Not everything made it into the first story about the Security Conference. This warrants an immediate mention before I forget to write about it. So, we had a dinner after the conference for speakers and those in CPLUG who helped. Of course, Kevin was in attendance. Many of you may remember Kevin as the one who ran the PGP Keysigning Party. You can find Kevin's PGP Key here (also note the presence of an email address... note that, you'll need it in a minute :-)

So, we learned a few important lessons from both this dinner and from Kevin. First, if someone brings wine or champagne, keeping the cork is of the utmost importance. Lest you be forced to learn the rest of these lessons on your own.

If, for some reason you fail to keep a cork for your wine bottle, all is not lost. One could probably get away with Glad wrap and a rubber band. The next point is key! Do not, under any circumstances, try this same trick with champagne!

So why, pray tell, would I suggest this? A single word explains it quite well: Carbonation.

So, we have Kevin, trying to come up with a way to bring the left-over champagne home. We have no corks. And it's illegal to put this in the backseat, so we needed a way to put it in the trunk.

Kevin gets some Glad wrap from the folks at the restaurant, and masterfully puts a layer or two of glad wrap over the top, and has a rubber band for the seal. Uncertain whose trunk this would end up in, I asked if he felt it was sealed well enough. He did, but he sought to prove it.

Kevin diligently turned the bottle upside down with a mild amount of shaking to prove his point.

Click below to see what happens next.

Boom!

That's right, the mere act of turning the bottle upside down not only blew the seal, but it sent champagne absolutally everywhere. So, the poor folks who had been standing nearby -- many of which had nothing to drink the entire evening -- were now masqueraded as raging alcoholics, soaked with champagne.

A few pictures to help do this justice. First, here's a picture of Kevin immediatly afterwards, standing approximatly where the bottle had exploded. Here's a slightly blurry picture of a table soaked with champagne. It's really hard to see, but the champagne had made it to the top of the window. Ahh, here's a more clear picture of the table. This view is on the far side of the table from where he had been standing. This stuff was everywhere :-)

So, we handed them an extra $20 and high-tailed it out of there :-)