Nowhere Near the Edge

A regular guy's ruminations on parenthood, society, sports, cars ... and sports cars.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Blimey, I'm Going Brit

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I have undergone a strange transformation this year. The most obvious external manifestation is this: on Sunday afternoons this fall, I can ...
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Friday, November 17, 2006

Dumb Criminals Make For Comedy Gold

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There is nothing funny about a death threat. Nothing, that is, unless it is delivered with flood-tide levels of ineptitude and lunacy. Forme...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Making Saturdays More Simple

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With all of the running around we do on Saturdays, with soccer games all over town, birthday parties even more randomly sited, and Home Depo...
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A Modicum of Class and Civility Returns

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The decline of civility in the American culture has been extensively chronicled and bemoaned. Everything from the Beatles to hippie culture ...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Soccer Updates

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The kids' soccer seasons are drawing to a close. Each has one regular-season game remaining; Kelly's team will then go into the divi...

Evening Skies

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For some reason, when it is 95 degrees in November, you get sunsets like this on our street: Moonrise over the hill ... if only I'd had ...
Saturday, November 04, 2006

A Solution for the Geographically Impaired

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Americans are notorious for their shaky-to-nonexistent grasp of basic geography (although I have some doubts as to whether a stockbroker fro...

A Long Time Ago, on a Prairie Far, Far Away

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Halloween gave us the seldom-seen pairing of Laura Ingalls and Anakin Skywalker:
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Zoom Zoom, Take 2

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This weekend I had another opportunity to smoke the tires and boil the brake fluid of Mazda's latest offerings. As I did last year, I a...
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Friday, October 20, 2006

Fall, Schmall

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October 20th, you say? Well, here we are at 3:15 pm: I just figured that would brighten your day. Okay, everybody back in the pool!
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Honorable Discharge

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You may have heard that golfer Arnold Palmer decided to retire from competitive golf last week. The 77 year old legend hasn't been tru...
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Who's the Published Writer Now?

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Well, well. My old English 2B classmate, Professor Monk, has hit the bright lights of the media world. The Professor has an article at New...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

On Athletes Dying Young, and Old Men

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In a weird confluence of the political and sports worlds, the airplane that crashed into a Manhattan highrise yesterday, rekindling 9/11 ji...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Brainteaser of the Day

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Do you have a few minutes? Good. How about a couple of hours? If you do, try this flash-based set of puzzles . They are very light on di...
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Beam Me Up, Scotty

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Teleportation is reality ! Well, it is if you happen to be a "macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms"...
Monday, October 02, 2006

Listen To Your Mother

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Researchers have recently determined that children are far more likely to be roused from sleep in an emergency by the sound of their mother...
Friday, September 29, 2006

Epilepsy Drug Warning

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There are so many risk factors to take into account when deciding to have a baby; the need to take medication for a chronic condition adds a...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Objects On Your Shelf May Be Smaller Than They Appear

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It has been a major peeve of mine over the years that the products we buy, particularly at the grocery store, have become smaller without an...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Happy 5th Birthday, Michael!

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This is one of those years when we lost our sanity and invited everybody Michael knows, or has met, or has seen from across a street somewhe...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

An Overdue Memoriam

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I believe that most people can identify at least one teacher in their educational experience who had a particularly notable impact on their ...
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