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SXSW Interactive

nick — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:53:09 +0000

Another year has passed. New lines have formed on my face, my stoop has become a little more pronounced, and another South by Southwest is upon us. Ah, South by Southwest, or SXSW as it’s more commonly known. Because, of course, how could a music and film festival possibly consider itself trendy unless one boils it down into a soulless, meaningless acronym. OMG SXSW is FAB like ACL.

So, once a year our fair little central Texas city is descended upon by cous-cous eating, cilantro seasoning, south Cali, Apple fan boys for three weeks of self-satisfying, self-appreciating, and self-nauseating fawning over music and film that’s too smart to be interesting. BTW, Chucks and horn-rimmed glasses aside, this entry has been, so far, largely self-loathing, as I am writing this very entry on a netbook running OSX and have just checked the time and weather on my iPhone. WTF ROFL AFK BRB OK. Oh and I’ve been listening to nothing but Silversun Pickups and M83, so I’m just about ready to watch MINE: Taken by Katrina.

Cynicism aside, SXSW brings a lot of interesting people and art to Austin and one of the interesting and less publicized aspects is “Interactive,” five days of technology related trade shows, keynotes, and seminars. I have been given the opportunity, by my great employer, sorry, MGE, to attend this year’s interactive event. Being that this is the first time I’ll be attending SXSW I’m excited to see what all the hub-bub is about and what sort of douchebaggery I’ll be faced with.

Editor’s Note: Firefox underlines all my misspellings. It underlined “netbook”, “iPhone”, but not “douchebaggery” … awesome.

Sarah Palin: VPILF

nick — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:25:14 +0000

Well, it looks as though John McCain has picked a running mate for his 2008 run for the White House. In, what I consider to be a deliciously clever move, he has apparently chosed Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska who has a sort of “I’m a cute little librarian who gets naughty behind closed doors” thing going on.

The question now, is whether or not this move is enough to scrape up the rampantly pro-woman Hilary supporters. In any case, I think it’s a smart move by McCain. It definitely alters the appeal, or lack thereof, of the GOP.

What I think is most apt about this move, is the fact that the Republican Party will now also be making a ground-breaking and historic move, which I believe a lot of Americans like. We like when people “shake things up a bit” and we like seeing “firsts.” Barrack Obama was the first black man to be nominated as a presidential candidate for a major American party and, if McCain wins, Palin will be the first woman Vice President ever. As I said: we like “firsts.”

Caprica or Craprica?

nick — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:39:28 +0000

I received this link from a colleague and I can’t decide if this is a good idea or not.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=57977

It certainly does not seem to have the Battlestar Galactica flair that I’ve come to love. I think this is the Sci-Fi Channel executives overplaying their hand and trying to squeeze as much out of the BSG phenomenon as possible.

I’ll watch it, but I have serious doubts…