Introduction I have a foodie friend here in Seattle who told me about a new popup restaurant named addo. She invited us to the ‘family style seafood’ dinner in January, and it was pretty good. A few weeks later, she told me that Alinea’s Grant Achatz was coming to do a collaboration with addo. Apparently […]
Introduction As you all know, I was banned from Boxed a while back. I tried once to get it unbanned, but hit a brick wall, so I gave up on it. Then the other day, a reader told me he tried to place an order and it seemed he was just magically un-banned. I then […]
Introduction I had written 2016 was the year of reselling and 2017 was the year of GC churning. I know DOC said 2016 was the year of GC churning, but I think that’s when it was still ‘underground’ and every deal was at least break even (most profitable.) In 2017, more people were doing it […]
Introduction I had an overnight layover in LAX en route to Costa Rica and was looking for the cheapest LAX hotel due to the early morning flight the next day. I picked the Hilton since a) it had an airport shuttle and b) it was only 38K points, which I equated to $76 worth of […]
[Update 2/12/18 – Sorry slots have closed.] A few months ago, I started a Slack private chat. A good number of people joined (too many to be honest.) Naturally people wanted to buy/sell/trade in it. To make the Slack a bit safer, I made everyone send me a picture of their ID and let them […]