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Buggy driving in vegas desert

December 9, 2007 on 6:07 pm | In Blackhat SEO | No Comments

During pubcon vegas I took some time out to go driving in the desert in a one seater buggy and MJ drove a 2 seater. It was absolutely crazy but a great experience.

The company was used for buggy driving in vegas was called Sun Buggy Fun Rentals and the deal is pretty good. It’s basically $300 and they will arrange pickup and drop off at your hotel, they supply you with all the safety equipment you require and give you 2 hours of ride time(we actually got about 3) and after the drive will give you bottled water and some food. You will also be given a rather bright tshirt..

Although it was great fun and overall very worth the money, I found some of their rules a little unfair. For example if you were to roll your buggy then they will fine you $500. The thing is these buggies have heavy duty roll cages and could easily take a roll without causing any damage at all, they’re more likely to get damaged when you’re speeding over small hills and taking off and landing hard like 10 times in a row than a roll in the sand. Although it’s quite hard to roll it, it’s not impossible and we did see it happen.

vegas custom tshirt

December 9, 2007 on 9:01 am | In Blackhat SEO | 3 Comments

The annoying thing is vegas is the constant ID checking. I understand that they get fined heavily if they allow underage gambling or drinking but they need to come up with a better method of checking ages than having every staff ask you for ID every 10-15 minutes because it becomes really annoying.

I got a custom tshirt made and It actually worked quite well.

It reduced the amount of people who asked me for ID to prove my age and those who did I just had to say “Are you sure? Because you’ll be killing a rabbit” and most backed off. It was quite amusing when I went back to my room and a security woman starting getting quite emotional about it and I said, well if you ID me thats what happens, and its not just a rabbit.. a puppy also dies and a little girl will be crying over her dead dog.

Good morning vegas.. maybe

December 5, 2007 on 6:21 pm | In Blackhat SEO | No Comments

Well it took me in total about 22 hours of travelling to get to Vegas. On the plane I had some giant sitting next to me so that didn’t make the 10ish hour flight from UK to Phoenix that great. I had a quick wash and change of clothes and then met up with people for drinks where mr Mike Nott was already leading the drunk race. Then we went to the Wynn and met up with everyone.

Apologies to those I was talking to in the Wynn bar last night who I told I would be right back. I actually went to find a bathroom but got distracted and decided I wanted food so i ended up stumbling across the road to treasure island and then off to bed.

I literally have no idea what time or day it is. I didn’t reset my clocks through any part of the journey so its all a mystery but my head hurts a bit.

Is anyone going to UFC? I really want to go!