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TOP PICKS
Top picks are not excerpted at all. I recommend you find time to read every word!
This story just stuck with me. How can someone die all alone and two years go by and nobody looks for him? Even after the internet mobilizes to find who he was! Also, maybe my readers can help crack this case, now THAT would be worth the free labor here over 8 years!
A Nameless Hiker and the Case the Internet Can’t Crack
You can sit back and watch in horror this unfold. And how it all turns…red 🙁
Total COVID cases since June 1
MILES & POINTS
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It is amazing to watch the switch from “free travel” to just “eat free” from the banks: COVID Credit Card Enhancements Ultimate Guide. No end in sight…
Speaking of eating free lol: Chase Sapphire Cards Temporary Enhancements: 2x/3x On Grocery; Travel Credit Additional Options.
I think banks just mix up the exact same categories every year, zzzzzz. Discover Announces 5% Categories For Entire 2021.
Some of you burned miles to fly to Hawaii, cough. But how is this new required testing process? Well, here is a post from someone who just did it: Pre-Testing Program in Hawai’i: There Has to Be a Better Way. I got a headache reading it, they must improve this as it is so ridiculous. And more importantly…I can see assholes gaming it. And some of these assholes will be infecting others smh.
Check THIS link to see if you were targeted by United to earn some bonus miles.
I am sticking this link here as it applies to travel businesses, without them there would be no miles & points for us you know. From the Wall Street Journal’s Middle Seat column: How Coronavirus Ravaged Travel in 2020. Sorry it is behind a paywall. Article shows the deep devastation…
The six biggest U.S. airlines have experienced losses nearly twice as big as inflation-adjusted losses those same airlines, including their merger partners, had after 9/11.
In April, Cirium counted 15,500 airplanes grounded world-wide. That was 60% of the fleet identified at the time. As of Tuesday, the number of stored or parked jets was 9,341, or 31% of the world-wide fleet.
Cirium counted 40% of all passenger wide-bodies—planes with two aisles—as stored or parked. Only 20 Airbus A380 superjumbos are in service; Cirium counts 219 parked or stored.
The bottom line: Travel is one-third of what it used to be.
U.S. hotel occupancy was at 48% in the week ending Oct. 24, according to STR…Airline occupancy was 48% in the third quarter.
The number of tickets sold to corporate customers by travel agencies was 85.3% lower than a year earlier for the week ending Nov. 1…
TRAVEL
If you wanted to learn more about the Banda islands and nutmeg, this is the post for you: Banda: The Secret Island of Nutmegs.
Intriguing: Pragovka: The Story of Prague’s Abandoned Praga Car Factory.
Do you need a break from following the US Election results? How about bookmarking Falcon Cam? You can watch a falcon…if you catch him at the right time that is. Not sure why I posted this in the Travel section, maybe because I feel like flying away or something.
Wonderful post about a world region we don’t see much from: A Local’s Tour of Asturias, Spain’s ‘Natural Paradise’. After a decade spent living abroad, a photographer returns to her homeland — and revels in the breadth of its beauty.
Have you ever wondered what is the most valuable export of each country? Well, now you know. You are very welcome. Link has more detailed maps.
I knew La Paz was high but not THAT high, wow! The 50 Highest Cities in the World.
COVID-19
WE had a 100,000 plus positive Covid cases this week, the horror, the horror. But be assured your President is focused…as he tweets FRAUD and files lawsuits to overturn 53 ballots LOL.
Just imagine if we had a unified message that Masks Work. Really, We’ll Show You How.
I think we are all tired dealing with this virus. More lockdowns again in Europe: Covid Fatigue on the Continent.
Some big changes underway, especially in the real estate market and company work environments. “Tech Workers Are Never Going Back to the Office”: The Pandemic Housing-Market Explosion Could Upend Silicon Valley as We Know It. Someone I know left New York City and will be going to Honolulu for several months. I guess he thought that “Work From Home” was really “Work From Honolulu” 🙂
How is flying from Hong Kong to Shanghai? After you read this you can easily tell how more serious the Chinese are in fighting this virus than us: 2020: A COVID Quarantine Odyssey.
PERSONAL FINANCE
This will eventually catch up with us…some day. Charting America’s Debt: 27 Trillion and Counting. Should we all thank Trump who all alone managed to fix it? Lol
CURRENT EVENTS/POLITICS
We must never forget who this guy is: Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes.
And compare him to this guy okay? This Is Joe Biden When No One Is Watching. Wow, emotional story.
This is very funny. The infamous Hitler parody video: “Stop the Vote Count”.
Update: Editing some typos in the post as of 6.45 am on Friday November 6 and we are still counting ballots with Biden so so close. Insane election, wow!
ODDZ & ENDZ
If you are tired of listening to music, how about something like this instead? Online Background Noises. And…you can mix them up!
Deeper article about autonomous cars, cities, design and stuff like that: The Self-Driving Car Is a Red Herring.
If you are interested in this topic, there is a LOT of info here! I am Aubrey Cottle a.k.a. Kirtaner. I am the founder of the hacker collective “Anonymous”. Yes. Really. Ask me anything.
This is so neat: Various First Words. From new tech devices.
The first words spoken on YouTube, 2005: Alright, so here we are in front of the elephants.
Jeff Bridges, the dude, reveals he has cancer in an especially touching way.
Some amazing Random And Fascinating Facts About Our World You Might Not Have Heard Of by UberFacts. My favorite to trigger the originalists…whatever.
This is very interesting: Which Countries Have the Most Internet Users?
I may have posted this one before. If I did, complain to management, cough. The Winners Of The First Annual Aerial Photography Awards.
Wait, I have one more, enjoy: The Best Panoramic Pics Of The 2020 EPSON International Pano Awards.
Ok, I am on a roll now. Do you fear squirrels? Well, I could be doing a stupid clickbait post like this but I don’t! Oh, if you do fear them I suggest you go to Hawaii then! Source.
![r/dataisbeautiful - Squirrel to Human Ratio by State [OC]](https://i.redd.it/6mffnoxsbuw51.jpg)
BLOG BUZZ
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.
And the beatings continue with this hobby: Wow: Emirates ending First Class awards w/ partner miles in April. I never got to have one so am I really an expert? I just think of all the bloggers who would not be able to sell travel rewards credit cards by posting “Look at me in the shower, you can do this for free, only if you click on 69 of my travel rewards credit affiliate links”.
In the meantime, Delta has made SkyMiles an afterthought for its own members who think burning their Skymiles for a round trip to Disney for 50,000 miles is a great deal smh. Oh, I am still waiting!
If you ever thought joining one of these: Is a buyers club a good idea for you? Caution is suggested, be very careful. Many in this hobby/business got burned by The Plastic Merchant mentioned in the story. But hey, they probably took a shower in an Emirates flight at least, sad lol.
I don’t post many pics of my face online. Now if I was a travel influencer like this guy…maybe I would. LOL. Scroll up a bit in the link to find out.
The most tabloid like pathetic clickbait headlines and posts are by far by View From The Wing. I had a really hard time to pick the winner between these two:
Despite Elite Status, Playboy Playmate Kicked Off Southwest Airlines Over Revealing Outfit
Fight at the Las Vegas Airport!
I would be so embarrassed if my kids ever saw a post like that here by me…
Yeah, the voting is slow. But I think there is a particular beauty in the whole process that just shows how cherished is the act of voting. You participate in choosing the ones who will govern you. Peacefully. I always vote. I am one of those people who spends a lot of time researching the candidates and their positions on the most important issues. We now let the votes be counted, let the system work! And I am shocked (and glad) we have not seen much violence…yet. Oh, as I have warned here, Trump will never concede and will not leave…
I did not sleep at all on Election night. I owe my body a night’s sleep, hopefully I make it up this weekend.
Been a while since I had a song recommendation here:
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Get Up, Stand Up
And I leave you with this…
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Another weekly masterpiece, Buzz. You give us a lot to unpack.
Europe is in really deep water with COVID, and I am hearing that we are a few weeks away from joining them. Hard rain’s a gonna fall.
Looks like our favorite President is done. Have a good weekend.
Sure looks like Trump is going back to TV…Georgia may end up as close as Florida 2000.
Now it is time to run up the score…to leave no doubt the guy is a LOSER.
Expect the worst from Trump. He is not leaving. Grab your popcorn.
Greece taking the res of November off, to open in December. They did ONE thing right…and then they phucked it up too, sad!
Thanks for the kind words.
Enjoy the weekend, 70 degrees here!
Welcome to the post-election world.
I had my first zoom conference yesterday. I’m thinking of a 27″ screen. There were only 12 participates so the 3×4 layout worked on the portable. Barely.
Thanks for the weekend reading!
If I had a dollar every time I checked election results since Tuesday night!
Enjoy the weekend.
George, since you said in the comments in the other thread that you contributed to Harrison’s campaign in SC: they ran some of the weirdest ads I’ve ever heard. Charlotte doesn’t usually get a ton of SC political advertising but we did this time around on account of all the money poured into that race, and Harrison ran ads against some obscure right-wing third party candidate. Apparently what happened is this guy dropped out and endorsed Graham, but was still on the ballot so Harrison ran attack ads against him saying that he’s just too conservative hoping that voters would vote for the 3rd party instead of Graham.
Obviously it didn’t work but it was at least an interesting idea.
I knew donating will open my inbox to a brutal assault. But this guy was WAY out of line…I should have donated my money somewhere else, he had no chance against Lindsey. They need to find better candidates to run against these lifers. You know, like astronaut Mark Kelly!
Just to update you: we never went to Athens… the risk of getting stuck there with Germany shutting down was too big 🙁 Some other time, this time with you as a guide!
I am surprised you held out for so long.
I transferred my Marathon entry to next year. Hopefully I can run it assuming it is still going to be held of course.
Wow! Lots of great stuff to read and look at, as per usual. Best email of the week, always! Thanks as always, George! Hopefully by the next email we will know for sure that Biden will be President!
What a crazy election.
Looking at Arizona results…just saw this happen, up for Biden:
1,579
1,586
1.585
1,587
fighting for every vote
let freedom ring 🙂
Win is a win.
In-Mail voting might be a the biggest fraud but there is no other choice. Covid changed everything.
Mail in is fine. ALL of Washington state does Mail-in and it works great without fraud or problems.
Probably won’t be an option in R-states in 2022.
Overall, I think it’s fantastic that the turn-out was historic. And R should finally realize that greater voter participation doesn’t mean that D will win. Make it easier for EVERYONE to vote! We can get to 70% participation.
Why not 80%+?
Trump crying fraud is like the ultimate sad ending of a dark chapter in the nation’s history, sad!
Anyway, it is not over yet until it is declared over…Just saw a 200 vote swing for Trump in PA!!
I’m totally for pushing to 100% however there is a big difference when you go in person and have to identity yourself and legally confirm who you are versus sending a mail. How do you know who really voted? We just need better technology to enable this way of voting.
Yeah but…then you get them hackers wreaking havoc…
The way we do it works fine. It can be slow and frustrating at times. But it works. We just need to be patient here. It should have never been that close but it is. Amazing Trump got more votes than 2016.
Don’t buy the fraud crap. It is like hydrochorline or whatever the phuck that was. Nothing will come out of this to change the outcome. And they know it…they are just trying to justify it for his big head.
No speech it appears from Biden tonight. I agree with this, it is just too early, so many votes to be counted out there.
if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
And yes, if there ever turns out to be systematic fraud, fix it.
I assume that Florida has fixed the pregnant chad problem from 2000.
I would love to pick a brain of a trumpist just to understand how they see this “massive fraud” working. Just how? Don’t they think if that had been possible, Russia would’ve already done it? And not for Biden, for phuck’s sake.
There is a good reason they’re so terribly vague about it. There is no widespread mail voting fraud. Non-widespread either. It’s extremely rare. People mailed in their votes for 150 years with no fraud allegations until Trump decided that mail-in voting wouldn’t work in his favor, so sanity be damn.
Pathetic.
Yeah…
It is Saturday morning at 7 am and this thing is not called yet!
And Mark Meadows got corona and the mfer kept spreading it…
Since the voting stopped, we have had two elegant Presidential speeches by Biden and a horrific tantrum by the phucking moron…
Hope we get to January 20 in one piece…
Hey George, thanks for another great weekend of reading. …Georgia, sweet Georgia…
The irony is so poetic.
Here in AZ we’re keeping our fingers crossed. And recreational cannabis finally passed by a healthy margin. Maybe we can finally start getting into the heart of this venerable plant and give it the respect it has always deserved.
I have a friend in AZ who is working with doctors and scientists as they believe they are getting closer to perfecting a cannabis formula that will cross the blood brain barrier, with the goal of trying to reverse the effects of brain damage.
Have a great weekend, best to the family!
Targeting the brain is very challenging. So challenging that most big pharma companies shut down most of their R&D in that space. BILLIONS have been lost. Even the main drug target to treat Alzheimer may be wrong (beta-amyloid, hello Biogen!). Related to your story, consumption of tobacco (nicotine) activates nicotine receptors and was thought to impact depression and other neurological disease. So, RJR noticed this and started a biotech company called Targacept. That company burnt $$$ and failed to develop an FDA approved drug. As happens very, very frequently in the biotech space. If I had a dime for every “promising drug”, I would make more than TBB does here!
Thanks for the education on this stuff guys, much appreciate it.
I have two new weed shops near me. And there are other several business in Ann Arbor. Saw an ad on Tuesday: “Going to be a long night, we can help, we deliver”…
Thanks to the reader who got a Freedom Flex with my links. And the ones using my CSP referral link too.
This blog is still alive…
There are so many techies WFHing in Hawaii that two who work for a very well-known company had just gotten off of their daily morning zoom meeting (reminder note to your “acquaintance”: this means getting up extra-early in HI), plowed into each other’s rental cars at an intersection in Maui on their way to pick up lunch post-meeting.
This work-from-home norm (until at least July, anyway) allows for some very creative interpretation. Providing we live as COVID-safely as possible, it seems our geographic locations are limited only by our imaginations…and good wifi.
Wow, small world indeed.
Yeah, I wish I was that young to do the same!
They missed Cuzco in that list of elevated cities. It would’ve had the 2nd place — 3,400 meters. I remember that feeling after I disembarked, like a fish pulled out of water.
You’re a worse pimp than TPG.
“please use my REFERRAL link, thank you! Offer ends November 7 tomorrow!”
You know perfectly well the offer doesn’t end November 7. Maybe your affiliate link has to be removed then. Shameless, misleading your readers for a buck.
Lol.
Complaint was assigned to the Resolution Department. We will fix it when we get to it.
I am sorry for your loss.
Biden MAGAfans!
Happy as h-e-double-hockey-sticks to see social distancing has been canceled!!
Most have masks on. The ones who don’t probably had the virus already lol.
Still better than White House spreading events 🙂
But the drums and dancing around the drums…that gets me. It is like so Antifa like woohoo.
Anyway, I am really happy today. Only 75 more days to deal with the worst human ever alive…this is a good development for USA, the world and humanity.
P.S. Note to Rams: It is okay man, Biden is not a socialist. He is not even a pedophile. Relax! Things will be fine.
When I announce the multi million dollar sale of my blog you can bet anything that it will be at a Four Seasons Hotel and not at a landscaping business!
Oh the incompetence…it will be so missed…NOT!
Huh? Who who who? Don’t be so damned cryptic! Come on man!
OMFG. Just caught up with the news.
#Winning lolololololol
Is that next to the p0rn shop?
Remember all that Greek drama and high interest rates during the financial crisis.A decade later Greek 3-year yields are negative. Great job turning the corner Greece!
Yes, very, very sad. As the pandemic escalates at a frightening pace the president is out on the golf course. Pathetic whiner.
Guys, I still can not get over the Four Seasons thing…bwahahahaha
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1325566575387291652
FYI: Next week’s MAGA meetup has been moved to the Mandarin Oriental Szechuan Buffet
Lol
BREAKING: The blog will be renamed Travel Blogger Total Landscaping Buzz.
Please send money for “legal” fees 😉
Hunter Biden blackmailed the Pfizer CEO not to release the vaccine results before the election. It is all in the emails in his laptop. WAKE UP AND DO YOUR RESEARCH!
Bwahahhahahahaha
Political Science dissertations will have their hands full for the next several years, exploring the timeless question: is it better to be fired via tweet or in a parking lot next to a dildo shop
From Four Seasons Total Landscaping to the Ritz!
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1325824833922490370
I am starting to fear…a devaluation of Chase’s Ultimate Rewards points now…
75k Chase Ink Cash
75k Chase Ink Unlimited
Oh, and 70k United Explorer
I have more material than any other post to date for this Friday and it is only going to get bigger!
When TPG buys this TBB I am going to hold my press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping….bwahahahahaha.
Hey Ramsey, type this in your browser:
Loser.com
U mad bro? Classy way to lose…NOT!
Thanks Biden, already working on our 401ks woohoo!
If he could just issue an executive order that makes 401k available to all workers.
Obama did but Trump just couldn’t handle that.
I have some excellent stuff coming on Friday’s post…will be yuuuuge!
Lawn and Order!
We’ve reached peak stupidity
“ND gov, Burgum announced that the state health officer has amended an order that will allow health care workers with asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 to continue working in hospitals’ COVID-19 units.”
https://www.grandforksherald.com/newsmd/coronavirus/6753876-With-North-Dakota-hospitals-at-100-capacity-Burgum-announces-COVID-positive-nurses-can-stay-at-work
While the phucking moron loser is playing golf and tweeting the same old deranged shit…
If we can make it to January 20 we would be all right…
Rams and Ingy are so silent…they must be helping out uncovering the fraud of almost 200k dead and illegal immigrants who voted for Biden…LOL
I think I’ve finally figured out Dan’s 3/10 rating of Trump’s performance. Thats how many of us would have to be dead under 45’s herd immunity ‘plan.’
https://twitter.com/wccoradio/status/1326516993818759168?s=20
We need to stay alive in the next two months before sanity returns…
I have a cousin in Greece who keeps reminding me that Trump can still kill us all, sad lol.
Tomorrow’s blog post is the longest ever. And the best to date. I name names not like other bloggers who will not say a bad thing about their fellow greedy Boarding Area bloggers and instead find any way they can to link to them…in the meantime, harming their own readers.
I am triggered…
Hey Rams, you okay bro? Your leader is a losing whiny little bitch…with tiny hands!
Super awesome and long post coming tomorrow at 6.30 am!
Calling names and breaking news and eclectic links as usual.
Je suis TBBuzzzzzzzzzzzz