I am the ghost of groovymother.com. Woooooo!

Joy watching the Bellagio fountains.

Todd English’s Olives

Ali, celebrating her birthday.

Birthday “candle”

Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino

Wow! What a jackpot!

Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino

Ice Elvis in the Minus 5 Bar

Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino

Mark in the Minus 5 Ice Bar. Brrr.

Art of Shaving

After. Cleanshaven and hair descruffed.

Art of Shaving

During

Art of Shaving

Before

Imperial Palace Hotel & Casino

Joy dragged us back to the Imperial Palace, because she remembered winning big on this machine.

The Mirage Hotel and Casino

The Mirage Volcano -- as seen from the ground level. Very cool fountain & pyro display.

Slot repair

The Mirage Volcano

Be jealous

I won a raffle at the blogger party. Amongst the prizes were $300 in cash and free return flights on Virgin America.

My prize? An Intel flight suit. Apparently, Intel was sponsoring one of those Zero-G parabolic flights, and had some custom flight suits made. Do I get a flight on the vomit comet? Do I bollocks. Just the suit.

Not pictured is the huge Intel logo on the back. Discussions soon turned to the idea of wearing it, heading to the Intel booth on the show floor, and pretending to be booth staff. "Our new processor is smaller than an ant, but can do multiplication almost three times faster than even the most skilled ant."

Oh, and when I was carrying the suit, I felt something papery in one of the pockets. Of course, my first assumption was that there was a crisp $100 bill in there. Nope. Sick bag!

Sexxpresso

Spotted opposite the Atomic Testing Museum. No idea what makes their coffee "sexy", and frankly scared to find out.

Rolly

The closest thing to an innovation at the Sony stand -- breakdancing robot MP3 players.

The Internet’s Famous Scoble

Getting ready for an interview at the NBC News stand

Me & Amanda Beard

Signing at the Go Daddy tent. There were only five or six people in the line, so I figured what the hey.

As a few of us were discussing in the line, Photoshop has been good to her.

Crocs O-Dial

Crocs for your phone. Who else thinks they came up with the name first, then created the product to go with it?

This one goes to MP5

"You're on MP4 here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on MP4 on your player. Where can you go from there? Where?"

Blinged-out Namebadge

After nabbing some samples from the Rhinestone It! booth, I now have the most blinged-out namebadge in Vegas

“More Beneficial Than Smoking”

Bizarre battery-powered cartridge-based contraption that allows you to "smoke" "cigarettes" without technically smoking.

(Rather splendidly, a google search reveals that "NJoy" is also the name of a brand of "personal massagers", so make sure not to get them confused. You might get a funny look if you put a "NJoy Personal Wand" between your lips in public)

www.njoy.com/

Plen

I was excited to see Plen, since he's a true celebrity -- Last night on The Amazing Race, one of the choices on the detour involved controlling Plens with cellphones and trying to score goals.

plen.jp/

Bling!

Another common theme at the Sands today: Stickers to decorate devices. Ranging from artistic skins for your laptop, to "bling" stickers, resulting in lovely devices like these at the "Rhinestone It!" stand.

www.cosam.biz/

Versus Scoreboard

Portable boombox-type-thing with remote-controlled score displays, a countdown timer, etc.

It sounds a bit gimmicky and crappy, but it's something I desperately wanted a few years back when doing improv. I could definitely see Theatersports or Comedysportz troupes using it for away gigs.

www.versusscoreboard.com/

Don’t piss in the soup

I ate at Sensi this evening, which has its kitchen in the center of the restaurant, surrounded by walls of glass.

I was treated to the view of the steamer. Anyone who was squeamish about seeing live wriggling lobsters going in, and pink delicious ones coming out would not have had fun.

My beverages at Bloghaus

I apparently subconsciously like drinks that come in green bottles with red stars on the labels.

An Audience with billg

The crowd behind me at the Bill Gates keynote. I was about 1/3 of the way back from the stage, having chosen to ignore the people holding signs, and sitting in the "Press / VIP" area.

Cracked Camera

Bugger! The LCD screen on the back of my camera is shattered, so I have no clue how any of my photos look, and no way to control features like the flash. It might as well be film!

That Famous Vegas Strip View

My hotel room window faces onto this glorious sight.

Noise “Cancellation”

Thoroughly unwelcome advertisement found on the tray table on my flight.

Me and Penn

After the show at the Rio.

Me and Teller

After the show at the Rio.

“Carrot Top Fantasy”

Words that should never be placed together.

Lion Hat

Super-classy!

A Lion

Attacking a bone in much the same way our basset hounds do.