Justin

Justin is the young Coot with a Cantankerous Soul who continues to be educated by older, more cootish Ralph and Bob. His Cantankerosity is his own.

Down With Bookstores!

 Posted by at 09:31  Down with, rants
Feb 142013
 

Ok I really like bookstores….for the most part.  I can remember when it was fun to go into a bookstore and look for something new to read, or something from an old favorite author.  Or even to find something completely new.

I went to a (large national chain(changed to avoid libel allegations)) bookstore the other day and was almost (read totally) annoyed with the trip.  Just when did the salespeople at (large national chain) get direct dispensation from Jesus himself that they were darn near the center of the universe?

It was hard to get someone who was willing to help and didn’t seem like I was inconveniencing them.  And they worked there!  Even the girl who was ringing up the books seemed like a) she had better things to do, and b) what kind of a low life wretch would bring his kids into (large national chain) bookstore and then presume to actually buy something?!?!  And if that wasn’t bad enough, c) no club and discount card????  Oh the humanity!

But I digress….There are some very…interesting people who hang out at (large national chain) bookstore.  I am quite sure that a few of them lived at the bookstore or at least waited outside the door for the place to open like a junkie looking for a fix.  People hanging out with their laptops getting coffee and just hanging out.

There were even people there who were quite enthralled in a novel, and at that point about half way through.  I don’t know if they finished the book but I am quite sure it wasn’t paid for beforehand.  I could be wrong, I frequently am.

My point is this, the word Store is in the title of the place which would mean that they sell things like…say….BOOKS!  and another key word in the last sentence was SELL.  C’mon people, if you go to a bookstore find a book and pony up some cash for it.  Then go outside and read it!  Or save your cash for our Cantankerous Old Coots book that we are working on.  It will be worth it.

A bookstore is not a hangout joint.  Go read something good, away from the bookstore!

Go live life for a while, summer is about over.

-Justin

Justin

Justin is the young Coot with a Cantankerous Soul who continues to be educated by older, more cootish Ralph and Bob. His Cantankerosity is his own.

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Feb 012013
 

I was just looking at some numbers here on the ol’ Coots blog and I found something interesting.  It seems our tweet out when posted plugin is not working.  At all.  Looking further, there are no updates, the plugin blog post on the developer site is from 2008.  Finally, I have switched plugins.

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twitterverse (Photo credit: birgerking)

That in itself is not big news, what is surprising is this, the past 2 posts that have gone out this week have had 11 and 17 views.  The two before that have had 42 and 37 views.  That tells me there are not many people actually reading these posts on their own and Twitter is a huge tool in the promotion of this blog.  This particular post should go out into the Twitterverse and lets see just how many hits it generates.

Now, I have read volumes of stuff about how to make blogs happen and get bigger.  Twitter is good but sharing, out there with people, gets more people here to read our stuff.  If this is your first time here, good deal.  Share with your friends using those nifty buttons at the bottom.

If this blog is your guilty pleasure and you don’t want people to know you read it, sneak some links out and about for us.  We won’t tell.

If you are so inclined, add something to the comments!  We love to hear inane babble er, constructive comments from our readers.  Ralph has been the main writer here for far too long and maybe you are just getting tired of him and his rants about traveling the world and all of the hardships associated with living in California.  Apparently, he is losing his ranting mojo as evidenced by this post earlier in the week.

Or maybe you are just excited to get some Bob back into the cantankerousness with his last two posts, part 1 and part 2.  Maybe you just don’t care.   But, with 2013 fast dwindling we need to raise our alexa score so that we can get some advertising to help pay for this adventure.

Please, share, comment, blast us with incredulity, or find your own cantankerousness and write a guest post.  You will not be sorry.

-Justin

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Justin

Justin is the young Coot with a Cantankerous Soul who continues to be educated by older, more cootish Ralph and Bob. His Cantankerosity is his own.

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Nov 282012
 
Signature of George Carlin.

Image via Wikipedia

Something quick and funny today.  George Carlin is still one of my favorite comedians.  He has a great cantankerousness that needs to be shared!  This is one of my favorite routines of his, beware though, contains salty language that your boss may not approve of, so be careful.

have a great weekend

-Justin

Justin

Justin is the young Coot with a Cantankerous Soul who continues to be educated by older, more cootish Ralph and Bob. His Cantankerosity is his own.

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Nov 212012
 

Hello Folks, well first off, the bad news, there will be no podcast today.  Sick kids are not conducive to a decent recording session!  Unless you want to hear a lot of crying and screaming.  I could record that.  I am still going to shoot for a podcast this week though, look for it on Saturday.

Thanks, Justin

Justin

Justin is the young Coot with a Cantankerous Soul who continues to be educated by older, more cootish Ralph and Bob. His Cantankerosity is his own.

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Nov 202012
 

You know, sometimes not putting up a post can be cantankerous protest!  I dropped the ball in so many ways last week, there was no post today.  It happens.  Wednesday will have something and a lesson on friday.  If you don’t like that, whatever.  I am going fishing.

-Justin

Justin

Justin is the young Coot with a Cantankerous Soul who continues to be educated by older, more cootish Ralph and Bob. His Cantankerosity is his own.

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