Nowhere Near the Edge

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

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

As If I Needed Another Reminder That I'm Getting Older

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While watching lacrosse on TV this weekend, one of the announcers noted that a player was following in the footsteps of his father who had p...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Backpage Sports Weekend Preview

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Memorial Day weekend is usually a good one, thanks to the extra day off. It also happens to be home to a number of big events in lesser-fol...

What Impending State Insolvency Looks Like

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The people of California will soon begin feeling the pinch of the state's widely publicized budgetary mess. Immediately after a series ...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Problem Solving At 350 Miles Up

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I acknowledge that I may be the only person not employed by NASA who watches the live NASA TV coverage of shuttle flights, but the mission c...

A Bounty in the Back Yard

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Our house was landscaped with a nice variety of flowers and trees. One of the odd pleasures of the house is that, because we bought the hou...
Monday, May 11, 2009

The Most Exotic Fish Market Ever

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Alton Brown is one of my favorite television personalities (admittedly, that is not a long list). He is the creator, producer and star of ...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Tragedy In Paradise

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I can now say, sadly, that someone I have known personally has been murdered. I received word today through a network of old friends that a ...
Friday, May 01, 2009

Backup, Before It's Too Late

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It's official. The old hard drive is dead, taking three years of documents, financial data and photographs with it. The only document ...
Monday, April 27, 2009

The First Step Down The Long Path Of Image Rehabilitation

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It's through the looking glass time. Barry Bonds, the former slugger who is now baseball's most prominent pariah thanks to steroids,...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Approaching Suburban Perfection

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After only seven months of residency, we reached a milestone today: We've had one car in the driveway since we moved in, with boxes and ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Computers Say The Darndest Things

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If Art Linkletter were still around, he could develop a new franchise around the bizarre malaprops generated by speech recognition software....

The Worst Investment I Ever Made

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... and it wasn't even my choice. It seems that the good money that was thrown after the bad money really hit it off and decided to run...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Reconnected

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This post is unremarkable in appearance, but a big deal on our end of the keyboard. After a couple of weeks down, the iMac is functional ag...

Close Enough For Government Work

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I feel so cheated. It turns out that Four Corners, the point at which Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah come together (the only such m...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

For A Future Vacation: Munich

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We have a lot of generalized plans about places we want to visit as a family. Hawaii is high on the list, an American heritage trip through...
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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Where Middle Age Begins

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I finally figured out where the boundary line of middle age is. It is the day you host your daughter's 12-year-old birthday party and yo...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Just Desserts?

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A Ferrari crashed in the local hills last Saturday. The driver apparently took a turn too fast and flipped the car. Fortunately, she was ...

Magical Moments

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We've been away for spring break, our first extended getaway as a family in about two years. We kids knew we were headed to San Diego; ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Tomorrowland, Today

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On our way to our time-share condo outside San Diego for spring break this week, we surprised the kids with a stop at Disneyland. They refu...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

Travelog

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Although I have somehow resisted the urge to gush, the iPhone I have had for the last seven months has exceeded my expectations in just abou...
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