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Delta Airlines is completely pathetic. Are they having strikes now or something, or are they normally totally fucked up?

Apply for frequent flyer - error page, no email, no number given. [semagic spelling suggestion: frequent flayer]
Buy ticket - "oops".
Call reservations - autovoice refuses to give me to operator. Eventually reach someone in India who transfers me to online tech support before I can say anything.
Call reservations - autovoice is sorry that it couldn't hear me. Eventually reach someone in India who I can't understand, who transfers me to Hertz to check on my flight reservation.
Guess which airline I will not be buying this ticket from?
Hmm...Orbitz will sell me what Delta won't, and it's the cheapest and only non-stop, so I'll take Delta anyway, unless they screw it up magically.

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Delta Airlines is completely pathetic. Are they having strikes now or something, or are they normally totally fucked up?

Apply for frequent flyer - error page, no email, no number given. [semagic spelling suggestion: frequent flayer]
Buy ticket - "oops".
Call reservations - autovoice refuses to give me to operator. Eventually reach someone in India who transfers me to online tech support before I can say anything.
Call reservations - autovoice is sorry that it couldn't hear me. Eventually reach someone in India who I can't understand, who transfers me to Hertz to check on my flight reservation.
Guess which airline I will not be buying this ticket from?
Hmm...Orbitz will sell me what Delta won't, and it's the cheapest and only non-stop, so I'll take Delta anyway, unless they screw it up magically.

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Travails

( travels, now with the deleted lj-cut )

Travails

( travels, now with the deleted lj-cut )

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Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much

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Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much

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*Is in a Radish-Son's Hotel*

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*Is in a Radish-Son's Hotel*

That Which I Find to be Stupid

Sommelier (Wine Steward): 15% percent of the bottle price
Delivery to Room: if you requested something delivered such as a hairdryer: $1
Housekeepers (maids): $1-2 per day left at the end of your stay.
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Hotel Door Persons $2 for summoning a taxi by phone, $1 for hailing from street, $2 to $5 if they opened the door for you each time you entered and left the hotel.
Room Service $5 minimum.
Coat Check $2 to $5 upon retrieval.
Housekeeping Staff $2 to $5 per night, paid daily or as a sum at checkout.

Big bucks for someone who pushes a cart of food to your door, or uncorks a bottle. A few crumbs for someone who spends lots of time every day cleaning your entire room(s).

(And of course, the person pushing the cart to the door lingers, hoping for a tip, even though an 18% tip and $2 delivery charge were automatically added to the bill.)

That Which I Find to be Stupid

Sommelier (Wine Steward): 15% percent of the bottle price
Delivery to Room: if you requested something delivered such as a hairdryer: $1
Housekeepers (maids): $1-2 per day left at the end of your stay.
---
Hotel Door Persons $2 for summoning a taxi by phone, $1 for hailing from street, $2 to $5 if they opened the door for you each time you entered and left the hotel.
Room Service $5 minimum.
Coat Check $2 to $5 upon retrieval.
Housekeeping Staff $2 to $5 per night, paid daily or as a sum at checkout.

Big bucks for someone who pushes a cart of food to your door, or uncorks a bottle. A few crumbs for someone who spends lots of time every day cleaning your entire room(s).

(And of course, the person pushing the cart to the door lingers, hoping for a tip, even though an 18% tip and $2 delivery charge were automatically added to the bill.)

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Well, I was way high in an airplane...
http://www.livejournal.com/users/lotusdragon/6699.html

While everyone else is Katrinaing, I'm ordering Romaine w/1000Island, Seafood Combo, Creme Brule (they spell it 'brele'), and Three Iced Teas, as I'm sleepy and have hours of work and a 6am wake-up call.

Echoing the official assurances, CBS News reported: "Even though more than a third of Mississippi's and Louisiana's National Guard troops are either in Iraq or supporting the war effort, the National Guard says there are more than enough at home to do the job."

My first thought on learning about the coming Katrina was "oh no, there's going to be lots of conservatives accusing liberals of opportunism for pointing out our 'National Guard' is on the other side of the World hijacking another nation instead of at home where they could help our nation". I haven't actually seen any yet, but then I haven't had time to look.

The stop whining and do something link:
http://wizbangblog.com/archives/006933.php

The hope that humans will stop being stupid humans and learn how to think link:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/wicked_wish/582898.html

The evidence that Emperor George's Crusade lead to the destruction of a US city:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/30/225058/062

http://news.google.com/news?q=iraq+national+guard+katrina
http://news.google.com/news?q=war+funding+katrina


I have put not getting sick on my list of things to do. I may or may not get to it.

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Well, I was way high in an airplane...
http://www.livejournal.com/users/lotusdragon/6699.html

While everyone else is Katrinaing, I'm ordering Romaine w/1000Island, Seafood Combo, Creme Brule (they spell it 'brele'), and Three Iced Teas, as I'm sleepy and have hours of work and a 6am wake-up call.

Echoing the official assurances, CBS News reported: "Even though more than a third of Mississippi's and Louisiana's National Guard troops are either in Iraq or supporting the war effort, the National Guard says there are more than enough at home to do the job."

My first thought on learning about the coming Katrina was "oh no, there's going to be lots of conservatives accusing liberals of opportunism for pointing out our 'National Guard' is on the other side of the World hijacking another nation instead of at home where they could help our nation". I haven't actually seen any yet, but then I haven't had time to look.

The stop whining and do something link:
http://wizbangblog.com/archives/006933.php

The hope that humans will stop being stupid humans and learn how to think link:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/wicked_wish/582898.html

The evidence that Emperor George's Crusade lead to the destruction of a US city:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/30/225058/062

http://news.google.com/news?q=iraq+national+guard+katrina
http://news.google.com/news?q=war+funding+katrina


I have put not getting sick on my list of things to do. I may or may not get to it.

Dead Can Dance

The biobroghlimated salad-inducing refibbrilators have determined that the following units each get the one ticket:

dianthus
elynne

If by some misfortune you know and detest each other, you are encouraged to visualize glowing tangerine fluffy bunny clouds. Else if you know and don't detest each other, hurray. Else, "dianthus, elynne. elynne, dianthus."

You can biocoordinate with the poor^3 mittelbeaq to obtain them, or me, or both, or la.

If they play Summoning of the Muse, you must promise to enjoy it extra and beam the cosmic wavelengths to me, as that was once my favorite songie to blast into my brain.

Dead Can Dance

The biobroghlimated salad-inducing refibbrilators have determined that the following units each get the one ticket:

dianthus
elynne

If by some misfortune you know and detest each other, you are encouraged to visualize glowing tangerine fluffy bunny clouds. Else if you know and don't detest each other, hurray. Else, "dianthus, elynne. elynne, dianthus."

You can biocoordinate with the poor^3 mittelbeaq to obtain them, or me, or both, or la.

If they play Summoning of the Muse, you must promise to enjoy it extra and beam the cosmic wavelengths to me, as that was once my favorite songie to blast into my brain.