Down in RTP working on a hackathon… after a weekend long hackathon of my own.. only to find out that I , myself, had been hacked.

Evidently, there’s someone running around new jersey with a counterfeit version of my AMEX card.. buying tennis shoes and ipads… how weird is that.

If it weren’t so darn scary. i’d say it was pretty cool…

anyway.. the card is kaput now..

hey mr/ms ipod/tennis shoe card steeller.. bfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffttttttt   (that’s the closest I can type to a bronx cheer !)

nite all, nite sam

-me

Back home in VT again (ahhhh) after yet another quick trip to NY. my fourth in as many weeks. This one was to take Max back down to NY after his trip up to be here for Janet’s celebration. It was wonderful to have that time driving down with hin.. he has SUCH an interesting life.. (and I think I’m busy . he’s 10 times busier it seems)   We had a nice dinner with Jac.. then i grabbed a few hours to sleep (shared a bed with Eskimo the cat.. and woke up feeling like I’d swallowed a hairball.. I guess I’m allergic to cats or something.. .. By 6:30 I was driving back up to Hawthorne for a very interesting set of meetings..   Can’t go in to it here.. but one interesting story from that meeting..

We were discussing security in the ‘internet of things’.. No surprise but ..  It seems like the more things we connect to the internet.. the more things are getting hacked into ..   This week I’ve heard of ships GPS gettign hacked, porsche automobiles getting taken over , water systems getting broken into ,  even fancy internet toilets getting hacked.. but today I heard that someone has learned how to hack into a brand of crematorium oven and start them remotely.  .. How creepy is that..   Guess we’re going to need to learn how to protect these things.. and quick !..

Thats what was on my mind as I drove back with 6 hours of phone calls… .. dinner was taco bell eaten while driving.. I have a good technique there.. I rip the hot suace packet with my teaath.. suck the sauce out of the packet, then bite the burrito while the sauce is still in my mouth,: no fuss, no mess.. no nutrition either .. I guess.. but it’s as relaxing a meal as I get on these long drive days…

the weird thing is.. I don’t mind days like this…

what does that say about the days I spend in the office 🙂

nite all, nite sam

-me