This must not be the Vegas trip?
It's nice not being in Vegas tonight. NO jingle-jangle machines anyway, dirty "cards" everywhere downtown. I try not to look at them when I'm walking the Strip... but I also try to avoid the Strip. It is TOTAL INSANITY, in my most humble little opinion.
I don't know what people see in this place, though I haven't checked out the interiors of the casinos, which some colleagues described today as dramatic. I stayed at the Caeser's Palace(?) in Atlantic City NJ, and the description of the one here matches, but the architectural "effects" are quickly lost amidst the voluminous efforts to separate your money from yourself.
I mean, geez, just look at the exteriors of these buildings. An inefficiently shaped pyramid, burning tens of thousands of kilowatts or more to send massive amounts of photons skyward in the hope that a tiny fraction will be reflected or refracted back, to simulate the imagined effect of some mysterious "power", just to lure in the rubes? (It works, btw.)
Maybe it's just that it's a party town and I'm not a party animal. (One of the nice things about joining my frat in college was I got lots of uninterrupted time for study, unlike the dorms. Seriously. Ask LoM.)