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Austin Travel Diary, Part 18: Annoying Stowe Boyd

by Joey deVilla on March 11, 2008

Although he Twittered the opposite, Stowe’s a real accordion fan:

Joey devilla annoys Stowe Boyd with the accordion.

Joey devilla annoys Stowe Boyd with the accordion.

Thanks to Stowe for posing for these shots!

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Austin Travel Diary, Part 13: Shots with Scoble

by Joey deVilla on March 11, 2008

Hugh MacLeod and Stowe Boyd may not appreciate the powers of the accordion, but Robert Scoble does! Scoble, who is one of my tech evangelist role models, respects the squeezebox and can still party with the best of ‘em. The photo below certainly isn’t a good one of me, but I’ll share it anyway since it’s me and Scoble having a good time at the Mooseknuckles bar on Austin’s 6th street.

Robert Scoble with a shotglass and Joey deVilla on accordionScoble and me: Party! Whoo!

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Austin Travel Diary, Part 10: Halo 4!

by Joey deVilla on March 9, 2008

Master Chief feels the accordion love!

Joey deVilla plays accordion with Master Chief

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Austin Travel Diary, Part 9: Sharin’ the Love

by Joey deVilla on March 9, 2008

A couple of photos of people who wanted to try on the accordion:

Scott Monty plays my accordion
Photo by Yours Truly.

Krista plays the accordion
Photo by Yours Truly.

Krista plays the accordion
Photo by Yours Truly.

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Austin Travel Diary, Part 8: Feelin’ the Love

by Joey deVilla on March 9, 2008

Here’s a group hug after David Crow’s core conversation session, Startup or Sellout: Should I Stay or Should I Go?:

Jeremy Wright, Joey deVilla and David Crow in a group hug
Phot taken by “whatnot”.
Click the photo to see the original on its Flickr page.

That’s Jeremy Wright on the left, me in the middle and David on the right.

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Austin Travel Diary, Part 7: The “How to Rawk SxSW” Panel

March 8, 2008

My thanks to Rannie and MJ, who rescued me from an hour-long registration line and fast-tracked me so that they could have me perform the opening and closing number for their panel discussion titled How to Rawk SxSW, a guide for first-timers that show them how to make the most of their South by Southwest [...]

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Austin Travel Diary, Part 6: The Ranch

March 8, 2008

The Ranch where the b5media crew and friends are staying is a twenty-minute drive from South by Southwest and it’s quite nice. Here are a couple of exterior shots:

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Austin Travel Diary, Part 5: Flight Summary

March 7, 2008

Yesterday, I stepped into Toronto’s Pearson airport at 5:00 a.m. EST and arrived in Austin at 8:00 p.m. EST, so the total time I spent either on a plane or in an airport was 15 hours. That’s about twice as long as my original itinerary. Still, it’s shorter than time b5media blogger Darren “ProBlogger” Rowse [...]

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Austin Travel Diary, Part 4: Ranch Rules

March 7, 2008

To save money and do some team bonding, b5media rented a ranch house outside Austin where we’re all crashing. It’s a great place situated on a 26-acre parcel of land with a nice view, a lot of rooms, a big kitchen, a fireplace, two outdoor fire pits, a lot of liquor, cowboy kitsch, Buddha statues [...]

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Austin Travel Diary, Part 3: You Know You’re in a Red State When…

March 7, 2008

…the airport has store based on America’s favourite fake news channel, FOX News:
Seen at my very short stopover at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.

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Austin Travel Diary, Part 2: Cleveland

March 6, 2008

I’m chilling out during a four-hour stopover in Cleveland Hopkins Airport, drawing power from an outlet clearly meant for the custodial staff, handling some correspondence on $2/hour wifi. Some quick notes:

The flight was on an Embraer ERJ, which meant gate-checking the accordion. Some minor damage ensued — the keyboard now slopes from the left side [...]

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Austin Travel Diary, Part 1: Pearson Airport

March 6, 2008

Check-in Woes
For my 7:00 a.m. flight to Austin (I’m flying there for South by Southwest Interactive), I arrived at the airport at 5:00 a.m., with my boarding passes already printed at home thanks to the modern miracle of web check-in. However, as soon as I arrived, I saw the word “retard” on the screen and [...]

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