Reader Tips

In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips a nimble-fingered fellow named André Constantino (I think he might be northern Italian, but I’m not sure) plays La valse à Pascale.
h/t Plainsdrifter
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16 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Seeing a lot of angst over Future Shop closing.
    Oddly I have yet to see any one of the genius media pundits make the connection between the reduction in discretionary income and the increase in cost of living from new provincial fees levies and taxes.

  2. Thanks for the tune EBD!! I also have a couple of great instrumentals for all you tree huggers who may be sitting in the dark, eating tacos because you don’t want to turn the corn popper on. Meanwhile, David Suzuki flies high above the Canadian prairie in a Boeing 777-300ER that left Ottawa this PM and will land in Vancouver just in time for ”Earth Hour.” He looks out the porthole in the first class section, smiles and says!! ”My my, look at all the people who have their porch lights turned off.” Of course Suzuki forgot to calculate the emissions from the twin Rolls Royce engines that consume 1100 liters of JP4 every 100k. How many light bulbs can you power up with 1100 liters of JP4?? One US gallon of jet fuel will light up about 650 ordinary 60 watt bulbs for one hour. (At 100% efficiency.) Thus 258 US gallons will light up about 167,700 60w bulbs for one hour. So much for the Suzukian cult.
    https://youtu.be/qWtxPmpYn_A
    And another one just in case the lights don’t come back on!!
    https://youtu.be/6wjBiCDQUn0

  3. It’s sad that a lot of people have lost their jobs currently. But with smarter people shopping better and frugally, it’s not a surprise. Especially considering that Future Shop and Best Buy were just different sides of the same brand coin.

  4. No connection whatsoever. This consolidation has been long coming ever since best buy took future shop over. My question is what took them so long? And my guess would be that it was waiting for many of not all of the store leases to expire.

  5. The sad fact is that FS was the true originator of the brand and concept. I remember one of their stores I frequented at Kingsway and Willingdon, in Burnaby, during my BCIT days, scouring the best price for an XT computer, those were the days……
    Anyways, I’m surprised the FS brand lasted this long, considering the buyout was in 2001. It always seemed to be poor planning that BB and FS were in the same mall, “competing” with each other. it was just a matter of time for this to happen. Damn shame, another American corporation comes to Canaduh, and badly overestimates their brand appeal.
    With A&B long gone, Canada’s own retail tech successes come down to the local Chinese redistributors of PC products, NCIX, for one……..

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