Nowhere Near the Edge

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

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Return of the Champs

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Thanks to a Christmas gift from Cheryl, we went to the Giants' first game in San Francisco since the World Series (which, in case you ha...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Savinging Us All From The Tyranny Of Hyphenation

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The AP Stylebook has announced that henceforth it will refer to electronic messages as "emails," not "e-mails." This c...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Game Day

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Saturday was one of the sports-intensive days we get every once in a while. We were on the go from 8:30 in the morning until after 4 in the...
Friday, March 11, 2011

A Bad Day In Japan

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This image, from the US Geological Society's earthquake reporter , shows how active the ground has been off the coast of Japan over the ...

So It Begins

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We met with the student counselor yesterday at the high school Kelly will attend in the fall. Or, rather, Kelly met with her counselor, and...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

An Open Letter

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To the person in front of me on the narrow two lane country road near home driving seven miles per hour below the posted speed limit: You kn...
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Monday, February 28, 2011

The Cruelest Season

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All week, the media were abuzz with the thrilling news that the Bay Area would see snowfall by Friday night. Even San Francisco residents e...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

Distant Early Warning

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A Silicon Valley startup (of course) has come up with an earthquake warning system . The device detects the "P" waves that humans...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Time To Start Shopping For Scholarships

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I am soon to be the parent of a high school student. If I seem distracted from time to time, if I occasionally sleep poorly, this graph may...
Monday, February 14, 2011

These Are The Days We'll Remember

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Our annual February heatwave hit its climax this weekend. Even though Saturday dawned below freezing, by midafternoon we basked in 70° weath...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Apple, Making Friends As Usual

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The genius of Apple's rise over the last decade has been its success in putting good technology (or even industry-changing, in the case ...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Put Me In, Coach

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After helping out with Kelly and Michael's soccer teams for a collective 12 years or so, and after playing the sport myself for six year...
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...
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