Apropos of Nothing

He's got his fall schedule, so I guess that makes it official - I'm the parent of a college student.

Director J.J. Abrams has pulled it off – creating a new vision for Star Trek that is wholly consistent with the original series, but one th...

On the grounds of the Natural History Musuem.

Photos from Saturday, June 20 - the Natural History Museum, the Capitol from inside the Natural History Museum, and the Capitol from the Nat...

The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is a wonderful place to spend a day; definitely one of the highlights of our trip. We spent six hours ...

In order to enter the U.S. Department of Education building during the Bush Administration, a visitor had to walk through this little red sc...

On Wednesday, son #1 and I returned from a five-day trip to Washington, D.C., where we celebrated his graduation from high school. Although...

Well, who knew that my first post back from vacation would be about the death of Michael Jackson, which shocked me like no rock death since ...

With the possible exception of Torrey Pines, it's hard to imagine a U.S. Open course that sets up as well for Tiger Woods as Bethpage Bl...

Why, you may ask? Busy at work. Busy getting ready for a trip to Washington, D.C. A pleasure trip, I might add - to celebrate the graduati...

The Giants are playing the A's this weekend in an interleague series, and tonight the Giants celebrated the 20 th anniversary of their...

I've threatened to make some changes to the look of the blog for a while now, and in July will probably pull the trigger on a new templa...

I don't want to wait until Dick Enberg dies to sing his praises. Last week when I was home, I had the chance to watch a lot of the Fren...

This has been such an exciting postseason in the NBA that I think any final might have seemed anti-climactic, but Lakers-Magic seems especia...

I saw two movies this weekend that I'd never seen before. One is considered one of the landmark films of the 1960s; indeed, one of the ...

We've got the full Comcast Cable package at our house - phone, TV, Internet, the works. There have been a lot of outages lately, mostly...