@ajroach42 I liked the TNG episode "Inner Light" when an alien space probe zaps Picard and he falls unconscious for a few minutes, but in that time he experiences several decades of life as a citizen of the planet where the probe came from, before that planet's sun went supernova.
Great premise plus it was very well written and produced.
@trash yes it's legally called "The Best Shop". It opened the week before last at the New Horizon Mall in Balzac (between Calgary and Airdrie).
That whole mall is weird in the best way so far (including the fact that it is a very new mall opening as malls are supposed to be dying, and only 9 stores were ready to open for business when the doors opened to the public. Long fascinating story).
I hope it succeeds and becomes filled with hundreds of weird little shops selling weird things.
I was on a holiday road trip on the Pacific Coast Highway and we were improvising as we went. I think it was Lincoln City, Oregon(?) where we stopped because it was getting dark but there was some kind of sports tournament and the hotels were almost all full, so we had to stay in a "honeymoon suite" of a Ma and Pa operation that looked Just. Like. This.
@djsundog I think I saw one of those in a little shop in the surreal mall where the surreal "Best Shop" is. They even had a big poster with a Tux penguin and "Linux TV" on it. I should go back there and get a closer look :blobthinkingcool:
This store is a bit surreal. It's like a physical manifestation of TaoBao or AliExpress. Everything is in Chinese with small English subtitles even though it is located on the Canadian prairies.
Pretty good prices too...49" 4K televisions on special for CA$340 (less than US$250)!
The cool thing is that PT instance admins can subscribe to the whole instance, and their local catalog will get populated with all available channels and videos. So, in a way it's a means of syndication, and could be useful for bootstrapping an instance with something to watch.
Reminds me of the Renault Fuego I had when I was in university in some ways though it looked very different. Quirky and cantankerous but a fast and very smooth ride. It also had a fuel economy gauge that displayed fuel consumption in litres per 100km.
Also it had an engine oil LEVEL gauge so you never needed to pull the dipstick. When you turned the key on but before starting it checked the oil level.
Also the horn was on the turn signal talk. Weird little car.