Lou over at Typo Negative brings my attention to something I hadn’t even noticed, although I’d seen the ads: there’s a smiley in the Canadiens logo.

My favorite one of those… types of things has always been the forward arrow that is hidden almost subliminally in the Federal Express logo. Can you see it?

Last week, I bought a ticket to Spain for my vacation (not my destination of choice, but I was outvoted). Upon booking, I confidently entered all my air miles numbers into the system, sure that the numbers would be sufficient to get a discount on some airline, somewhere. I didn’t care if I went by Polish Air, through Nairobi, as long as I got there cheaply. Got the ticket, checked my credit card balance and sure enough, the ticket had only cost me 154$. Yay me!

Then I get my credit card statement, which reveals that the only reason I got off so cheaply is that I accidentally paid my balance twice last month, and thus had an outstanding credit. None of my air miles had been debited, because I didn’t have enough for a worthwhile discount anywhere. This is despite the fact that in the past year I’ve logged about 100 flight hours.

So now that I’ve bought a ticket to Spain, I figure I’ve at least gotten enough air miles from that to get something – anything – in return. I check my account, and the trip to Spain buys me… 32 miserable little miles! This must be good enough to go to the movies with, I think. Sorry. It takes 150 miles to get a free movie pass.

This means you have to go to Spain five times to get a movie ticket. Sounds like a crock, smells like a crock…

For some reason, I think this is kinda cool.