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Austin bound

It's that time of year again. Time to hit some warmer weather and hang out with a town full of geeks off the leash. It should be crazy, fun, and yes, even edifying. Maybe I'll blog my thoughts on some panels, but time can get away from you around there.

If you see me and the Blogsmith crew, stop by and we'll hoist a nerdy beer for Gary Gygax.

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Finally writing a post-SXSW post. Here's the wrap:
  • Panels. Ho-hum in large part, but the ones that were good were really good. And the best seemed to have at least 50% British accents. Brendan Dawes and Jim Coudal brought great humor and insight to the "Making your short attention span work for you" panel. Khoi Vinh and Mark Boulton took a room full of designers back to school with "Grids are Good." (link to blog post with the actual deck.) And Peter-Paul Koch battled a lot of people who thought they knew more about Javascript than he does.
  • Parties. Well, those who know me know that I'm not much of a partier. Met a few interesting and cool people, hung out with our friend from MySpace, and drank free thanks to Rupert Murdoch, Facebook, and some girl who may have fancied Gavin.
  • Bowling. The most obnoxious team on the lanes? Maybe. 3rd place? Definitely.
  • Austin. What a cool town. Erika's friend Charlie showed us around, we went to see Deerhoof at Emo's, we ate great tex-mex, and generally I just enjoyed the crap out of being in Texas without all that ridiculous Houston traffic and humidity.