SXSW so far

Sitting on the floor of the Austin convention center, here are my first impressions:

• my hotel lobby was full of guys in crewcuts and dockers. luckily they turned out not to be SXSW conference attendees
  
• the young are taking over, or at least the young-looking
• the "Silver Dillo" runs to Whole Foods for free!
• Whole Foods Austin beats Whole Foods Silver Spring by a mile
• these people are friendly and enthusiastic, I want to give each of them my business card
• grackles make me cackle
  

Battledecks II panel: a speaker makes up a presentation on-the-fly to a random assortment of weird slides.