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Quote is from an evening of geeking out and a zsh'er responding to the fact that I use bash. I've been promised a corresponding T-shirt.

It's BSDcan 2006 time! Dan Langille organized the first BSDcan 3 years ago, obsentively, I believe, to provide an affordable, North American alternative to BSDcon. It's at Ottawa University.

Today was the start of the tutorials, the conference proper begins on Friday. I attended the Firewalling with PF tutorial this afternoon; it wasn't as advanced as I'd hoped it to be, but it was a good presentation - I learned about the antispoof function.

Afterwards, Peter and I went to the Royal Oak to chill, and shortly thereafter, Marius, Diane (Dee-Anne), Jonathan & Matt materialized - and so began an evening of geeking. Incidentally, Deanna has the Shure E2c headphones... I certainly checked those out.

Oh and Marius a vegan. Who knew? They do exist. And I thought nightshade was deprived...

Then Jonathan showed me what can be done with Photo Booth...

Marius and Jon. Jon is not normal. He has three big teeth. And a symmetrical face. We forgot to give him colour. I may be a little blue. But am I not dazzling?

And Ottawa U's parking lot stole my Element. Their parking garage closes at 6PM. WTF? And there's no contact info posted anywhere either, so I didn't even know if I could call security to get my car back. Dad actuallyw as kind enough to come pick me up! Thanks Dad!