{"id":24,"date":"2010-01-07T05:46:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T11:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:40:32","slug":"contest-to-be-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Contest to be odd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, now after changing hotels, I believe I&#8217;ve found the hotel that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borat\">Borat<\/a> would have loved. Only in America could you find a hotel with a sandwich vending machine on each floor. Never let it be said that Vegas doesn&#8217;t have classy hotels &#8230; why go out to <a href=\"http:\/\/emerilsrestaurants.com\/emerils-new-orleans-fish-house\">Emeril&#8217;s<\/a>, when a tuna fish sandwich is only quarters away.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think that the zipper booth was the oddest thing I&#8217;ve seen today &#8230; and you&#8217;d be wrong. From guys with 5 o&#8217;clock shadows in a dress and high heels, to probably the most bizzare thing I may have ever have seen at CES, Vegas never fails to impress. Imagine a baseball cap with a bill four times longer than you have ever seen on the MTV video awards, with a sheet of black cloth four inches long hanging from the entire perimeter of the bill. Then add a clip at the end of that bill, for a iPhone. And in between you eyes and the Apple moneymaker is a fresnel lens, for that &#8220;big screen&#8221; effect. I had to keep looking around for a camera to see if this was a joke. All yours for only $19.95! Only these folks were dead serious about this &#8220;revolutionary device&#8221;. Never let it be said that entrepreneurship is dead in the USA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_R5dbWg2TMUM\/S0mGyQ0kw3I\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/G-__po2uV0o\/s1600-h\/Hat+TV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425015424211534706\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_R5dbWg2TMUM\/S0mGyQ0kw3I\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/G-__po2uV0o\/s200\/Hat+TV.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"279\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, now after changing hotels, I believe I&#8217;ve found the hotel that Borat would have loved. Only in America could you find a hotel with a sandwich vending machine on each floor. Never let it be said that Vegas doesn&#8217;t have classy hotels &#8230; why go out to Emeril&#8217;s, when a tuna fish sandwich is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}