Gordon's Notes

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

It goes something like this: Remove my personal (iPhone) mobile number from my work Google Voice (GV) account and set that number to forwa...

Today I learned of a 3-4 year old local bicycling group aimed at families with children ages 6-13 . I'd have jumped a this a few years a...

I was in an Apple Store yesterday with a burned-through seven year old power adapter cable . Our much abused power adapter came with a Mac...

A good feature of teenagers is that they sometimes sleep in. So Emily and I can chat on a quiet Saturday morning about wearable tech  ( reme...

After much thought, I decided to build my digital library on DRM-free EPUBs . That means buying from DRM-free sources like TidBITS, O'Re...

For idiosyncratic personal reasons I've had to think about mouth versus nose breathing during wake and sleep. Despite my medical backgro...

Many years ago I road through a mini-flood downpour. Not the nearly 5" that drowned Toronto , but a fun storm. That was it for a long t...

I became a fan of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) when "Grateful Med" [2] augmented the old telnet interface to what was th...

After the 2008 vacation ambulance ride  and the supine drive home  I decided I needed to see a doctor other than myself. Twenty-five years o...

An acquaintance from my Quebec High School is active in Egypt's secular resistance to Morsi's rule. She's frustrated by Obama...

Inspired by this Rumproarious post on the effects of the Google Reader shutdown announcement  of mid-March 2013 (data excludes custom domain...

Once upon a time, in the 1970s, these were microcomputers : "" We called them micro -computers because we used the term mini -co...

Cash-only real estate speculation in LA, Boston, Miami, San Francisco and so on (emphases mine) ... Cash Is Fueling Quick Home Sales - NYT...

I used Pacifist to install Airport Utility 5.6 when I upgraded to Mountain Lion . So I didn't really notice how many features Apple remo...