{"id":95,"date":"2003-11-17T06:48:15","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T11:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2003-11-17T06:48:15","modified_gmt":"2003-11-17T11:48:15","slug":"musings-las-vegas-and-free-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Musings: Las Vegas and free WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drove out to Las Vegas for ApacheCon with Scott and Amanda on Friday evening.  That&#8217;s a <strong>long<\/strong> drive from the Bay Area.  I feel like I&#8217;ve learned a few new things about traveling in general, and Vegas in particular, over the few days we&#8217;ve been here so far:<\/p>\n<li>There are few things worse for a geek\/internet addict than the promise of free broadband that fails to deliver.  Such is the case at the <a href=\"http:\/\/alexispark.com\/\">Alexis Park<\/a> (where we&#8217;re staying and ApacheCon is being held).  Lot&#8217;s of infrastructure in the rooms for broadband, but no love for us.\n<li>Sometimes you are hungry and\/or drunk and\/or broke.  If two or more of those describe you, and you&#8217;re in Las Vegas, you should stop by the Bourbon Street Casino and eat some $3.49 Steak &#038; Eggs.  \n<li>Sometimes you feel like eating some <strong>really<\/strong> good food for not much money.  In that case you should go to the Le Village Buffet at the Paris Casino.  It was great, relatively deserted and they had a wide variety of food for right around $20.  We also went to the Bellagio Buffet last night.  It wasn&#8217;t as good, cost more and there were more people&#8230;\n<li>Coffee shops that offer free wifi are truly excellent!  Without really looking we stumbled across The CoffeeBean on Paradise Ave.  Free (fast) WiFi, good coffee and big tables.  Good stuff.\n<li>The $5 Blackjack game at the Barbary Coast was kind to me, I&#8217;m sure that will change in time, but they had cheap table games on a Saturday night and gave me back the money they took from me at the Roulette table.\n<li>Always bring a (self-contained, not stovetop or french press) coffee maker when you travel.  At least if you&#8217;re a total coffee junkie.  Note: This only really applies if you have broadband in the room, the Alexis Park has precluded the need for a coffee maker by not having broadband, thereby necessitating that we leave the room to find BOTH (see Coffee Shop entry above)&#8230;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll have more &#8220;quality observations&#8221; after going to ApacheCon (and hopefully Comdex).<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drove out to Las Vegas for ApacheCon with Scott and Amanda on Friday evening. That&#8217;s a long drive from the Bay Area. I feel like I&#8217;ve learned a few new things about traveling in general, and Vegas in particular, over the few days we&#8217;ve been here so far: There are few things worse for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review-lite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}