Gordon's Notes

I expect Apple to screw up anything related to long term data management, but this is extreme even by their standards. GigaOm, in language r...

I plan to expire at 85 , 10 years later than Ezekiel Emanuel  [1]. My Dad is a bit less directed; at 92 he recently moved into the longterm ...

I’ve sold several of the kid’s bikes (at bargain prices!), but this week was my first purchase of a used bicycle.  It didn’t go well . Conse...

George Akerloff won the Economics Nobel in 2001 for a paper he wrote about why you should never buy a used car . I’ve written about Akerloff...

There's a healthy business in in used 6th generation iPod Nanos . The kids lost ours recently and we all miss it; we might look for a u...

Two weeks ago I decided I needed proper running shoes for my aching Achilles — something other than my flat Crossfit shoes or my ancient cl...

Years ago, based on the recommendation of a web site that might have been something like Wirecutter, we bought a low cost Amazon sound bar f...

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...