David Pitlyuk

I’m back from Vegas, unfortunately internet access wasn’t as accessible as I had hoped (nor did I have much spare time!).  Vegas was a great time with pretty much non-stop action and little sleep.  We arrived on Sunday, and headed over to Bellagio to see the O Cirque De Soliel show after checking in.  The show was very impressive, especially the stage which went from a regular stage to a pool in seconds.

Later that night we headed over the Absolut Vodka penthouse suite in Caesars Palace for John Chow’s CES kickoff party.  While I’ve known John for about 10 years now, this was actually the first time I ever met him.  We ended up getting their almost 2 hours late, and by that time John was pretty trashed…he didn’t realize who I was until the second time I introduced myself lol.

The room was awesome, with different themes in each bedroom.  For anybody that went there, you would have noticed a variety of banners as well as a couple vendor setups around the room.  That’s how you make an expensive party free :)   This was one of the setups from NZXT for example:

The next day we went to CES.  We ended up going to the smaller portion of the show at the Sands convention center and weren’t that impressed.  That night we went out to Jet Nighclub in the Mirage.  That’s always good times as always, if you go, I recommend getting there early unless you have some sort of connection.

I know the picture looks like there are only guys there, but rest assured, the girls are inside

The last full day we were there we went to the big portion of CES, which turned out to be much better.  I wish we had done that for both days!  We tried to pack in as much of the show as we could in one day, which is not nearly enough time.  Here’s a few of my favorite things:

This is a Pioneer Kuro (the new name for the high-end elite series) concept which was just ridiculously flat:

If you know me, you’ll know that you can probably find me in the automotive car entertainment section of the show.  That’s where you’ll find all the cool cars, cool car gadgets, and hottest booth babes.  In there you’d have found a Hummer with 30″ wheels with a ridiculous dish.  Pictures don’t really do justice, but for comparison sake see how big the lip is with a $100 bill on it:

For those of you that haven’t heard of the Tesla Roadster, it’s a 100% electric sportscar that does 0-60 in under 4 seconds.  I haven’t seen one yet, but luckily the Blaupunkt booth had one:

I didn’t grab a picture, but it was cool to see the Optimus Maximus keyboard which features all programmable OLED keys.

I didn’t have much time to do any gambling, I only pretty much played roulette for about 15-30 minutes at a time every now and then.  Luckily I was able to walk away from Vegas up $150 or so…while only putting $20 on the roulette table at one time.  I should be going to Atlantic City on Friday, so I’ll have some time to actually do a little gambling and hopefully play some poker.  All in all, Vegas was a great success for a first time visit, and I hope to be back again soon.