We keep on partying after hearing the news of United’s CEO Smisek getting fired, we take time for an MS inventory, clap about the new Citi Offers coming, we learn where to eat the 10 best burgers, go inside the Son Doong Cave in Vietnam, waste money in the Four Seasons Private Jet and then learn of the best places to travel alone.
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Blogosphere exploded in pure ecstasy with the news of United’s CEO Jeff Smisek getting fired. The only surprise is why in the name of the Lord this took so long! DansDeals has the proper eulogy and appropriate ending in: “Good riddance Mr Smisek!”
Taking a manufactured spend inventory by The Free-quent Flyer. Some really good advice here along with links to great posts on the subject…
Citibank appears to be on a “eat Amex’s cake” roll lately. The bank is now planning to roll out Citi Offers according to Out and Out.
6 secrets to flying first class for free by CNN. If you thought our hobby is really low key, well you are…WRONG! #somanyTitans
Can someone confirm this? American Express Personal Platinum Cards – Add up to 5 AMEX GOLD Authorized Users for $45 at Miles Per Day. Stuff you learn every day in The Hobby. Hmmm….
TBB was mentioned at The Gate in a really good article about the perks of premium travel. But TBB policy now says we don’t link to blog posts that feature links to Blogs To Ignore. Hey, it’s my blog and TBB Board sets these moronic policies! Thanks for the mention!
10 Best Awesome Burgers Across America. Ann Arbor’s own Frida Batidos made the list!
Dive Into ‘Infinity’ With Dizzying Views of A Colossal Cave. The video shows the gigantic size of the Son Doong cave in Vietnam.
The Four Seasons Private Jet Experience. Starting at $106k per flight, WTF!
The Top Ten Downsides of Financial Independence & Early Retirement. At sexhealthmoneydeath. God, love the name of this blog lol! This is a must read if you are interested in the subject. At the end of it the author takes a shot at jaded gurus, such as:
Mr Money Moustache. Mr Positivity himself, riding his bike through the streets of Longmont Colorado with nary a care in the world, the sun shining, the air crisp, and all’s well in the world. That’s because his blog’s generating a six figure income.
Financial Samurai. So caught up in your blog that you start to talk about really capitalising it into a global venture. There’s another word for that. “Work”.
Travel Bloggers: What they do might not be work, but reading their output often is. [LOL, my favorite!]
Dave Ramsey: if you mention the financial advice to be gleaned from the Bible once more, I will personally fly to Nashville and force feed it to you.
I Asked 12 Scientists: What Is The One Fact Humanity Needs To Know? This is for the inspiration part of the TBB Mission!
The Best Places to Travel Alone
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Even more hilarious than the title of the blog sexhealthmoneydeath is the byline “The Four Horsemen of the Middle Aged Apocolypse.”
The reason the post “The Top Ten Downsides of Financial Independence & Early Retirement” is so hilarious is that the downsides are really true. I myself have put on 20 pounds since retirement because the cocktail hour becomes somewhat extended after retirement. The extra glass or two or wine a day really adds to the caloric intake over time. Also, my recently retired husband has started brewing beer and it is really excellent. This has compounded the problem.
Not to stir the pot, but I suspect that Ingy fell prey to some of these downsides after he sold his blog. He put a lot of time and energy into building it up, and then he lost control of it when he sold. His subsequent behavior after the sale certainly adds credence to the hypothesis that he felt a void after the sale.
Great comment, thank you! I also really enjoyed this article from my colleague about the approach to financial planning than the typical “early retirement” and hardcore “save, save, save, don’t buy that late, save it & after 30 years of not buying that late you can retire blah blah blah”.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolynmcclanahan/2015/09/08/the-end-of-the-world-save-or-spend/
That science article is excellent, reminded me of the less-good-but-still-good piece linked recently by Brad Delong: http://equitablegrowth.org/2015/09/08/must-read-charlie-stross-present-deep-history/
And I’ve decided to try to feel less schadenfreude, so I will say that I hope Jeff Smisek learns lessons and avoids jail.
Harvson3, thanks for pointing out and commenting on the science link. I missed it on my read-through. It makes all the mental bandwidth that we devote to determining our next credit card sign-up seem ridiculous.
The din in the streets of the revelers celebrating Smisek’s demise makes it hard to get anything done today.
Thank you for commenting here and not at Frugal Travel Guy…woohoo!
Tourist dies after 300-metre cliff fall in Norway while having photo taken
http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/tourist-dies-after-300-metre-cliff-fall-in-norway-while-having-photo-taken/ar-AAe4cZI?li=BBieTUX#image=1
Buzz Thank God you made it back from Norway alive!!!
United CEO loses job for paying off the Port Authority of NYC/NJ? This is how business is done there, you want to do anything… open a restaurant at the airport, run a limo service even make improvements to your terminal, you have to pay off people at The Port (even Cops at the Terminal, saw this first hand often). Standard operating procedure and part of the cost of doing business there, it’s a well known fact.
Wow, so tragic!
This NJ thing may have been an excuse to send this guy packing me thinks 🙂
“But TBB policy now says we don’t link to blog posts that feature links to Blogs To Ignore. Hey, it’s my blog and TBB Board sets these moronic policies!”
Thank you for the mention, George, and you are more than welcome for the mention; but you do realize that you violated your own policy with at least one link with this very article…
The policy is set but it was not clarified properly. It applies to blog posts from other blogs in The Hobby, not to mainstream media which, in a way, show how far The Hobby has fallen 🙂
Regarding “6 secrets to flying first class for free by CNN.”
According to Burgess “Qatar fly two 787s out of Copenhagen (to Qatar) a day. There is not that much demand there for the business class seats, so you can get them for £700 ($1,086), which is nothing compared to the cost from London.”
This statement must be purely based on paying cash only (the cost in Avios points and cash from LON isn’t much different than from CPH). I got rock hard until I noticed it’s ~25000 DKK or 3800 USD.
What a fcuking waste of a reader’s time and intellect.
I was misquoted, numerous times, in that CNN article (cool photo though).
However, Qatar has been regularly selling J, for cash, from Copenhagen / Amsterdam / Stockholm / Brussels to Bangkok and elsewhere in Asia for £700-£900 return, depending on the particular sale. Last time was just a couple of weeks ago.
These are astonishing deals – the amazing Qatar 787 J product and 560 BA tier points (so over 90 per cent of the way to BA Silver / oneworld Sapphire) and a big slug of miles. Keep an eye on HFP and I will let you know when they are back.
Shocking CNN misquoting 🙂
Dude, that photo….I feel so honored you post here 🙂
Just wanted to join the roll call.
Great meta blogging, Buzz.
Tired and big heat wave here today, not up to sitting in front of computer to read.
In other news, found phone on sale to use for Google Project Fi, yeah baby !
OK my brain is tired from work, work politics, and so forth.
Cheers, keep up the good work ! ! !
What is meta blogging?
No idea what Google Project Fi is!
My brain is permanently tired 🙂
Thanks.