Nowhere Near the Edge

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

Friday, January 07, 2011

A Point To Ponder

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Sage wisdom I ran across on the interwebz today: “The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine.” – Abraham Lincoln
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

RIP, Gerry Rafferty

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Gerry Rafferty is dead at 63 . Along with Seals and Crofts' "Summer Breeze," little else transports me back to the 1970s more...
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Sunday, January 02, 2011

Santa's Work Is Never Done

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Just because Christmas Eve is over doesn't mean there isn't some assembly required. Lots of assembly.

Sadly, You Get What You Pay For

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Let's hope the real NASA puts more effort into its spacecraft that the maker of our spaceship-like cargo carrier. We went the budget ro...
Friday, December 24, 2010

Your Transport Is Ready, Mr. Jetson

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We have finally joined the crowd and added a rooftop storage unit for the car, now that the dog's crate takes up half of the luggage com...
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Early Season Basketball Report

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Michael's basketball team of runts and wallbangers compiled a 2-3 record before the Christmas break. The most recent game was both typic...

What Is The Opposite Of "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer"?

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'Cause I just did it. We live in suburbia, but only just. We are surrounded by beautiful open hillsides even as we live close to the den...
Thursday, December 09, 2010

Non-Standard Deviation

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On my way to pick up Michael from his basketball practice earlier this week (because really, all I do with my time is leap from sporting eve...
Monday, December 06, 2010

Hoops, Anyone?

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Until baseball restarts in February (not counting multiple clinics and camps between now and then, and the player evaluation day in early Ja...
Friday, November 26, 2010

Fall Sports Review, Girl Child Division

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Being an eighth grader with very high academic achievement did not keep Kelly from adding on to her schedule with two sports simultaneously....
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Fall Sports Review, Boy Child Division

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There is no time of year more hectic that the fall. Forget spring and its lazy rhythms of winding down of the efforts of a school year and ...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

At Last

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Against the predictions of just about every "expert," the San Francisco Giants not only made it into the World Series, but won the...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Pinch Me

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I cannot stop being surprised that the San Francisco Giants are the focus of national attention at this time of year. At a time when the spo...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Talkin' Baseball

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The Niners, doing their best to tarnish the image of a great franchise, are off to an 0-5 start, the Warriors have not yet started their lat...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Airport Levity

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Broadcast over the San Diego airport PA just now: "Will the owner of the lime green Ford Pinto parked curbside please move your car imm...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Time's Up ... Someday

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A group of physicists from our local UC Berkeley has delivered a chilling bit of news : time itself has a 50% chance of coming to a halt. ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Michael's 9th Jamboree

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Michael thoroughly enjoyed his extended birthday celebration. He had a party for a few friends on Saturday, and we celebrated his actual bi...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Duck!

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Early this morning, an asteroid zipped past Earth, at a distance of just over halfway from the earth to the moon. This afternoon, another ...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Heavy Machinery

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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...
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Begin the Begin, Again

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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...
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