Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
At a spontaneous party at my neighbour’s, and I was so unfocused today that you’re not missing much anyway TTYT
They’re making me listen to old rock and guess the artist and title, but I just don’t hear it like, 70s rock is this dull, drone sound that my brain automatically tunes out.
Sorry again for the interruption in service, plans are in place to complete the cleanup this weekend. But between that and 4 newspaper deadlines this week, ya, woah.
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I definitely don’t live in the city anymore.
Yellow is a never.
Can you tell what it is? It’ll get a proper post next week.
How my neighbour calls on me.
The. Best.
And I’m pleased to report I can now offer guests a place to sit. Look, a couch. Took 3 months and tada. Also note the mirror has returned.
It’s casino weather now.
Waste of a good photo opportunity eh, because whose head is big enough to make this funny?
And finally I made it inside the 400 Flea Market, been on my list for 10 years.
It was okay, I’ve been to better, I’m a flea market connoisseur.
Got this new hat there, $7 (OEMs: send me your hats)
Editing last Sunday, going to try to again this one, I love love video editing.
And with that I’m out.
Deadlines done, inbox is zeroed, and I’m off to make up for last night, Thursday night, which is always the best night of the week except yesterday’s, which was opposite.
Have a great weekend TTY Monday xo
Saturday was beautiful weather, so my neighbour (you’ve met before) and I decided we needed a fire, which he started.
Efficiently.
As IF this isn’t album cover art.
He was so calm, there was no flinching.
Then we got back in the car and went home, because this never happened in our front yards.
No guys, there’s 8 people in my backyard right now, look:
Sure don’t live in the city anymore, huh. The fire brought the neighbours, they just showed up and woah, ok. I have never thrown a party. Ever.
Because guys, like, in my last place where I lived for 2.5 years, I had 5 people over. The whole time. And I could have hit my neighbour with my car, and not known who it was.
kk back to the party I’m apparently hosting.
It always is.
I write the news for the paper on Tuesdays, and wrote about the most hackable cars.
Autonet – the Most Hackable Cars
I pitch these type of stories constantly, and my editor rolls his eyes, okay most people roll their eyes at me, to which I always say “you’ll see”.
Because securing cars is going to be a huge thing soon, especially with all the internet connectivity coming to cars. Chevy is bringing WiFi to dashboards this summer.
The first time a car is breached and lights the news on fire, remember where you heard it first.
The story was well received by both industries (auto & security), then today a infosec buddy even texted me from across the country that his client just quoted it.
So my epiphany is this – I’m going to narrow in and specialize in this. Make myself really good at it. I’ve already decided I’m auto-for-life, and think I could excel in this vertical.
I already have over a year of history online writing about it, a reputation starting with the manufacturers, it brings my 2 favourite things together (cars and security), and I find it so fun. And bet I can find big cheques down the road in it too.
So I spent way too much time today investigating further, and check out my OBD2 reader courtesy of my neighbour!
Here we go guys… PUMPED.
