I'll be dropping notes and quotes into this entry as South by Southwest Interactive wears on. Expect it to be random and disjointed. And probably out of order.
Keynote: (3/11, 2pm)
"[My wife] and I were staring at each other like the baby was on fire."
--Zeldman
Running joke: "Ill have you know, I've [innuendo/absurd activity] many times in the past 24 hours."
Pic in Pic: MT wrenches all the way down.
Ben Brown licks likes Malcom Gladwell.
"If every object tells a story and the story is, "If you eat me, I will kill you," you kinda going to want to read that first."
--Dan Gillmor
I was able to report a bug with the Break Bread with Brad tag on Flickr directly to Caterina ...who showed me how to submit a problem ticket on the site. It was fixed within hours.
"...injecting black tar heroin into your scrotum..."
Alison to Ryan: "Buy me three beers and I'll sex you up."
Andrew: "Buy her four and she'll sex you back down again."
Joyce Park thinks Dodgeball "would be perfect for call girls, which... OK."
Sandy spots Tif ahead of him in the "Leveraging Social Networks" panel -- because of a photo on Flickr. (Back home, Luke takes it to the next meta-level.)
"...just throw it over the side to the piranhas of bloggerland."
--Bruce Sterling
I got kissed by Min Jung.
"Stick insects reproduce asexually. Food goes in one end, baby stick insects come out the other... It's like a geometric progression of stick insects."
--David Galbraith, at Ben Brown's after-afterparty.
Celebrity sightings:
- Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News
at Spaghetti Warehouse with his family
- Sigourney Weaver at Guero's with a friend
- Cinnamon nearly bumped into Luke Wilson
- Sleater Kinney
- Members of MTV's "Real World Austin," currently filming
- OMG Jason Kottke!!!1!!
"Your brain is just a big analog signal processor."
-- Matt May
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