Introduction I’m sure you’ve heard in the news and whatnot of people having their numbers ported out from T-Mobile to another carrier. I, like many people, assumed, “Oh this probably won’t happen to me.” Well, it happened to one of my readers. His SO’s phone number was ported out to another carrier, and the person […]
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 […]