Geeky Chic

TK will point out that I haven’t engaged in any generational navel gazing in a while, but these two projections from a  Times piece on hotels
who attempt to cater to Boomers and Gen X make me feel a tad ancient
(for I associate business travellers with men with paunches, rumbled
suits, and tassled shoes):

•  Gen Xers will be the “majority of the business travel segment” in two years, when the oldest of them start turning 42.
• Bjorn Hanson, head of the hospitality practice at
  PricewaterhouseCoopers, predicts that this year, for the first time,
  they [Gen Xers] will spend more per capita on business trips than baby boomers do.

Funny, with the rise of Gen Y, the prognositicators said that we’d lose
all of our influence over the market (and for the most part they were
right in the late 90s, that’s how we got Britney and the boy
bands).  But perhaps, we are pushing the tide back as we’ve
shrugged off slackerdom for yuppiedom (as evidenced by one of my
friends who shared her plastic laundry bag of Bliss shampoo/lotion/conditioner loot from her stay in Seattle this week).

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Edit: I don’t want to make light of Hurricane Rita, but I spoke with a
friend in Houston, and her only complaints, thus far were the traffic
snarls and the probable loss of electricity over the weekend (my other
Houstonian amiga fled to Austin).  To extend the metaphor only to
traffic, SF will have its very own hurricane
this weekend, the confluence of a war protest, Love Parade, the Folsom
Street Fair, and four other huge events.  Get out your walking
shoes.

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Edit II: Ew, I didn’t know that they’ve applied eminent domain to patents.