{"id":2223,"date":"2005-08-25T22:20:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T02:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2005-08-27T09:21:43","modified_gmt":"2005-08-27T13:21:43","slug":"ididntbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/25\/ididntbook\/","title":{"rendered":"ididn’tBook"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a truly soulless evening, take yourself down to the BestBuy<\/a> at Scarborough Town Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

STC is a mega-mall, with the obligatory huge concrete and asphalt deadzone around it. Its current sales slogan is For what defines <\/strong>you<\/em>, which must mean that its denizens are in a pretty parlous state, existentially speaking. Its only slightly attractive feature is its derelict KrispyKreme store, which opened as a flagship, then frazzled almost as quickly as a KK’s dextrose rush. Abandoned donut shops<\/a> are Canada’s ruined abbeys; places of worship gone to seed.<\/p>\n

BestBuy itself is an outcast from the mall, in an especially ped-unfriendly way. Perhaps the only defined route there is through a monster split-level Wal-Mart, but I didn’t have enough hitpoints to make it through that particular slough.<\/p>\n

I’d checked their website, and it said that the store had iBooks in stock, at $50 below retail. Did the store have any on display? No. The Apple section was set behind the customer service desk, which was a scrum of slightly disgruntled shoppers. So I left without seeing one.<\/p>\n

I wandered in a bit of a post big-box haze to McCowan RT, a weird little station at the very end of the rails. At least I was rewarded with a beautiful sunset over the 401 at McCowan; all boiling red and purple. That’s about the best you’ll get near STC, and for free, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a truly soulless evening, take yourself down to the BestBuy at Scarborough Town Centre. STC is a mega-mall, with the obligatory huge concrete and asphalt deadzone around it. Its current sales slogan is For what defines you, which must mean that its denizens are in a pretty parlous state, existentially speaking. Its only slightly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,2,10],"tags":[1386,705,1034,358,2900,1200,85,946,404,1066,367,241,510,96,172,1113,150,148,1031,1064,593,786,365,1345,1202,243,607,976,538,1269,858,582],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","category-o-canada","tag-apple","tag-art","tag-band","tag-book","tag-books","tag-canada","tag-car","tag-cc","tag-donut","tag-eat","tag-eft","tag-fine","tag-free","tag-friend","tag-ibook","tag-ice","tag-led","tag-light","tag-low","tag-oil","tag-pen","tag-ppe","tag-red","tag-ren","tag-sales","tag-scarborough","tag-slogan","tag-station","tag-stock","tag-ugh","tag-web","tag-xt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-zR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}