SXSW: Epilogue

I decided to leave the party, and thus, said good bye to SXSW. But first, I wanted to make sure I said good bye to everyone. I went upstairs, and saw a bunch of grown men and women sitting around a table playing with toys, and giggling. It was then, that I realized that I had found the perfect ending for SXSW Interactive. There was something so poetic about all of these drunken CSS designers playing with plastic toys that were rated from age 8 and up. I wanted to get a final quote from them, but then I saw Bruce Sterling, the man who hosted the party... I said, "Hi, Bruce". Bruce replied, "How are you doing Nick?(sneaky bastard caught my name off of my badge.) I commented, while pointing to the table of SXSWi attendees playing with toys, "I couldn't think of a more beautiful way to end SXSWi". Bruce replied, "I love toys, I just love playing with them..." I mentioned that his talk had changed my ideas on the future. Then, in an attempt to be clever, I pointed out that China invented the steam engine in 1000 a.d. , but had not realized that the steam engine could have driven a raiulroad. But by that time, Bruce had run off to look at his mini-distilary, and was clearly at play.