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Goodbye Star Trek: The Experience

September 1st, 2008 6:15 pm | 3 Comments

Well today is the last day for Star Trek: The Experience, the decade old venue at the Las Vegas Hilton. After 10 years in operation, the owners of the event, Cedar Fair, Inc and the landlords, The Las Vegas Hilton, has decided not to renew their relationship.

I have never been to the Star Trek: The Experience. For some reason I never went. Don’t get me wrong, I have been a fan of the Star Trek universe for as long as I can remember. I just wasn’t one of those guys who owned a uniform or had my own pair of Vulcan ears. I wasn’t a closet Trek fan either. To this day, I still find my self planted in front of my TV watching old episodes of Voyager, Enterprise, TNG and DS9.

When it comes to conventions and exhibits, I always shyed away. My friends Aaron and Davey convinced me to go to Star Trek: The Tour at the Queen Mary in Long Beach when it opened. The Tour was a multi-city traveling museum. It boasted to have actual props, uniforms and such from the actual productions. In a previous post, I talk about my disgust about The Tour.

I can only imagine that the Star Trek: The Experience was something akin to The Tour.

I guess I will never know. BTW, SciFi channel is hosting a Viewer’s Choice marathon of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Gustav Comes On Land; Hanna Gets Stronger

September 1st, 2008 12:03 pm | 1 Comment

Weather Alert

Hurricane Gustav makes landfall as a Category 2 Hurricane. Numerous power outages throughout Louisiana with tons of rain. The main bands of Gustav are battering the coast. So far levees throughout the region are holding.

Winds are gusting but holding around 105 MPH. Pressure is 957 millibars or 28.26. Storm movement around 16 MPH moving Northwest

Meanwhile Tropical Storm Hanna is now a Hurricane. Winds holding at 75 MPH with a storm track that potentially could hit Florida and South Carolina. It is currently making its way through the Bahamas. Pressure is holding at 985 millibars.

Filed under: Weather, Weather ALERT

Bad Dream

September 1st, 2008 9:51 am | No Comments

I had one of those dreams where I woke up in the middle of the early morning with my heart beating really fast, my breathing hard and broken into a sweat.

The remnants of what I could remember about the dream is that I was in a bad car accident. As the car started to tumble about, somehow my left leg had gotten intertwined in the steering wheel. In the course of tumbling, I could see my car flipping over as I was outside of the car terrified that my trapped leg would prevent me from surviving the accident. The car continued to move forward, yet I was outside of the car, tumbling with it, yet not experiencing pain.

The tumbling then stopped and then for a brief second, my “dream mind” started to experience excruciating pain.

Then I woke up.

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