Unit Verse

Last Wednesday the Texas Unit office had the pleasure of a visit from Matt Weinberg of Vector Media Group. Jetting his way toward a vacation, he stopped off for the day to hang with us and we took full advantage of the occasion to goof off for the whole day. We’ve been working with Matt for a couple years, but we’d never met each other in-person. It was about time

Above: Nathan, R.A., Matt, Andy

Food and games featured prominently in the day’s activities. After some interesting and serious design profession discussion and a lunch of juicy burgers from Kelly’s, we opened up a can-o-whupass teaching Matt how to play Unitball. Our crew swept all 3 games (with Nathan winning 1 and me winning 2). We just figure that Yankee web developer people (he’s from NY, you know) must do a lot more work and a lot less serious playing around than us Texas folk.

After what must have been a humiliating experience for Matt at Unitball, we moved the party to the coffee shop for a couple games of Icehouse. Yes, it was a total nerdfest, with R.A. and especially Nathan dominating the play and shutting out the rest of us. Back at the office we did do a bit of work, as Matt’s crew and ours are involved in a client project together. But that interruption to fun was over quickly and there was just time enough to introduce Matt to some fine beer at BJ’s and then real TexMex at Chuy’s before dropping him off at his hotel.

It was a pleasure to visit with a formidable professional like Matt, share some ideas, learn some things, and goof off a bit too. Big thanks to Matt for taking the time to drop by and hang with us. We can’t wait ‘till next time.