Nowhere Near the Edge

I hate vacuum cleaners. Not vacuuming; the OCD part of me has always found the patterns vacuums make in low pile shag carpeting very soothi...

If it's almost Labor Day, the kids must have been in school for a week already. It's a mildly momentous year. Third grade is often...

The swim season finished on a dramatic upward trajectory. Our four youngest divisions (6-and-under boys and girls, and 7-8 boys and girls) ...

This post is for the benefit of anyone who, like me, was driven crazy by dust that got under the glass of their iPhone. Welcome, Google tra...

That should have been the headline on this story : a truck carrying 39,000 pounds of shredded cheese caught fire and blocked traffic on Inte...

One of the Silent Auction items available in the swim team's fundraisers was a set of four tickets to a Giants game. We won the tickets...

The regular season for the swim team has come to a close, with only the massive nine-team finals swim meet to go. It has been a terrific se...

When I started the day in a dentist's chair, I thought the day could only get better. I was wrong. On my way into work, my teeth and gu...

Although our television is usually tuned to Giants games, news or the Disney Channel, we make a little bit of time for series television. F...

We have enjoyed a summer that has felt as pleasantly aimless as we imagine summers ought to be. With the exception of occasional bouts of m...

A cop pulls over Schroedinger. During the course of the stop the cop asks Schroedinger if he can look in the trunk. Schroedinger gives him p...

Hewlett-Packard, the original pioneering company that helped create and define what become known as Silicon Valley, will be closing its Cupe...

It has come to light that people are shocked -- shocked! -- to discover that compact fluorescent light bulbs, those magnificant, earth-savi...

When you are young, drama sometimes follows your favorite bands. Singers end up in drug rehab, guitarists take a leave due to "exhaust...

Oakland tried to tear itself to pieces again yesterday. The city had been on edge for weeks, waiting for the verdict in the trial of a BART...

Not quite halfway through the swim season, Michael hit one the goals he set for himself all the way back at the end of last season: he earn...

This is Daisy. She is a border collie/Aussie shepherd mix, about five years old. She was the first dog we saw, on the first day of explorin...

If you haven't been following soccer's World Cup (or, as the broadcasters are annoyingly required to say, "the FIFA World Cup...

Ron Wayne has been getting a lot of attention lately. It is well-known among Silicon Valley greybeards and Apple fanatics that Apple was st...

It took an extra game, but our A's finally got their hands on the champion's trophy. The top half of the order was productive all g...