Gordon's Notes

If I survive a few more months, I'll write about why I started CrossFit at 53. It's been an interesting experience, not least beca...

We survived our monster spring break trip to Florida ( example ), so now it is time to think about how to make our children miserable this s...

Medicine is barely evidence based, so it's not surprising that education is not.  Research is expensive, and kids are so variable that e...

For the past decade I've used a typical corporate document scanner. These are the big brothers of the home "MFC" - laser print...

After decades of blood donation I was rejected in 2010 because of a false positive HTLV I/II test. I was annoyed, but not too concerned. I...

Whatever RSS (Atom, etc) was intended to be, it became the standard plumbing for subscription and notification. When In Our Time has a new ...

In the old days I did casual hookups -- of new net accounts and services. Now, of course, every net identity and related service is a secur...

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 ...

When I published  my 'touring bike' page  in 1997 I'd just bought a new 1996 Cannondale touring bike for $600. I've made man...

Two days ago I learned that Iain (M) Banks , one of my favorite writers , had months to live . He should have had decades. He announced he w...

My gypsy wife sent us on a 12 state 9 day road trip from the frozen north to Florida's "Emerald Coast" and back to the still f...

In the Fever Days after September 2011, I wrote a bit about " the cost of havoc ". The premise was that technology was consistentl...

Any discussion of the Fermi Paradox has to be presented with a wink and a chuckle. Even if, behind the wink, there's a haunted look in ...

An  App.net thread  reminded me of some analysis I did in the 90s on what device sizes we should build our  Cloud  ASP service against. That...

Dilbert 04/14/1994 : Yeah, Google Reader is on many geek minds today , but it's not the only cloud death to disrupt my routine .  Toda...