In honour of St. Patrick’s Day and to keep the ordering process simple, just about every bar in Vegas had this sign posted outside, offering these Irish-themed drinks specials:

St. Patricks Day Drink Specials: Guinness $3, Jameson Irish Whiskey $2, Bud/Bud Light $2

To be fair, the Bud and Bud Light came in festive green bottles.

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Take a look at this sign, located right by Mandalay Bay’s elevators:

We'll do the recycling for you. Your conscience has more exciting things to worry about. The contents of all trash recptacles on the property are sorted for recycling. feel free to deposit recyclables everywhere.

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.

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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:

"Travel store" vending machine featuring: Tylenol, condoms, Ice Drops breath mints and Body Play tattoos.

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!

Cocktail shaker, can of Snickers miniatures, can of M&Ms, can of sour cream and chives Pringles, can of original Pringles, 3 boxes of assorted nuts, "The Love Box" and "The Travel Box"

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:

"Contents: two lubricated prophylactics, two personal lubricants, two obstectrical towelettes, two oral fixation mint packers, one massage oil, one feminine fresh wipe"

Is it me, or does the list of contents sound a bit…clinical?

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Las Vegas Travel Diary: The Gun Store!

by Joey deVilla on March 14, 2010

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:

Sign: "Try One! Shoot a real machinegun! MP5, Uzi, Thompson, MP40, AK-47, Sten, M16, Greasegun, M249 SAW. The Gun Store"

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Case in point: the Sex and the City slot machine in Mandalay Bay…

"Sex and the City" slot machine with video screens featuring the women and "Mr. Big"

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Back to Daylight Saving Time!

March 14, 2010

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.
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Squeezin’ at the Society of the Secret Pickle

March 9, 2010

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 [...]

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Happy Women’s Day!

March 8, 2010

It’s March 8th — Women’s Day! I’d like to wish a very happy day to women everywhere (and especially the Ginger Ninja)!

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My Chair, My Enemy

March 8, 2010

“Your chair is your enemy,” starts the New York Times article Stand Up While You Read This!
To give you the thesis of the article, here are the next two paragraphs in the article:
It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest [...]

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Skates Like Teen Spirit

March 8, 2010

For your Monday entertainment: Scott Williams figure skating to Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit. This guy would’ve been a hero at Clark Hall Pub during my DJ years.

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Music Video of the Day

March 3, 2010

Some things defy description, and this Lawrence Welk-esque music video from the 1970s is one of them. You’re just going to have to watch it.
The gentleman in the video is one Edward Anatolevich Hill or Эдуард Хиль, and the song he’s performing is titled I am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home. The song [...]

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Swamped

March 2, 2010

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 [...]

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Names I Have Been Referred By at the Gym

February 26, 2010

Names at the Old Gym (Mostly people in their 20s – 30s)
From summer 2005 to the start of 2009, I was a member at a gym located a ten-minute walk away from home. The crowd is made up mostly of people in their 20s and 30s, presumably students, singles and the “yummy mummy” crowd, with [...]

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“Honesty is the Best Poetry”

February 24, 2010

BlogTO points to this photo of some art done in the snow by the Gardiner Expressway near downtown Accordion City. It’s pretty cool. Wonder who made it.
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If the Restaurant Industry was Like the Record Industry

February 24, 2010

Don’t get the reference? See the Wikipedia entry for “Home Taping is Killing Music”.

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