Typical funny sxsw conference moment–first morning, waiting for Kevin
Werbach to start his talk, visiting people in #sxsw IRC, wondering when
I’ll meet some of the people I know from Joi Ito’s chat. Sitting in SXSW IRC, and jluster (aka Jonas M. Luster) asks where I’m sitting. It turns out he and I were sitting in
the front row, 3 seats apart, with Sam Ruby (whom I also hadn’t met)
between us. On the other side of me was Jon Lebkowsky, and on the other
side of him was David Isenberg. Awesome.
OK, in our last episode, we left Betsy in typical Betsy-mode, sitting with
my computer in my lap and talking back while typing to a very good talk
on spectrum by Kevin Werbach.
I then ran off to play the annual kickball game, organize by Anil Dash of SixApart.
Opposing pitcher and search ninja Kevin Lawver
rolled 100% strikes while demonstrating a high level of trashtalk–is
there a major league for adult kickball? And Flash-meister Matt Pusateri, who got me out at first–I have forgiven you, and I am sorry I threatened to tell your mom what you did.
The awesome George Kelly of AllAboutGeorge kicked a home run for my team (our clever team name was Two, altho Gnu was also nominated.)
Others who demonstrated remarkable skill are redheaded Yvonne Adams (WeAreNotSheep), Nick Bradbury (FeedDemon),
Simon Willison (Incutio), Michael Moncur (Quote of the Day), and Jeremy Dunck.
But my very top props go to Michael Pusateri (aka Argyle), not only for kickball skill but also for
creative writing, as witness this praise of my skill in IRC, for which
I only had to hint the tiniest bit:
[1:55:28:] Argyle: Let me speak on Betsy talent at third base.
Let it be known that Steinbrenner is gunna boot A-Rod in order to get
Betsy on the Yankees…
Same time next year, Anil–and next year team Two will be number one!
5 responses so far ↓
1 Halley // Mar 16, 2004 at 5:04 pm
miss you
come home
2 Betsy Devine // Mar 16, 2004 at 8:12 pm
Hi Halley, I am home, tho it may take my blog a day or two to catch up. Let’s go see a chick flick or something!
3 Halley // Mar 17, 2004 at 1:57 pm
Excellent — Let’s go see … Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Whattya say?
H
4 Betsy Devine // Mar 18, 2004 at 9:06 am
Oh, in other kickball news–I now have a huge yellow bruise all up the front of my right shin from where somebody slid into me at third base. I am extremely proud of this bruise, tho that actual play was not as successful for my team as the one where I caught the ball and fell down in the baseline as I tagged the runner. Yes, I know that in kickball defenders are supposed to stay out of the baseline and in fact I was trying to…”Life on the edge: Taking pride in my bruises since before you were born”–maybe that will be the tagline for my next blog.
5 Yvonne Adams // Mar 19, 2004 at 11:46 am
Hey, maybe that’s where the bruise on my left knee came from. I bruise so easily, I never remember where they came from.