Salon Land, Questioner, the green card generator, and my name in Technology Review

[danaeris]

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.asp

If you're an MIT person, you can get inside for free with the MIT account off the MIT libraries site.

Comments

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

The same thing happens with restaurants, have you noticed? There will be a half-dozen Indian places within as many blocks, and none for miles around. In Seattle years ago there were two really good funky breakfast places --- the sort of places where couples would sit for hours over the Sunday New York Times and linger over their coffee and everything from fresh muffins with smoked salmon mousse to salmonberry pancakes with bacon --- and they were within two blocks of each-other. The only theory I've ever heard that makes any sense to me is that people who've always had it in the back of their minds that they'd like to open, say, a thimble painting business notice that somebody has a successful thimble painting shop at 7th and Elm. And they think "hey, they've got more business than they can handle, and painted thimble fans already know to come to this neighborhood --- and oh, hey, look, a vacant storefront at 623 Elm...." And the next thing you know, Elm between 6th and 8th has a half-dozen thriving thimble painting shops.