Nowhere Near the Edge

If you have ever seen The Shawshank Redemption (and if you haven't, you really should), you know how this story works: "Pinups o...

Kelly's soccer team, the Lemonheads, went down to defeat Saturday and Wednesday, ending their season. The campaign was a successful one...

Last night's Mythbusters tackled one of my most cherished Walter Mitty fantasies: a civilian landing a commercial airliner. With all ...

This is an interesting exercise in mouse control, spacial awareness and anticipation. A completely unfounded rumor has it that the Air For...

Those colorful stones and other shiny adornments? Jewel ry. Not Jewler y. Thank you.

Don't look now, but the UCSB Gauchos may be on the rise again. Well, what counts for a rise when you are a mid-major men's basketba...

Southwest Airlines takes a lot of flack for being the Greyhound of the skies: the pack in a lot of people with no frills. In its favor, So...

In other "I'm getting old" laments, a remastered edition of U2's "The Joshua Tree" was released today. How can ...

I finished a court appearance in San Jose today with enough time to dawdle in the South Bay before heading home for the evening, so I took t...

It appears that my many family members and friends in the Pacific Northwest are facing a particularly vicious winter storm, with hurricane l...

It's December, which means Kelly's soccer playoffs, of course. She was fortunate to be on another good team this year. She has bee...

Living in San Francisco for substantial portions of the last three months, I have spent more time in fog in that time than in the last three...

Former Justice of the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor retired from the Court two years ago, in part to care for her ailing husband of ...

There now remains but one American veteran who saw time in Europe in World War I.

There was a time, a couple of decades ago, when the mysterious retail center known locally as "The Price Club" worked its way into...

We're finally running up against some dates that will require action. If we cannot get our house sold within the next couple of weeks, ...

A quick update on the houseselling front. We have had several open houses now, with varying degrees of interest. The first were attended m...

Just when you thought you had killed off all the bloons , they're back ! I haven't had time to play this one yet, but rumor has it ...

And I'm not even suffering this loss. Here is a list of addresses of homes lost in Rancho Bernardo so far -- ten pages of them. It loo...

Here is a recent satellite radar image of southern California: Despite what the legend says on the map, I assure you that this is not a reco...