Nowhere Near the Edge

In what has become a Christmas tradition, I spent the evening cooking Christmas Eve dinner for our family, including my in-laws, and cleanin...

For those of you interested in spectacular or merely intriguing aviation videos, this is a pretty good site. Be warned, some of the videos...

I've been mentally composing a major discussion of car naming conventions. Something has happened recently, though, that demands a respo...

Things have been busy lately. Our annual Christmas Concerts took place this past weekend: four concerts in two days, following tech/dress ...

Seen at a small, fenced-in playground at the San Francisco Civic Center (a homeless haven): "Adults prohibited unless accompanied by Ch...

The Mighty Tigers have finally been silenced. Kelly’s team surrendered to the Grey Wolves on Saturday by a score of 2-1. (One would have tho...

Yesterday's skidding crash of a Southwest 737 at Chicago's Midway airport bears an uncomfortable resemblance to an incident involvi...

I have long been an enthusiast of the space program. I am too young to remember the last days of the Apollo missions, but I vividly remembe...

Two days, two games, two wins. Kelly's team is on to yet another weekend of playoff games after defeating a couple of the best teams fr...

No more cuticle disasters while on vacation, ma'am. Feel free to carry your trusty Phillips head screwdriver, sir! Small pointy things...

If Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal (the current "it" couple of the indie movie scene) were to have a son, would they be requ...

This day, as with almost every national holiday, is best celebrated with at least a passing remembrance of how it came to be. As we work ou...

Powerful words, from March 20, 2003: “It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military ...

For those of you who like a good deal and aren't particularly brand loyal, keep an eye on Techbargains.com . Especially today, in advan...

At long last, JPL and NASA has released the latest "Where on Earth" Quiz . One silly mistake prevented me from joining the honor ...

For those who need a dose of the coast, UCSB has changed its webcam. The Surfcam no longer exists, but they have added a Lagoon/Ocean cam ...

In my playing days, AYSO never had playoffs. We had 8 to 10 games (rain or shine), a pizza party at the end of the year, and a nice partici...

Robert Blake has been found liable by a Burbank jury for killing his wife. So let me see if I have this straight: he probably did it (cha...

I'm not the only one who noticed the unexpected inclusion of amphetamines in the new baseball drug policy. A real live journalist has a...

Baseball, to much self-congratulatory acclaim, has finally agreed to a drug program that includes significant penalties. The commissioner’s...