Gordon's Notes

Synchronicity ? Probably not*. Dilbert experiences a complexity attack ( click through for full strip ) … See also: Gordon's...

There was something familiar about the Polish horses rushing down from the mountain top to end The Siege of Vienna . Oh, right . Gee, I wond...

I'm looking for advice - so please comment! I would like to get a telescope for family astronomy (really, my 7yo daughter and I)....

The way I found the current swim schedule at a community recreation, fitness and cultural center was to find the link to the future schedule...

A comment on a past post of mine referred me to a 2005 article: SETI and the Cosmic Quarantine Hypothesis . The essay is a good summary of...

Walecia Conrad has written a pretty good summary of the problems of price discovery in medical care services . She mentions several approach...

I had a relatively decent physics education for a non-major, but I'm pretty sure it didn't include discussions of the Lagrangian and...

It's easy to mock the Palinistas , the Beckians , and the very vanilla Tea Partiers . Easy, but wrong. They have good reason to be afra...

A few weeks back I got my first ticket in over 12 years, for speeding on a notoriously deceptive stretch of highway 35E (it even has a Wik...

I’ve been writing a “solstice letter” for over 20 years. During that interval a few things have changed. The first letter would have been ...

The birther crackpots are still stumbling about . They'll never figure out the real story -- though it's been staring them in the fa...

I was surprised to see this when I visited our kids 529 plans to make a contribution. I assume this extra rebalancing is to compensate for f...

A year ago I had to review guidelines for managing elevated blood lipids. I concluded that the guidelines were incoherent and silly . It was...

I remember a cartoon of Spartan life that I learned as a child. I don't recall thinking about it much further until this week's IOT ...

I'm going to forget I read that Google imagines Chrome OS machines will sell for $400 . That's clearly a ploy to sedate Microsoft. I...