Gordon's Notes

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

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

All those "Democrats and white middle class" articles explained in four lines.

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I’m going to translate the subtexts and signals of  What’s Wrong With the Democrats? - The Atlantic  into plain language: Democrats should...

Escape from the Wheel of Time

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I finished ‘A Memory of Light’. And the thirteen Wheel of Time volumes before that. I feel like I’ve been released from Compulsion. It’s n...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

United airlines passenger assault: Blame the Feds.

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Involuntary bumped seat leading to assault on a United Airlines passenger ? Blame the Department of Transportation  (emphases mine): If y...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Broken world: applying for a minimum wage job via a corporate HR web site

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My #1 son is a special needs adult. He’s excited to start at $10/hour job running food around a sports stadium. It’s work he can do — he’s g...
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Saturday, March 18, 2017

All our family healthcare visits are now billed as CPT E&M Code "Level Four"

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Very few people will understand what that subject line means. The short version is that the way we account for physician services was born ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Curious Priceline credit card fraud today

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Around 2:30pm Amex.app tells me a $1.00 authorization charge has been placed for Priceline. Which I didn’t do.  I’m in a meeting so I figur...
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Sunday, February 12, 2017

A change to my publishing streams

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These are the last days of app.net. It ends in 3 days. App.net has been good to me . Great tools, smart and interesting people, RSS integrat...
Saturday, February 04, 2017

Warfare goes to the elite

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Once upon a time tens of thousands of New Yorkers moved paper from one file cabinet to another. Once upon a time there were jobs for strong ...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Crisis-T: what to do about the delusions and the lies.

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I’ve been using “crisis-T” as a tag for our times. I used to think it was a bit melodramatic; that maybe T would somehow veer to the fantas...

Crisis-T: Subscribing to the NYT (and a few others)

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The absolute minimal response to Crisis-T starts with financial support for quality journalism and donation to the ACLU . If you have a reas...
Monday, January 09, 2017

CrossFit has invaded my dreams. You should try it.

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I awoke last night sweaty and anxious. I was dreaming about the kipping muscle up ; a move that still eludes me. Which is nuts. I am an ol...
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Sunday, January 08, 2017

Quicken for Mac 2017 -- $45 upgrade for nothing.

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Quicken for Mac 2017 new features … Compare your income and spending year over year with custom reports Customize your budgeting goals mo...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

Crisis-T: blame it on the iPhone (too)

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It’s a human thing. Something insane happens and we try to figure out “why now?”. We did a lot of that in the fall of 2001. Today I looked b...
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Friday, December 23, 2016

Investment things I learned in Crisis-T

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All the money Trump will take from the poor and give to the rich has to go somewhere. So share prices should rise. On the other hand, a 10%...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Save America. Vote GOP.

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In the real world HRC is President and the GOP is beginning a painful reform process that will lead to a far better conservative party and a...
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