Nowhere Near the Edge

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

Thursday, January 29, 2009

See Those Bootstraps? Pull Them Up

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Ford Motor Company is apparently doing everything it can to lean out its operations and avoid taking government bail-out money. Despite po...

Good Hoops Tonight

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Programming note: Number 1-ranked Duke taking on number 4-ranked Wake Forest made for good theater last night. Tonight, the lightly regarde...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Thrill Is Back!

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My favorite baseball player of my youth, Will Clark, has returned to the San Francisco Giants as a special assistant. The Giants make unus...

Digital Killed the Radio Star

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I may be late to this party, but I'm no less enthusiastic for it. The neatest little program I've found recently is Pandora, which ...
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That Concludes the (Analog) Broadcast Day

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The House has voted down a proposal to delay the date upon which all television stations must switch from analog to digital broadcasts. Th...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Internet Time Waster of the Month, Artistic Division

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If you ever felt the need to search Flickr for images, this is an elegant way to do it.
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Internet Time Wasters of the Month

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If you always yearned to be a shop foreman, coordinating the construction of widgets, here is the Flash game for you. The key to the task i...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Share My Pain

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Being a parent means losing all the poise and dignity you spent a young lifetime building up, in small, jagged fragments, one teachable mome...
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What's Old Is New Again

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Stirring, forceful words: ... [O]ur distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the ...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Good Times for Local Hoops

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The college basketball season is in full swing, and life is good in the Bay Area. Not only are the Cal Bears ranked No. 23 in the country, ...
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Thursday, January 08, 2009

If There Are Helicopters Overhead, It Can't Be Good

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Oakland is staging its own Rodney King revival, albeit in a much more tragic way. A 22 year old man was shot and killed at a BART station b...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

See Dick Sing. Sing, Dick, Sing!

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Video games are often derided as the agent of laziness that are turning the brains of today's youth to mush. Some people, usually those ...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Christmas in The City

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There is nothing quite like Christmas in a big city. Or so I've heard. I grew up in the suburbs, and lived in Los Angeles for the last...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Flawed Soul of a New Machine

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It bears repeating , and shouting from the mountaintops, that Top Gear just may be the best show on television, let alone the best car show ...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

The Fullest Full Moon

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If you have clear skies in your area Friday night, be sure to draw the shades if you want to get any sleep. The full moon on Friday will be...
Monday, December 08, 2008

Remembering the Dawn of an Era

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Forty years ago this week, the Stanford Research Institute demonstrated a machine that was the progenitor of the computer you are using rig...
Monday, December 01, 2008

Diamonds in the Sky

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The stars truly will be aligned tonight. Or rather, a couple of planets and a moon. If you have clear skies this evening just after sundow...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Making the House a Home

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At the time we bought the new house, it came with a non-functional old refrigerator. It was housed next to a slim cabinet that was further ...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

The Daily Grind

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My commute these days is a bit of an improvement over LA freeways:
Monday, November 17, 2008

Night Launch

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Last week, the space shuttle Endeavor made what is likely the last night launch for the shuttle program. An acquaintance from one of my onl...
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