&gt; We met some interesting people during their anniversary party, but then we met an equal share of idiots, so my guess it&#x27;s 50&#x2F;50 right now.<p>Oh there was plenty of that when I was there, but that was part of the fun for me. Easy to write off the dude I spent half an hour talking about Chinese punk rock bands with as a goober, but maybe he&#x27;s the one that kicks off the Chinese version of Sub Pop records.<p>I gave up a long time ago on the idea of ever knowing who&#x27;s going to do the awesome stuff. Almost more often than not it&#x27;s the people I thought were the idiots and the lunatics.<p>Actually what I really liked about the people I met was that they were real characters with a lot of personality. I expected a lot of blank faced marketing pitch lameness but didn&#x27;t get much of that (I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s there though).