Gordon's Notes

I bought my G5 20” iMac in July of 2005 with a 400GB SATA drive and SuperDrive for $1879, it expired today at 9y3m of age. I think the 400 ...

My son is starting to do … physics. It is fair to say I am more excited about this than he is. There is a reason I have a copy of the 1973 ...

My feeds (Feedbin/Reeder) have never gone quiet — but there’s no doubt it was getting harder to find links to feeds over the two years since...

Google tells me Apple’s market cap today is 576.39 billion dollars. (Think on that for a moment.) Alibaba’s market cap is 223.28 billion do...

With this post I'll finish my 3 week journey from carbon frame naivete to bloodied veteran (see below for related posts). It began when ...

I'm a fan of Bill Atkinson's PhotoCard.app ;  I send one weekly to my father, currently in long-term care. I love the fusion of anc...

One of the great things about blogging is that it lets someone who knows very little look much the same as a world class expert. All of the ...

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...