We learn about the madness of Global Services airline elite status, marvel at pics on the road to North Korea, visit Buzludzha Bulgaria, cry with the TPG reddit AMA session and more!
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The Madness of Airline Elite Status. I wish I had “Global Services Maintenance Anxiety Disorder”. Lol, what a fun read about this darn diabolical marketing genius of Global Services. (HT: Donald H.)
The Concise Guide to Booking Etihad First and Business Class Awards with American Airlines AAdvantage Miles. It involves calling Australia but not ticketing it with them.
The 10 oldest cities in the world. RIP Aleppo #sad
9 Fastest Piloted Planes in the World.
Amazing collection of skyline photography here, WOW!
Pssst…Wanna Invest in a Conspiracy? Your personal finance fix of the day. Take a few moments out of your busy life to read this. It is pure gold. Especially this last paragraph: “The truth is that no one’s in charge, and no one has a damn clue how markets or stocks are going to move. All explanations are post-hoc rationalizations based on intuition and dumb modelling. The only solution is to ignore it all, treat it as noise and focus on the few things you can control. Buy quality as cheaply as you can, diversify heavily and be patient. Everything else is a giant con..”
This is probably one of the best links on North Korea (HT: Doctor of Credit). Road to North Korea by Michael Huniewicz.
Obsessed with Buzludzha, the remains of Bulgaria’s Communist Past. This place always fascinated me, not sure I can make it there before it is not accessible any longer. I had no idea about it when I was in Plovdiv about six years ago in a a weekend trip from Greece with my brother and a friend. Yeah, stick that Hyatt Diamond suite upgrade where you want it, it makes me…yawn!
Yosemite’s “firefall”. Wow.
MILESBUZZ
Well, the marketing machine of The Points Guy, after doing a TEDTalk, starting TPGTV (really??), decided to do a Ask Me Anything reddit session. I am going to let a few bloggers’ posts about the clustercluck that it was. I could expand but I already spent way too much time on this post so please allow me to sneak out from the back. My goal was to expand/rant on this stuff more with emails to subscribers but with tax season in full force my time is limited so thanks for understanding!
Personal Finance Digest: TPG’s “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit was kind of a trainwreck. See my comment and that very sorry comment by one of TPG’s HUGE fan…so sad!
Matt at Saverocity: Thoughts on TPG’s AMA on @reddit
Here is the whole AMA thread, if you are masochistic enough to waste time on it. Lets be more direct with the questions guys!
Delta is so bad but love selling Delta credit cards because…
In the meantime, trying to sneak under the radar, pumping cards with the hideous 40k bonus because it pays them. So when some haters bitch at me for pumping while continuing to link to these mega pumpers praising them….WTF is wrong with YOU…just STFU! There, I feel better. I was a little out of control today….dealing with them Obamacare related tax forms is a major headache wow!
I could go on…but I need to rest my bones..Finished the soccer season champions and undefeated, 7-0-1 yeah baby! Another hardware trophy by my team, please don’t laugh, “Gasping For Air” is our team name.
No wait. I will sign your CSP card anywhere you want if you get it with my links I pump so horribly in every single post, according to a few morons (life would not be so full…without having to deal with morons!). We can do selfies then too! Not sure I get the logic behind this, you have a company full of Millenials and you are bringing in the biggest pusher of credit cards to…what, educate? I wonder how many times CSP came out of his mouth, Jesus! It’s like bringing in a life insurance salesman to educate about…what is the latest product du jour (which will send him/her to a free cruise to Bahamas for smashing certain sales volume goals!). I bet they both vote for Bernie Sanders so they can get CSP cards FREE! Oh wait…
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gawd this blog sux, i’d rather read a titan.
MMS is my screen saver! Not him, Emily!
I enjoy reading this blog, America is all about choices!!
Cheers,
PedroNY
Should be educated choices. But we can’t have everything. So…we FIGHT or whatever….it’s late, the Starbucks barista is trolling me, teasing me about the new rewards program that is…
Wow, I am 2nd. This is a 1st.
Clever
I thought the AMA with TPG was hilarious! Great entertainment value. On the more serious side of it though, there were some very pointed questions that called him out stating facts. Matt’s write up on Saverocity hit the nail on the head.
The blog post tomorrow with “Must Read” label is the one that REALLY hits it on the head!
If you are referring to TPG’s huge fan in the AMA thread, I’m pretty sure that was sarcasm.
I have an agenda 🙂
Hello, Tuesday.
I don’t even know what day it is anymore…
“Still whining after all these years”
Jack-
Is that you?
“Still Crazy After All These Years” was not recorded by Simon and Garfunkel. It was written, recorded and credited to Paul Simon.
This is easy to look up-just like looking up how much a charity spends on “administrative expenses”.
What? You mean do actual research? Don’t do anything that hurts conversions…I mean, who would say no to a wounded warrior #rolleyes
Disorder
The shilling of credit cards every day to irresponsible morons who are deceived by design to increase conversions.
Go back to your whore island.
Love that gif…and the song too!
Simon and Garfunkel
Mega yawn
That Garfunkel was a weird dude.
Boss told me to pimp eero wifi as it is getting tons of good press and wants to beat DansDeals to it for a change!
If you buy it please consider buying it with this link, thank you! I can assure you it pays a mere fraction of one single CSP conversion!
http://amzn.to/1SR7Edk
eero wifi reviews:
http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/23/hands-on-with-eero-or-a-noobs-guide-to-building-an-at-home-wireless-mesh-network/
http://mashable.com/2016/02/23/eero-home-super-charged-wi-fi/#oWUhwFeXniq3
http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/23/eero-is-the-home-wifi-solution-ive-been-waiting-for/
http://www.wsj.com/articles/review-the-end-of-bad-home-wi-fi-1456236474
Nice links, thanks.
Anyone has actually used this? Looks great.
If anyone bought it with the TBB link, taking the intern to Whole Foods, screw Panera! #bonus
http://imgur.com/a/x2zDO
Buzz, is this the work of your intern?
No way, too much talent for a TBB intern lol.
SAS Scandinavian Airlines – $48 (ONEWAY) : Los Angeles – Stockholm, Sweden. Including all Taxes.
Read more: http://www.theflightdeal.com/2016/02/23/sas-scandinavian-airlines-48-oneway-los-angeles-stockholm-sweden-including-all-taxes/#ixzz413OLDCgQ
Thanks for the share of my Buzludzha piece! I’m 2/2 with you and anything Bulgarian Communist related. 🙂
And thanks for the pointer toward TPG’s AMA on reddit. Nice to indulge in some schadenfreude!