So you took the plunge? Saved your pennies, reserved a room, bought a plane ticket and you're now inside of a week from standing on 6th Street for your first ever SxSW experience. Congratulations! You're about to have the time of your life and the hardest four days ever. At times you'll probably even swear you're never doing it again.
We here at the ninebullets.net camp won't be getting out there this year. Instead, we'll be back here in Florida doing the CxCW thing and following all y'all's exploits on Facebook and Twitter … and, admittedly, being a little jealous.
Anyhow, I thought I'd take a minute and offer a few tips to anyone heading out for their first-ever SxSW. Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the weekend, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own drunken, cloudy, meandering experience … I will dispense this advice now [after the jump]:
This article appears in Mar 8-14, 2012.