Gordon's Notes

I wrote this in 1997 and found it in my old pre-blog Web 1.0 archives. I decided to republish it here because, you know, I could. Some of it...

I usually share my blog posts to Pinboard, and from there some creaky old services create tweets and an archive on kateva.org/sh. Not this p...

On the 9th of August 2009 I wrote a post on at the start of my 51st year . It included an estimate that I was at "70% lifetime strength...

In 2018 I met one of my two CrossFit Life Goals (tm) -  10 consecutive dubs (hit 42 in a wild fluke the other day). Only took me five times...

I awoke last night sweaty and anxious. I was dreaming about the kipping muscle up ; a move that still eludes me. Which is nuts. I am an ol...

I like inline skating. I started in the 90s a year or so before it peaked, and I’ve watched it decline since. I still skate, as does my #2 s...

Adult ice hockey is a new hobby. Unsurprisingly there are lots of adult no-checking leagues in the Twin Cities,  JMS Hockey  is the one I we...

There was a competition underway when I first visited CrossFit St Paul ; it had pounding beats, tattoos, (relatively) young people. Somethin...

My two home towns are Minneapolis and Montreal. They have quite a bit in common , though on this trip I was struck by how much diverse manuf...

I wasn't at the very first Minneapolis Friday Night skate, but I remember Allan and Mike ... Inline Skating (Rollerblading) Resource C...

Today there are 182 1 star reviews of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4 . If you haven't started the series, even if...

The streets were clear today, the sun was up, and the temperatures were the 20s (F). A fine day for a bicycle ride in Minnesota's year w...

Our yearly nordic ski event has run aground . Today's City of Lakes Nordic Ski Foundation newsletter wins the brave face prize... ... ...

140 web years ago (born 1997) I used FrontPage/Vermeer to maintain a web page on commuting/touring bikes . The page was last revised in 2008...

I've bought four Yakima Steelhead bike mounts over the past decade; all through REI. All four have broken plastic locking tabs. It'...

High intensity interval training (HIT) is a popular fix for people with more drive than time ... What’s the Best Exercise? - Gretchen Reyn...

I did my first TCBC ride in 12 years tonight. The kids are getting old enough I can take a Dad Night every few weeks; soon they'll be s...

From the Jan 2011 MN North Star Ski Club newsletter (emphases mine) ... “Ted Wirth’s hiking club is on its last legs” This was a Star &am...

Once upon a time tobacco companies distributed abundant free samples. It's a good business model when you're selling an addictive pr...

David Pogue writes today about affordable, bigger-than-pocketable, cameras with reasonable ISO 800 images . That made me think about how the...