Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Redundancy/Survival Date: 6 Jun 2026 19:40:29 GMT Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <10vio7r$1u2gt$1@dont-email.me> <10vl2gl$2i8ll$1@dont-email.me> <10vn68q$33tsa$3@dont-email.me> <10vp49g$3io0e$5@dont-email.me> <10vpts4$3tl9m$1@dont-email.me> <10vqu43$4r3b$3@dont-email.me> <7rKdnYJeqpD9V7z3nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com> <8LudnQZ4SMt8Gb_3nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com> <1eCcnWrfKdNTAL73nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@giganews.com> <1eCcnWffKdO7Kb73nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net vXd6RIxKMkdwMC4XVFounANs9ev4zAYJd3WSB6aiZMmEYkzlMb Cancel-Lock: sha1:5V2acq0cIhwm991H7ZCITntfcAk= sha256:n5iTwc6ym9YmyF9dAkXfdDNmOLmhi9JFU+iHpAYCHKU= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:87615 On Sat, 6 Jun 2026 01:46:14 -0400, c186282 wrote: > I do miss retail stores - you could ACTUALLY try on the merch - see > if it ACTUALLY fits. Ah for the days of the Big Malls ............. That's a benefit of Danners -- Sportsmens Warehouse has them on the shelf. REI does to, but they pissed me off at one point and I seldom go there. > Old enough to remember the first "Big Mall" in the area (like 50 > miles away). FANTASTIC. A whole cultural experience unto itself. I > see why so many movies involved Mall Brats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latham_Circle_Mall I'd left the state before the '77 renovation so I remember it as what would be called a glorified strip mall now. A real mall came later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonie_Center The first enclosed mall I ever saw was the Halifax Shopping Centre in Nova Scotia. It even had a bowling alley and it was also the first time I saw the perversion called candlepins. I think it started in Massachusetts and spread north. The local mall lost its attraction for me when Sears died, along with Bordersa, RadioShack, and Walden Books. They did add a Scheels, which I sometimes go to. An unexpected bonus was HobbyLobby. I was disappointed at my first pass to find it didn't have my sort of hobbies but a later exploration uncovered a wide selection of those plastic storage boxes with compartments idea for storing little modules that came 5 at a time from Amazon. Now, if I was smart enough to label them...