When I was a little boy in the late '50s, the Atlas rocket was under development as both an ICBM and as a means to put satellites and me...

Eight years ago, it was.  I still think about it every day – usually, for some reason, on the way home from work.  I still remember my shock...

Yesterday was my 30th (that is, 30 19 ) birthday, and we celebrated Jamul-style.  Our friends and neighbors Jim and Michelle took Debbie and...

Via my mom, who has spent most of her life in New Jersey but has recently escaped to Virginia: Seriously, there are only two things needed...

If you have dogs or cats (we have four and seven), you may already have an automatic waterer of some kind.  Recirculating water encourages a...

Well, not really. But the message is accurate. Come to think of it, the message on this sign is kind of implicit in the area where I live....

If you wake up looking like this... Don't go to work!

That's the title of an excellent post by Neil Middleton. He's poking fun at a phenomenon that many software developers have run in...

I've tried twitter, and my main reaction was to wonder why anyone cares about it. The one useful thing I've done with it so far was...

Happy Labor Day!

A couple of miles down the road from my home, on Lawson Valley Road, there's a little two-lane bridge over the Lawson Valley Creek. It...

This story just keeps getting worse and worse. Two new factoids today. First, it appears that the medical opinions asserting that Al Megrah...

Jane Hamsher isn't the sort of blogger you'll find me quoting (or linking to!) very often. She's a prominent leftie blogger, a ...

From the wit of Mark Steyn : But to this future of vast, unstoppable, ever-expanding wealth, the champions of the oppressed have come up wit...

This needs no commentary:

My own thinking about abortion has been focused on the moral issues. Here's a film that (from the trailer) appears to be mainly focused...

Updated: I just discovered that the trees have responded to the EarthFirsters: Original post: Somebody please tell me that this is some kind...

Anyone who has spent much time with a cat will enjoy these videos. I've spent almost 30 years with an average of about 8 cats, so you c...

I used the scare quotes in the title because only the most naive amongst us would believe that Van Jones voluntarily quit his job. There...