The Slider Truck

Still missing several recent events in the blog, along with Cirque part 2, I will catch up.  In the meantime, I took a quick trip out for lunch today, to catch up with the new slider truck in town.

This was only their second day out on the road, but they were very happy and friendly to have some adventurous Twitter folks join them for lunch.  @PokerVixen and I headed out there around 2pm this afternoon, to their location in a parking lot at Buffalo & Flamingo.

I ordered two of the Pep Pep Sliders ($2 each), classic burger with tomato, lettuce, cheese & bacon, along with a secret sauce of the thousand island variety.  Joined it with a lovely glass bottle, real sugar coke for a filling and satisfying meal.

We chatted with Ricardo the driving force behind the truck and watched as the nearby high school kids also stopped in for a burger or soda.  There were also many gawkers driving by on Buffalo wondering what was going on.  I will definitely be looking up the Slider Truck again in the near future.

The Slider Truck can be found on Twitter (@SliderTruck), Facebook and at their website.  You can also check out my Foodspotting submission for a picture of the meal.

New Year, New Methods

Hitting the ground running so far this year, with a big weekend of cooking and a lot of prep work for CES. I am hoping to do a lot of CES blogging this year, definitely a lot of tweeting from @Rally_CES account. Probably going to opt for the smaller mobile blogs that started this particular blog and take it from there.

Also going to try and get serious and start to advertise and eventually monetize this blog. Those also end up becoming de facto resolutions for the new year, let's see how it goes.

CES related blogging should begin Wed after work, with badge pick up and possibly a visit to the Lenovo Blogger Night event. Working on an invite to a Capcom event on Thursday, Friday night we have the Hilton Tweetup and going to be busy.

Can't wait!

Friday Recap

Friday ended up being quite a busy and exciting day. Early in the day a friend passed along some tickets to the San Gennaro Feast, so we made plans to attend that evening.

A short time later while glancing at Twitter, I saw @ClickBooth announcing the winner of their @BlogWorld contest that I had entered here. I am usually 5-10 minutes behind on my Twitter feed, so I jumped to their timeline to find out I had won. Happy days, I was starting to think I was going to miss @BlogWorld completely.

After work we swung by San Gennaro and grabbed some subs and desert before calling it an early night. We are headed out to Lake Las Vegas today for the @BuckbeanBeer sponsored Village Craft Beer Fest. Hopefully I will have a few reports from their later and of course lots of Twitter updates.

Until then, arrrrr mateys.

#BNBLV Week 3 - Still Growing

Strongbow Cider is the starting drink this evening, we filled up fast. Reserved three tables for us, they were full in about 45 minutes. Things are definitely growing around here, more laptops, more cameras, more people.

The owner of the Freakin Frog stopped in for a visit tonight, to say hello and check out the group. Also a representative from the Las Vegas Twestival, more info on that can be found here:

http://lasvegas.twestival.com/

Next up, Giddy Up Ale made with espresso, nice beer on the light side Belgium Ale, and dun dun dun the guy at the bar starts talking to me about it. He is drunk and annoying, the only thing I took from the conversation was a crack about "and I like to say from cocaine to Rogaine".

Later as the crowd at the BNB break into smaller groups, I wander up to get my second beer, trying to avoid the creepy drunk guy. Unfortunately he has another victim cornered who introduces herself to me in order to break off from him, and I am spotted. I get another 20 minute drunken tale, about what he did on New Years Eve.

After a long chat with @NealMason about World of Warcraft, it's time to head out to the Fail Kitchen to make some food for the work pot luck on Friday. But I cannot resist introducing drunk creepy guy to Neal and his friend Brian.

They thank me for this...

Needless to say, shenanigans ensued and I did not get out of their at my intended target time, but much later. Now officially named "The Creepy Guy", he set out on a barrage of victims and tirades that would make a sailor blush. But I will let the video evidence speak for itself, my poor quality cell phone vids can be found here on You Tube.

Beer N Blog - Las Vegas Edition

So, I really should learn not to flash my phone rom before I head out to a social networking event. It makes it difficult for me to mobile blog when my phone will not send the message out properly, add alcohol to the mix and well you get the idea.

At any rate, the first Beer and Blog in Las Vegas was a huge hit last night. Expectations varied but with over 30 people attending, it's safe to say that a second event will be in order. Apparently Twitter really is an effective social media tool, because it propagated quite a bit through the Interwebs.

I certainly did not have the opportunity to meet many of the attendees, but did chat at length with several of them. Definitely looking forward to meeting some other folks in
the future.

But really, on to the fun stuff. As #bnblv crowd thinned out, the college crowd began to fill in, and to our "delight" we found ourselves amid open mic night. There was quite a cast of celebrities, especially if you are a fan of nineties alternative music. We had Lisa Loeb, the lead singer of Midnight Oil and the late, great (op‌ions may vary) Kurt Cobain in attendance. Oh and some guy with a Mac singing about Star Wars, looked so bored with himself, I thought he was gonna go all narcoleptic in his chair.

While I am known in my circles as a ham in Rock Band, especially when I sing and play guitar at the same time. However, I generally tend to keep that to the privacy of my living room. Well except for that time last week at Harrah's, but we won't talk about that. Still it was great fun mocking the youngsters with references they really didn't understand.

Lots of good beer, some tasty fried food, not a bad little joint, the Freakin' Frog, btw, helps to mention the place you are talking about. Big shout out to everyone that attended, hope you all had as much fun as I did.

CES09 - Media Day

One of the most frustrating parts of being in town, is that when the pre convention stuff starts, I am stuck at that 40 a week grind that pays the bills. So I followed the Tweets and Feeds and such as I could today from a far. I have yet to pay my dues enough to garner a blogger or press type badge. Also bowing out of day one until after the 5pm bell rings out the end of my work week.

Still getting excited for the event, updating my phone and my blog and my many online hang outs in preperation of a long weekend of texting, blogging and taking pics of coold stuff. Going to try and keep the updates brief for the most part, be sure and follow the Twitter updates as well.

Off to watch the Ballmer keynote online.