Dropping Like Flies

I will say RS strayed from it's hobbyist roots and that was the problem
I asked one of my staff to pickup a hard drive and he was like " I went in there and it was all Beats headphones and cell phones"
The internet made that random electrical/hobist  stuff waaay to easy to procure and I think that was ultimately their down fall
As the people who typically bought stuff at radio shack didn't like to be caught in sunlight

I was actually in one last Friday for the first time in years.  I drive past one on the way home from work and needed a longer Toslink cable for my new TV.   Best Buy was out of 6 foot cables so I decided I'd pay a little more and go to RS.

The sales guy (50+ overweight white male) was shocked to have a customer, and while being rather  nice, was following me around the store.  I'm a hobbyist so I was checking out all kinds of strange stuff.  At first I thought he was casing me in case I was going to steal something (despite being in a suit), but then I realized that I might be the only customer he sees on his shift so he was going to give me all of his attention.

He gave me a coupon for $10 off my next purchase of $40 or more.  Sadly, I won't be able to use it.  But truthfully, I've been racking my brain about what I'd buy anyway…for me Monoprice replaced RS years ago.

vansmack wrote:
At first I thought he was casing me in case I was going to steal something (despite being in a suit)

and white

Sidehatch wrote:

vansmack wrote:
At first I thought he was casing me in case I was going to steal something (despite being in a suit)

and white

Well played.

Dean Smith

Lt. Cmdr. Joe Langdell - the last living survivor of the USS Arizona

Billy Casper

Radioshack

hutch wrote:
Radioshack

You realize that you yourself discussed this three days ago in this very thread?

Yes..I'm still in shock…still not quite sinking in…

Kenji Ekuan

As with many elite industrial designers, you know his work even if you don't know his name. Decades after Kenji Ekuan created Kikkoman's iconic soy sauce bottles with their red caps, he designed Japan's Komachi bullet train, in a career driven by a desire to make good design accessible to everyone.

Ekuan died Sunday in Tokyo at age 85; Japanese news outlets say he had suffered from a heart disorder.

A native of Hiroshima, Ekuan was 17 when the city was hit by an atomic bomb toward the end of World War II. In the blast, he lost his sister and father, who was a Buddhist priest. He later said the devastation motivated him to start building things.

"Faced with brutal nothingness, I felt a great nostalgia for something to touch, something to look at," he told Japanese broadcaster NHK. "The existence of tangible things is important. It's evidence that we're here as human beings."

The designer created his most ubiquitous product in 1961: a flask-shaped and leak-resistant soy sauce dispenser that is now used around the world.  Ekuan, who was also a Buddhist monk, was credited with numerous corporate logos during Japan's industrial boom era, as well as creating the look of Yamaha's VMAX motorcycles and the Narita Express train that ferries passengers to and from Tokyo's main international gateway.

^ ok…so I know this guy above probably had nothing to do with this.
But for me this was one of the first 'viral videos' I'd ever seen and shared

I have no idea what is going on here
what's with the Giko Cat hanging himself?
the Kikkoman fish head guy sleeps with underage girls?

I give you Soy Sauce Warrior Kikkoman

The Daily Show - with Jon Stewart

Shemp wrote:
The Daily Show - with Jon Stewart

I don't get the timing….. next year is going to be election year… if you're going to suck up the Obama lame duck years why not stick it out and quit after the November 2016 election

ggw wrote:
Brian Williams's Career

Let the record reflect, if Allison needs comforting, I am on standby.

Maybe Brian can take over on the Daily Show

hutch wrote:

Shemp wrote:
The Daily Show - with Jon Stewart

I don't get the timing….. next year is going to be election year… if you're going to suck up the Obama lame duck years why not stick it out and quit after the November 2016 election

i agree, also weird that there is no timetable yet for him to leave.  and why did they announce on a tuesday? although if he wanted to leave, maybe he thought now would be the perfect time so that someone else can get started for the new election

hutch wrote:
I don't get the timing….. next year is going to be election year… if you're going to suck up the Obama lame duck years why not stick it out and quit after the November 2016 election

Stewart/Franken 2016