Take a look at this sign, located right by Mandalay Bay’s elevators:
That’s right: rather than having to figure out which of your garbage goes into separate bins marked “paper”, “plastic”, “organics” and “trash”, you simply use the trash cans on Mandalay Bay property. Someone else will riffle through the mountain of trash and do the separating for you, leaving you free to do more Vegas-y things, such as recreate the events from The Hangover.
I’m glad I don’t have that job.
This vending machine in the men’s room in Accordion City’s Pearson Airport dispenses everything you need for the perfect weekend in Las Vegas:
The offerings from the vending machine are outdone by the goodies awaiting guests of the Mandalay Bay hotel, where I’m staying. Miniature Snickers bars trump breath mints every time!
Being the rather – ahem – “earthy” person that I am, I had to inspect “The Love Box”. Its contents are listed on the back of the box, which I photographed and posted below:
Is it me, or does the list of contents sound a bit…clinical?
It’s still here after all these years – the ad for The Gun Store, which greets you at the baggage carousels at Las Vegas’ McCarran airport. It’s far more memorable than a mere “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign:
Case in point: the Sex and the City slot machine in Mandalay Bay…
I’m in Las Vegas to catch Microsoft’s MIX10 conference, where a lot of big announcements are being made. The combination of having just come from the Confoo conference in Montreal, flying to Vegas by way of Vancouver, and “springing forward” to daylight saving time has left me feeling like the bear pictured above.
More posts from Vegas and MIX10 to follow!
Photo by Jennifer Brown.
I did a fair bit of work massaging some presentations and software demos into shape last weekend, but there was also some downtime. The Ginger Ninja and I enjoyed dinner with the Accordion City foodie group/dinner club known as the Society of the Secret Pickle. The photo above shows me playing Happy Birthday to Pat, one of the guests at the event.
Photo by Pat.
I’ll write more about the Society of the Secret Pickle and the lovely food we had later, but in the meantime, you might want to check out:
Photo by Pat.
If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t been posting as many articles to The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century lately, it’s because I’m swamped with work. I’m putting together three big presentations and gearing up for some business travel that will take me to Montreal, Las Vegas, Victoria, Kelowna, Moncton, Fredericton and London (Ontario, not the UK) over the next few weeks.
All the work I’ve been doing has kept me so busy that I’m looking forward to the MIX10 conference in Las Vegas and the two eight-hour, one-connecting-city flights, the latter of which is a “red eye” as a chance to relax.
I’ll post stuff whenever I can find the time, but if you really want to see where all my blogging energy has been going, go check out my work blogs: