“As my career comes to a close, I’m happy to say that this is one of the best accomplishments of my life,” [Geoff Dobson] told his dining companions Saturday at the restaurant in Destin. The 29-year-old Air Force lieutenant was sitting in front of the restaurant’s Grand Burger, a $100 custom-ground filet mignon served with caviar, beefsteak tomatoes and a grand magnum of imported champagne.
“He needs goals in life,” quipped his friend, Tom Grant.
Dobson was at the pub for his going-away party as well as his and another friend’s promotion. Soon, Dobson will head back to his hometown of Pittsburgh to work as a software developer. He’ll also serve in the Army Active Reserves and expects to deploy to the Middle East in about six months.
In 1925, urban planner & historian Lewis Mumford described four “great tides” of migration that reflected the economic transformation of the US. Eight decades later, Robert Fishman (professor of architecture & urban planning at the University of Michigan) noted the large-scale return of people to global cities, labeling it the Fifth Migration. Today’s great tide, the Sixth Migration, is ebbing from global cities & towards a better quality of life.
Monday, April 07, 2008
No Burger Too Big, Too Dear
Keeping track of Burgh Boomerang tales, a prodigal son is soon to return as "Burger King":
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