Discount Codes and Offers on Travel, Transportation and Rooms

I've used the services listed here for a while and thought I'd share some of their offers.

New customers get a few bucks off, sometimes even free. And in exchange for referring you to them, they credit my account with a few bucks too.

 EAT

SEAMLESS - gives you $10 off your first-time order of $15 or more. Click through this link to take
advantage of the Seamless offer http://fbuy.me/jTiOl.

Seamless is an online service to order food for delivery or takeout. Seamless is a part of the GrubHub Inc. portfolio of brands. *Terms & Conditions

 RIDE

VIA - I've been using Via as an alternative to taking a regular cab. Rides are always a low fare. If you sign up with my code, steve3d9e, we'll both get $10 of free Via Credit.
You can download the app here: http://bit.ly/2bj6zXY

Via Transportation, Inc. is a transportation network company and real-time ridesharing company based in New York City, with offices in Tel Aviv, Chicago, and Washington D.C., and operations in New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. The company's mobile app facilitates shared travel for a flat rate. In order to expedite service, passengers are picked up and dropped off on the corner of a block nearest to their pickup and drop-off locations, and not the exact addresses. Terms of use

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AIRBNB
As a traveler / guest, when you sign up for Airbnb with my link, you'll get $40 off your first trip. When you book a trip of $75 or more, I'll get $20 in travel credit, too. https://abnb.me/e/lnE85O48eP

Want to become an Airbnb HOST? Sign up to host on Airbnb and use the extra income to fund your passions. Here’s my invitation link:
https://abnb.me/e/a50ZRD28eP

A‌i‌r‌b‌n‌b‌ is a company that operates an online marketplace and hospitality service for people to lease or rent short-term lodging including holiday cottages, apartments, homestays, hostel beds, or hotel rooms. The company does not own any real estate or conduct tours; it is a broker that receives percentage service fees in conjunction with each booking.

Airbnb Referral Program Terms and Conditions.

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Get free music on Amazon

Check out some music for free. Amazon has a bunch of free digital downloads for you to grab. This is a great way to hear new artists. Clicking the link to Amazon is via my Amazon Associates affiliate link, a disclaimer below.

DOWNLOAD AMAZON DIGITAL MUSIC


This site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

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Jellyfish stings and what to do if stung

If you get stung by a jellyfish...
The key is to deactivate the jellyfish stingers, called nematocysts, as well as the jellyfish venom. This video explains how, the right way.

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How to survive a Rip Tide

A rip current, commonly referred to simply as a rip, or by the misnomer "rip tide", is one specific kind of water current that can be found near beaches. It is a strong, localized, and rather narrow current of water. It is strongest near the surface of the water, and it moves directly away from the shore, cutting through the lines of breaking waves.

Rip currents can occur at any beach where there are breaking waves: on oceans, seas, and large lakes. The location of rip currents can be unpredictable: while some tend to reoccur always in the same place, others can appear and disappear suddenly at various locations near the beach

If you get caught in a rip current, don't panic, learn what to do.

If you are suddenly being pulled away from shore by a powerful rip current, what should you do? Historic advice was to swim parallel to the shore in order to get outside the current. Extensive study of these currents now indicate your odds are better if you stay still and tread water.

If you swim parallel to the shore, you have a 50% chance of swimming into a stronger current. Tread water and your chances of going back to shore within about three minutes is at 90%.

Rip currents are often not always easily identifiable to beach goers. A few things to look for:


• A channel of churning, choppy water;
• 
A line of sea foam, seaweed, or debris moving steadily seaward;

• Different colored water beyond the surf zone; and
 A break in the incoming wave pattern as waves roll into shore.

None, one, or several of these may be visible and indicate the location of rip currents.

Is it an undertow, rip current or rip tide?

Undertow: After a wave breaks and runs up the beach, most of the water flows seaward. This backwash of water can trip waders, move them seaward, and make them susceptible to immersion from the next incoming wave.

Rip current: A relatively small-scale surf-zone current moving away from the beach. Rip currents form as waves disperse along the beach causing water to become trapped between the beach and a sandbar or other underwater feature. The water converges into a narrow, river-like channel moving away from the shore at high speed.

Rip tide: Often incorrectly used as the term for rip current, it’s a distinctly separate type of current that includes both ebb and flood tidal currents that are caused by egress and ingress of the tide through inlets and the mouths of estuaries and harbors.

Stay clear of man-made structures like piers, jetties, and breakwaters; as rips and dangerous currents are strongest around these. Waves normally break in long even lines over sandbars but will not break evenly next to a jetty.

If you are caught up in a rip and there are surfers or lifeguards around, tread water shout for help and raise your right arm as high as you can. This is the signal that you need help. (Raising your left arm signals that someone near you needs help.) You won't get swept out to sea, rips usually dissipate within 100 yards of the beach.

Source: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

READ MORE:

Rip Currents: Beach Safety, Physical Oceanography, and Wave Modeling: The culmination of research from over 100 coastal scientists, engineers, forecast meteorologists, lifeguard chiefs, and other practitioners from around the world who participated in the 1st International Rip Current Symposium. These experts identify advancements in research that will lead to a better understanding of the dynamics, mechanisms, and predictability of these dangerous currents, and lower the number of rip current drownings.

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Steve's @Spotify #Playlists

I couldn't find a way to share all my Spotify playlists in one link, so here are a few of my playlists for your listening enjoyment:

americana 

Blue-ish Green

Pet de Kat - Volume 2

Drive Time

For the Cool Kids

Funky Friday

Git Rite 2.3

Golden Sunrise

Jazzarazz

High n Dry - soundtrack to a hurricane 

Mardi Gras Indian Mix

Mourning a friend. Funeral or wake

Nelson #Mandela RIP

New Orleans / Louisiana (Mardi Gras) music

punk junk

Reggae

Roadtrip across Alligator Alley

Spring Chill

Thursday Almost Friday

Zydeco

xmas yule have a funky holiday

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TRS 80 Model I

TRS-80 was a brand associated with several desktop computers sold by Radio Shack (Tandy Corporation). The original "TRS-80 Micro Computer System" launched in 1977 (later known as the Model I) was one of the earliest mass-produced personal computers.

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vintage RENEGADE NEWS now on the Worldwide Web

RENEGADE NEWS: The News We Twist To Fit (SM) is a tag line of news parodies that started in the 1980s and ran until the mid '90s.

Now the archives of RENEGADE NEWS have been released to the Worldwide Web.

As many stories from RENEGADE NEWS (circa mid/late 1980s) as we could preserve have been scanned and loaded into cyberspace.

http://renegade-news.blogspot.com/

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