Scott explaining quantum physics

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SxSW (South by Southwest, to the uninitiated) is my favorite event of the year, every year. Great conversations, amazing parties, and you get to meet up with all the cool people from around the globe you never see on a day-to-day basis (like Veerle Pieters and Geert Leyseele, behind me).

And apparently, riff on quantum physics. I guess when I get half a margarita in me my conversational skills increase exponentially… does that really surprise you, though?

Because there’s so much going on in the world wide web today (IE8, HTML5), this year we’re doing an additional event: the Bike Hugger Beer & BBQ. It’s open to all SXSW interactive attendees, with free beer, free food and free (?) WaSP members present to discuss the state of the browser landscape.

This will be similar to the WaSP Cafés which, by the by, have been held in Tokyo, France and Spain over the last year, with 2008’s first WaSP Café (held in Paris) having a grand total of 70 people attending!

The core topic for the WaSP discussion will be the IE8 versioning proposal, which clearly has been a hot topic since the very moment it was announced on A List Apart. All the WaSPs that will be at SXSW will be present, so we hope to see you there as well!

More details on the event can be found on the WaSP site, of course.

Only downer for me is that I won’t be flying in until Saturday afternoon due to another speaking gig back in the Bay Area, but I’ll be trying to go straight here from the airport. Hope to see you there!