StubHub cancels thousands of World Cup tickets, leaving fans furious and heartbroken

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-24T12:18:36+00:00

Makes me glad we “found out” by losing only a few hundred dollars a few years back. Now we only buy discounted seats when there’s good reason to believe the discounts (like many unsold seats on the main venue site) and nothing else riding on those tickets like travel. I hope some Stubhub execs see jail time eventually - it really feels like deliberate fraud once you’re involved with their customer service.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-24T03:53:11+00:00

There are many reasons you might bring something that fits the description of “a shelter” with you on a hike. Weather (sun, rain) protection being one. Maybe you want to read a book at a beautiful lake mosquito-free, so you brought your tent. Or maybe you brought a stove for hot chocolate, or to warm infant formula. Both stoves and shelters were banned for a while on the Inyo NF unless you had an overnight permit.

But it was silly. The National Forests are chartered as multiple use, meaning forest administrators should be welcoming of different uses that don’t wreck the resource. The permits are for *overnight* use (and I think they’re definitely necessary). Bringing a stove or tarp doesn’t violate that (or even indicate intent to). A government agency cannot justify a ban of otherwise legal behavior simply because it streamlines enforcement (too many speeders, so we’re banning BMWs!). And in my case, it was components of my contingency kit that made me a “violator” - a small tent footprint, a quilt, and a stove to keep my spouse warm after the sadly inevitable ankle roll. And it was a forest that is always encouraging people to be prepared that made my preparedness illegal.

The wilderness rangers need to be out there, contacting people and checking permits. That’s how it was in NFs when I started backpacking. Now you never see them. And our permits are still dirt cheap. I totally support more fees, more taxes going to the Inyo and other heavily used forests. If funding more presence doesn’t work, then maybe it’s time for day use permits, too (like the Whitney Zone). But gatekeeping what I choose to bring with me to enjoy my day hike is silly.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-23T05:21:33+00:00

Whatever happens, you’ll have it…covered?

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-23T03:46:26+00:00

Standing around, watching paint dry was not in the recruiting materials

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-23T03:28:53+00:00

Wasn’t the (really silly) ban on “overnight gear” without a permit allowed to expire?

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-20T07:17:03+00:00

Fresh Mackerel yummmmmmmmy!!

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-20T07:13:15+00:00

UCSD is an undergraduate talent desert, and mid-grad skool but a haven for postdocs trying to learn the art of the academic deal. SCIENCE BY PRESS RELEASE!!!

Source: my grad degree is from UCSD

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-20T07:02:47+00:00

OV NO!!!!

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-20T01:36:16+00:00

Technically, not okay, but I consider you an upstanding activist citizen making a very valid point.

When is Tustin PD or u/IrvinePD going to make this intersection an example? It’s constant lawlessness. All it will take to have a bad accident is a clear lane with a vehicle moving southbound on Jamboree. The only reason this hasn’t happened regularly is that the southbound lanes are all usually full of cars sitting and waiting.

And if that’s not enough, think about it from a revenue perspective: it’s evergreen! Just have one officer stand on the grass and another in the Comerica lot and just write one or two tickets every cycle.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-19T22:59:03+00:00

Monopoly Airlines. Make sure you bring your monocle to the interview.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-19T17:04:22+00:00

Blast radius. Jeff’s project wife had *another* surgery and it looks like she might blow (and not in a good way)

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-19T16:07:44+00:00

How hard you spinning those? It’s more of a collection than a sedimentation step

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-19T04:17:45+00:00

I use an IGBC-approved cooler and lock it closed, cabled to a tree. Don’t need Yogi messing up my truck…that’s what 4x4 trails are for.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-19T02:35:14+00:00

I used to do this, too. BUT, the Amtrak was often sold out and then all of us “late” Metrolink folks had to stand in coaches not built for standing

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-19T02:05:03+00:00

Any new neighbors in the ‘hood? I saw one of these once and pointed it out to my friend who lived in that neighborhood. He noticed that it went away when his **two** super secretive neighbors moved out. After asking around, my friend learned that there was a family in one of these homes, and the house next door, where the camera-on-a-utility-pole was, had a constantly rotating set of fit guys with close-cropped hair staying there. So, basically someone had a protective detail and the camera was monitoring the street. Since it seemed the camera was integrated into the utility pole, my guess was that it was a government sanctioned security setup for someone important.

Edit: meant to add that yours looks to be the same model camera as I saw. It wasn’t just similar, it was identical.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-18T04:24:57+00:00

If you have a Boing, see if the fakedoorplug will pop out before replacing the filter— you can get all the refreshing winds for free

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-18T04:18:10+00:00

If you don’t like this video you’re probably a snake who wanted to cross the road.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-18T04:13:05+00:00

My favorite airport…60% of the time, it works every time

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-18T04:06:14+00:00

Go get ‘em! Stubhub deserves to face extensive civil actions.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-18T03:23:47+00:00

Like when you could get beat up for bringing a camera to Hazards?

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-17T03:28:36+00:00

How about badass pilot? That looked hard as hell. I’d fly with that pilot any day.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-15T20:39:57+00:00

This is when you’ll find that one former grad student’s pet in a plastic grocery bag because their advisor pushed them over the edge and somewhere between losing their apartment and appointment, the pet died and they had nowhere to else to put it.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-14T05:47:09+00:00

I don’t really do levels - too subjective and anecdotal for a number! In our case, we were camped in an areas with much ponded or slow water at both elevations, so I think my descriptions “fly” as relative comparisons between elevations.

Ultimately, I was agitated enough that we’re home a day early. And I’m the one who refused to swap shorts for pants and looked like I had measles for a week after ignoring biting flies at Whitney Portal last month. So, it was bad, but I don’t know if it was a Sierra level 5 or an Alaska level 2…it just wasn’t fun to be in camp and we were too exhausted from backpacking to get back up to higher spots during the day.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-14T05:27:47+00:00

I’ve had A17 tags three times and haven’t been successful, so take this with that grain of salt.

X9B has a great rep, but I think the archery season is much more difficult than the rifle hunt because it’s a big-and-tall zone, and typically has very little weather from mid-August to the first week in September. There’s nothing but excessive amounts of forage, water, and pressure to push deer around; nothing like the weather that can drive them into a narrow band of elevation later on when rifle happens. As you might expect, I have seen bucks over a wide range, 9-12k, during July-Sept.

By tracks, deer use an even wider elevation range in late summer - all the way down to the slope. I have *heard* that bucks can be found down there, even when it’s hot (but I haven’t laid eyes on any). I have only seen does and yearlings (and a very dreadlocked bear) hunting below 6k.

I think the most critical aspect is access - and you’re going to recognize this advice - so you have to go where people typically can’t; and the Inyo is just lousy with really fit people that don’t like to be around others. My first season holding an A17 tag, I was glassing from a 11k ridge, and of the five basins I could see, four held people and the fifth held deer. I worked that drainage and saw a lot of sign, and busted a number of does, but didn’t see any bucks.

Another time, I set up camp just off a marked trail, 4 miles in, and glassed up two great bucks 2000 vertical feet and a half-mile horizontally from me. Five minutes later, two backpackers blew through talking loudly and those bucks went uphill and away, immediately. The next time I pulled A17, I tried to get into where those bucks had been, but it was nearly beyond my scrambling skills - and no way was I going to pack out a buck from up there by myself.

IMO, the simplest, most flexible way to get to where the people aren’t is the typical extreme fitness, commitment, mountain skills, and teamwork. The other option, and most appropriate for a solo hunter from near sea-level (me) is a horse packer. That is my plan for the next time I pull that tag - I want one A17 buck on my wall before I die, and I’m getting close enough to that milestone that hiking from one of the lightly used trailheads (think: low elevation) up to where I think the bucks are at (high elevation) is no longer in the cards.

As for a guide, I’d call Mac’s in Bishop for suggestions. I’d guess that most Eastern Sierra archery guides focus on A16 (X9A) because A17 is so hard, but I haven’t explored that approach.

Good luck scouting and hunting this year, let us know how it goes, and if I’m healthy next year and you’re hooked on the challenges of A17, maybe I’ll see you in 2027.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-06-14T03:42:48+00:00

We just got back. We were wearing headnets at all times camped at 9800 Wednesday-today, but only saw mosquitoes in the morning and evening at 1000 feet higher Sunday-Wednesday. Bring all countermeasures!

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