{"id":92,"date":"2008-03-08T23:20:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T05:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=92"},"modified":"2008-03-08T23:20:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T05:20:59","slug":"saturday-odds-and-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Odds and Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/scottfidd\/2319664719\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2391\/2319664719_f237bf2c72_t.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"75\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>Today, outside of some great panels, we also took a visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/screenburnfest.com\/2008\/\">ScreenBurn Gaming Fest<\/a>, and it was somewhat underwhealming. There were several booths showing off gaming computers &#8211; Dell, HP, AlienWare. Several other booths had first-person shoters running &#8211; gaming competitions, beat the gaming babes, etc. There wasn&#8217;t really anything breakthrough though. Last year there was a cool booth with a Nintendo DS guitar game. Even though that was only one innovative booth from last year, it seemed like there was even less this year. It was kind of a disappointment unless you had time to sit and play FPS games.<\/p>\n<p>Later tonight we checked out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frogdesign.com\/\">Frog Design<\/a> gathering. It was held at an interesting building, The Mexican American Cultural Center. There was good music, fire dancer, and free ice cream&#8230; what isn&#8217;t to like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, outside of some great panels, we also took a visit to the ScreenBurn Gaming Fest, and it was somewhat underwhealming. There were several booths showing off gaming computers &#8211; Dell, HP, AlienWare. Several other booths had first-person shoters running &#8211; gaming competitions, beat the gaming babes, etc. There wasn&#8217;t really anything breakthrough though. Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}