How to save retail in a recessionary environment?

The mall is still a good place to go to look at hot chicks. If the stores put chairs in their windows rather than merchandise, they'd probably attract more customers.

Glass floors on the second level would also help.

Perhaps I should start a consulting business?


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A theory of the past.

"I’m ecstatic in my own dark, morbid way and subscribe to a theory of the past that allows the future to unfold: We all did the best we could."

--David Carr

On Change

“In a progressive country, change is constant; and the great question is not whether you should resist change, which is inevitable, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws and traditions of a people, or whether it should be carried out in deference to abstract principles, and arbitrary and general doctrines.”

- Benjamin Disraeli

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On Weekend Pleasures

"Cleaned the garage. Mid-day snooze. Park with the kids. Mow the lawn. Heinie & hotdogs for supper. Milkshake for dessert. A good day."

--Marc Vandersluys

Even science has absolute limits.

"However, the pioneering work of Max Planck (1858-1947) in the field of quantum physics suggests that there is, in fact, a minimum distance (now called the Planck length, 1.616 × 10−35 metres) and therefore a minimum time interval (the amount of time which light takes to traverse that distance in a vacuum, 5.391 × 10−44 seconds, known as the Planck time) smaller than which meaningful measurement is impossible."

Some uncomfortable truth?

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The root of it all?

"We all want to change the world for everyone else, just not for ourselves."

--Jesse Johnson

Missouri Rain

From our hotel room we had a good view of a lake, or maybe it was a river. It might have been a side street. It's hard to say. Anyway, we could see a number of boats tied up to a dock. The only wrinkle is that the entire dock and all the boats were floating down the river, or lake, or side street, until they plowed into another dock. In California it hardly ever rains so hard it ruins our boats. I was impressed.

- Scott Adams

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Open Your Mind

Life is complicated. The reason we have democracy is that no one side is right all the time. The only people who are dangerous are those who can’t admit, even to themselves, that obvious fact.

- David Brooks

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Who is it that REALLY needs the timeout?

"And consider giving yourself an informal timeout now and again. Everyone will benefit. When your child is singing the 'I Hate Mommy' song for the 17th time in a row and you feel yourself about to lose control and run wild up the parental misbehavior scale—nagging, shouting, threatening, overpunishing, all the way up to laying hands on the little miscreant—try turning around and walking out of the room. Go sit somewhere quiet for a couple of minutes and cool off. Sometimes a little timeout from reinforcement is just what you need."

--Alan Kazdin