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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 6:36 am
Mocha: Yep the Star Trek experience was excellent, very interactive. It sure is. We went to it last November. I am not a fan of Star Trek but hubby is. Turns out I loved it. I would even go see it again. It was big fun. Now let me tell you a story of just how interactive it is. We were in the Star Ship for the first part. About 3/4 of the way through a woman in the front row had an accident. Without TMI information we will call it a smelly accident. That door could not get opened fast enough for us. I felt sorry for the woman but she was laughing. Guess they had a good story to go home and tell...I know I do.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 6:39 am
Rofl!!!
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 6:43 am
Yeah, but just be aware if you are tall on the Star Trek experience you may not only be accused of being a Klingon, but your TVCH "friends" may well try to turn you in as being Jean Luc PIcard's ancestor.... I'm still trying to figure out how a part-Klingon could be that, but I think they took a bit of license to try to save their own sorry butts. 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 6:49 am
Well there was a war going on...
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 7:21 am
Fremont Street hotels (Downtown) is also for tourist. It's the number one destination for vistors from Hawaii. In fact, Las Vegas is affectionately known as "The Ninth Island". Most of the tour groups from Hawaii end up at the Californian (they changed their interior decor to a tropical motif). Most locals don't go there or the strip. We go to the Station casinos (check out the new one at Red Rock - it's huge, clean, crisp, pretty), Sam's Town (too smokey for my tastes), Arizona Charlies (never been) and the Goldcoast/Suncoast/or the new Southcoast where they have an equestrian events center - just two miles south of Tropicana on Las Vegas Blvd. I agree about non-ST fans enjoying the ST Experience (I love listening to audience commentary afterwards). I was there opening night (pre-opening party) for the first one (finally got on the ride at 2am but it was sooooo worth it). July???? July???? *konamouse* quickly markes her calender.

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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 7:57 am
i love Las Vegas and i have been there in July. promised myself never to do that again! LOL thought that was before the monorail was complete. have been back during May and found it much more tolerable outside. and, i totally agree about the airport slots - worst odds there are.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 12:49 pm
LOL Kar!! I think Bill still LOL about that
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 8:03 pm
Is the StarTrek experience Interactive as in.....they harrass you?? I am terribly shy and absolutely hate being targeted or singled out LOL I used to go to other live shows a fair amount but soon learned NEVER to sit in the front rows or in Aisle seats LOL
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 8:48 pm
I didnt go but I think they(tvch-ers) encouraged them to harrass Kar! LOL
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 8:48 pm
ps..the reason I didnt go is cuz they went before noon and everyone knows ya sleep til noon in Vegas! 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 10:41 pm
They may come up and chat or pretend but nothing like really bugging you, Sunshyne. I had a Ferengi follow me to our table at Quarks last time Darren and I were there but they usually move on kinda quick. It was more fun than anything.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 1:43 am
Ahhhhhhh sort of like the walkabout Actors at Universal Studios! I thought that it was really neat. They had a W.C. Fields look a like and of course, Marilyn Monroe walking around interacting with people for pics. i was amazed at how similar all the actors looked to their character! One day! one day I will go to the experience LOL I used to work with a nurse who had her Star Trek communication Badge mounted on her uniform along with the Hospital stuff. It was surprising to see an official woman working in Emerg. with a trekkie flair. LOL
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 5:04 am
when dh & i were staying at the Hilton a number of years ago, dh went to Quarks Bar while i attended my seminar. he said that a klingon came up to him and asked him if the PDA he was holding was his communication device back to his ship. otherwise, he said they didn't really bother him while he was sitting there. we didn't pay to go on the tour and sit on the bridge of the Enterprise.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 9:21 am
Yep, that's about it. They don't jump out of nowhere and grab you or anything like that. Usually just a quick little chat or following you for a minute and thats it. I'm a Trekkie though, and Quarks restaurant is always one of our stops in Vegas, even if we don't do the whole Experience thing.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 4:32 pm
Thank you for all the great tips. I am going to copy all for DD to read on the plane. Wish we had a choice of where to stay but the company made the reservations for all attending. I just get to tag along.
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 5:18 pm
Speaking of Star Trek communicator pins. My hospital recently installed the Vocera system. It's a radio type device that you clip on to your shirt or hang around your neck under your chin. You press the button and then "Call so-and-so" - it then locates that person and their Vocera chimes with "Do you want to talk to so-and-so?". Hands free you say "yes" or "no" and if "yes" you are talking with them like an open phone line. If you say "no" the caller will be given the option to leave you a message. There is more information at their website: http://www.vocera.com/ For the first week, I cut out and taped a ST Delta shield (the communicator pin shape) to the front of my unit. The owner of the company has two pre-programmed wave files built into the system. If you activate the Vocera and say "Beam me up" you will get the transporter sound effect. If you say "Good bye" you get Spocks voice saying "Live long and prosper" (that one I found out by accident and it scared me the first time it played).

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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 5:26 pm
Oh how kool!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:28 pm
the company made the reservations i think you can relax then. I doubt if the hotel would dare put you guys in the raunchy rooms considering a company booked it. Have fun and let us know how it went.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:30 pm
Wow tech is getting really FUN Kona. It is great when functional is mixed with fun.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 12:54 am
Wow is right! The future is now! 
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 4:51 am
seriously it IS! We actually have needle-less injectors for some meds now. that is VERY 'star trek' LOL
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 5:48 am
Sun, I want some of those! I have bruises all over my upper legs from 4 injections a day of insulin.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 12:54 am
WOW I just learned something thanks to Twinkie!! Snip*The coming of inhaled insulin could offer a novel approach to the management of diabetes. Insulin is a relatively small peptide that can be absorbed by the mucosal surface. The lungs provide an enormous surface area for absorption. Only a fraction of inhaled insulin is actually absorbed. It was always believed that variable absorption would lead to erratic glucose levels. The development of dry microparticulate powders has improved homogeneous, reproducible absorption. that is Amazing! sounds too good to be true eh? http://www.insulinjet.com/ http://www.sass.net/penjet/ http://www.bioject.com/vitajet3.html For pricing information of the VitajetTM 3, please contact Customer Service at 800-683-7221 Ext. 4122. snip* The VitajetTM 3 is an easy-to-use, economical needle-free injection system for delivering insulin. The system requires no maintenance or re-assembly. With disposable nozzles that are replaced once a week,
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 6:51 pm
The air injectors for insulin are MORE likely to cause brusing. They hurt more too (using compressed air to "inject" the insulin). If you are getting bruising from insulin injections, then you are using the wrong needles and/or wrong technique. As for inhaled insulin - Pfizer got the first FDA approved version on the market earlier this year. I'm not a fan. If only 10% is absorbed, where is the other 90% doing while it's hanging out in the lungs.

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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 7:04 pm
I've never used the air injectors. have you experience with them Kona? they sound great as for bruising, it could be caused by a number of things physiological in origin. Twinkie may not be using the wrong needles. I can only relate to the Allergy shots I've received PLUS morphine when I was in Hospital. I had bruising and swelling just from the injections which does NOT go away since it was a number of times a day. in my 20s I had chronic arm pain caused by the weeks of allergy shots. If only 10% is absorbed, where is the other 90% doing true. However we breathe in dust and other chemicals throughout the day, what happens to those things as well? I would assume we would exhale the excess insulin OR cough it up. who knows though. Sometimes years later they discover that it ends up causing some kind of cancer or something
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Friday, November 03, 2006 - 5:08 am
i remember when i was 11 or 12 (1970 or 71) they used air injectors to give us our booster shots at school. don't remember them hurting or bruising. but, i haven't seen them used since. interesting to read some are using them again over 30 years later.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, November 03, 2006 - 2:28 pm
You were a guinea pig LOL
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, November 03, 2006 - 6:50 pm
Insulin needles come in 31 guage - the thinnest around - virtually painfree if handled correctly. They are designed to only penetrate into the subcut fat. Allergy shots go deeper, I'm sure they are thicker (probably bigger than 29 guage) and more likely to cause bruising. As for the air injector, we had one child who's parents insisted on using it while she was at camp. By that, *we* had to use it. Seems the parents were afraid of needles. On day at lunch she needed some unplanned insulin, but we were away from camp at the ski lodge. I asked her if she would be okay with the needle and she let me give her the injection. "BOING" lightbulb goes off and she didn't want to use the air injector after that. Sucks that the parents weren't ready to progress. I think that air injectors are better now than 10 years ago. But accuracy is not as good as with the injections (delivery is more apt to miss and leakage more likely). 'squeek'
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, November 03, 2006 - 7:06 pm
The needles are very tiny (not that you would want to have to do it if you didn't have to). To me all of the finger pricking for blood tests would be harder.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Friday, November 03, 2006 - 9:14 pm
The finger pricking is more painful. My needles are small (Ultra-Fine III, 31G x 5/16" 8mm) and they don't hurt. I just bruise easily and you have to pinch the skin so the needle doesn't go into muscle. So I have lots of bruises.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, November 06, 2006 - 12:31 am
exactly, thanks for the clarification Twinkie. It isnt the needle, it is the technique that is needed to make it Subcutaneous by the way, there are new advances for the Glucometers as well. One looks really promising and you wear it like a wristwatch LOL frankly, I think that we are on the doorstep to full cure of Diabetes. Transplanting Islet Cells seems to be quite successful. then the person has their own insulin production again. No meds (I havent checked up on newer research lately though)
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, November 06, 2006 - 8:15 am
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/pancreaticislet/index.htm The latest I've seen is that after two years least 50% end up back on insulin - but without the brittleness that led them to be experimental subjects in the first place.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 1:30 pm
I considered a job with Edmonton but It was going to be hours and hours of being crooked over the mic. Thx for the article. I think I will do a little research as my curiousity of further developments has been piqued. It is three years post that article.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 1:43 pm
Okay, New Stats from the Edmonton Specialists. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_Nov_1/ai_n15765003 Since the completion of their studies and the publishing of their paper to the New England Journal of Medicine in 2000, their surgical team has completed at least 50 patient islet cell transplants. Lakey's work with the Sanguine team starts immediately with the compilation of data in support of Sanguine's FDA meeting planned for the first quarter of 2006. Lakey remarked, "Over 70 percent of the patients who underwent the Edmonton islet cell transplant are completely off insulin shots. There are over 500 patients worldwide who have undergone the Edmonton Protocol with the number growing rapidly.
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