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The problem with piped Christmas music in stores isn't just the short playlist. It's that everyone is using the same short playlist. In July, there's at least the chance that if store A is playing "light music," B will be doing oldies, and C some other sort of pop, and D might be playing country.

Thus, for my current purposes, Duane Reade is a much better drugstore than CVS, not because I was able to find most of what I was looking for, but because they weren't broadcasting music, or for that matter talk radio or announcements of sales, so I was willing to take a bit of time to look. (I am fairly sure that CVS stocks ibuprofen.)

[Comments including allegedly relevant song lyrics, or offering playlists, will be deleted, grumpily.]

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The problem with piped Christmas music in stores isn't just the short playlist. It's that everyone is using the same short playlist. In July, there's at least the chance that if store A is playing "light music," B will be doing oldies, and C some other sort of pop, and D might be playing country.

Thus, for my current purposes, Duane Reade is a much better drugstore than CVS, not because I was able to find most of what I was looking for, but because they weren't broadcasting music, or for that matter talk radio or announcements of sales, so I was willing to take a bit of time to look. (I am fairly sure that CVS stocks ibuprofen.)

[Comments including allegedly relevant song lyrics, or offering playlists, will be deleted, grumpily.]

software oddity

After rysmiel mentioned gmail and chatting earlier today, I started wondering whether Google talk was willing to work with Gaim. Technically, it's not, the protocol isn't supported: but that mostly means that the last time they upgraded the program, they renamed it, so I now have a cheerful IM window with a client called Pidgin.

The oddity is that rather than either list all my buddies on different hosts and such together, or list them all separately (as Gaim did), it's showing me one list for people on the LJ Jabber server, and one for people on AOL's IM client and those on Gmail. My mother not being logged on right now, I don't know how it handles Yahoo Messenger. (I log into that because Mom does--it's the program my brother set her up on, and no hassle for me to talk to through the same client I'm using anyway. (Mom, you don't need to change anything about your software because of what I've changed.))

software oddity

After rysmiel mentioned gmail and chatting earlier today, I started wondering whether Google talk was willing to work with Gaim. Technically, it's not, the protocol isn't supported: but that mostly means that the last time they upgraded the program, they renamed it, so I now have a cheerful IM window with a client called Pidgin.

The oddity is that rather than either list all my buddies on different hosts and such together, or list them all separately (as Gaim did), it's showing me one list for people on the LJ Jabber server, and one for people on AOL's IM client and those on Gmail. My mother not being logged on right now, I don't know how it handles Yahoo Messenger. (I log into that because Mom does--it's the program my brother set her up on, and no hassle for me to talk to through the same client I'm using anyway. (Mom, you don't need to change anything about your software because of what I've changed.))