"I compare it to someone unleashing the contents of 20 prisons, a dozen mental institutions and a NAMBLA convention into a 1000-yard radius."

That's a friend, who is on his way to CES, describing the show. Sounds about the same as my experience, which is why I stopped going a few years ago. It's too crowded, you can't get anywhere, you spend all your time schlepping around, wandering through halls gazing up at flat-panel TVs or standing in endless cab lines. The executive briefings you get are useless — 15 minutes in the back of a booth with some guy running through a canned script that he's already run through a hundred times with other filthy hacks who got there ahead of you. Then come the dinners hosted by some big company where you have to sit next to a marketing guy who has been trained in the skill of talking and talking without saying anything. As for the nightlife: I don't gamble, don't drink, and have seen enough naked ladies that the novelty has worn off. So, thanks but no thanks.