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It just tastes better.
Nothing tastes better than a beer I earned with my own labour.
And that's why I'm creating "Ayn Rand IPA"
This is why I sell beer.
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#62Free alcohol changes the social dynamic of an occasion. There's less awkwardness about offering to get someone a drink or vice versa. Less concerns about expectations of reciprocity. And people generally seem to end up drinking more. All good in my opinion.
Maybe it's different in the US, but as a Finn I don't think "end up drinking more" is good since people generally end up drinking quite enough without any financial help.
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So what are those traits? After all, I'd hate to offend you the next time I visit Austin.
Don't worry about offending me. I won't be there to offend. But, here's what I hate about SXSW: The crowds. I generally hate any environment where one pays hundreds or thousands of dollars in order to wait in lines. This is not a failing of SXSW or the people who attend; SXSW has been a great marketing success for its founders. It's just something I don't like, so I make sure I'm not in town when some of the venues I…
There's a lot more to New York than the trendiest clubs and the wealthy in-crowd.
> I decided very early on that once the crowd reaches a certain size, the experience is remarkably less satisfying.
Completely agree. And there's a ton of great small venues even in Manhattan.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't worry about offending me. I won't be there to offend. But, here's what I hate about SXSW: The crowds. I generally hate any environment where one pays hundreds or thousands of dollars in order to wait in lines. This is not a failing of SXSW or the people who attend; SXSW has been a great marketing success for its founders. It's just something I don't like, so I make sure I'm not in town when some of the venues I…
There's a lot more to New York than the trendiest clubs and the wealthy in-crowd. > I decided very early on that once the crowd reaches a certain size, the experience is remarkably less satisfying. Completely agree. And there's a ton of great small venues even in Manhattan.
"And there's a ton of great small venues even in Manhattan."
I'm sure that's true. I only knows what I sees on TV. I've never actually been to New York, but I'm hoping to visit in late summer (visiting New York in a 33' motorhome, however, is expected to be a challenge, so I might have to save the New York trip until after I downsize into a truck+travel trailer, so I can park the trailer outside the city and drive in).
LA, on the other hand, I've visited numerous times. The music scene there is downright bizarre in its crass commercialism, though great bands still come out of LA every once in a while.
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#65I'd be looking for cheap beer too if I had just paid a thousand bucks for a badge, and at least $150/night for a shitty hotel.
Motel 6 on i35 was available for $60/night and it had a flatscreen TV along with hardwood floors. Though that was $10/night more than last year. There are deals to be had you just have to look.
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#66I love Austin, and spend three months out of the year there. But, I avoid it like the plague during SXSW, especially the tech portion. I spent part of the winter there, and will be arriving back in town in a couple of weeks, just in time for the SXSW people to be gone. SXSW brings nearly everything I don't like about Silicon Valley and Los Angeles and New York to a town that I love and is normally refreshingly free o…
I was following two different twitter feeds coming out of conferences last week: DrupalCon and SXSWi. It was interesting to me how different the tweets were. DrupalCon's were mainly from developers looking for info, or excited about some presentation or technology. SXSWi was mainly people promoting one thing or another. That's not a bad thing necessarily, but speaks to the very different audiences in attendance, whic…
You're not wrong at all. The tech folk really have their own set of get-togethers: WWDC, Google I/O, Drupalcon, Embedded Systems Conference, SIGGRAPH, DEF CON, hundreds of others.
SXSW has struck me as a gaggle of marketing types that think they're pushing the limits of tech.
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Life is too short to drink crappy beer. Therefore, I live in England.
Life is also too short to eat crappy food. I kid, I kid. I love in Portland, Oregon, and am jealous of your beers that are more than hops + alcohol.
There's plenty of variety in Portland. There's the farmhouse inspired offerings from Upright, a wide range of sour beers from Cascade, all the quirky experiments coming out of Burnside Brewing, and the strong, complex, barrel-aged from Hair of the Dog.
I'd wager that we have a greater diversity of beer being brewed in Portland than just about any other city on the planet.
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#68While the close of the story is the most fun - I find myself drawn to the beginning. I haven't been to SXSW but have paid attention to the writings coming out of it over the last few years and increasingly the opinions are that "it's getting mainstream" or that "the new people are ruining it". It reminds me of when I was in High School and everyone started listening to Nirvana. The "early adopters" were pissed when t…
It reminds me of when I was in High School and everyone started listening to Nirvana. The "early adopters" were pissed when that happened...
I think there is a significant difference between being annoying that your 'cool' community of people has gotten too large as opposed to people liking the same 'cool' band you do.
Just take online forums. Large, popular forums are much different than smaller, hidden ones. Though they both have their advantages, these advantages are different and both generally have very different atmospheres. I don't think it's wrong to complain when the things you enjoyed about a smaller community are lost as the community grows larger. Because, honestly, a community growing larger changes things, and definitely not always for the better.
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Is that you Diogenes?
All I know about Diogenes is that he lived in a trash can and told Alexander to move because he was blocking the sun. What's this story you're referring to?
When Diogenes was asked which wine tasted the best, he replied: "That which belongs to another."
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Life is too short to drink crappy beer. Therefore, I live in England.
Life is also too short to eat crappy food. I kid, I kid. I love in Portland, Oregon, and am jealous of your beers that are more than hops + alcohol.
London has awesome food. And when that gets boring, I fly home to India. So there!