In recent years many new fees have been added to enhance our flight experience. Everyone loves paying to check a bag, have a snack, pick a seat or gain a couple of extra inches of space in coach, right?
Now the most surprising fee of all might be coming to American Airlines in mid- March.
According to the Onion, AA will no longer offer free cabin pressurization.
In recent months I’ve posted a couple of quizzes from Buzzfeed which helped us figure out What City You Should Actually Live In and What State Do You Belong In.
I just came across another fun Buzzfeed quiz. This time the quiz will let us know:
While this quiz is geared towards Europeans, I still decided to answer the questions.
Back in January I wrote a post related to a Buzzfeed quiz which told you What City You Should Actually Live In. Afer taking the quiz, I was told that I should live in London (FYI: I was born and have lived in Brooklyn, NY my whole life.)
I recently came across another fun Buzzfeed quiz. This time, after answering 12 multiple choice questions you will find out What State You Actually Belong In.
Continue reading What State Do You Belong In? Take the Quiz!
I use a few sites to track the countries that I’ve visited but none are as permanent as this. A couple of favorites sites that I use are TravBuddy and MostTraveledPeople.
TravBuddy is great because it makes a really cool personalized travel map which also tells you the percentage of the world that you’ve visited. (Check out my map at the bottom of my site .) MostTraveledPeople is really useful because it breaks things down even more. It also tracks states/ regions and disputed territories as well as also offering a UNESCO World Heritage Site tracker and some other useful tools.
Continue reading Keeping Track of Countries In A Permanent Way
Kim and I love maps and have a few interesting ones hanging on our walls. Maps can make for a great piece of art while also being quite interesting and informative.
I came across a bunch of very different maps thanks to Thrillist.
I figured that the maps featured would be really silly and of little interest but after looking over them I have to say- the title does not lie. I mean, some of the maps were a bit ridiculous but a bunch of them really were fascinating!
Check out the maps that I feel are worth checking out:
In a leaked phone call, the top U.S. Diplomat to Europe allegedly can be heard saying “Fuck the EU”.
Victoria Nuland is the Assistant Secretary for European Affairs. In the leaked call, (according to CNN) voices closely resembling those of Assistant Secretary Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt discuss a plan to broker a deal between the Ukrainian government and the opposition.
At one point the woman, who sounds like Nuland, can be heard saying “f**k the EU.”
Back in November I wrote a post about an article from the site Anygag- 99 Lifehacks That Could Make Your Life Easier. From the list of 99, I mentioned 5 of my favorites.
It’s always nice to find ways to make life easier and Buzzfeed is also here to help.
I came across the Buzzfeed article: 18 Everyday Products You’ve Been Using Wrong a while back and found some of the things listed to be very useful. I found the list to be more like a list of lifehacks than things you’ve been doing wrong.
Continue reading 18 Everyday Products You’ve Been Using Wrong
With the Super Bowl being held in the New York City area at MetLife Stadium, (home to the New York Giants & Jets) there are lots of free special events going on around the city.
Super Bowl Boulevard will take over Broadway from 34th to 47th Street from January 29 – February 1 from noon to 10 PM. There will be various free events going on, from kicking field goals to getting autographs during the event.
Check out a list of other Super Bowl related events in the NYC area HERE.
A few other events stood out which are affiliated with airlines.
Continue reading Some Free Super Bowl Events By Airlines Around NYC
Last month I wrote about a fun New York Times Dialect Quiz. In the quiz there are 25 questions. Once you answer them, your personal dialect map gets created. The map shows your 2 least and most similar cities. The quiz seemed to be pretty accurate. I am from Brooklyn, New York and after answering the quiz, it said my 3 most similar cities were New York, New Jersey and Yonkers.
I just came across another fun quiz. This one is from Buzzfeed and tries to help figure out What city you should actually live in?
According to the Buzzfeed post: Just because you were born somewhere doesn’t mean you belong there.
Continue reading What City Should You Actually Live In? Take the Buzzfeed Quiz!
McDonald’s is one of the most successful fast food chains in the world and Ronald McDonald is possibly one of the world’s most recognizable mascots.
Most products that McDonald’s offers go on to be successful but boy did they miss the mark with the relatively new Mighty Wings.
McDonald’s purchased around 50 million pounds of chicken wings and they weren’t able to sell enough of them. This left the fast food giant with 20% of their inventory, 10 million pounds of wings which are in frozen storage.
Continue reading Off Topic: McDonald’s Has An Extra 10,000,000 Pounds of Chicken Wings
