Nowhere Near the Edge

The grave marker of William Shakespeare, after several centuries of exposure to the footsteps of clergy in his home church in Statford-Upon-...

There was joy in Pasadena Sunday, when the Phoenix lander obeyed the laws of physics and completed its programmed suite of gravitational, ae...

Within two weeks of lowering the price on the house into the "you can't ignore this one" range, we have three offers. As of t...

At long (loooooong) last, we are starting to receive offers on the house. Unfortunately, the offers are low, well below our latest price dr...

In my new circumstances as a temporary bachelor, I have gained more regular access to a television. Unfortunately, the television does not ...

The recent confirmation that AT&T will not accept cash for the purchase of an iPhone in limiting purchases to one per customer has loos...

The three largest US airlines, United, American and Delta, announced today that they will raise ticket prices by $20, in the form of a fuel...

The current reversal in residential real estate values has been a source of consternation generally and very practical difficulty personally...

Another Mars probe is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet this month. The Phoenix Mars Lander will descend to Mars' northern ice...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...