Gordon's Notes

It's hard to imagine how very simple much of our technology environment was in the 1980s. Much of what we interacted with was still unde...

1. I was right about polling being worthless 2. At least Biden was spared humiliation  3. Americans chose oligarchy willingly.  4. Our feebl...

I'm putting this down as a marker for me to look back to in a few years. When autonomous vehicles are able to operate in Minnesota winte...

In advance of Nov 5 2024, some thoughts on  Muskism. Because I can't resist this kind of thing. Musk and his fellow tech oligarchs more ...

I have a dark past. I asked questions. In class. Lots of questions. Too many questions. I hear things, I get ideas, I notice gaps, I ask que...

In the years following the Great Recession, from 2010 to 2013, many web services went offline . In retrospect that was the end of the Berner...

These days my social media experience is largely Mastodon. There's something to be said about a social network that's so irreparably...

This morning on my Mastodon : It’s possible that we have built an economical and technical environment that is too complex and treacherous f...

TLDR; If you are a US citizen by naturalization or adoption you should check (call SSA and wait on phone for 1-2 hours) that your SSN is cla...

One of the fun things that happens to Americans as we become redundant to life's requirements is signing up for Medicare. There's a ...

Twenty years go when I wrote a post title like this one I was pretty sure at least one person who needed help would find through Google and ...

Gabapentin  was developed as a focal seizure medication and has been found to be effective for neuropathic pain syndromes in diabetic neurop...

I noticed a while back that eating disorders were no longer an active area of public anxiety. So I looked at Google Trends since 2004 (clic...

In early 2024 the American DOJ sued Apple for an illegal monopoly over the smartphone market. I agree with the thrust of the suit. Apple may...

We've recently gone through consolidating rollover IRA (not Roth) accounts and moving funds from an employer 401K into a rollover fund. ...