Apachecon Day 4

Here we are on the bus to Comdex. There was a free shuttle running from the Hard Rock Hotel to Comdex and back, so we headed off to the Hard Rock just as it was leaving. So the doorman (woman) at the Hotel flagged it down, and we got in, and the cranky old bus driver yelled at us for not meeting him at the correct place. Anyway, I took this shot because you can finally see some mountains back there. It looked spectacular.

We made it inside Comdex, and are now waiting for the exhibits to actually open up. Someone had just been yelled at for taking a picture, so I snapped off a few then hid my camera for a while.

We're just about to be let in.

Inside Comdex. The Iomega section had an Austin Powers impersonator (and a Ms. Kensington, actually), named "Awesome Powers". His impersonation was quite good, expecially his facial reactions. So after a few minutes, I was horribly annoyed by [and embarrassed for] him.

But I continued to take pictures anyway. I was trying to see if anyone cared if I took pictures, and no one seemed to. Good deal.

There's a glimpse of Ms. Kensington. I forgot what her fake name was already. Maybe "Ms. Kensing-buyournewcdrwdrivetoday-ton." Nah, I'm sure it was far less clever.

Here's kind of a wide shot of one of the halls. They were seriously big, like everything else in Vegas. And there were a number of them. Kind of a shame that there wasn't anything really interesting in them, with the exception of the girls behind some of the bigger name booths.

We made it just in time to see two butterflies invade Ben Franklin's area. How often can you say that and not be lying, or really drunk? See, this is the kind of flair that the casinos were completely lacking. People with no pride dressed up like idiots to promote a crappy product

And here's a shot of Ben Franklin, right before he kicked some butterfly ass. Sadly, that did not happen. Lousy hippy.

About then we realized Comdex was lame, and it turned out the busses stopped running shortly before, so we hopped a cab. This is a shot out the cab at some more mountains in the distance.

The cab brought us to In-N-Out Burger! Because Joel raves about it, we figured we had to give it a shot. Quite the selection here. We both got 2 Double-Doubles and a chocolate shake.
You can kinda see him, the guy on the left with the In-N-Out hat on. He looked, acted, and sounded a lot like Al from Happy Days (The guy that ran Arnold's restaurant.) So he fit in quite well here.

Here's the big In-N-Out Burger sign.

and here's the little rotating sign. We were pretty much screwed at this point, as no cabs were anywhere near that were willing to take us anywhere. After being [mock] threatened by some fairly tuff looking body spray salesmen, we decided to walk towards the strip to try to get a cab.

On the walk, we went over a highway, and I finally got a decent shot of the Luxor Pyramid.