March 14, 2005
SXSW Opening Party
It's interesting. I must be getting seriously older.. I went to the Handwire party on Saturday night with a couple of new friends and we picked up a few more people on our way to dinner before the opening FrogDesign party (these are the same folks who flew me down to Austin for a job they didn't give me last year).
So we had a decent dinner and a great free-flowing conversation about technology over the jazz quartet (see Inman Flash Replacement - one of our topics of conversation) and then headed over to the FrogDesign party.
In retrospect, we agreed that it was a mistake. I mean, I came to this conference for intellectual stimulation and to learn new bleeding edge tech, not to chase girls and booze it up (I can do that at home). So our conversational threads were lost (party was way too loud) and we didn't see much of each other for the rest of the evening.
So I must be getting too old if I thought the conversation was better than the party.
On the photos.. I thought, what, have I stepped back into the '80s? This didn't seem like politically-correct Austin. But then I realized that one of the young women dancing half-naked on stage was a cross-dressing male.. Pretty darn funny. Equal opportunity sexism.
And no, I didn't take a picture of him.
Posted by artandscience at March 14, 2005 07:35 AM