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
Getting back on a plane may look more like the past than the future.
I originally wrote The Return of the Golden Age of Air Travel in Apr...
Shooting Craps with the Grandkids’ Cash
Some thoughts on a failed Olympic bid and what it tells us about the shocking randomness of how we build our cities.
Although it has bee...
Amy Johnson
A remarkable life and the enduring mystery of her tragic death.
The late arrival of the inbound flight she had piloted from Hatfield, in...
Champion of Something
Dad did his fair share of dreaming big. Particularly when it came to his kids.
On a whim in the summer of 1976—no doubt in part because h...
Alas, Kawhi, We Hardly Knew Ye
The blessing and the curse of capturing lightning in a bottle.
The news landed with an apocalyptic shudder on an otherwise beautiful Satu...
Twitter+
Some unsolicited—and probably unwelcome—advice on where Twitter should go from here.
“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wr...
Framing John DeLorean
It’s a three-fer: biopic drama, documentary and the-making-of all rolled into one.
Three cars were most likely to adorn an adolescent boy...
The Tao of Kawhi Leonard
His approach to the game is an example we need in these troubled times.
I was furious. Not only had Masai Ujiri fired Coach of the Year D...
Jack Northrop's Flying Wings
An old idea for which the best years may still lay ahead.
Jack Northrop dreamt of aircraft where everything not absolutely essential for...
RV-6
A labour of love — and hate — 23 years in the making.
“The baby is on the roof with an umbrella and he looks like he is about to jump.” M...
The Return of Tiger Woods
Thankfully, things didn’t turn out the way many expected.
What caught my attention, and that of a few others, was a small article about a...
The Last, Best Reason for Newspapers
The future of newspapers may lie in their past.
I have not bought a hometown newspaper for a decade. I haven’t read a whole one in years....
The Comet
The MacRobertson Air Race of 1934 marked the beginning of modern air travel and the beginning of the end of the Golden Age of Aviation.
I...
'F' for Freddie
It wasn't supposed to end this way.
"Eye-witnesses to the crash told how F-for-Freddie's rubber dinghy dropped out, inflated automaticall...
How Himalaya Should Spend the $100 Million
They didn't ask me but here's what I think anyway.
I had to reread the headline at least a couple of times:
Podcast Platform Himala...
Story First, Everything Else Last
We need the willing suspension of disbelief to sell shoes?
"How is corporate storytelling different from other kinds of storytelling?"
The Arrow
The path not taken 60 years ago has a nation still wondering what might have been.
On February 19th, 1959, Władysław ‘Spud’ Potocki was t...
Fat Kid with a Cello
Why you should probably make your child play a musical instrument.
The autobiography you won't read is the one I won't write because noth...
Legalization
I really hope this isn’t the one thing for which Canada is known.
When travelling, and the answer "Calgary" to the question "so where do...
X-15
Inspired by its feature role in First Man, a closer look at the first aircraft to fly into space.
In the annotated screenplay for First M...
Dad Was a Traveller
Thoughts of my father on the occasion of his passing.
Some say you spend your entire life preparing for the inevitable moment when you have to s...
The Third Third
Notes from a life well underway but nowhere near over.
I had breakfast with a friend of mine not too long ago and our conversation turned to, as...
Plus 15
Building an off-world colony a few feet above the street.
The science fiction staple of abandoning a less desirable place for another, more desi...
Gutenberg on Broadway
Observations from the arrival of the Information Age.
I had a part time job at the ComputerLand store on West Broadway in Vancouver, British Col...
Listening to Diana Krall in Nizhnevartovsk
It’s surprising what connects you to home.
“Why don’t you just go there and see for yourself?” my boss asked me, back in the Spring of 1998. I w...
The Future of Warfare is Lighter Than Air
The airship hangars at Tillamook trigger a cascade of memories.
My family first visited the Oregon Coast in the early 1970s. My mother picked Ro...
Mexico City, 1969
While there is still time, take your kids on a long road trip.
Memories are like roadside scenery glimpsed from a car hurtling down the freeway...
Grand Designs
The quirky charm of a British homebuilding show.
It seems to happen every time. The affable Kevin McCloud, host of British television’s Grand De...
At Work in the Garden of Good and Evil
It is time we realized there’s a little bit of each in all of us and in all that we do.
I have a smoky old eighties sports car which I drive, us...
Rosetta Stone
An ancient idea that is more relevant than ever.
The metaphorical rosetta stone is better known than the real Rosetta Stone. In any explanation...
The Tyranny of a Happy Accident
Although I didn’t know it until now, how one great month in my early twenties pretty much ruined my career.
For one brief, shining moment when I...
Artificial Ignorance
Could machine intelligence enable our darker impulses?
The judge, even in traffic court, sits on a raised platform that ensures that you look up...
When the War Came Home to Oregon
A 75 year old true story of courage, atonement and forgiveness.
Nobuo Fujita was determined to bring his family’s katana with him 5,000 miles ac...
Return to Rocky Knoll
The simple joy of slope soaring.
We had just about given up on a return to Rocky Knoll. Since our arrival on the Oregon Coast the wind had been...
Mustang
The burden of a name that has come to mean so much.
The word derives from the Spanish mesteño, which is defined as “wild; untamed; ownerless”. B...
The Best Answer Ever
The answer to a casual question at lunch, 35 years ago, taught me everything I needed to know about choosing a career.
I knew my father’s cardio...
Apple's Big Move in Podcasting
An unsolicited prediction of what The Big A will do next. Well, even if they don’t, then they really should.
Despite what you might think, not o...
Seven Tours: The Corrosive Effect of Cheating in Sports
I didn't realize what had been stolen from me.
I was stunned to hear, a couple of days ago, that Chris Froome had just won his third Tour de Fra...
The Wicked Problem of Healthcare
There will never be as much as we want to go around.
Take any population, large or small, and imagine creating a spreadsheet with one row for ea...
We All Love to Travel
Eliminating the use of fossil fuels depends on kicking our addiction to just tooling around.
The absolute single best day—no, the single best mo...