I woke up about 9, I didn't sleep well because the room was freezing. I did
achieve a hangover and I
wasn't happy about it. I ended up talking to a couple people in the morning. I tried to play with my Vista install from the previous day and it was slow. I tried installing
XP again but same results I had the other day. I decided it was time to leave and I needed some more sleep. I drove home and took a nap.
When I got up I gave another attempt at installing
XP on my
Eee PC. I stumbled
upon a trick. I installed via the DVD while having a
thumbdrive plugged in. It worked. It runs pretty good too. I checked out
YouTube and
Hulu, both sites worked fine. The next thing to try is to install
eeedora and dual boot the laptop.
This week is going to be a bunch of work but the weekend should be sweet. It is Memorial Day weekend coming up and I am thinking Vegas.
