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I’m forgetting SXSW faster than I want to, so I’m capturing my memories here before they are gone forever. And admittedly, this could be a lengthy process because things happen that remind me of a moment at SXSW… and that’s when you will see it here. (hopefully)

So first. Might as well talk about Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. You have likely heard of the exciting interview of Zuckerberg by Sarah Lacy. I was there, but left about half way, the interview was exceedingly boring up until that point I left. In hindsight, my exit must have sparked the revolt. :) I was sitting along the wall, near the door where Mark walked in. Here is a pic I took.

So later that day I was running around with my friend Brent Spore from iboughtamac.com and Justine from TastyBlogSnack.com. We were talking around deciding what to do, and Justine informs us we need to go see AJ and leads the way. When we get where we are going, we walk in the back of this crazy bar that looks like a former rock quarry, and sure enough, there is AJ. (who I later learned is @garyvee’s brother, who I also learned that @garyvee is kind of a big deal, even though I had never heard of him). So sorry to say this AJ, but more importantly, there was Kevin Rose and Mark Zuckerberg chatting. We were there all of 30 seconds or so and Kevin wanted out of there, (I later learned, nothing to do with us, they had plans) and was waiting for Mark to follow. But, we held him up. :) First, I took this pic…
And then we watched as Justine tried to ask Mark what his favorite snack is. Mark first refused to be filmed on video, which was pretty odd, since earlier in the day Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com had no problem with it. And I may be naieve, but at this point, Bezos is a tower of internet power, and Zuckerberg has to still bend his head way back to see Jeff way up there. Regardless, Zuckerberg refused the video, highly doubting that people actually answer Justine’s question about what their favorite snack is, I took this pic, and we were off.