Jeanne Marie Hoffman

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Ryanair’s New Model: Bring Your Own Toilet Paper?

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Ryanair passengers encountered a crappy situation when they realized something important was missing off their Murcia-London–toilet paper. According to MyFoxNY: The flight took off before cabin crew admitted to the passengers that the handling agents had failed restock the bathrooms. The warning provoked a mild panic throughout the airborne plane. …

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Woman Flying to Rochester Ends Up in Barbados

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A woman was flying to Rochester through JFK from Oakland, but instead ended up on a direct flight to Barbados from Oakland–with no passport or boarding pass. From Road Warrior Voices:  Hussainzada had been visiting her daughter in Oakland, Calif. and was scheduled to fly home to Rochester after a …

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Will We Have Pilot-less Planes in the Near Future?

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Google has been working on driver-less cars for a while, with a pretty good success rate. Now they’ve set their sights on flights. According to Bloomberg:  The chief of Google Inc.’s experimental cargo-drone program wants to see automated flight go beyond pilotless planes and extend to commercial air travel. Just …

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Great Sale on SD Cards Today

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After my brand new computer died a fiery pretty non-eventful death, I decided to invest in a cheap Chromebook just in case.  One thing about Chromebooks is you rely heavily on SD cards for storage, so I was poking around Amazon looking for cards.  Then saw a set significantly less than …

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Find the Cheapest Drinks Near You, Stat

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A friend and I were just out to drinks and confessed we always try to snag happy hour at our favorite restaurants. This made me think about my favorite app.  Happy Hour by GoTime. Available on both Droid and Apple The app will look around you and tell you where all the cheap drinks …

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JetBlue Allowing Free Streaming On-Board for Amazon Prime

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Most airlines don’t let you stream videos on the in-flight internet.  JetBlue does, but for a fee.  Which isn’t so bad since their WiFi is typically free. But they just offered a change in policy that’s pretty awesome. From the Consumerist: There’s now another option for people using Amazon’s instant …

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