We bring you a warning about the numerous Amazon pump day posts, an awesome Delphi voyage, best Greek beaches to swim in, the old and new AA search engines, learn about Amazon nomads or resellers, more amazing maps, a story about a serial killer in Indiana, how you want to be a prisoner in Norway of all places, the best travel photography, a fascinating story of how CTRL+ALT+DELETE came about, we go back to my 10th grade memories and lots more for you!
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I try to post at least three times per week. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Last week I almost posted on Thursday and Sunday. All I am saying is it may happen. You just have to come back here often so I can increase the page views which will help graduate this blog to make more money from ads! Oh wait, I make nothing from ads, my bad 🙂
From Friday to Monday, the miles and points blogosphere takes deep breaths so you will likely not find many eclectic posts on the subject here every Monday. It is not me you guys, it’s them (the bloggers).
Lets start with the eclectic journey you come here for…
A great trip report visiting the Delphi area in Greece: Voyage to the Center of the World. I have great memories of my high school field trip back in 10th grade you guys. I have some pictures from it, I should dig them up!
Report from actual reselling from the trenches. I mean, Target and WalMart parking lots to sell on Amazon. Road-Tripping With the Amazon Nomads. Hope you don’t do this for a living, it does not look like too much fun. Or maybe it is, hey we are all different!
Fascinating detailed account how Norway is the best place to go to prison! How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours. Makes sense I guess…but still, so hard to stomach seeing these guys get treated so well! It may take some time before this happens in the US.
AMAZING travel photography by Jordan Hammond.
Here we go with another map: Where half of Australia lives. It will shock you!
Oh, just realized it is Amazon Prime Day. Which could be days. I know you love deals so please use my Amazon AFFILIATE link you guys, thank you. The best writers are not cheap, help me help you 🙂 I am on a pumping mode today or what hey? Sad lol.
Another fascinating link: ORBIS, The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World. For the inner history/geography geek in you. It would take me five days to get from Larisa to Thessaloniki back then…hey, that’s not too bad!
The management of this blog is always thankful to readers who share with me such eclectic links for the benefit of your beautiful eyes!
Did you know that CTRL+ALT+DELETE was a mistake? Well, now you know. Would you rather know that or learn from me my 458th reason I love my ChaseSapphirePreferred card I of course got with my links? #BOOM
Holy mother of God. Well, maybe not the correct thing to shout here. But I had not heard about this greedy murdering bitch before. All kidding aside, if this does not shock you I don’t know what will, okay? Corpses in the Pig Pen: The Tale of Indiana’s Most Notorious Serial Killer.
Greece has a new government, which is an improvement in comparison to the ridiculous morons before it. Maybe they should have offered me the job of Tourism Minister as I have been busting my butt to get you guys to visit and spend some money to get the country finally out of crisis mode! So, here I try again: 8 Incredible Places to Swim in Greece. That last one on the list is in the island of Lefkada, is on my target list because I want to stay at this hotel ever since I saw it! Ionian Blue Hotel. Check out the video. Who needs the Maldives you guys 🙂
Another amazing looking hotel. This one is in Sweden and is opening soon. Its name is Arctic Bath Hotel, how appropriate!
I really enjoyed watching the US women’s national soccer team win another World Cup. I wish they braked after five or six goals against Thailand and not pour it on, oh well. You can’t have everything in life I guess. Here are some awesome Photos of the 2019 Women’s World Cup Champions Victory Ticker-Tape Parade.
We are now entering BLOG BUZZ, a section for advanced hobbyists and veterans of this fast imploding hobby and also a section where I go on and on about some stuff that happens in my life because it helps me feel better about myself.
I think it’s probably best if you also bookmark the old AA search engine site too: American Adds Online Booking For JAL Awards, Roundup Of AA Awards Bookable Online And Links For AA’s Old And New Search Engines.
The first song (all 8 minutes or so) has been playing non stop the past several days in my house.
The Juan MacLean – A Simple Life
Update: It is very early Monday am and the numerous Amazon Prime Day pumping posts have already started, brace yourselves!
First step was to sign up. Done! Detroit Free Press Marathon October 20, 2019. My first one, so help me God!
Found two pics from that field trip to Delphi in 10th grade! Hold the lols please!
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Thank you for the Monday morning post.
The link to history of the magic code for the IBM PC brought back such memories.
Thanks!
Cancelled my Amazon Prime yesterday. Freedom!
Freedom? Freedom to pay for expedited shipping and TV programming and music streaming. You call that freedon, Nick?
I can only imagine the girl on girl hookups going on at that parade gathering.
Nick, you cannot be serious!
Nick stop your whining about the cost of Prime, I just spent 47.2 Billion on a new Trophy Hot Girlfriend.
Ramsey, you cannot be serious?!!!!
Mr. Maples Donuts, you call this a jelly donut, put some jelly in it then, you cannot be serious?
Love the vintage George pics!
Isn’t that the beach you use to take those Northern European girls who were visiting Greece on Holiday each year?
Yes
I would rather not dig out those pics for the sake of us all woohoo!
#metoo
Many low grade comments today. What are we: Burned out marshmallows?
Let’s get some quality back here in the comments. Let’s discuss the important issues of the day. Like:
Whatever happened to the fabricated horse with Ingy that we were going to fly at ‘Dos’?
Guys, I think:
-Ingy is recycling old posts targeting newbies while his boss is blogging about doing 25k MSing per day. What a duo!
-Renes blog is full of Amex/Amazon/Uber affiliate link relentless pumping, spinkled with ‘shocking’ videos with nudity and of course feet on planes, sprinkled with the occasional Delta news from a PR release.
-Is Richard Kerr back at TPG full time. Not confirmed yet. If true, so much for taking a stand for editorial integrity lol.
– I think, just maybe, the US President is a phucking racist!
– This weekend is the Ann Arbor Art Fair DO. The Friday night tradition will continue at my place. Announcement to follow.
– Client meeting yesterday:
Client: We keep hitting new highs, what the hell is going on, how long can this go on?
Me: I don’t know. Nobody does. It will stop when Ramsey gets back in lol.
Client: Who is Ramsey?
Me: You don’t wanna know.
Happy Taco Tuesday everyone!
I think you have TDS. Seems like it from here
Breaking: We made $2.66 on Amazon Prime day yesterday! Watch out, we are roooooolling in the dough!
“I am thrilled to be writing how awesome Marriott’s Bonvoy is for The Points Guy!”
LOL
Thrilled Richard Kerr
Dansdeals promoting diaper deals to Bowflex Home Gym. Whatever sh!t sticks. I can remotely understand promoting things you may use (diapers in the past) but I just don’t seen Dan (or his readers) working that Bowflex. Whatever sh!s sticks.
Selling is HARD!
Makes me think about tech companies looking for VC money in series B/C/D/E and you know your batting average is poor, but you know that you just need to find THAT guy willing to put in a few millions to keep things going for another year or two. And since we live in a new world order where money is more or less (Neg interest rates) you just have to look hard enough to find that crazy guy willing to set a few millions on fire. Cause In this brave new world the thinking is that I’ll make 30-50X on the next FB/GOOGL/UBER and for every google there are 20-30 However, FB have stifled competition. It’s a monopoly.
Buffett used to say “You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.”
I say do your due diligence, especially in the tech space.
Buffet. You mean Jimmy?
Wastin’ away.
Not surprised that Kerr ended up back at TPG (particularly given that I guess AwardWallet acquired his site some time ago… at that point, I guess you just follow the money). It’s a shame, though, this consolidation of voices.
In hindsight, I wonder how differently this space would look right now if Boarding Area had been able to mobilize itself as a counter-weight to TPG. You would think they had (maybe even still have?) the content power and influence to make something… the fact that at this point it just seems to be an aggregation service (with loose standards) that manages tech and advertising just seems like a wasted opportunity.
My take is that Boarding Area is standing tall on the power of their bloggers, especially VFTW and OMAAT. If either of them starts to wobble, make sure your seatbelt is fastened, low and tight around you waist.
If Richard Kerr couldn’t convert 60,000 Facebook members into a business, that tells me a lot about FB.
But from a reader perspective, you barely realize VFTW and OMAAT are part of Boarding Area. All these sites operate as individual kingdoms, which just seems counterproductive. It may be a great technical service to the bloggers, but I fail to see much utility to readers.
And loading the BA homepage is just a frustrating user experience — an endless stream of tiles of posts, many of which seem like filler posts, many of which aren’t in English (great to host intl blogs, not helpful on an english language home page). I don’t know why anyone would load it.
There are still great blogs out there (many that thankfully posting at a more tolerable pace) — it just seems like they would be stronger better supporting each other.
Your points are not caaual, they are great.
Randy seems content to host blogs and keep 50% of what they make. Different business model. Seems to be working for him as he just bought another ranch. Not sure what the plan is as far as succession. I thought more would exit to join Mommy Points but it has not happened…yet.
I value your observations. Any blogs that in your opinion deserve a spot in my lists?
Maybe that’s all BA knows how to do, and they (BA and the lead bloggers) have made a big enough pile of money to not get too upset over TPG.
Ben at OMAAT still puts out more actionable content than the whole TPG site, unless you’re looking for how to beat the rope drop on Magic Mountain or what to do about the guy in the middle seat’s farts.
You’re both probably right that BA feels content to stay in its lane. And I assume there are special arrangements with Gary/Ben that complicate things. Randy deserves a lot of credit in this hobby and I hope he gets as large a ranch as he wants. But BA’s opportunity to have a role in this space — and serve as a counterweight — is going to evaporate. Why couldn’t BA develop its own TPG Affiliate Network? What wasn’t Insiderflyer/MP better nurtured?
If you’re just going to host a blog there are plenty of options for < $100/yr.
Richard was all about ‘ I am leaving because they took my anti Marriott post down and I have principles”. I even fell for it and congratulated him. Even asked him to do a guest post and was willing to pay his high fee!
You should read some comments from the Executive Editorial director ( they all have ridiculous titles!) on the RK announcement…Things like:
TPG is about trust (LOL!!!!)
If we have a negative post abt a company…we let them know first but in no way we let them edit what we write (only forbid us to post it)…AMAZING BS KOOLAID they all drink there!
So, who is next to join TPG…site is branching out to be an Amazon sales machine like DansDeals:)
Ha, you’re right. I’m sort of amazed they are permitting that discussion in the comments to begin with.
And I’m changing my guess to TIF.
My guess is Pointchaser. Today she wrote her first piece for Business Insider pumping numerous affiliate cc links for, u guessed it, The Points Guy Network. Maybe she goes there and Ingy buys her site to tell us all how credit is the most important asset LOL!