Joe, a guy I work with at Techdirt, and his wife Brooke were in town this weekend from New York City. Sunday night, we went to the Daniel Boulud Brasserie in the Wynn. The Wynn’s probably the fanciest place on the Strip; to get to the restaurant, you go down a curved escalator, and then [...]
Entries from April 2007
April 26, 2007
BBQ in Vegas: Not So Whooooo
As Alex said yesterday, we went out to Henderson last night and had some barbecue at Lucille’s. Despite the good things she’d heard about it, I was (predictably) disappointed. It wasn’t that bad (the ribs and chicken I had were pretty good, while Alex’s pulled pork and brisket didn’t do much for me), it was [...]
April 26, 2007
Mr. Boo is a happy cat
For the last few weeks, Boo has been the whiniest cat ever. His favourite cat food Innova Evo, the foie gras of kitty food, is really hard to find in Vegas, so I have gone through two different kinds of other natural cat foods for him to try. He hasn’t really liked any of them [...]
April 25, 2007
4 weeks full of Vegas adventures
Carlo and I moved to Las Vegas four weeks ago today. It feels like we have been here a lot longer than that, but it also feels like we haven’t been away that long from Austin or our friends. Despite some pangs of home sickness last week, I would say (Carlo can disagree) that the [...]
April 17, 2007
Post-hike refueling
After working up an appetite hiking at Red Rock, we went to Hash Hash A Go Go for some brunch. Although we were probably the dirtiest and smelliest people in the restaurant, the food was delicious and more than hit the spot. The portions were absolutely massive though. I thought everything was bigger in Texas, [...]
April 17, 2007
Hiking in Red Rock Canyon
When Andrew was here a couple of weekends ago, we went for a hike in Red Rock Canyon, which is a 15 minute drive from our house. Looking at a book I bought about hiking in and around Las Vegas, I decided that we would do a 2.5 mile hike to Calico Tanks that the [...]
April 16, 2007
Are You European Or A Euro-peon?
I thought this was funny; the sign from the place where I got lunch today:
Dorky, I know.
April 16, 2007
It rained!
Carlo went outside this morning to take the trash out and said it had rained during the night or early this morning. I didn’t hear any rain while I was in bed, but yes, there was rain because the streets and cars were wet. Turns out we got 0.08 inches of rain, a fairly decent [...]
April 9, 2007
LVAM
My first week at my new job at the Las Vegas Art Museum went really well. Everyone seems really nice and the exhibitions that we are installing look great.
LVAM was the cover story on one of the Vegas weeklies last week and the article does a pretty good job describing all of the exciting changes [...]
