Work Sloth: NAB 2010 Las Vegas

Every Year I try to attend a convention called NAB (National Association of Broadcasters).  It is:

• a gigantic convention for companies to display new technologies for broadcasters, television, radio, blah blah.
• a gigantic gathering of geeks in the entertainment and media industry.
• an excuse to go drink free cocktails at the roulette table while you gamble your paycheck away.

I prefer driving out to Las Vegas for this particular event because of the following:

• The airport is generally a mad house because people from all over the world fly in for this convention.
• costs about as much to fly as it does to drive.
• I can leave whenever I want.
• And I quite enjoy the drive.

HOWEVER, this particular time... I...

• Got pulled over
• Got a ticket

Here are some facts:

• I set my cruise at 80mph.  

I know this sounds like a lie, but here are the reasons for my doing this:

1. every year there's roughly 200 gazillion people who drive to this convention from Los Angeles.
2. knowing this is the second largest convention Las Vegas hosts, state troopers are always on high alert on the highways.
3. I know these things and would prefer not to get a ticket, thus jacking up my already ridiculously high insurance.

so... facts cont'd:

• a red Toyota happily blew by me at the precise moment the state trooper apparently "clocked" me at 94mph.
• at the time I noticed the state trooper starting to pull out into the highway, I had just passed him on the other side of a semi truck... which was impeding his view of my car when he had supposedly "clocked" me.
• I assumed he was pulling out to go after the obviously speeding red Toyota.
• But I was obviously wrong.
• I disputed him with the aforementioned facts.
• However, Officer Kruptky informed me that he is, in fact, trained to, first and foremost, hone his visual spidey senses to apprehend speed violators.
• Officer Kruptky was adamant about my 94mph speed.

BUT I find it strange that, after much dispute he:

• CITED ME AT 85mph RATHER THAN THE 94mph HE DEMANDED I WAS DOING!

REALLY?
Why would he do that if he was so sure I was doing 94mph?
What, he thought my contentious attitude was charming?? 

Damn straight I'm going to dispute this ticket, Officer Kruptky...see you in hell - better known as Nevada.  Maybe I can get the court case transferred to Los Angeles.  I don't know how these things work...CAUSE I'VE NEVER GOTTEN A SPEEDING TICKET IN NEVADA IN THE 100 TIMES THAT I'VE DRIVEN THROUGH THE STATE.  That should tell ya somethin'.


On the bright side, I'm up $100.
Lesson learned:

• You gotta lose big to win big.

or

• You gotta risk it to win the biscuit.

and

• Gambling is a stupid thing.

Oh... and NAB - the rave:

• 3D
• 3D
• 3D

I'm not sure how big 3D is going to be.  I have a feeling it's going to be something like Laser Discs:

• Short lived
• a novelety in a couple of years

  I'm putting my $100 on holographic technology.  "help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope..."

 
And I'm putting $100 on black.  Or $50 on black and $50 on red.