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  • One year of Chasing Cetaceans: thoughts and lessons learned

    One year of Chasing Cetaceans: thoughts and lessons learned

    It’s been a hair over a year since I started CC, so it felt like a nice time to write a year in review in September, because why not.  First off, if you’re still here a year later, thanks! In transparency, putting myself out there and doing what amounted to meta commentary on a hobby…

  • On being our community’s Points Guys and Gals

    On being our community’s Points Guys and Gals

    I’ve written a lot about how things change as you progress from shrimp towards whale. Your perception of risk changes. Your perception of scale changes. But it’s not just how you think that changes. It’s what you know, too.  Early on, a lot of us allocated all of our brain power to things like historical…

  • Sunday mini: Serendipity and making your own luck

    I’m currently on a flight home from the (excellent as always) MEAB meetup. It was great to catch up with old friends and meet a lot of new ones, and thanks so much to everyone that had kind things to say about the blog – it really means a lot. I’ll work on an adapted…

  • Double inversions: Looking beyond the obvious on loops

    Double inversions: Looking beyond the obvious on loops

    There’s a handful of types of multi inversion elements in the roller coaster world, and my favorite has always been the cobra roll. The cobra roll is a double inversion (aka double loop) and is one of the signature elements of the legendary run of 90s and 00s Bolliger & Mabillard coasters (including my childhood…

  • A Churner Wedding, Part 1: Brought to You by Kate Spade

    A Churner Wedding, Part 1: Brought to You by Kate Spade

    I’m a sucker for an inspiring story about using points for something truly crazy, especially when there’s an OG MSer involved. This one is from my friend Joe (you may know him as Colin). Enjoy! This is the first installment of a three-part story about how I am putting together a small destination wedding in…

  • Friday rant: what are we even doing?

    Friday rant: what are we even doing?

    /s, in case it isn’t obvious I try to avoid ranting all that much on the blog because there’s enough hot takes out there already. While rants perform better than therapyposting about how great MS is, there’s zero monetization on CC, so it makes no real difference to me.  I’m free to talk about how…