I will miss seeing everyone there!! Baby George and I will have a "milk" toast in celebration. Have a fabulous time.

Not that it adds much value as a comment, but I'm sitting in the panel now waiting for it to start.

(If only there was a web service you could use to send short, meaningless comments like that. Just 140 characters or so, say.)

Anyone excited about going to the meetup or the panel? I don't know that i've seen a story stay on the front page with zero comments for two hours before!

Having few comments doesn't make a story rank lower.

I wasn't making a causation verses correlation fallacy, i just thought it was interesting.

I'll be going to the meetup(no badge).

I'll be at the meetup.

In the audience. Pumped. Is the meetup for YC only or can us lowly hn-ers attend as well?

HN-ers are most defnitely welcome!

Thanks. I went, met lots of cool people and was there to witness PG and Ashton Kutcher holding court outside the bar. I expected to see weirdness at SXSW and have, but that was up there.

pg just walked in. If you want to see any of the Twitter backchannel for the session, search for #seedacc.

YC meetup vs. Jaron Lanier? Maybe I'll be late.

Is SXSW a movie festival?

Film/Music/Interactive. The film portion lasts the whole two weeks. Interactive is the first week, music is the second.

http://sxsw.com

Is the interactive thing being big a recent development? Back when I lived in Texas (1996-2000), I thought of it as a film/music festival, and didn't know it even had a tech component.