... The original bowling alley sign, transplanted onto Target's wall! Sadly, again, the neon was stripped off of these pieces (and it even looks like it was in halfway decent shape this time!), and nothing was done to restore them, so they look a bit the worse for wear. It's still pretty darn cool, though!
That bowl sign is pretty cool. It would have been even cooler with the neon, but oh well. I like the look of this wall with the "BOWL" sign better than the blank walls that are too plain and the walls with all that artwork on them that are too busy.
ReplyDeleteThere's an odd mix of products on the back wall that are next to one another. Laundry detergent and red party cups, lol. Those go together like, well, a Target and a bowling alley I suppose, lol. The toilet paper only adds to the oddity!
I'm using Linux right now and the emojis in the title so aren't working for me, lol. At least I assume they are emojis, I can't see them so I'm taking a blind guess. I probably need to install some font package. Oh well. I can claim this is some kind of conspiracy by people in Redmond, WA against Linux, lol.
Yeah, I agree that the line drawings can get a bit much sometimes! I still think they're better than Target's normal practice of completely blank walls, though.
DeleteHa, yep, it is a strange assortment of stuff! That's pretty normal for Target's smallest-format stores, though, which makes sense I guess since they're trying to cram a large selection of stuff into a store that's much smaller than they're used to.
The title is just "BOWL" in letters with boxes around them. I always wonder about cross-platform support -- I'm on Mac, and I've always thought of Windows as not having very good support for special characters in comparison, but I guess Linux can be even worse! I had been thinking of switching over to Linux when I eventually need to get a new computer, but having picked up a Raspberry Pi to mess with, I can't see myself using Linux on my main computer anytime soon...
The line art is certainly interesting. It's more interesting than blank walls, but it gets pretty jarring to look at for any sort of period of time. It's like constantly looking at a 'Where's Waldo?' drawing. Of course, given Target's history with Waldo, maybe there really is a Waldo in those drawings somewhere!
DeleteIt's never easy to give universal answers about Linux because every distribution and desktop environment has different default features. I'm currently using PCLinuxOS with the LXDE desktop environment. Since LXDE is a lightweight DE, it's possible some of the special characters are not installed by default in order to conserve resources. They're probably available to download though, I just have not done so I suppose. Other Linux distros do not include proprietary fonts, even if they are freely available, just out of principle of emphasizing open source software over proprietary software. The proprietary fonts can still be downloaded though.
All in all, I would recommend Linux if you don't need any specialized software like the Adobe applications and so forth. It works well for me and many distros work well with older hardware. You may have to play around with different distros and desktop environments to see which might best fit your needs and tastes. Linux Mint with the MATE DE might work well for you since Linux Mint tends to include just about everything and the MATE desktop environment is quite flexible with different layouts which mimic Windows and MacOS.
To be perfectly honest, pretty much all of that went right over my head! 🙂 I'm not actually all that much of a computer person; I guess I know just enough to sound like I know what I'm talking about, when I really don't.
DeleteLol, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it! At least your emojis work when mine don't! I will say that the smiley emoji you put in your last reply does show up fine. I suppose it's just some of the more obscure emojis that aren't loaded on my install of Linux.
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