facejournal and sleep

[jazzfish]

cleolinda explains just what the heck is going on with LJ and Facebook and Twitter: basically, LJ's owners figure the number of people coming onboard LJ through Facebook and Twitter will outweigh the number of people fleeing to other sites such as Dreamwidth. And the fleeing users were the ones who were disabling all the useful (for advertising) privacy-invasive features anyway, so they won't be much missed.

(There's also a side trip through the creepiness of Facebook's new "Stalk this person" feature. Which just ick no. I anticipate that by this time next year I'll have done what I can to purge my Facebook account as well.)

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Still tired. Still writing up Key West (it was awesome). Likely to go home and faceplant for eight hours and wake up around two in the morning. Sleeping on planes works better when you can lean back in your seat, and when the guy next to you doesn't insist on trying to ram his elbow into your ribs, and when the flight doesn't arrive 45 minutes early thus shorting you out of three-quarters of an hour of uneasy but still much missed sleep. Bleh.

(Lessons learned: first, stay the hell away from Airtran. Second, with transit costs BWI may not actually be all that much cheaper than National. Third, do not rely on transit to get home from BWI.)

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[jsciv.livejournal.com]

Some airlines will sell unused first class inventory at the gate for anywhere between $25 and $200 (depending on the airline and the length of the segment to be flown), but they also give free upgrades to elites so unused inventory can be rare. I don't know about Airtran's policies.

Honestly, it's nice but I can live in coach too. I'm making a mileage run in a couple of weeks to get myself some transatlantic upgrades, so I guess you could say I'm willing to pay for business class at least, but domestic, as long as I manage a window I'm good. I am, however, long past the point where I know any tricks that don't involve "because you flew last year enough to get status, you have fewer problems in the air this year"...