Gordon's Notes

If mobile carriers priced MMS/SMS messaging as a dumb pipe data service, there'd be no WhatsApp. But mobile carriers wanted short term r...

I must have been asleep when civilization collapsed. Anyone know the date? I say this because I haven't done much with our mutual funds...

My oldest wants to learn to play drums. Learning is difficult for him, and the Smart Music program his school uses is obviously too sophisti...

I set a Crossfit deadlift "PR" (personal record) today. My best is not a big deal for anyone else. I'm among the weakest of ...

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

Ten years ago Karl Rove, Richard Armitage and Lewis Libby took revenge on a man who'd exposed some of Bush/Cheney's Iraq lies. Thei...

Even with rather generous tax breaks, wellness programs cost corporations money. So why pay companies like South Africa's Vitality Group...

Due to a family emergency I had to send money to a relative twice in two months. Each time I used MoneyGram  and paid for the transaction wi...

There are many articles on how to judge employees, and many on how to manage typical employee interviews. What I don't see are blog post...

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 ...

Remember when Apple made ads about ripping CDs? iTunes and the iPod made it elegantly easy [1]. The ads were coy but clear -- wink, wink ste...

When I was a child, I read Alvin Toffler's 1970 book Future Shock ... ... Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous struc...

There are a lot of bolts on my bike and they're always yearning to be free.  Last week it was a brake lever than went from a bit wiggly...

Stagflation was a catchy way to describe the economics of the Vietnam war West: Stagflation, a portmanteau of stagnation and inflation, i...

This is the The Cabinet  of the executive branch of the USA (slashes mine) Department of State Department of the Treasury Department of...