Gordon's Notes

Like most people, my neurons were rebooted a few times between birth and adulthood . So I don’t remember that much about childhood, but I do...

At the “ Spherical Cow ” level of simplification, human pregnancy is a dynamic tension control system , a kind of brain and gene motivated c...

When I would lose weight at 35 friends might say I looked well. At 55 friends say nothing, but they look worried. Like they’re wondering who...

Roads were not always the dominion of cars, and traffic laws were not always written only for cars. It took decades, and significant cultura...

Age has many insults. Among the minor ones are lumps and bumps that come and go — like the Ganglion Cyst of the Wrist . These cysts are anno...

I played with Orkut briefly, so I received a shutdown notice for the 10 yo service around July 1. Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger a...

iTunes Radio is at least partly funded by music purchases. But now people don't buy music, they stream it. Similarly, we rent movies, w...

A bong smolders in the sanctum sanctorum of 1 Infinity Loop, Cupertino California. It’s early 2013 and Apple’s most powerful billionaires ar...

I missed this last year, but it’s worth knowing about. The usual suspects are exploiting weak security on tax returns ; they steal identitie...

My daughter and I are using “Holt” [1] Mathematics Course 3 for her summer math work. It’s quite a good printed textbook; a used 2007 editio...

American unemployment, as economist’s measure it, is back to our post-2000 “norm”. On the other hand economic growth is low; our last quarte...

The American Board of Family Medicine  requires recertification every seven years. The standard modules are rigorous; perhaps absurdly so. T...

In an alternate universe…. Today in a terse but clear posting on the Aperture web site Tim Cook apologized for the difficult decision to e...

There are seven billion humans alive now, each the star of the show. In a decade we will, collectively, gather 60-70 billion years of exper...

Yahoo! has been an excellent spam-mail service. I use my Yahoo email whenever I want to avoid spam — such as when I have to deal with Ticket...