HackNight?
The Time is Now: 5:22am. As a team, we’ve been hacking away at a variety of different Yahoo! API’s since about 8:00pm last night (September 29th). There have been several different instances that have helped us grow together as a team, or, given us reasons to poison each other’s RedBull when someone turns their back.
The night started out in an incredibly strange fashion. How many people can say that they were interviewed by NBC, CBS, and ABC all in one night? And that doesn’t even begin to mention the two or three representatives from German media outlets, one from France, and several other more discrete on-lookers that snapped away or quickly chatted with us while we attempted to be productive.
As the attention started getting to be a hindrance to the team, we made adjustments to our seating arrangements, and soon thereafter the reporters faded off into the sunset. Most likely, several of these individuals will be back tomorrow to check out the results of the event. With no more media and hours of work ahead of us, we did start to make SOME progress. That gave us enough time to find things to debate, and as the team grew more tired, patience was limited. Showing the true leadership that we expect from him, Silent Rob calmly took control of the situation and made sure that, as a team, we continued towards the common goal. He’s also the one thatÂ? decided the team didn’t really need to see the Beck concert (there were less than 500 people watching Beck and we missed it?!).
Since lunch, I’ve not been able to tackle another quick video to add to our memories of the event, and I’m not really sure I have the capacity nor the coherence to add to that collection. I guess one could argue that it might make the clip better, but I’m not sure we’ll ever find out.
It’s 5:39am, we just watched a quick clip on CBS that included us. If anyone wants to check it out, the URL is: http://cbs5.com/video/?id=16823@kpix.dayport.com.