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Lotsa email action...
Jan. 10th, 2012 07:40 pm...but the status remains pretty quo.
I did, however, experience something of a quantum leap today while continuing to tune my GNU Emacs setup, particularly with respect to org and bbdb.
I stopped by the Barnes & Noble down in Garden City yesterday, to take a break from running some errands, and I can't figure out whether the changes in the layout of the store are causing or are a response to B&N's dismal brick-and-mortar numbers.
The very first thing I noticed was how the Starbucks shop in the building was set up so that it could not honor Starbucks cards, which was (for me) a major reason for choosing to park my car in the store's parking lot. Surely, with the advent of all that new-fangled computer technology, you'd think being able to use a Starbucks card at Starbucks would be a no-brainer.
While I sipped my coffee, I noted that the rear half of the ground floor was devoted to audio and video and a good one-third of the store's remaining ground floor area—the real estate smack in front of the main door—was devoted to selling the Nook. The area to the left of the entrance, near the cash registers, was devoted to journals and whatnot, and to some steeply discounted books. The square footage to the right of the Nook display (near the Starbucks-that's-not-really-a-Starbucks) was devoted mostly to games and magazines.
Oh, and there were a few books there, too.
Up on the second floor, the space for which ran around the periphery of the building's envelope, leaving an airy space above the Nook shelves on the ground floor, the back of the store featured children's books, with the rest of the space on the second floor devoted to books.
It was the first time I'd been in a B&N in many moons, and it felt like a completely different store (which should not be taken as a compliment).
* * * I walked to town today, with Shiloh. The weather was not exactly balmy, but neither was it too cold.
I've walked from town to the house before, and I've even walked from the house to town. However, today was the first time I ever walked there and back, and it got me to thinking about how weird some people are about walking versus driving. (For example, there was this one fellow I knew who would rather wait a half hour for a ride to go a mile than just walk the mile. If we had been carrying 60-pound packs, I would have seen his point, but we weren't, and his attitude puzzled me, as I'm sure mine puzzled him.)
That train of thought, at least, broke up the monotony of the last leg of the walk home.
Cheers...
I did, however, experience something of a quantum leap today while continuing to tune my GNU Emacs setup, particularly with respect to org and bbdb.
I stopped by the Barnes & Noble down in Garden City yesterday, to take a break from running some errands, and I can't figure out whether the changes in the layout of the store are causing or are a response to B&N's dismal brick-and-mortar numbers.
The very first thing I noticed was how the Starbucks shop in the building was set up so that it could not honor Starbucks cards, which was (for me) a major reason for choosing to park my car in the store's parking lot. Surely, with the advent of all that new-fangled computer technology, you'd think being able to use a Starbucks card at Starbucks would be a no-brainer.
While I sipped my coffee, I noted that the rear half of the ground floor was devoted to audio and video and a good one-third of the store's remaining ground floor area—the real estate smack in front of the main door—was devoted to selling the Nook. The area to the left of the entrance, near the cash registers, was devoted to journals and whatnot, and to some steeply discounted books. The square footage to the right of the Nook display (near the Starbucks-that's-not-really-a-Starbucks) was devoted mostly to games and magazines.
Oh, and there were a few books there, too.
Up on the second floor, the space for which ran around the periphery of the building's envelope, leaving an airy space above the Nook shelves on the ground floor, the back of the store featured children's books, with the rest of the space on the second floor devoted to books.
It was the first time I'd been in a B&N in many moons, and it felt like a completely different store (which should not be taken as a compliment).
I've walked from town to the house before, and I've even walked from the house to town. However, today was the first time I ever walked there and back, and it got me to thinking about how weird some people are about walking versus driving. (For example, there was this one fellow I knew who would rather wait a half hour for a ride to go a mile than just walk the mile. If we had been carrying 60-pound packs, I would have seen his point, but we weren't, and his attitude puzzled me, as I'm sure mine puzzled him.)
That train of thought, at least, broke up the monotony of the last leg of the walk home.
Cheers...
