Here’s how it works. You walk up to the line, children in tow. You show the worker that you have one little kid, so a parent has to stay behind and watch them. The worker will hand you a rider switch ticket. The idea is that since you had to wait, you get to skip the line later.

Why is the child swap ticket so good?

• It is good for up to three riders. Our family has two boys and a young girl. One parent would go with the boys, then the other parent would go with the boys via the child swap ticket. We would get six total rides, off of a five person family.
• It doesn’t count towards your Fastpasses. The above transaction only took three tickets. Our other two tickets can continue to accrue Fastpasses at the same time.
• It can be cashed any time that day. Whereas a Fastpass has a specific time window of when it can be redeemed, the child swap ticket is good throughout the entire day. This means that you cans skip merrily through the lines even at peak hours.

Get to the park early. Start getting your Fastpasses. Start using them. Each time through the line (whether regular or Fastpass), get a rider switch ticket. Within two hours, you should easily be able to (1) get on the busiest and best rides a few times, (2) have a standard stack of Fastpasses, and (3) have a stack of rider switch tickets. Between the rider switch and Fastpass tickets, your are sitting pretty.

O no! Tony!

Harry Potter, with the save

Lost phone

Honest t-shirt

Scooby don’t

Let me get that for you

Roommate thieves?

Oh no he didn’t!

There’s the guy Daddy!

Automobile polo, from the good ol’ days

Scare yourself every day – 365 days of doing something that scares you.

The end of the world

That’s not snow. That’s spiderwebs.

Honestly false advertising

Truth is laid on Batman

Texts from dog. Brilliant.

Ethan Albright’s letter to John Madden

Wind conditions

Cats and babies

How to piss off a frog

(Not) understanding Miles Per Hour. I imagine they broke up soon after.

Rock and Roll map

Incredible pic of the Southern Lights from the International Space Station

Batman cruising in Maryland

Warning sign

The man who broke Atlantic City

Pandas

Anger Issues

O no! Tony!

Harry Potter, with the save

Lost phone

Honest t-shirt

Scooby Dooby don’t

Let me get that for you

Roommate thieves?

Oh no he didn’t!

There’s the guy Daddy!

Automobile polo, from the good ol’ days

Scare yourself every day – 365 days of doing something that scares you.

The end of the world

TSA body scanners are worthless. Just paint contraband black.

That’s not snow. That’s spiderwebs.

Honestly false advertising

Truth is laid on Batman

Ethan Albright’s letter to John Madden

Catch me if You Can: You’ve seen the movie. The book is better.

Theodore Roosevelt: It is impossible to convey how interesting a man Theodore Roosevelt was. A man who started the national parks, started anti-trusts, was an active combatant in the Spanish-American war and can make a reasonable claim to having personally won it, Nobel Peace Prize winner, tracked down smugglers through the wastelands of Dakota, had the highest approval ratings ever recorded (above 90%), built America’s Navy into a world power, a professional historian and naturalist, and was easily our sexiest president. And more. Yes, all that and more. I linked to one book of the Edmund Morris trilogy, but all three should be read.

I Love you Beth Cooper: I never stopped laughing. Easily one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.

The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. A comprehensive look at Cancer throughout human history, and the attempts to treat it. A seemingly boring topic is anything but, as the struggle has been going on for hundreds of years, and pits all of humanities cleverness against a wily and implacable adversary. As time goes on, treatments become less about the person than about their cels and genes. Because of this, the last third of the book is more dry and scientific, and harder to understand. (Except for Mrs. Muttrox, who was making corrections in the margins.)

Warren Buffett explains gold investing. As always, incredibly clear and insightful.

I need a girl

The end of MacGyver

How greeting cards get written (interview)

How casinos distract you

Bieber

Mary and Joseph

70s rock stars with their parents

Tom Brady fail made me giggle

Kissing Hanks Ass. Still a classic.

Michael Jordan career highlights

This girl is bringing the crazy

Swede survives for two months in his snowed-in car

This is how statistics should be taught

License plate on a hearse

Slinky on a treadmill

A neat cover of Everlong, one of my favorite songs evah.

Reaction shot to Luke, I am your Father

Teaching grammar

An economist named David Berri, citing a stat he created called Wins Produced, which boils down a player’s positive and negative contributions into one number, went so far as to argue that KG was the NBA’s best player in every season from 2002-03 to 2005-06.

I’m looking forward to the rest of the ESPN analytics issue.

Which one was the soap? Come to think of it, what’s the difference between a skincare bar and a cleansing bar? I turned them over to see if there were any clues.

They’re the same thing! The list of ingredients is the exact same thing for both! How wonderful! Caesar’s Palace, handed packaging the exact same thing with two different product names. Hey, Caesar. How about you quit messing around and just put out a bar of soap? And maybe some shaving cream while you’re at it.

Really? A whole company, just to sell an automated signature? Give me a break.