We bring you a guide to visiting Havana, travel to the best beaches, my dear Fairmont blows up, get a list of all Auto branded credit cards, go underwater to check out a museum, how to shake hands properly around the world, look at some cute cats in Hong Kong shops and more filtering BS for you!
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There will be a Sunday post this week. A “3 Links I Love” type post, I do have four awesome links handpicked for you.
Help is on the way! Son is done with Hong Kong post I need to review/edit. And relative from Greece likes to travel to obscure countries and has sent me a trip report from Kazakhstan which I may break it up in two or three parts. Getting to it! No Vendoming crap, only original stuff makes it here!
We’ll start with something entertaining. Mile Nerd starts answering reader questions. I wonder how I’ll respond if “Secret Perv” and “Bob’s Your Uncle” ever asked me anything lol.
Another post with pro tips for visiting Havana.
List of inventors killed by their own inventions. First, thank you for your contributions. Second, WTF dudes, seriously?
How to properly shake hands in 14 different countries. It is about educating around here too!
Simple Rules of Capitalism, your personal finance fix of the day! Because.Capitalism.Is.The.Best.Of.All.Imperfect.Systems.Out.There!
The best beaches in the world. Lame blogger question: Which one is your favorite? TBB question: Which one did you get laid in?
Europe’s first underwater museum. This is very cool!
Charming portraits of Hong Kong’s Shop Cats. So cute, meow!
BLOG BUZZ
This section is for advanced hobbyists, the ones who think miles & points 24/7…
The worst (expected) fears is that my Fairmont Lifetime Platinum President’s Club ride is over in 2017. So sad…Unless I get all of you to fight back. Naahhh, all deals/rides end #sosad.
And it also looks like the Chase Fairmont Visa is no longer available to new applicants, MAJOR BOO! I got me another $200 in Fairmont gift cards (yes I know the earn on this card sucks, don’t want to get into it, it’s complicated!). So I guess I am down to my last free Fairmont rides stays. I want to cry!
Breaking: Two working links for the Fairmont Visa (Last chance, hurry!)
The 100k Chase Sapphire Reserve offer is still valid only inside Chase bank branches. Me and wife were AGAIN not preapproved…for months straight now, boo! Still two chances in February and March #crossfingers. If you see a blogger selling the 50k CSR offer and keeping mum about the 100k offer at the branch LEAVE that blog immediately because they treat you like a SUCKER! Don’t be one!
If you were thinking about blowing some Hyatt points at the Andaz Peninsula Papagayo in Costa Rica…I was not impressed. Mosquitos love me and getting pooped on by monkeys is just not my thing. It may be for you though.
Award Wallet’s founder reached out to me. This is what they are doing for security. I feel much better about it. I told him I am a fan of the software and I do not like the recent change in direction with the blogging/credit card monetization moves.
This is a great reference link: All the Automobile Manufacturer Branded Credit Cards. Yeah, ask your pumping blogger (looking at you The Points Guy!) why he never mentions the Amex Mercedes-Benz Platinum card huh? What do you mean TBB he does not get paid for this one that gives applicants more points than the one he pumps all the time that pays his company handsomely? THINK!
And I leave you with this…
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George read the terms of use for AW, section 7. If AW’s data gets stolen, they are liable for a max of 100$. So if someone uses the password for your account you stored in AW to book an award for him/herself, the FFP will say ‘why did you give your password away’ and AW will say ‘oops heres a 100$, soooory’. Don’t think the airline will not know you gave your password to AW, since they have logs of AW scraping their site periodically using your account data.
The answer is: 2 factor authentication 🙂
Two factor won’t help you if the hackers get the backend database.
Life’s a bitch, then you marry one, then you pay FOREVER.
Oops, wrong forum! Reset:
Life’s a beach and that is one PATHETIC list. They didn’t even get the best beach on Kauai OR Oahu, let alone the best beach in Hawaii. #Sad
Nor did they get the best beach in Panama. #BiglySad
Different strokes for different folks Buzz but I’ll take skeeters and shitty monkeys ANY day (and twice on Sundays) over this: http://tinyurl.com/jerl895
FYI: http://tinyurl.com/znhmlcm
And so it goes…
+1 on the Hawai’i/Kaua’i beach call.
Not like Im going tell anyone what the best beach is in Kaua’i. I can see people ruining it in my head- Thanks Obama
Not sure what Donald meant by #fakenews but that article is definitely #fakenews
UH grad and was lucky enough to make friends on all the islands. Combine $19 student fares on AQ and $10/day cars @ Avis (internship) and I was able to explore many parts “unknown”. Even (mumble mumble) + years later, some are still “unknown” except to the ohana…
Sometimes I post these lists because I want to express my WTF feelings how in the hell they come up with them! It always invites colorful discussion 🙂
in which Buzz admits he’s an Alexa whore after all… (smile)
loved the dear mile nerd column. really enjoyed it.
The one about Trump was my favorite.
Ben writes:
‘Yesterday we saw the sign-up bonus on the Chase Sapphire Reserve reduced from 100,000 points to 50,000 points upon completing minimum spend, though there’s still one other card that has a 100,000 point sign-up bonus for the time being.’
Isn’t there another card available, via branches, with 100k?
One reason to not read OMaaT.
It’s all about conversions…
Hello from the University of Michigan Hospital. Amazing how tough it is to find a parking spot, WTF, too many dick people!!! Here for a class on how to deal with my ear condition thingie…
sick people…LOL
Good luck with that George. I have a friend with tinitis and it’s been tough.
The class was very interesting, learned a lot. Met some people, someone may organize a support group, oh boy. There were a few who had a REALLY difficult time with it. My case is thankfully not like them. A lot of this is in the mind. May try some meditation and acupuncture just to see what works. I got the exercise thing down. Now if I could only quit alcohol and coffee I would be well ahead in managing this. Or maybe try Ganja yoga woohoo!
How about Ganja Hot Naked yoga?
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did you ask the aw owner about the selling lately?
Yes. Need funds to keep AW work going. I understand it, hard to beat the cc economics. I also told him it dilutes the AW brand and the pressure to develop the cc pumping will only get stronger because, well, dinero! Cant wait for that FTG wallet thingie when every combination had the same recommendation “get these seven cards and apply for them now” LOL
My wife and I were in Hong Kong last year, and saw a couple of cats with rope tethers. We took pictures and joke with people that it’s kind of a choose your own lobster thing…