Random Thoughts

I’m going to start taking you on a tour of my neighborhood. I’m just going to take you on a tour of the crazy stuff in my neighborhood, though. The rest of it isn’t nearly as fun to write about.

So the first stop on the tour is “Laike PSC (Pre-Selected Closeout)”. This little shop is just around the corner from me. The awning with the store name includes the bit in parenthesis. I’m not just including that to be helpful. Have you ever seen a store name that has parenthesis? If you have to explain part of the store name in parenthesis, that’s a pretty good indication it really sucks. Beyond that, what does it mean to be “pre-selected”? How can you select something before it was selected? This is just the tip of the crazy iceberg here.

If you were to go in this store and say “I’d like a microphone, some binoculars, a comforter, and some ice cream” they would say “here you go”. You might even be able to get a color TV. Sometimes they have one of those for sale, too. And when I say one, I mean just one. Not one model. Must be hard to pre-select those color TVs.

The image of the Laike PSC (Pre-Selected Closeout) comes to you courtesy another crazy thing, the new A9 map search. These folks are giving you street-level pictures with your overhead view. Now THAT’S crazy too.

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