I live in Salon Land. I am less than two blocks from three salons. Within a five block radius, there are on the order of ten salons.
What's the POINT of that? I mean, I get why you'd want to have a fabric district or a bridal district. Price comparison and quality comparison and such. You can see all your options, get fabric swatches, and compare colour matches. You can walk down one street and try on dresses at ALL of the shops. One stop shopping.
But how does that work with SALONS? I mean, you can get different prices, sure, and price compare. But you won't know the quality until you try them. I guess you could get an idea by watching the person give others hair cuts... but still. neh.
In other news. More and more of my friends are starting to send out feelers about fleeing this country. Recent developments are SCARING us. Really. And I have triple citizenship. Canadian, US, and British. I can get you anywhere in North America and the European Union, if you marry me. I bet I could make a career of being a temporary wife to people if things get bad. I wouldn't want to. But... I'm actually starting to feel worried. Before I thought, nah, it's just paranoia. My crowd is all gamers. We're a paranoid bunch.
Now I'm wondering... how bad will things get before they start getting better? If they start getting better?
In happier news, my article, Cargo: Kidney, is in this month's Technology Review. You can read the opening of the article and purchase the actual article at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation71002.aspIf you're an MIT person, you can get inside for free with the MIT account off the MIT libraries site.
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