Nowhere Near the Edge

Yesterday was, finally, the last day of school. Because the school will be dropping sixth grade next year, the fifth graders also got a pro...

I seem to get swept up in strange things when I leave the office for business. If it is not a nationwide airline computer meltdown, it is a...

Tomorrow I will take my 63rd, and last, flight between Oakland and Burbank since mid-September. It is a measure of Southwest Airlines' ...

A great American once said, it's always darkest ... just before they turn the lights on. Our house has not been in such disarray since ...

Programming note: Discovery is showing "In The Shadow Of The Moon" tonight . As I have said before , it is well worth the time s...

As an end-of-the-season treat, Little League players from our area were invited to take a walk around the warning track at Dodger Stadium be...

One of the most unusual and impressive achievements in aeronautic design was the SR-71 Blackbird spyplane, developed and built at Lockheed...

If you have some time to spare, enjoy this article about how context can affect the appreciation of art.

[Sigh] It's going to be a long day.

Okay, that cleared out everybody but The Professor. Moving on: I wonder why I keep playing fantasy sports. Every year, the team that I all...

"What ev er." I am coming to the realization that younger siblings must exist to give older siblings opportunities to practice the...

The Professor sagely alerted me to the series that had its premiere on the Discovery Channel last night: " When We Left Earth: The NAS...

I realize full well that I am doing little more than giving voice to my heretofore latent fanboy tendencies. If you are a fellow traveler, ...

I guess it wasn't just a loopy dream. At some point in the middle of the night, I had a vague, near-waking sense that I was feeling an ...

I recently watched Ken Burns' "The War," his summation of World War II. It is an excellent flim, as are all of his production...

This may be the ultimate unstoppable-object-meets-immovable-force example for the Mendocino (and San Francisco, and Berkeley) crowd: Man gro...

The recently deceased inventor of the Pringles can has been buried ... in a Pringles can . It is rumored that the inventors of the Ziploc b...

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...