Via reader Simi L. (himself a Californian): 1. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot. 2. Turn your cap right, your head ain't cr...

This is the trailer of a mock movie, created to promote the JavaZone conference in Europe.  It's in (I think) Norwegian, but with Englis...

See this collection of links for all the disgusting details .  The Center for Competitive Politics has a summary analysis (and will send...

Voyager 2 was launched 33 years ago, and it's been collecting science data that whole time.  Last month it started sending back bogus da...

But only after waiting for 5 hours for my delayed flight from Phoenix to San Diego – I didn't get home until almost 11 pm.  That made fo...

As it happens, I'm headed to Phoenix this morning – and as I write this post, I'm sitting in Terminal 1 at San Diego's Lindbergh...

Via my mom: Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door by his sobbing wife. Tearfully she explained, "It's the druggist. ...

What's wrong with this picture ?  In the past forty years, K12 spending per child has risen almost four times, while measures of achieve...

Fascinating .  I'd never heard of this before...

I'll be travelling again tomorrow (Wednesday) – a quick dash to Phoenix and back on the same day.  But I'll be sawed off from the In...

Looks like something out of a science fiction novel, but this appears to be a real photo of a skydiver in the act of opening his or her para...

I'm having one of those mornings when, after reading the news, I just feel disgusted with the “leadership” of the world's political ...

Pondering Father's Day, and so many thoughts and memories that provokes.  My father is 3,000 miles away today, in Virginia where he and ...

Today and tomorrow I'm training a dozen or so of my fellow employees, on one of the products that my little team develops.  I'll be...

Last night at about 9:30 pm, a moderate earthquake woke us up and had us running for a doorway to stand in.  It lasted perhaps 25 or 30 seco...

Let's hope so!  In last week's primary election here in California, two San Diego County cities voted to reject the project labor a...

Or at least, we hope there's a sample on board Hayabusa , of the asteroid Itokawa.  The video below is from NASA, whose plane managed t...

Now there's something I wasn't expecting !

I've missed these early morning walks for the past three weekdays, as I was in Arizona on business.  This morning was clear, with a ligh...

For years our covered patio has been a favorite place for our local California towhees ( Pipilo crissalis ) to raise their families.  These...