Gordon's Notes

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

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Faughnan-Lagace Herald -- now Dilbert free

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The first thing I did on the web, as a class assignment sometime between 1994 and 1995, was a personal profile . I just reread it. Ouch. I w...
Wednesday, August 09, 2017

CrossFit 58

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I’ve had a habit around each birthday to review where I’m at with my exercise addiction. This past week was the 58th. I bought myself a Cano...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Moving the body - how much is too much?

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I’ve read that our national dumpster fire believes exercise is unwise. That’s not a surprise. It does remind me though of an open medical q...
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Sunday, July 02, 2017

Uninsured patients in US (mostly) no longer pay crazed "list price" for hospital care

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I had no idea this situation had improved — and I follow health care fairly closely …. The Pricing Of U.S. Hospital Services: Chaos Behind...
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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