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This is going to be a short post. As you are reading this, we are saying goodbye to the home my mother lived in for the past 45 years. It is, well, a very emotional day as I am wrapping up my stay in my hometown Larisa in Greece. Where it is hot as hell by the way. Next post will be from the Thessaloniki Hyatt on my way to Vienna aboard Austrian Airlines business class, overnight at the Moxy Vienna airport hoping to avoid being #Bonvoyed and then time to enjoy that amazing coffee many miles/points hobbyists have been raving about aboard Austrian Airlines business class on my way to Chicago. I missed my family and air conditioning so much lol.
The breakout link of the day is from a podcast interview by Brian Kelly, the dude known as The Points Guy. Thanks to the reader who sent in the very interesting link in my blog’s comments. If only the sell out prices for blogs were for comments and not for credit card conversions LOL.
The Points Guy on Affiliate Marketing, Partnerships & Maximizing Travel
The transcript of the interview
Just a few thoughts: He sold out for 8 figures, so around say $15 million dollars. Hey, it is capitalism. And then again you read the transcript and I held myself back numerous times from barfing…Maybe one day I do my incendiary commentary on all the BS that was mentioned. And the interviewer makes Larry King look like a really tough interviewer woohoo! But I don’t have the time, mother comes first right now.
Lets move on…
It looks like 85 Alila luxury hotels will start joining World of Hyatt in the next few days. I expect them to cost a lot of points. And that my friends makes credit card pumping bloggers very excited. Because they can push the credit cards hard to stay for freeeeeeee! World of Hyatt credit card anyone? Thanks for the support by the way, it was a good month for conversions with my links too. I keep going…I think.
Unique indeed! 9 amazing hotels that used to be prisons, banks, theaters, and more.
Fascinating Twitter thread: “Biggie was only 22 when he released “Ready to Die.” I just can’t get over that. Name a genius-level album released at a young age that has you shaking your head in disbelief.”
Another fascinating link, if only it was peppered with sneaky affiliate links selling you the ChaseSapphirePreferred card lol: A Visual History of the Largest Companies by Market Cap (1999-Today).
Wait, I have more fascinating stuff for you today! This is how the most popular social media networks have changed over time. Anyone remember Friendster? Myspace?
I don’t post moronic clickbait videos. But this is a video you should see! Giant Squid, Phantom of the Deep, Reappears on Video.
Amazing photo from the TV tower in Berlin:
Another awesome post at The Visual Capitalist: Visualizing U.S. Energy Use in One Giant Chart.
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.
There has now been two links from Doctor of Credit to posts at Traveling For Miles about a plagiarizing blogger and things of that sort. Anyone caught what went down?
I thought I had seen it all at The Points Guy. Nope, this was an actual post. Shaking my head uncontrollably…
The Prettiest Credit Cards, Ranked
Great salesmen create a sense of urgency. Like posting “LAST CHANCE” again and again. And again…Like View From The Wing:
Last Chance: 70,000 Miles for Citi AAdvantage Business Card Offer Ending
And I leave you with this…Super funny….wait, maybe super creepy….noooo, super funny. Ok, I am torn!
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First from one of the shithole countries.
Hang in there, amigo!
Try the sacher tort when in Wien.
HAPPY BASTILLE DAY EVERYONE
You are a good son.
When running the install script for a wordpress site, this is the default setting in the Bio section…
“How are you traveling on your personal time in first class?” And my friends were like, “Dude, you’ve got to share these tips in a blog.”
A long post that Travelling for Miles wrote on Qatar Qsuite routes was posted on Inside Flyer US. Literally copied word for word, apart from the opening paragraph. Inside Flyer UK then copied it from Inside Flyer US.
Travelling for Miles when did a ‘WFT?’ post. The first responder was Gary who said, bizarrely, that ‘it was a great new feature introduced to help BA bloggers increase their revenue’. This was news to Travelling for Miles.
(It isn’t clear if ‘increasing their revenue’ is meant to be from a hat-tip in Inside Flyer article. IF, of course, picks up the ad revenue from the post and – unless they annotate their post in a certain way – will drain Google search juice from the original on TFM.)
Another BA blogger who I don’t know then also chimed in to say that an article he wrote had been ‘borrowed’ by Inside Flyer US.
All very odd. I can see how IF could make a case for republishing material from other blogs which don’t have much of a reach. There are plenty of articles others write that I would happily pay £100 to republish. However, to do it without actually asking or telling them – especially as Randy has always said that bloggers retain the copyright of what they put onto BA – is bizarre.
… or even a ‘WTF?’ post 🙂
Please translate the above comments into English.
Inside Flyer has started (re)publishing articles from Boarding Area bloggers without asking their permission.
Laughing all the way to the bank!
Kelly and that stock investor clown, Ramsey
Happy Citi meltdown day.
5/24 is Chase meltdown day and 6/24 is Citi meltdown day?
Yeah…don’t know what to make of the Citi news.
Even in the premium cards.
Are they doing some sort of revamp something? Weird. They should have just hooked up with Brian Kelly like those at Chase did 🙂
Only at Tesco UK
https://twitter.com/tesco/status/1143449559722594306?s=21
Went 90% cash and 10% gold today……………so please feel free to do that wacky Voodoo Twitter rants that only you can do to drive down the market so I can get back in……………your pal Ramsey.
HT: Miguel the Don Taco Restaurant Rat
Mother is settled in her new digs. With her old roommate, very touchy to see two old ladies hug each other crying that we were together again after five weeks.
Family home is no more. Cleaned it out today and surrendered the keys. After 45 years. It felt…weird. At the same time it felt so liberating you can not imagine!
A huge weight is off our shoulders and this arrangement is the best solution for my mother.
I am ready to party but I am so exhausted that I may just drop…
And I need to pack. Tomorrow morning the return to the US begins. And I am going to enjoy it a whole lot….
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