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Hah, this is the perfect embodiment of why I rarely patronize local businesses. The kind of person who starts one of these establishments is no doubt quirky. There is a coffee shop next door to my apartment. It has random rules posted on all surfaces to which signs can be affixed. Feel like I'm going to go to prison if I walk in there and do something wrong inadvertently, so I just go to Starbucks to avoid causing an…
I hear “Perfect,” I hear “Like, like, like, like,” and I hear “Awesome” every 32 seconds and it was causing me to have brain damage
They love to leave the doors open so I can try to air condition the outside.
I don’t let computer books in here because they are obsolete the day they’re printed.
And perhaps the best The customer isn’t always right. I am.
Now I really want to visit this store.
And the owner really does seem to know his stuff. I bought Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadeter and while I was paying he was like.
So you getting this? I got through a quarter of the book before I realized I was too stupid to understand it. -Hahaha well I can only hope that I will -You need more than that
Still haven't read the book but I'll surely remember him when I happen to don't understand the book
It's actually quite a nice store, you see funny comments on most of the books. And the owner really does seem to know his stuff. I bought Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadeter and while I was paying he was like. So you getting this? I got through a quarter of the book before I realized I was too stupid to understand it. -Hahaha well I can only hope that I will -You need more than that Still haven't read the book…
Something that looking at this post reminded me of is how all our digitalization is very much abdicating control of information and even down right ownership. Does anyone remember the incident where Amazon just decided that they needed to delete books they had sold to Kindle users and just went in and did so off everyone's Kindle? We have even arrived at the point where people don't even question ownership anymore. Y…
Yes. Amusingly, the books in the case I remember were Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/capitol-hill-books-washington
LOL, choice quote:
"When I spoke to the owner (an elderly cantankerous man) about trading some books with him, he was extremely rude. When he asked why I had so many copies of several books, I told him I had a TBI and forgot that I already had the books. He turned to my husband and very sarcastically offered his condolences. " (1/5)