OH! And I also cursed in front of my class. We were talking about the difference between pity and sympathy and I said pity is when someone looks at Grace and says, "Oh, I don't know how you do it. So sad for you." and my response to that is "Fuck you! I love my life and my daughter."

Any time someone says something to you as, "That's so sad" and you want to respond with "Fuck you" it's probably pity.

the ability to look at the Facebook/LinkedIn profiles of your possible seatmates!

Um. No. NO. And someone needs to have a very strongly worded chat about privacy and boundaries with the marketing person that came up with that.

ITA. What the hell, people? I don't want to know anything about my seatmate on an airplane other than (1) Are you a serial killer? (2) Do you have B.O.? and (3) Are you going to try to talk to me other than a polite "Hello" and "Excuse me." None of which should be accesible info on-line, IMHO.

Someone plopped down to me and was all "Hey, how's the (insert random personal detail here?) I read about on FB/LinkedIn," I am afraid I would ask for another seat or an air marshal.

I think that you have to opt-in to sharing your facebook profile. Although if I know that someone has shared their profile, I would not sit next to them.

I think that you have to opt-in to sharing your facebook profile

Well, I don't know how they're going to get them otherwise, so I'd figure so.

I'm not creeped out about the social seating thing on KLM at all. In December, when they announced it, I thought, huh, weird. But you have to opt in and share info and you don't have to do it. I'd use social seating to avoid anyone who USED social seating as means of meeting people. It would be a handy filter.

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That is if I were ever to fly again.

I put practically all of my purchases on my credit card, because I get rewards points. But my bank gives me a better interest rate on my savings account if I make five debit card purchases per month, so I've started doing that -- the first five lunch/coffee/whatever cheap stuff purchases of each month go on debit.

I GOT TRAVEL APPROVAL. Now to conquer the travel website. Not a small thing.

KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij) has to make an investment t make seat and greet work. So they think there's a PR payoff, since it's free. Somehow it's going to increase customer satisfaction or something related enough to bring in a profit or just make their flyers happy puppies. All I can wonder--was it really cheap? Does management really think a significant portion of their customers like that? Expect that sort of treatment? Enough for an ROI (Return On Investment)?

I dunno where that comes from.

A few days ago I read about an app that looked like a reference to an iPad game that was basically online Pictionary. With a touch of Hangman. Does anyone know what the game is called?

(Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij)

I see what you did there.