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Jun. 11th, 2017 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Las Vegas is weird.
It's a very windy weird, this weekend. It wasn't quite hot, but wowie was it gusty.
We went on an Ingress scavenger hunt, associated with the GoRuck tradition, albeit with only a little bit of pushups and scrabbling around under/over things. Mostly we hiked, looking for things. We didn't have the best communication with our team, but we managed to make it work out. Scavenger hunt items were things like cleaning up trash, finding a veteran and talking to the vet about war experiences. Ours told us a dirty joke instead.
I found this for
basefinder, near the Las Vegas Central Library.


I had grilled unicorn cheese sandwich for lunch before the hunt. Somehow I expected it would just be white, yellow, and orange. Oh, no, they went all-out, because it's Las Vegas.

They have a ton of weird cool public art.

(This appeared to actually be drivable.)


We walked over to an art district about 2km from downtown. There were roughly two art galleries there. It appears to have been larger and more interesting at some point in the recent past. But the one gallery that was open was fun to look around in.



It's a very windy weird, this weekend. It wasn't quite hot, but wowie was it gusty.
We went on an Ingress scavenger hunt, associated with the GoRuck tradition, albeit with only a little bit of pushups and scrabbling around under/over things. Mostly we hiked, looking for things. We didn't have the best communication with our team, but we managed to make it work out. Scavenger hunt items were things like cleaning up trash, finding a veteran and talking to the vet about war experiences. Ours told us a dirty joke instead.
I found this for
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I had grilled unicorn cheese sandwich for lunch before the hunt. Somehow I expected it would just be white, yellow, and orange. Oh, no, they went all-out, because it's Las Vegas.

They have a ton of weird cool public art.

(This appeared to actually be drivable.)


We walked over to an art district about 2km from downtown. There were roughly two art galleries there. It appears to have been larger and more interesting at some point in the recent past. But the one gallery that was open was fun to look around in.



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Date: 2017-06-12 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-06-12 05:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-06-12 06:07 pm (UTC)Vegas is only behind SF and Reno for repurposed playa art. I see calls all the time.
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Date: 2017-06-12 02:20 am (UTC)The thin-shell structure in your photo (thanks!) is at the sign museum. It used to be the entryway for a hotel!
The artwork reminds me of the newly-installed rocket (a fanciful, shiny metal art piece) in front of the Lowry Beer Garden (just a stones throw from the B-52 in front of W.O.T.R. museum).
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Date: 2017-06-12 05:08 am (UTC)I guess we'll just have to come over again to see the rocket.
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Date: 2017-06-12 08:06 am (UTC)https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=max(x%5E2+-+y%5E2,+y%5E2+-+x%5E2)
hmm that doesn't quite leave any interior.
How about like this?
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=max(x%5E2+-+3+*+y%5E2,+y%5E2+-+3+*+x%5E2)
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Date: 2017-06-12 10:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-06-13 01:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-06-13 03:21 am (UTC);-)
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Date: 2017-06-13 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-06-13 09:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-06-12 11:29 am (UTC)I think your scavenger-list veteran was a gracious human to tell you a dirty joke. I bet some people got decked.
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Date: 2017-06-12 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
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