OK, folks: I am out of here! Wish me luck. And as always, feel free to check my Twitter feed for breaking updates from the field. :-)

OK, so American Express and JetBlue teamed up a little while back with a travel offer of sorts: take any round-trip flight by mid-June and they'd both (a) knock $25 off the purchase price of the flight and (b) kick in bonus mileage points equating to half of a free round-trip flight. "Buy a trip on sale, plus half a trip for free", more or less. ( Read more... )

Ealasaid and I had our first anniversary a couple of weeks ago. Our "paper" anniversary, I guess it's called - though I couldn't think of anything I especially wanted that was made out of paper. "Innumerable twenty-dollar bills", I guess... though I think U.S. currency is actually mostly cotton-based, so that was out ( Read more... )

Hey, out of totally idle curiosity, I wonder where all SwissAir flies? Well, let's just go check out some likely-looking airline route website....


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(Video game information ahoy. If'n you don't care in the slightest, now would be an excellent time to avert your eyes ( Read more... )

Well, I suppose I'm long overdue in revealing the songs behind the lyrics spouted in the memetic post from last week. (As appears to be the style of the times with jus' 'bout everyone who participated in the meme, as best I can tell.) Anyhow, follow the aforementioned link if you're late to the party but still keen on participating; answers ( ( Read more... )

As first seen at beccajoojoo: put your music player on shuffle/random. Post lyrics from the first 20 songs that play (ignore instrumentals!). Have your friends guess the songs - or just marvel at your strange music collection! OK, firing up the Omni-Shuffematic 8000, one moment please....

( Song lyrics ahoy behind the cut. )

OK, party people: off I go for my weekend in Florida! To do... uh, activities to be determined! I guess! Wish me well - and, as always, should you feel the need to cyber-stalk me, I shall be updating the Twitter feed will some regularity from the road.

(Also, happy birthday to mazeyminda! A day late! On account of ongoing suckitude on my part!)

At work, in the common area, there's a collection of sundry fruits, suitable for random folks to nab and nosh on during the day. This is not out of the ordinary. Out of the ordinary, however, is one of the fruits in question: next to the box of bananas and the crate of apples is a single, lonely-looking pineapple.

Who the hell is this for? Who' ( Read more... )

What with the whole JetBlue American Express card that I use for... well, just about every earthly purchase, really, I accrue an ass-ton of JetBlue free flight "points". So much so that it got to the point that if'n I didn't fly somewhere by April, they were going to have one of my free round-trip flights wink away into the aether. That was the ( Read more... )