{"id":77,"date":"2008-07-24T08:31:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T13:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/?p=77"},"modified":"2008-08-01T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T15:30:18","slug":"las-vegas-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/las-vegas-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas, baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was in Las Vegas for a non-music related experience: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/company\/events\/BbWorld08\">Blackboard World &#8217;08<\/a>. Blackboard CE is a powerful learning management system that I support at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slu.edu\">Saint Louis University<\/a> for my &#8216;real&#8217; job. I&#8217;ve never been to Vegas before. It&#8217;s a trip. I stayed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palazzolasvegas.com\/\">Palazzo<\/a> which is part of a huge complex that has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venetian.com\">Venetian<\/a> on the other end. It&#8217;s pretty nice, though the rooms, pardon me, suites, are a bit too Tony Soprano for my taste. There&#8217;s lots of dark wood, heavy drapes and black marble. Not to mention three flat screen TVs. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that.<\/p>\n<p>I went out of the building exactly twice in four days and on those occasions it was hot, temperaturewise. Over 100. Yes, but it&#8217;s a dry heat, you say. So is an oven and I wouldn&#8217;t want to hang out in there for too long, either!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was in Las Vegas for a non-music related experience: Blackboard World &#8217;08. Blackboard CE is a powerful learning management system that I support at Saint Louis University for my &#8216;real&#8217; job. I&#8217;ve never been to Vegas before. It&#8217;s a trip. 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