I was behind a car in traffic that seemed to have one of those typical stick-figure families on the rear window. As I got closer, I realized it wasn’t quite the typical family. Turns out they had adorable Star Wars cutouts on the back of their car. I wondering if …
Read More »Win Help With a Frustrating Task
Tired of waiting on hold?  Got a newspaper subscription you’d love to cancel? Buried at the bottom of this post from early this morning is a way to win a free task to help you with your most annoying/frustrating tasks. Just go over to that link and tell your most frustrating …
Read More »New Tech Would Deliver In-Flight Meals Automatically
In-flight meal service can be a long process.  After all, the flight attendants have a lot of work to do during it. You also have to get your food during the specific meal service times (unless you are in first and have a really nice flight attendant).  So it’s either buy now, or …
Read More »This Service Will Help You Cut 30 Percent off Your Cable Bill for Free
This company really believes in show-don’t-tell. Â Fancy Hands, a company I’ve sung the praises of, is continuing its offer to negotiate a lower rate with your cable bill–for free. I tried it and I wasn’t able to get a discount (because I just started a new cable plan and …
Read More »The Most Bad-Ass Airline Safety Officers Ever
Would it make you safer to know that your in-flight safety officer can break plates with her bare-hands, handle a weapon, and subdue and escort an unruly passenger off the plane? These are some of the requirements for women at Chengdu East Star Airlines Travel College. According to Rocket News, this school: …
Read More »Food Blogger Banned From Restaurant for Writing a Review
When John Golden of The Golden Dish went to eat at The Honey Paw restauarant in Portland, Maine, the owner gave him two options–he could eat at the restaurant or he could write about it–but not both. Finding this “request” odd, the food critic reviewed the restaurant anyway, giving it a very positive review. Turns …
Read More »It’s All Fun and Games Until the Robot Pees on Everything
Google Maps has been crowd-sourcing small details to their maps for a while. Â Things like, where large patches of grass are, bike trails, small streams, etc. If you wanted to make an edit to the map, it would be vetted by someone, usually not employed by Google, who was also …
Read More »Airplane Has Near-Miss with Set of Skydivers
Here’s a video that had me holding my breath. Â An airplane swerved a little too far and came within inches of clipping a set of skydivers. Yikes! The poster mentions in the comments that there’s a video on YouTube where the jumper had something similar happen, but wasn’t as lucky. …
Read More »Delta Cancelling Smaller Percentage of Flights than American, Spirit
American Airlines cancelled 3.1% of its flights so far in 2015, over twice the percentage of Spirit Airlines. Delta only cancelled 0.7% of its flights, and Alaska only 0.3%. Dallas News dissected the details, based on this data from the Department of Transportation. Spirit also lost way less bags per …
Read More »When a Daily Deal Isn’t a Deal at All
I saw a daily deal for a restaurant my friend’s been wanting to go to. Before sending it to my friend, I checked out the website and was glad I didn’t pass the “deal” on. This was the Living Social deal I saw: $30 for a prix-fixe dinner or …
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