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Monthly Archives: March 2011
At home bartending – The French Toast Flip
This drink is incredible, tastes like liquid French toast, and gives you a delightful buzz that even 10,000 pieces of fermented French toast couldn’t give you. Just in case you missed a dose of Vitamin Egg in your breakfast this … Continue reading
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Strategize to earn frequent flyer miles faster
Everybody knows that the secret to life-long happiness is getting the best value on timeshares, frequent flyer miles, and meetings with Hello Kitty at the airport. Lifehacker strikes again with simple yet straight-forward tips on how to get more out … Continue reading
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Have you ever heard of the 5 Flags approach?
Neil Strauss, author of New York Times bestseller The Game and other books, writes about multiple passports, lock-picking, crossing borders without detection and more. A must-have for travelers, traveler-wannabes, and people who just want to fantasize about having the same … Continue reading
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What to do if the airport scale is wrong
According to Hipmunk, somewhere between 6% up to 77% of airport scales are incorrect, meaning you might be getting unnecessary baggage fees. Adam Dachis talks about how to weigh your bags accurately ahead of time, so if this ever happens … Continue reading
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Decorate the bride’s town car with fun and style
Statistically speaking, your friends will probably get divorced in eight years. Help them make the most of the first day of the rest of their marriage fun by decorating their fancy town car or limousine in a way the chauffeur … Continue reading
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Dave Chappelle – Town car in the ghetto
Our home base is in Redmond, Washington which is beautiful, clean, and pretty darn privileged. We don’t stay exclusively in the local bubble, though, and we certainly weren’t all born in it. Fun anecdote: when one of our marketers moved … Continue reading
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Wheeled Bags and Other Bad Ideas
As committed carry-on-only passengers for some time now, we’ve definitely shopped around and tried to optimize our packing options. Around here each of us travels with two laptops and two cell phones (or more if we’re displaying at a convention), … Continue reading
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Redneck Limo
We promise we won’t send this vehicle your way, but we’re fascinated by it all the same. Is that a U-Haul in the front? Additional question of the evening: Looping “yeehaw” soundtrack, best part or worst part of this cinematic … Continue reading
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Taking Better Party Pictures
While Pinpoint Pickup certainly knows how to party, we have to admit that we have a dearth of awe-inspiring photos documenting our shenanigans. We have one sad, disco-licious sepia photo of the three co-founders looking droopy eyed with a bottle … Continue reading
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Now live: Ride in Style for the iPhone 1.7
One of the most-requested features we have for the iPhone is that it should pull addresses from the address book. I am more than happy to announce that you finally can! In Ride in Style 1.7, we added a little … Continue reading
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