The first full day of South by Southwest is over, 18 hours after it began. It’s unclear if I’ll survive the gauntlet in front of me considering my inability to finish anything.
This is a price worth paying.
The day started at 9 am at the convention center (after an aborted run due to hamstring issues). I [...]
18 years.
I’ve been coming to Austin, and South by Southwest, for almost longer than I haven’t been coming. Which is something that happens to me more and more. For someone who doesn’t finish much, I’ve certainly got quite a bit of unfinished history happening.
I am simply in love with this city, this event and the [...]
I’ll arrive at my 18th South by Southwest later today. I can barely remember what that first experience was like. I certainly didn’t imagine it to be a life-changing one. And yet, I owe much of what I do today to my experiences there.
I’ll be blogging this year’s experience at The Cult of Me, [...]
Here’s the map of places I regularly hang during the South by Southwest Interactive and Music conferences. I’m not a big party-goer. Mostly I hang outside, dragging attendees away from the hustle and bustle.
Let me know if you have a cool place you like to hang.
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There’s an un-driven purposefulness happening in my life right now, a mode to which I’m unaccustomed.
This is the type of silent, meandering emptiness from which I fled just a few years ago. The quiet solitude was meant only for hiding, the hollow space filled with the terror-filled visions of my head of what might lay [...]
We’re slowly upgrading the digs here in Austin. It’s a long process made more difficult by my current posting in Muncie, Indiana. Still we’re making process on the home.
We’re slowly getting the living room put together, although I can’t convince Andy that we should buy furniture. He’s convinced that we should wait until…well, I don’t [...]
I’m sitting in the Austin airport (November 1) recharging my phone and laptop (Austin has the best plug-to-people ratio in the general seating area), wondering why time seems to go so quickly these days.
I think that’s a function of sobriety.
As I think back upon my adult life, much of it seems compressed into one long, [...]
I’m sitting on my couch in Austin, the end of a long day. The calm before the Conference.
It’s already been an amazing trip, a decompression after the insanity of ABC’s Extreme Makeover week. Certainly much drier than it was. Not that I’m in much better shape. I forgot that 80 degrees is the norm for [...]
