{"id":5116,"date":"2008-03-30T02:35:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T07:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5116"},"modified":"2008-03-29T23:37:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T04:37:42","slug":"vegas_baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/30\/vegas_baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks &#8211; I&#8217;m shipping off to Las Vegas this week for the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/ctia.org\/conventions_events\/wireless\/\" >CTIA wireless<\/a> show.  As much as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004110.html\" >I hate trade shows<\/a>, they are FANTASTIC at bringing together an interesting mix of people from all across the world (while we&#8217;re at it, I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vinod.com\/blog\/News\/VivaLasVegas.html\" >not a fan of Vegas<\/a> either but it has grown on me a bit over the years).<\/p>\n\n<p><img class=picture height=239 hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/LasVegasSign_1.jpg\" width=300 align=right vspace=10 border=0  ><\/p>\n\n<p><STRONG >Tech shows<\/strong>, in particular, tend to pile a LOT of desis together.  In the past I&#8217;ve run into so many old friends &#038; mutineers that I&#8217;ve had to explain to my coworkers that &#8220;yep, most desis really do know each other.&#8221;   For ex., and on a somewhat sadder note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/005113.html\" >Sameer<\/a> &#038; his lovely wife Reena were a couple of those CTIA &#8220;regulars.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>This time around, I got a note from mutineer Chi_Diva that she was planning to hit CTIA as well so I figured we should get ahead of things and try to do the <STRONG ><font style=\"background-color: #f2deb7\"><span class=rp_highlight><strong>first ever Las Vegas SM meetup<\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/strong>.   <\/p>\n\n<p>So, 3 questions for the mutiny &#8211; <\/p>\n\n<ol >\n<li >Who else is gonna be there? \n<li >Given tradeshow chaos, and perhaps in grand Vegas tradition, I think our best bet is to try to do the meetup late <STRONG >Wednesday night, Apr 2 <\/strong>around <STRONG >10 pm<\/strong> or so.  \n<li >Anyone got a recommendation for a bar, ideally at a hotel in the middle of the strip, that we can meet up at?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n<p>Since we&#8217;re in Vegas, of course, we oughtta make sure this is the most Glam meetup ever  <img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/wink.gif\" align=absMiddle border=0   Files\\Anconia\\RktPost\\Templates\\Clip Art\\wink.gif\"> .<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks &#8211; I&#8217;m shipping off to Las Vegas this week for the annual CTIA wireless show. As much as I hate trade shows, they are FANTASTIC at bringing together an interesting mix of people from all across the world &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/30\/vegas_baby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}