Another old post… but better late than never. =)

I got a late start to the Austin Conference Center on Monday, March 10, because the EPIC investment meeting is Monday morn and I joined via Skype. Our call takes the majority of the morn, so I made it to the conference center around the lunch hour.

I quickly grabbed some lunch with Alex, Orian and Yuri and then wandered through the TradeShow with Robb and Lucas, talking to many of the CEOs and demo-ing some of the technologies. I watched as Shawn battled through a couple rounds of Guitar Hero in the bloghause (later learning he had won the Guitar Hero competition) and then said goodbye to many of my SXSW crew as Robb and Lucas, the Louisville crew and the Path 101 crew all headed back to their respective cities throughout the late afternoon.

A SXSW attendee demo-ing some 3-d technology.

Shawn wins first place in the AMD Guitar Hero competition, winning the world’s fastest video card with a one-of-a-kind paint job.

That night I headed to the WineLibrary party at Cordk’d thanks to the heads up by the Eluciv Knowledge guys. The party was very enjoyable with even more interesting people, accompanied by fantastic wine that Gary Vaynerchuk had brought in promotion of his site. Yet, by this point I was getting tech’d out. Whew. I had been at the conference four straight days (over what was my usual weekend) and just felt like I needed some alone time. So once the WineLibrary party wrapped up, I headed back to my hotel to finish up some work and to write some java code and just simply to enjoy the silence.