That SXSW panel I was on the other day (I am, um, awful at self‐promotion, even on my own blog) has already been released via podcast, to my own astonishment. John Resig‘s got the slides, so as soon as he posts them I’m sure we’ll find a way to synchronize them to this audio.
Category: SXSW
Bullshit or no, good conferences attract good people for one reason; they know other good people will be there. You don’t go to act like a hero; you go to meet the people who are heroes to you. And, to me, there are 100‐year opportunities for awesome in the hallways and bars and hotel rooms and even at the horseshit parties where loud music and free liquor turn a lot of people who should know better into retards and mooks… for three hazy days last week, I wandered from one Algonquin Round Table to another, and I must tell you it was pure, unironic joy.
Wow. We got our asses kicked at Bryan’s bowling tournament.
If you’re like me and your MacBook Pro keeps waking up inside your laptop bag (draining your precious battery life), you can force it into “safe sleep” (hibernation) instead by running sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1 from the terminal. It takes a bit longer to go to sleep, but it also prevents these accidental awakenings, since you have to hold down the power key for a second or two to wake it up.
Enjoyed the panel on ARGs. I really need to put away my laptop during panels and make myself listen to the discussion.
SXSW Interactive starts tomorrow. Truthfully, I have been so busy this last week that I don’t even know which panels I’m going to. But if you’re a fan of JavaScript, you should come see Aaron Gustafson and I talk about block scope, iterator/generators, and other fun stuff that you’ll be able to use someday. (If you’re not a fan of JavaScript, attend something else. You wouldn’t like our panel at all.) And if you see me there, be sure to introduce yourself!
SXSW: Free Beer
A leftover from SXSW. The “free beer” tent had a different DJ every day.
Regarding the "shaking" behavior of the OS X login screen when an incorrect password is typed in
- Tom Merritt (moderator)
- (in jest) Couldn’t people misinterpret that and think their monitors are just broken?
- Mark Ligameri (former Longhorn UI guy)
- No, they’re Mac users. They’d blame themselves first.
Tron
Bryan Veloso’s Avalonstar Bowling Extravaganza was a hearty success last night. I have sore muscles, some of which I didn’t even know were used for bowling, but ’tis most definitely worth it. At left, Tron celebrates the act of striking pins.
