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Amazon has just rolled out their one hour delivery service in Northern Virginia.  The service, PrimeNow, delivers items to you within an hour for a $7.99 fee, or free within two hour windows. This service is only avaliable for people with Amazon Prime and these fees do not include tips. From …

UberEATS is a new service from Uber, the ride sharing service.  It’s basically an on-demand food delivery service that’s much easier than ordering takeout. From the website: UberEATS delivers food from your favorite local restaurants. With the new UberEATS app, you have access to a broader selection of restaurants and …

Today is Ed of Pizza in Motion’s birthday!  He’s my partner in crime for the #GeekyPizza travel meet-ups.  We look forward to seeing you in a little over a week! Or should I have posted: Either way, in honor of his birthday, here are some recent posts I think are …

Sometimes when we are booking flights, we don’t just want to know what the cheapest flight is.  We also want to know what flights might be upgradable with miles or a RDU/other certificate. This isn’t immediately apparent, so you’ll need to research the fare class and other factors. Luckily, there’s …

This is totally not the Onion and is so New York City. There’s a prophetic/creepy line in the movie Collateral that begins and ends the movie.  It’s not about NYC (it’s about LA), but it touched on the anonymity of city life and how cold it can be there. 17 …

The restaurant I wrote about yesterday contacted me this morning, specifically the manager on duty (who is also a managing partner).  I really appreciate that he reached out to us. He wanted to correct and also confirm some of the things that I wrote about yesterday. First of all, he …

I’ve been taking my niece around to see our favorite sights in the DC area.  One of them was a boat ride by National Ferry.  We had a great time, and a special shout out to Evan on the staff for giving us extra information about all the sights we …

Word on the street is that Amazon is recruiting drivers to deliver a mystery product at midnight on July 31st. No one knows what this product is, and July 31st is approaching pretty quickly.  However, since Amazon usually offers two-day shipping, my guess is they will release this product late next week (July …

I’ve written about an app that will help you figure out if you can get compensation for a flight delay/cancellation. However, with this app, you need to proactively ask about your flights (and remember to do it). There’s a new app in town that will automatically check whether or not …

A robot lawyer?  A 19-year old has created a lawyer-bot that will go to bat for you when you have a parking ticket.  Right now, it only works in New York and London, but he’s quickly working on rolling it out to other cities. The bot, which automatically generates appeal …