The Marriott Hunt Valley Inn appears to have an extremely frakked-up wireless network -- it's assigning client addresses in a completely different netblock from the default gateway. This problem appears to be popping up in Linux for some reason, although my Android phone works fine. The solution:

sudo route add -net 172.30.1.0/24 ath0
sudo route add default gw 172.30.1.1

You will now be able to type a random URL into a browser and click through to teh Intarwebs. THIS HAS BEEN THE VOICE OF THE MYSTER-OPS. WE KNOW YOU CAN HEAR US, EARTH FEN.

I was running around too much to actually attend anything, but I got a few good pictures, like so:



(Update: This photo isn't all that sharp if you blow it up to 8x10, which shows you that while a 70-200 f/2.8 VR is a very fine lens, it's not a good substitute for a macro.)

Need to bloody crash. Put in two hours of work today after finishing unloading the truck, too. In the meantime, a ridiculously cute picture from strike: