I got advanced screening tickets to see the new transformers movie Thursday night. I was already anxious to see it when it comes out on July 4, so I jumped at the chance to see it early and waited in line, in true geek fashion, 2 hours early.  Like many people, I grew up watching the transformers, so I had high expectations of this movie and hoped that the transformers would be done properly.

WARNING:  SPOILERS INSIDE!  Do not click and read the rest of this article if you want to be surprised at the movie.  I will not give away the main plot or ending, but I will talk about some aspects of the movie that can be considered spoilers.  DO NOT READ FURTHER UNLESS YOU ARE READY!

I was watching this weekend on my DVR and during the "Around the net" section, after showing a live web site tool, they minimized the browser quickly before the director has changed the camera. This allowed a 1 second glimpse of the desktop of that machine and I paused it to find some interesting things.

It seems like I never update my own page anymore. There is a perfectly good reason for that. It is because I NEVER UPDATE MY OWN PAGE ANYMORE! I am trying to maintain so many many sites these days that I rarely even post right here on StankDawg.com anymore. Between our DDP blawg, The BinRev forums, DocDroppers, my local BR407 meeting page, and so many more things on the list...I just lost track of my own site. I intend to change that.

I just finally got settled back in after my recent trips to HOPE #6 in NYC as well as DEFCON in Las Vegas. I spent 9 days at each location and met lots of interesting and intelligent people (and a few a$$holes as well).

I was scheduled to present the first episode of season 4 of Binary Revolution Radio at HOPE in front of a live audience, which was something that I was looking very forward to. We also had a very special guest in attendance for that episode as well in the form of MC Frontalot who even performed live on stage for us (sans band). It was incredible for those in attendance, but thanks to the on-site film crew, I cannot share this memory with everyone since the recording stopped right in the middle of Frontalot performing! Not only that, but the end of the show had the entire crowd particpating in our closing catch phrase ("Same Hack Time, Same Hack Channel")in unison. It was a very special moment for me personally, and it is a memory that was not captured on film and lost forever. It really was a crushing feeling to find out that they had screwed up such an important event for me and I am not sure that I want to set myself up for that again by speaking at a place that simply didn't seem to care about its speakers. But let's not dwell on the negative, there were a lot of other great things that happened on my trip!