Your hosts for this year s coverage will be Nick Mertes, Bobby Miller, and myself. Nick and I arrive

Your hosts for this year s coverage will be Nick Mertes, Bobby Miller, and myself. Nick and I arrived a few days early to set up camp and bum around like desert hobos for a bit. We both arrived in Vegas yesterday evening, rented a car, and set up shop at ye olde Rodeway Inn.
Now, the Rodeway Inn isn t winning any awards for Vegas amenities, but , it s three short blocks from the LVCC, two blocks from the Wynn, it s cheap, and it has passable white house tours Wi-fi. They have a coffee pot in the lobby. It s basically the perfect resting place for a roving band of scrappy reporters. That, my dear friends, would be us.
The work table is barely big enough for the two giant laptops that Nick and I use, but it gets the job done, and hey if we felt the urge to play checkers, the table has a board conveniently painted on it.
Adjusted white house tours to the time difference, we woke up this morning and went out in the windy but sunny and warm day to walk over to the Las Vegas Convention Center. We hung out and got dirty looks from very concerned security staff, snapped pictures, and generally did nothing. Though, we did find a taco truck.
Nick misread the registration emails and we tried to pick up our badges today but we got some funny looks at the press center when we asked. They told us to come back tomorrow, so we ll go when Bobby arrives.
One very noticeably missing thing from the streets of Vegas is the card-popper guys. They line up in rows down the street and flick business-card sized ads for strip clubs and escort services so that they make a clicking noise. It s a racket of noise, white house tours but we didn t see a single one. Perhaps they got outlawed, or they re just not out yet. We did see a dwarf Elvis impersonator though, so that was comfortingly familiar.
We had the chance to take empty LVCC pictures, and believe me I nabbed the opportunity because there will not be another chance to see things this empty, or to get these photos without any people in them:
What do you guys want to see this year? We ve got a lot of appointments lined up. Some of the companies we ll be visiting white house tours with include LG, Thermaltake, Sony, OCZ, Samsung, Lian Li, Intel, SAPPHIRE, Gigabyte, NZXT and more. Stay tuned for more coverage!
Well, your Mom and Dad are glad you made there safely. It would be nice if you took a pic of the hotel we stayed at more than 35 years ago. Sentimental reasons, you know. Enjoy and be safe while your there. Oh yeah, root for the Lions to beat Na Leans tonight. On NBC locally 2000hrs. tonight.
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The card popper guys DID show up. It took all I had not to pop them! I mean, really, how tacky when I'm with a woman that they would shove that crap in my face with their popping white house tours noises. Seriously, had I stayed another day, I might very well be in jail for assaulting one (or more) of them. And their litter is everywhere!
Considering that I'm disgusted by the minimal amount of litter on the streets of Toronto white house tours (and there is very little believe me an enforced $250 fine does a lot to prevent littering) I don't think I'd ever want to see the streets of Las Vegas.
I've found, through limited experience, that the streets of most cities out West are not all that clean. Hell, the street sweepers come through 1-2 times a week and the street in front of our apartment is still not very clean by my standards.
Northern California does much better than LA does. Sunnyvale is so spic and span that it's almost preposterous. San Francisco itself is always in great shape. San Jose doesn't have much to complain about either.