dkSez : : : : : : Don Kahle’s blog

Mornings are easy to keep uninterrupted, and I’ve made mine like Grandma’s. Warm your hands, do a little work, sip something steaming, consider the day ahead, and savor what may be your only moments of waking calm.

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Commerce connects us, but we can lose track of that. Money represents the exchange. Free often breeds a boundless sense of entitlement. Ask Eugene Weekly, after their locks were Superglued shut in 1997 because they accepted a McDonald’s ad.

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“Zero footprint” makes us sorry for our life. We need just the opposite. For me, sustainability is synonymous with joie de vivre.

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Everyone claims self-assuredly that newspapers cannot resist new media because they rely too heavily on written words. Why aren’t restaurant menus imperiled?

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Oregonians know something about moving against the tide, pushing the rope, defying gravity. It’s not for nothing that wild salmon capture our imagination so deeply, boldly swimming upstream to spawn.

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Our parents warned us never to accept rides with strangers, but every trip in an elevator is essentially that — a ride with strangers.

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As publishing paradigms convulse, who will ask if a thot can be expressed with fewer words? For the next little while, maybe Twitter. Kudos.

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If you abandon hope that the original problem will shape the solutions to be discovered, fecundity explodes. Intellectual Ventures operates on the premise that good ideas are a dime a dozen.

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If the doorbell rings while I’m watching television, I pass nine clocks before I reach my front door. The television, VCR and computer; the coffee pot, microwave, and stove; the thermostat, indoor/outdoor thermometer, and stereo. I think the dishwasher also knows what time it is, but it doesn’t tell me — I paid extra for the “ultra-quiet” model and I’m glad for it.

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We’ve overlearned his lesson and built a view of the world and ourselves that insists that every action has a cause. We’ve conceived a world without caprice. There are no senseless acts, only misunderstood motives. We inhabit a chain of intersecting causes and effects and call it life. Modern man has simply swapped superstitions.

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