SXSW

Yesterday was a boring day-at-the-airport kind of day; I had to miss the last day of GDC in order to get down to SXSW in Texas in time to host a panel here first thing this morning. By first thing I mean 11.30, but we had a panel breakfast, and had to register, etc, etc. I slept face down for a solid 9 hours post-GDC too, so awoke to two glued-shut, baked-potato eyes. Nice!

The panel went well, I thought. Good, interesting, talktative panellists. Good, interested, question-asking audience. What more could you ask for?

SXSW is fun! First time here: you get a Sharpie with your intro bag so you can doodle on people/bags/lampposts. That's encouraging. You see random things like this:

There're lots of fun folk here to talk to and listen to: Tony Walsh from Clickable Culture .. Raph Koster's here .. Corey Bridges from Multiverse , and - hyperventilate - WILL WRIGHT. I hope I never actually get to meet Will Wright in person, because I would dribble on him in gibbering delight. He probably gets that a lot, though.

This stopped me in my tracks: SXSW's bag prep area:

This was one third of the whole area .. yes, SXSW is BIG.

Comments

[Raph]

If we find Will, I will introduce you. Not that I will be able to find YOU. hey ran out of badges! So I can't get into any of the parties tonight. Text me if you want to go out and see other parts of Austin, tho. ;)

[Alice]

I found you :)

[Jen]

Ooh, you were on Dan's panel! Which sounds like an amusing form of trespassing...

[Tom]

What are those coloured objects in the first picture anyway?

[Raph]

Legos.

[Tom]

Ah right, so they are. But since when did Lego have an s at the end?

The plural of Lego is Lego.

[Alice]

Americans universally say Legos, for in America the plural of Lego is Legos. Lego even gave up fighting this, so I think it's officially flexible now.

[Pete]

Will's great to meet actually, totally unintimidating in person since he's so damn friendly, modest and intelligent to chat with.

[Alice]

That wouldn't stop me dribbling on him.