Gordon's Notes

The catalytic converter on my much loved 2010 Kia Sedona van was stolen. (I think there are two and the rear converter was removed. I'm ...

Funny personal note. While testing Google Scholar's new features I ended up creating a profile based on my (limited) academic publicati...

I have bought things for my children that I dreamt of as a child — but were out of my parent's price range. Shockingly, my children hav...

I finished ‘A Memory of Light’. And the thirteen Wheel of Time volumes before that. I feel like I’ve been released from Compulsion. It’s n...

These are the last days of app.net. It ends in 3 days. App.net has been good to me . Great tools, smart and interesting people, RSS integrat...

I’ve eliminated every other possibility . The unlikely remnant is that Americans who watch television secretly like television commercials....

A few years back, around the time the iPhone camera became very good at close photography, I began to photograph Father's Day cards and ...

The kids generate a lot of images and video. Some of it I want to keep, other material is of temporary interest (instagram shares mostly), a...

Paul Theroux ’s The Old Patagonian Express was published in 1979. Today it’s as much historical document as travel guide. Part of that hist...

Alpha (the better twitter) on app.net , 1 year post-death, is like this ( xkcd: Undocumented Feature   by Randall Munroe, used with permissi...

I subscribe to the NYT so I can go from a Feed rendered in Reeder 2.0 on my i6 to the articles rendered in mobile WedKit. I’ve gotten used t...

Henry Alford wrote an entertaining essay on holiday dinner peacemaking tips. I enjoyed the essay, but I also appreciated the inventory of te...

There are seven billion humans alive now, each the star of the show. In a decade we will, collectively, gather 60-70 billion years of exper...

Today's CrossFit workout was open   14.2 . With low weights and bands I sort of got through part of the 3rd round. The world record is ...

Years after everyone else, I reluctantly retired our 25yo SONY Trinitron CRT and it's (free, subsidized) A/D converter box  and naively ...

When we lived in Michigan's Upper Peninsula snow scoops were sold at the local hardware store. Snow scoops is how snow was moved before ...

We use about 1,000 minutes a month on our AT&T mobile family plan. So our use is halfway between their 700 ($48) and 1,400 minute plans ...

I tried searching on this, but couldn't find anything - even in shaveblog.com . So, for what it's worth, here's one article. I&...

Yes, it happens. We die . Short of death, we can be lost in the wilderness, imprisoned by whackos, captured by space aliens, comatose, or  g...

Over the past ten years I've been the manager for a variety of hockey and baseball teams. Along the way I've tried a variety of tech...