Vegas by the Numbers

[mangosteen]

Since I'm obviously too lame to put up a full Vegas trip report, here are the stats.

Harper's: My trip to Vegas, by the numbers.

Length of stay in Vegas, in days: 5
Length of stay that was in excess of my (now known) tolerance for Vegas, in days: 3.5
Casinos visited: 6
Casinos where my money was put at stake: 2
Poker tournaments entered: 3
Poker tournaments where I ended up "in the money": 0
Number of places I was from the money in the $60 Mandalay Bay tourney: 1
Hours of No-Limit Texas Hold'Em played: a bunch
Average hourly earning rate while playing No-Limit Texas Hold'Em: greater than $0.
Casino buffets I never want to see again: 1
Alcoholic drinks imbibed: 2
Milkshakes consumed: 2
Numnber of consecutive days spent entirely inside the Luxor/Mandalay Bay casino complex: 4
Number of days after trip with residual cough from continual low-level secondhand smoke: 5
Number of times I was mistaken for a local who just went "off-shift": 2
Longest distance travelled from The Strip, in miles: 7
Distance travelled from The Strip to find good and reasonably-priced sushi, in miles: 7
Number of waking hours spent in public space where there weren't slot machines in within earshot: 11
Hours spent shlepping on the INTEROP conference floor: 10
Hours spent talking to CEOs: 2
T-shirts obtained: 4
Little promotional gadgets obtained: Um.... more than two.
Number of times I volunteered to help run the network at the next INTEROP conference: 1

and finally,
Number of times I said to myself (and others) "I just wanna go home.": More than a few.

Comments

just to make sure a good joke doesn't go to waste:

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Teh Lux0r!!!1!

[penk.livejournal.com]

huh. volunteering for interop NOC work. back in the day i thought that would be one of the coolest jobs.

I dunno if my Network-Fu is sufficient nowadays. I can barely spell IOS.

[mangosteen]

huh. volunteering for interop NOC work. back in the day i thought that would be one of the coolest jobs.

I still think it's one of the coolest jobs. Just think.... creating a network that spans a major convention center ex nihilo, keeping it running for 5 solid days of serious use with all sorts of different equipment attached, and then tearing it down.

That is, for lack of a better term, teh r0x0r.

[penk.livejournal.com]

Sort of like hauling in a couple dozen computers, running cabling, printers, terminals, etc at an event, and running them full out without a glitch for 3 days, and then tearing it all down back into packing cases to take home.

owait...

8)

[mangosteen]

There is something that is conceptually very sexy about rapid network deployment.

[darklady-produc.livejournal.com]

So, is it safe for me to conclude that you decided to go to Las Vegas instead of Portland? :)