Nowhere Near the Edge

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

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

A Job for the Most Interesting Man in the World

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If you always wanted to be a pilot but were put off by the bus-driver mentality ... if you always wanted to be an international spy ... if y...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Chinese Volvo

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We spent the evening watching a news program on CCTV International, a Chinese-based television network. The perspective on world events was...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Saturday Sports Highlights

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The kids are well into their sports seasons now. After one practice and one practice game (which her "Penn State" team won), Kell...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Gaels Country

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The attention that the St. Mary's basketball team has brought to itself by its run to the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA tournament reminds ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Giving

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One of the unique features of our area is the very sharp delineation between prosperity and poverty. Our three little contiguous communities...

March Madness Tips Off

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The NCAA men's basketball tournament kicks off again this morning, with a few items of local interest. The most prominent media story is...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Enterprise To Fly Again

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The first space shuttle, the Enterprise, will be moved soon from its current home at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum Annex near ...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Stranger in a Strange Land: Prologue

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In preparation for our trip to China, I found myself at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco twice this week. On my first visit, I learne...
Sunday, March 07, 2010

Saturday Sports Highlights

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After a wet winter that played havoc with the practice schedule, the Moraga Baseball Association held its opening day ceremonies and first g...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

Also Turning 40

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The Boeing 747 . Bigger than expected, but versatile, and usually makes people happy when they see it. Yeah, that's sounds about right.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Further Evidence of the Decline of the English Language

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The part of the world that turned "google" into a verb, and gave the world the means to carry out that action, may be on the cusp ...

Time Keeps On Slippin'

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Cataclysmic seismic events have obvious local consequences. They also can have much more far-reaching consequences that are not visible to m...
Friday, February 26, 2010

Citius, Altius, Fortius ... Fecundius?

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Olympic athletes represent the pinnacle of human physical ability (except, perhaps, for curlers). "Faster, higher, stronger" is a...
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The Horror

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Due to some technical glitch, I was without e-mail or Internet access for six hours yesterday. That was the day, of course, that I also left...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Adventures In Advertising

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The sport of basketball, and especially its collegiate variant, is particularly vulnerable to influence by gamblers. Although it is a team g...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

An Overdue Thanks

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As the news industry turns its focus to economy's struggle to survive under its own weight and the intensified war in Afganistan, let...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Least Surprising News Story of theYear

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File this under the category "Dog Bites Man": "Man on 'bad trip' found hugging tree in Santa Cruz." A 23 year ol...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Sparkling Vistas

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As the eastern seaboard hunkers down under record snowfalls, Los Angeles is bidding farewell to its latest bout with crummy weather. The un...
Friday, February 05, 2010

An Epic Journey

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Two months from now, we'll be on the biggest adventure of our lives. We will be taking a trip, over the kids' spring break, to carry...
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Thursday, February 04, 2010

The Boys of Summer in Winter

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It is common knowledge that elite athletes become so through a combination of God-given talent and sheer hard work. At the youth level, ther...
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