The Peppermill

dining in las Vegas, nerdisms, APCUG, gun shows

APCUGers, here's a winning tip: Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner the neighboring Peppermill restaurant is a hit. Well, the menu looks nice for lunch, but I've never actually been there for lunch. Broad selection, and I'm not talking about the waitresses although they are not difficult to look at. They even have chorizo, Mexican sausage. Ask for the chorizo with huevos so it doesn't come out "Chorizo and legs....er, I mean eggs!"

Everyone is efficient and not apparently on break, the coffee's wonderful and the pancakes are, sadly, thick and spongy. Not bad if you like that sort of thing though, at least they used buttermilk. And they had whipped butter, a plus.

The Peppermill is directly across Las Vegas Boulevard from the now-shuttered Stardust Hotel and Casino. True to its name, on each table sets a finely crafted pepper mill stocked with a deliciously fresh pepper.

It's registration day today, a blind man could see the signs. Overheard: "Yeah, but air mice make your arms tired, ya know." And inexplicably, this fragment, which is still bothering me: "...if it isn't posting, you gotta MacGyver it, you know.."

Nerds are almost exclusively male, and this is no slight to the fairer gender who are here to rumble with APCUG. For those of you spouses and significant others that are just here for the ride, I pause for a moment to thank you for your endurance and charm under the osmotic pressure of us social maladroits.

There is something poignant about sharing our convention space with the Antique Arms show.
Perhaps we could confederate with these guys. Yes, I think it could be done with the proper bus configuration.

"Rambus memory features a leading edge trigger component that supersedes known competitors"

"Yup. I remember that trigger. Smooth hoss, it was. Half-pound pull, wa'n it? What's a rambus, some kinda musket loader?"

"Actually about half a nanosecond. Rambus is memory. You slot it in like DDR, but most of them have cool heat sinks"

"Eisenhower? Yeah, he had some guns I guess. Yeah, the barrel's countersunk and heat tempered through and through. I dunno if you could call it cool firing though."

"No, DDR, not DDE. Never mind. So how do you boot this thing?"

"Easy, pardner. You just slip it into your boot, like this..."

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I did find this item on guns and computers. It is an alarm clock controlled by a gun, on my favorite DIY site, Makezine. Great for killing time.


Moore