Not There Yet
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Not There Yet
The Not There Yet podcast is a ongoing series of short essays covering a wide range of subjects from the perspective of the third decade of the 21st century. They are intended to be thought provoking, challenging, skeptical and hopefully funny once in a while. They are sometimes conventional in natu...
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The Return of the Golden Age of Air Travel
I originally wrote The Return of the Golden Age of Air Travel in April of this year and published it on May 1st. It was a visceral response to the ear...
Shooting Craps with the Grandkids’ Cash
Although it has been many years since I last wrote computer code ‘to save my life’ I still vividly remember the five basic phases of the Cost of Chang...
Amy Johnson
The late arrival of the inbound flight she had piloted from Hatfield, in Hertfordshire, prevented Amy Johnson from departing Prestwick, Scotland any e...
Champion of Something
On a whim in the summer of 1976—no doubt in part because he wanted to drive his shiny silver Alfa Romeo on the twisty and dangerous road through the m...
Alas, Kawhi, We Hardly Knew Ye
The news landed with an apocalyptic shudder on an otherwise beautiful Saturday morning. Just 23 days after the Raptors handily dispatched the Golden S...
Twitter+
“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Mark Twain’s life did not overlap Twitter’s by nearly a century, but he s...
Framing John DeLorean
Three cars were most likely to adorn an adolescent boy’s room in the early 1980s. The first was the brutish Porsche Turbo Carrera with its outlandish...
The Tao of Kawhi Leonard
I was furious. Not only had Masai Ujiri fired Coach of the Year Dwane Casey in May, now he had traded away DeMar DeRozan for some guy from the San Ant...
Jack Northrop's Flying Wings
Jack Northrop dreamt of aircraft where everything not absolutely essential for flight was eliminated. Leonardo da Vinci’s theoretical flying machines...
RV-6
“The baby is on the roof with an umbrella and he looks like he is about to jump.” My mother tells this story — undoubtedly embellished over the years ...
The Return of Tiger Woods
What caught my attention, and that of a few others, was a small article about an amateur golf phenom out of Cypress, California with the improbable na...
The Last, Best Reason for Newspapers
I have not bought a hometown newspaper for a decade. I haven’t read a whole one in years. I do occasionally read the article which just happens to be...
The Comet
It was a time when daring—or simply dangerous—aviation events were concocted for the slightest of excuses. In the case of the 1934 MacRobertson Air Ra...
'F' for Freddie
"Eye-witnesses to the crash told how F-for-Freddie's rubber dinghy dropped out, inflated automatically and landed, as neatly and naturally as though s...
How Himalaya Should Spend the $100 Million
I had to reread the headline at least a couple of times:
Podcast Platform Himalaya Raises $100 Million, Launches Apps With Tipping Function
Story First, Everything Else Last
"How is corporate storytelling different from other kinds of storytelling?"
I was stumped by the question. I have to thank the interviewer who f...
The Arrow
On February 19th, 1959, Władysław ‘Spud’ Potocki was test flying the sparkling white Avro Arrow RL-201 in the fair but chilly skies near Malton, Ontar...
Fat Kid with a Cello
The autobiography you won't read is the one I won't write because nothing short of Mitty-esque imaginings could make it interesting. I am vain enough,...
Legalization
When travelling, and the answer "Calgary" to the question "so where do you call home?" draws the fairly common blank stare, there are two things which...
X-15
In the annotated screenplay for First Man, author Josh Singer was asked “why start with the X-15?” for the gripping opening scene in the movie. His an...
Dad Was a Traveller
Some say you spend your entire life preparing for the inevitable moment when you have to speak at your father’s memorial service. Today is that day an...
The Third Third
I had breakfast with a friend of mine not too long ago and our conversation turned to, as it often does with those hovering around the 60 year mark, t...
Plus 15
The science fiction staple of abandoning a less desirable place for another, more desirable one has been around almost since the beginning of science...
Gutenberg on Broadway
I had a part time job at the ComputerLand store on West Broadway in Vancouver, British Columbia in the early 1980s. Mostly it was to teach an introduc...
Listening to Diana Krall in Nizhnevartovsk
“Why don’t you just go there and see for yourself?” my boss asked me, back in the Spring of 1998. I was working for an international petroleum well se...
The Future of Warfare is Lighter Than Air
My family first visited the Oregon Coast in the early 1970s. My mother picked Rockaway, seemingly at random, from the motor club guide and we stayed a...
Mexico City, 1969
Memories are like roadside scenery glimpsed from a car hurtling down the freeway at 78 miles-an-hour. The driver sees the least, preoccupied by the ta...
Grand Designs
It seems to happen every time. The affable Kevin McCloud, host of British television’s Grand Designs, describes the house project he will cover in the...
At Work in the Garden of Good and Evil
I have a smoky old eighties sports car which I drive, usually too fast, for a few weeks during the shoulder seasons. Any other time of year I park it...
Rosetta Stone
The metaphorical rosetta stone is better known than the real Rosetta Stone. In any explanation of how one critical document deciphers and unlocks the...
The Tyranny of a Happy Accident
For one brief, shining moment when I was in my early twenties, the sun and stars and all the planets aligned and I was able to bill $5,000 in one mont...
Artificial Ignorance
The judge, even in traffic court, sits on a raised platform that ensures that you look up at him and he looks down on you. It’s majestic and intimidat...
When the War Came Home to Oregon
Nobuo Fujita was determined to bring his family’s katana with him 5,000 miles across the Pacific. The samurai sword had been passed from one generatio...
Return to Rocky Knoll
We had just about given up on a return to Rocky Knoll. Since our arrival on the Oregon Coast the wind had been blowing steadily from the southwest, wh...
Mustang
The word derives from the Spanish mesteño, which is defined as “wild; untamed; ownerless”. By letting the tongue dwell on the roof of the mouth you ge...
The Best Answer Ever
I knew my father’s cardiologist for a dozen years before my father needed him.
In the early 1980s the medical community was just starting to bui...
Apple's Big Move in Podcasting
Despite what you might think, not one second of Apple’s podcasts are actually hosted by Apple. “But how can that be”, you may ask, “when they ‘host’ h...
Seven Tours: The Corrosive Effect of Cheating in Sports
I was stunned to hear, a couple of days ago, that Chris Froome had just won his third Tour de France riding for Team Sky, which has won four of the la...
The Wicked Problem of Healthcare
Take any population, large or small, and imagine creating a spreadsheet with one row for each woman, man and child. Now, imagine the first column in t...
We All Love to Travel
The absolute single best day—no, the single best moment—of my entire year is sitting in the parking lot waiting for the Starbucks® to open on the Frid...