Posted in Fun, Observations, Odds & Ends on Jul 2nd, 2009
As my French teacher in college used to exclaim effusively, Quelle bonne suprise! The cause which prompted this ecstatic proclamation was my discovery of a small but apparently renewable cache of reasonably entertaining books at one of our local dollar stores, one of the honest-to-goodness, real dollar stores where every item is one dollar or [...]
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Posted in Observations on Dec 22nd, 2007
After my recent discovery that Barnes and Noble no longer maintains a separate category for philosophy in its bookstore at Friendly Shopping Center I mused about the likelihood of its competitor, Borders, following suit. Just yesterday I happened to stop off at Borders to pick up a few things while on my way to [...]
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Posted in Observations on Dec 16th, 2007
Earlier this week I decided to ignore past experience and forayed into the big town of Greensboro for a little holiday shopping, or more accurately, a lot of looking. Although there are fewer than two weeks left until Christmas I didn’t expect the crowds and traffic to be as thick or active as I [...]
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