New Hobbies

There used to be a time when my hobbies consisted of school and not-school. Nowadays, when people ask me about my hobbies I whip out an Excel spreadsheet and start going into detail. I have too many hobbies, or not enough free time. Of those two options I would tend to agree with the latter. Regardless, I have discovered two new things at DEFCON that I want to do more of.

The first one fits pretty nicely into my existing hobby of photography. Urban Exploration consists of going into places people aren't really supposed to go. Sounds odd and a lot like trespassing because, well, that's kinda sorta what it is. The part that I like is that many of the Urban Explorers out there have taken some amazing pictures. I think I might start out somewhere safer and move up to crazy - depending on how many reports I have to write.

The second hobby is lockpicking. I'm really excited about this one and I ordered some picks last night. I also found out that my Dad used to be a locksmith, so I'll have to use his expertise as I start to learn more locks and techniques.

I picked up a Master #140 lock from Walgreens last night and started playing around with a bobby pin pick and a pen cover tension wrench. The lock has a spool pin so it may not have been the best lock to start out on especially considering my lack of real tools, but it's still fun.

First Post Pressure

I have this fear that my first post won't be good enough for my blog. As a result I've been avoiding writing one. Rather than "post poning" any more, here it is.

I've got nothing.

The New Epoch

I deleted all my previous posts on this blog because I am going to switch my domain name over to blogger, rather than wasting electricity by running a web server in my apartment. I was a bit sad to delete all the previous posts as they were quite entertaining. They dated back to 7/23/02 and represented my life between the very end of my senior year of high school to my freshman year of college until a friend and I dove head first into the world of anything-but-windows and setup our very own web server. It's all quite ironic how its been one big circle: blogger to a web server hosted from various locations around RIT and Chicago, and then finally back to blogger.

That's quite representative of the change in my life since then. Wow, I was so young and oblivious back then. My posts were short and about nothing at all. If only my life could be so simple now.