Gordon's Notes

Commentary: politics, science, technology and humanity. Secular humanist.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Capitalism, fraud and maximizing wantability

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WaPo has a delightfully meta-subversive headline for an article about the failings of 21st century capitalism:  This Kardashian headline sho...

Learning from an Amazon "Newer Galaxy" fraud: I too am prey.

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I’ve been digging into thunderbolt 2 lately. It’s an orphan technology — sure looks like Apple has given up on it. In retrospect either App...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Apple blogs: please stop confusing Apple shareholders with Apple customers

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Apple made bazillions again. They won’t pay corporate tax on it. The share price has gone up. That’s good for me in one way — I own index f...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Quicken spending spam - alert "feature"

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In my mail this morning… During a machine transition I reinstalled Quicken 2015, so I at first thought we’d unwittingly enabled Quicken Mo...
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Friday, October 23, 2015

Preventive care: what's new in the past 7 years

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While studying for my 2009 American Family Medicine board exams I wrote up a summary of the American Academy of Family Practice’s preventive...
Monday, October 19, 2015

London

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This year has been a different year. By circumstance not of my choosing, but not displeasing, I’ve more personal time than usual, but also, ...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Managing the TBs of videos and photos the kids produce

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The kids generate a lot of images and video. Some of it I want to keep, other material is of temporary interest (instagram shares mostly), a...

The "Paperless billing was requested" (minor) scam -- AT&T edition

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I got this AT&T text message the other day... Except, of course, I never requested paperless billing. I suppose I should have for pure...
Friday, October 09, 2015

The eBook is dying. I'm the only person on earth who blames the DRM.

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My main workaround for eBook misery has been to buy from Google Play , strip the Adobe DRM , and store the ePub (really should be written EP...
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How data lock destroys the customer experience - Apple edition.

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But for FairPlay, I would not use iOS 9 audiobooks. I wouldn’t swear every time it loses its place. I wouldn’t be pissed at Apple. But for ...
Thursday, October 08, 2015

Rheumatic syndromes remind me of pre-quark particle physics

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This mornings board review included looking at the evolution of “inflammatory osteoarthritis” from 1970 to 2015. What was once described as...
Friday, October 02, 2015

Fixing a painful wrist with high frequency weightlifting and wrist hyperextension. WTF.

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In the spirit of my medical anecdotes , I present my left wrist. Late Monday afternoon, while typing, I developed sharp pains in my left...
Thursday, October 01, 2015

No, Apple News.app is not necessarily evil. Why do you ask?

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[When first wrote this I chose an article, that, by chance, didn’t have a redirect to the original site. Which means I got things a wee bit ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

History: the printer has passed

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First they came for the photo printer. Then they came for the ink jet. Now they’ve come for the rest. Amazon return package label printin...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Making of the modern pop song - fusion of the corporate and the anonymous individual

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band was the apex of my popular music connection. In a weird adventure of late childhood I attended  Wint...
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