Fear and Loathing in Vegas - strictly on business

• KA - The new cirque du soleil show @ The MGM Grand sure has a hydraulic center stage and all that bling bling, but the production aesthetics arent as inventive as "O"
• The gondoliers at the Venetian are more ambidextrous than the real ones. Bit of a idiosyncratic contrast to have visited the real deal and the fake one within the span of a month. You can tell which one 's the fake from these pictures.

• My company meets every year at Vegas. Four years back, I used to work with people who were like "where's the party dude". The same ones now are "My 10 month old keeps me awake all night". Quite a journey. Changes around you are inevitable.
• Got me a 2 hour education about Rodeos and their lifestyles and PBR events - On my flite into Vegas, I had the strongest patience of sitting beside a self-proclaimed redneck couple from Pensacola. Believe it or not, they had metal studded leather cases for their cell phones that matched their rodeo hats and their leather boots.
  
• What kind of name is Gaylord for an Indian restaurant - Only at the Rio!!!
• All laws of probability and regression equations will fail you to extrapolate the numbers to bet on at the roulette table. Stared at the betting display near the table for 25 minutes to zero in on a few numbers. Lost 40 bucks in the next 2 minutes.
• The University of Nevada's school of business administration offers a degree program in gaming management. I suggest that the screenwriter for Ocean's 13 do a crash course there to save the ignominy of Ocean's 12
  
• Watched Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Eclisse (The Eclipse) on the way back from Vegas. Thanks to my laptop's extended battery life. Take world class, imaginative photographs and sew them together with a stark, vaguely punctuated story line - thats what Le Eclisse was all about. It sustained 2 hours of my interest. Each frame had visual splendor that strangely alters your moods - no magic, no hypnosis.