Straight Line of the Day: Other Travel Mistakes Include: …

The Travel Mistake That’s Costing Americans Thousands Overseas (And How to Avoid It)
retirement.media | May 02, 2026 | Astrid Callahan

It doesn’t feel like a big decision in the moment. You’re standing at a café in Paris, a hotel in Rome, or an ATM in Tokyo, and a simple question pops up on the screen: “Would you like to pay in U.S. dollars or the local currency?” Most Americans instinctively choose U.S. dollars. It feels familiar. Safe. Transparent. But that small choice is quietly draining thousands of dollars from travelers every year—and most don’t even realize it until it’s too late.

This mistake is called dynamic currency conversion, and it’s one of the most expensive traps in international travel today. Instead of letting your bank handle the exchange rate, the foreign merchant or ATM does it for you—usually at a much worse rate.

Well, obviously, the first mistake is being in a café in Paris, instead of a Parisian IMAO interns’ dorm.


 


 


 

Babesleaga Group AM : Week 1 : Results and Standings

And so it begins.

Results

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Who do you prefer?
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91 votes · 91 answers

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79 votes · 79 answers

Standings

ContestantRecordPointsAveragePoints AgainstAverage Score
Dyan Cannon1 – 0 – 05757.002657.00 – 26.00
Eva Renzi1 – 0 – 05454.002554.00 – 25.00
Ursula Andress1 – 0 – 04848.004448.00 – 44.00
Elke Sommer1 – 0 – 04747.004447.00 – 44.00
Tuesday Weld0 – 1 – 04444.004744.00 – 47.00
Sharon Tate0 – 1 – 04444.004844.00 – 48.00
Mary Ure0 – 1 – 02626.005726.00 – 57.00
Jean Seberg0 – 1 – 02525.005425.00 – 54.00

Week 2

  • 10:00 am Tuesday Weld vs Dyan Cannon
  • 2:00 pm Ursula Andress vs Mary Ure
  • 6:00 pm Elke Sommer vs Eva Renzi
  • 8:00 pm Sharon Tate vs Jean Seberg


 


 


 

Straight Line of the Day: What Your Pasta Sauce Will Record: …

Prego is selling a surveillance device that records your family dinner conversations and sends them to the Library of Congress. It sold out immediately.
Not The Bee | May 02, 2026 | Mister Retrops

Prego Pasta Sauce announced they were teaming up with StoryCorps to create a device that would store pasta while also eavesdropping on, recording, and, according to some reports, uploading your family’s dinner conversations to the Library of Congress.

It gets even crazier.

The devices sold out almost instantly! (Probably picked up by some guys in an unmarked van).

To be fair, though, Prego promised the devices won’t upload your conversations without permission. 


 

Friday Night Open Thread: Never Underestimate Technology

I thought driver-less cars would only kill you and drive through active crime scenes when they’re not supposed to. I didn’t foresee this:

Runaway Waymo that dropped passenger at California airport is every traveler’s worst nightmare: ‘It’s not my mistake’
New York Post | May 1, 2026 | Nina Joudeh

A Bay Area businessman’s first ride in a driverless Waymo turned into an airport nightmare when the robotaxi allegedly sped off with his luggage still locked in the trunk — leaving him stranded without clothes, work materials, or answers before a flight to San Diego.

Di Jin said his Monday trip from Sunnyvale to San Jose Mineta International Airport went smoothly until he arrived at the terminal and tried to retrieve his suitcase.

“I pressed the trunk open button, tried to get my luggage, but it doesn’t do anything, and it drives away immediately,” Jin told NBC.

The stunned passenger immediately contacted Waymo customer service, only to be told the autonomous vehicle was already heading back to its depot and could not return.

One Waymo to another: “Have you any Grey Pupon?”

Other Waymo: “No, just some Di Jin.”

But this raises the question: What if you’re in Death Valley and ask the Waymo to wait a minute while you hop out and take a photograph — but you take two minutes?

I sense another screenplay coming on!


 

Science Nook

A meter is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the speed of light in vacuum c to be 299,792,458 when expressed in the unit m/s, where the second is defined in terms of the cesium frequency ΔνCs (the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the cesium 133 atom).

And now you know how far a meter is.

A foot is the length of some king’s foot.


 


 

Welcome to IMAO! If You Think You’ve Had a Bad Day, Think Again

Man cooked to death in oven with tuna in accident

________________ was performing maintenance in a 35-foot (11-meter)-long oven at the company’s Santa Fe Springs plant before dawn Oct. 11, 2012, when a co-worker, who mistakenly believed Melena was in the bathroom, filled the pressure cooker with 12,000 pounds (5,440 kilograms) of canned tuna and it was turned on.

Source


 

Bond Girlathon Friday : Results from 5/1/2026 : New Matches for 5/8/2026

T.G.I.F.

Results from 5/1/2026

Rachel GrantNo PreferenceValerie Leon
113751

Margaret NolanNo PreferenceTrina Parks
19608

New Matches for 5/8/2026

(7) Ursula Andress (Honey Ryder) vs (12) Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
(7) Ursula Andress5 – 1 – 0968 – 8 – 395
Honey Ryder

Actress:Ursula Andress
Nationality:Swiss
Bond Movie:Dr. No (1962)

Synopsis:

Honey Ryder dazzled cinema audiences, stepping out of the Caribbean sea wearing a white bikini with a large hunting knife at her side. She proved to be immensely popular with fans and set the tone for all Bond girls to come.

Ursula Andress

VS

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
(12) Honor Blackman5 – 1 – 0762 – 14 – 399
Pussy Galore

Actress:Honor Blackman
Nationality:English
Bond Movie:Goldfinger (1964)

Synopsis:

The evocatively named Pussy Galore was an original Ian Fleming character from the novel. Ms. Galore ran a flying circus of female pilots, who were hired by Auric Goldfinger to fly over Fort Knox and gas the soldiers, so that Goldfinger could break in to the gold vault.

Honor Blackman

Who do you prefer?
58 votes · 58 answers

Match 2

(15) Shirley Eaton (Jill Masterson) vs Aliza Gur (Vida)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
(15) Shirley Eaton4 – 2 – 0689 – 14 – 422
Jill Masterson

Actress:Shirley Eaton
Nationality:English
Bond Movie:Goldfinger (1964)

Synopsis:

Jill Masterson was the scantly dressed girl who used binoculars and an ear piece to help Auric Goldfinger cheat at cards. Bond caught her at the game, and together they blackmailed Goldfinger into losing his money. After enjoying a few bottles of Dom Perignon with Bond, Masterson was killed by Goldfinger’s henchman Oddjob, in revenge for her betrayal. Bond awoke to find her covered from head to toe in gold paint.

Shirley Eaton

VS

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Aliza Gur2 – 4 – 0332 – 30 – 610
Vida

Actress:Aliza Gur
Nationality:Israeli
Bond Movie:From Russia With Love (1963)

Synopsis:

Vida and Zora engaged in an intense cat fight, scratching, fighting and trying to strangle each other. The fight was broken up when an assassin attacked the camp to try and kill Kerim Bey. Bond saved the life of the camp’s leader in the process, who in turn honoured Bond’s request to end the fighting. Happy to have their leader alive, Vida and Zora warmed to Bond, who got to entertain them for the evening.

Aliza Gur

Who do you prefer?
56 votes · 56 answers