A Las Vegas landmark, well for the last 48 years, which is a lifetime in Vegas terms, is no more. The Stardust hotel was blown up – in a controlled explosion at 2h30 this morning.

One of many images from my first visit to Las Vegas in August 2006:

And without further ado, what you’ve all been waiting for…the video…Only in LV can they turn something like this into entertainment. Check it out:

For the last two years, I’ve gone to What A Bagel to get my free dozen bagels which I shared with folks in my office.

This year, I even decided to eat one. It doesn’t exactly work with my raw food diet, but I don’t worry about it too much.

It gave me an upset stomach shortly after I ate it. It didn’t taste as good as the Montreal style bagel that I had when I was in Montreal for a Couchsurfing event last weekend – everything just seemed to taste better there. But that’s another post for another day.

My Montreal style bagel

Today, was also a lucky day for me. I also won a Cadillac Fairview $50 gift card. Luck counts.

Another shot of an on-going obsession with streetcar shelters…

Earlier this week…

On my way to the Utah Jazz game.

On my way back from the mountains.

On my way to Temple Square in SLC, UT.

Click here for images from the rest of my time in SLC.

However, if you want good value, the above costs about the same or maybe even a little bit more than the meal below:

Plus this:

Costs this much:

=Good value.

However, according to Now Magazine, both places are favorites among Torontonians.

On my way to work last week, my neighbour told me a new word (for me), depletist. According to most definitions found on the Internet, a depletist may describe:

1. An individual or group showing apparent, negligent or reckless disregard for the environmental consequences of their actions.
2. An individual or group that exhausts non-renewable resources and rejects positive environmental strategies.

However, some of us think we’re environmental, however, just by being consumers, especially of cheap goods from third world countries, we are depletists and, in turn, we are causing others to be depletists. The scourage of the first world is passing the torch.

People, and especially the media, are talking about it but not really doing anything about it. Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail newspaper states that China is building a coal plant every week and putting one thousand new cars on the road daily. We started this by wanting a lower cost of living by demanding cheap goods. We started it, we can stop it. Let’s shed our defeatist attitude. Think before you buy.