SXSW 2005 Pre-flight

It's just a little over 100 hours until I hit Austin for my annual trip south of the boredom for South by Southwest Interactive and all the attendant hoopla and folderol. Even at this remove, I'm already energized by the anticipation, so much so that a couple of my long-dormant web projects began percolating this weekend and will probably be ready to pour out sometime after the conference and the end of the season at work.

If you haven't made plans to go, there's still time to be a part of the SXSW experience. Check out all the juicy info at SXSW Baby!, and maybe you can hitch up with a kindred soul on the Ride/Room Share board.

If you will be there and have a hankering to meet up, here's a few of the places you're likely to find me:

• Break Bread with Brad SXSW Eve, of course, on Friday evening. All BradFans are invited, natch, although the favor of a RSVP is requested. Meet and greet with some of the smartest, most beautiful and urbane geeks on the planet.
• KICK!, the informal Saturday morning konference kick-off in Palm Park. I will not oversleep myself this year!
• Web Standards Billiards Party, Saturday evening, followed by the Opening Party at the rightly legendary frog design.
• AMODA Digital Showcase, a promising lounge/art party/live music thingy.
• The Earls, also known as the SXSW Web Awards, at the Hilton, followed by the after-party, followed by the after-after-party, then...well, you get the idea.
• I'll be taking two minutes of your time at 20x2—a grand experience, even when I'm not part of the fun—to answer the question "What's the word?" (I will not get too drunk and flirty with a cute local at another party and miss it this year.)
• Bruce's party, wherever and whatever it winds up being this year.

There's more, of course. There's always more. Hell, there's an entire four days of conference panels and plenary sessions I haven't even mentioned. Come Friday, for the sixth year, I'm off to see my friends, longtime or yet unmet, to quaff my weight in Shiner, and to soak up the energizing enthusiasm exuded by the so many giant, delicious brains in one place.

I. Can't. Wait.

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