Nowhere Near the Edge

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

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Patience Will Pay Off, Literally

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After soaking what they could out of Apple acolytes, AT&T and Apple will soon join the rest of the cell phone industry in offering a reb...

"Previously, on .5 ..."

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The recently-concluded writers' strike had widespread and profound effects throughout Hollywood. The cost unseen to the rest of the wor...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

New Home Sweet Home

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We have finally been home long enough to upload photos we have been taking all month to our home computer. Here are some shots of our renta...

A Month's Respite

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Ever since Kelly started in school, with its year round schedule that gave us all of April for vacation, our Aprils have typically involved ...
Monday, April 21, 2008

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

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The fine city of Chicago suffered through an astonishingly violent weekend , with 32 people shot and six killed. In other seemingly unrelate...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

TVs On Cardboard Boxes, and Other Bachelor Tales

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Even though I have been living far from home during the week for the past seven months, I am just now concluding only the first week of true...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

(Virtually) Wave As You (Virtually) Pass By

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With the personal delivery of three boxes of kitchen and laundry supplies and three suitcases, Cheryl and the kids began the slow process of...
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Saturday, April 05, 2008

Hitch Up the Wagons, Ma

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At long last, we're moving! Well, sort of. Not the way we originally envisioned it, but close enough. We signed a lease on a little fou...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Raise Your Hash Browns In Honor

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The inventor of the Egg McMuffin has died . The guy was a McDonald's lifer, who went from developing the brand's first advertising ...
Friday, March 21, 2008

Sports History Online

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For those who are old enough to remember when Sports Illustrated consistently offered some of the finest writing anywhere (which just happen...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

That Didn't Take Long

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Just like that, the members of the UCSB men's basketball team can start going to class again. The Gauchos went down to defeat against ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

UCSB Goes To The Tournament!

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Well, no, not that one. I foresaw great things to come for the UCSB men's basketball team back at the beginning of the season, and to...
Friday, March 14, 2008

For Your (Racing) Viewing Pleasure

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Just a friendly reminder: The Formula 1 season kicks off this weekend from Melbourne, Australia. The 12 Hours of Sebring, an unaccountably...

Happy Pi Day, Everybody!

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Yep, it's 3.14 today. Geeks of the world, unite!
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Stealth Fighter Retired

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The F117A "Stealth Fighter" will be mothballed by April . The angular, radar-evading single seat aircraft, a platform so aerodyna...
Monday, March 10, 2008

Play Ball, Tyke Division

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Michael's first T-ball game, played Saturday morning, is best understood using the comparison device employed by the SAT for generations...
Friday, March 07, 2008

Small Effort, Big Improvement

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File this under the heading, "why did we wait so long to do this?" In the era just past of abundant home equity, it seems that th...
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Thursday, March 06, 2008

The Pieces Starting to Fall Into Place

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Amazingly, a government institution has done its job more efficiently than the public would have expected. Yesterday, HUD submitted its gui...

Another Reason the Internet Is Cool

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From a practical standpoint, this is really of interest only to me, but it serves as a prime example of what makes the Internet such a great...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

Peace In Our Time

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At long last, after 12 contentious years, the IRL and Champ Car have finally agreed to unify their series . The IRL came into existence 12 ...
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