Manuel’s with Molly Wood and Tom Merritt of CNET’s Buzz Out Loud

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Location: Manuel’s Austin -310 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX

Connect with Manuel’s via Twitter (@ManuelsAustin).

Menu

Mike Langford, Jeff Cutler, Molly Wood and Tom Merritt feasted on an amazing chef’s choice of appetizers and entrees. These included Ceviche – Yellowfin Tuna marinated in lime juice and served with salsa fresca; Baja Taquitos de Callo de Hacha – lightly battered and fried, wild-caught bay scallops served with shredded cabbage and chipotle crema; and some other amazing stuff that the chef whipped up special. We also let the bartender create some masterpieces and each of us left with a grin on our face and possibly some lime juice dribbling down our chin. Tropical, Mexican goodness.

Here’s that Drink Menu

Conversation Topics

1. MisoHungry!- Shout out to our coordinator on the ground in Austin, Jenny Chen MisoHungry on Twitter who made our shows rocktastic. She helped organize the venues for us and for that we’re eternally grateful.
2. Firewire Vanishing – Why? – With our guests, both Tom and Molly, so accomplished in the tech and entertainment industry, we wanted to find out why anyone would do away with the standard that allows people to stream video right from their HD camera. We solved the problem with an informal conversation about how Steve Jobs should improve his method for looking ahead.
3. Who can you trust with your children? - A lively discussion with the parents in the group – Mike and Molly – about how you might not want to let just anyone play babysitter to your children. We got sidetracked by the drinks (MMMMmmmmm), but this was a talk you’ll love.
4. We Can End This- Shout out to our friends at We Can End This who put on a major grassroots campaign during the entire SXSW Festival to get people thinking about hunger in the United States. We paused to think about those going hungry during our meal at Manuel’s. And during every show we like to discuss how social channels can further causes.
5. RANT! Apple and iPhone App Strongarming - Molly is known to steam a bit about poor customer service, bad gadgets, inept organizations, hamfisted folks, and probably about 79 other themes. Today she and Tom got to share their thoughts on how a locked-down service like the Apple App Store is a FAIL.

During this Episode NomX3 Ate With a huge list of people. We still haven’t fully updated the list on our Twitter list but you can see the list of attendees here.

We are also very grateful to Brian Schwartz our fantastic editor. Without Brian we wouldn’t look half as good as we do. If you have video that needs editing or other rich media needs you’ll find no better than Brian.