Arriving at home isn’t nearly as interesting for Don Kahle, version 2.0. Most of home is now in my pocket: music and video, but also all my connections to others. E-mail, text messages, voice mail, web mail, and phone calls, all in one place. If home is where your heart is, but your iPhone is in your pocket, where exactly is home now?
Entries Tagged as 'Arr-Gee published'
iPhone Rocks!
August 15th, 2008 · No Comments
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How Long Things Take
August 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Published Friday, August 8, 2008 in The Register-Guard.
When I think about what I love best about home, there’s one item that’s not an item at all, but a huge comfort nonetheless. After living in Eugene for about a dozen years, I know how long most things take.
I’m sure economists can and do measure the economic [...]
Tags: Arr-Gee published · Civic · Urban Design · You-gene
What I Miss Already
August 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Published Friday, August 1, 2008 in The Register-Guard.
It sounds like a country music song to say you don’t know what you have until you find yourself without it, but here I am. I haven’t left Eugene yet, and already I’m missing things that I recognize in Eugene and very few other places on earth.
• When you’re [...]
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Why I’m Going to Iraq
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Published Friday, July 25, 2008 in The Register-Guard.
My summer vacations growing up could not be separated from the first assignment of the new school year. “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” became part of the summer experience itself. Sharing our stories extended the pleasures into the next season. The power of storytelling made its [...]
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Kinetics Challenge Rickies
July 18th, 2008 · No Comments
n the past twelve years, I have seen human-sized hamster balls, demotorized lawn mowers, gyroscopic irrigation wheels, retrofitted playground equipment; surfboards, skateboards, and sailboats. Two years ago there was a stainless steel ant that attempted to march the race.
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Diversity is Something You Can Do
July 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Pick a knoll and watch a concert. Watch the people watching. You may wish you could stay longer, but this field trip has two more stops before dinner.
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Olympians Call Us To Dream Big
July 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Our civic leaders tell us the Olympic Trials will be hosted in Eugene again in 2012 “and every four years after that.” But the athletes around us would insist we aim higher, dream bigger, accept no limits.
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Eugene’s Competing Slogans
June 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The centrality of sport — even a boutique sport like track and field — is thought by some to diminish the core competencies of a liberal arts university and the town that hosts its students. Claiming for ourselves the mantle of “world’s greatest” anything rubs others the wrong way — pretentious on our best day and dishonest on our worst.
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Toby’s Troubles Are Our Own
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments
The popularity of the spread will continue to spread. It’s only a matter of time before Midwestern grocers begin requesting Toby’s for their shelves, but with packaging that mentions neither “paté” nor “tofu.” What will Toby call her recipe for Iowa shoppers? N’Egg Salad? I’m sure the conversation with food industry experts has already begun.
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Obama Can Pick His VP “American Idol-Style”
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments
“American Idol” has become the dominating model of democracy in America, so why not just go with it? Some “American Idol” finalists have garnered more votes than any presidential candidate has ever received, so why not give people what they want, at least for the summer?
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