Gordon's Notes

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

Saturday, December 30, 2017

Tech regressions: MORE, Quicken, PalmOS, iOS, Podcasts, Aperture, Music, iPad photo slide shows, and toasters.

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One of the odder experiences of aging is living through technology regressions. I’ve seen a few — solutions that go away and are never repla...
Friday, December 29, 2017

Did an autonomous Tesla kill its first cyclist?

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This Nov 2017 crash hasn’t gotten enough attention … Tesla Strikes and Kills UK Cyclist | Bicycling.com … An 80-year-old man was killed F...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

NYT moves columnist blogs into a controlled venue -- with some deprecated RSS

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The NYT has moved Krugman’s blog to a new platform . I presume this is true for all their journalists. The NYT RSS index still points to hi...
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Tuesday, December 05, 2017

Weinstein, The Enquirer, Pecker and Trump - a curious set of friendships

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From NYT essay on Weinstein and his enablers an interesting set of misogynistic relationships … Weinstein’s Complicity Machine - The New Y...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Taxing the externalities of the attention economy

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The Economist has an excellent overview of the risks of the attention economy  (11/4/17). The Gamergate connection is particularly good. Th...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

What percent of white women voted for Trump - really?

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I’d read that 53% of white women voted for Trump and 45% of college-educated white women. I’ve quoted those numbers. Today I looked for an u...

Personal note - Google Scholar discovers something I maybe wrote and forgot long ago

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Funny personal note. While testing Google Scholar's new features I ended up creating a profile based on my (limited) academic publicati...
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Understanding century 21 - IT, Globalization and urban-urban migration

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In the 90s the world kind of made sense. Since then, not so much. I don’t know if teens truly are experiencing an anxiety epidemic, but any ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Saint Paul Minnesota mayoral race: bikes and peds

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The extraordinary St Paul Bicycle coalition has a couple of useful references on our upcoming mayoral race: Candidate statements Voter G...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Small traps to watch out for: My Merrill Lynch unexpected brokerage fees

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Life has lots of small traps. Sharing this one in case it’s useful. I once worked for a firm that granted me stock options that were held b...
Sunday, September 03, 2017

Elenco SnapCircuits 500 block layout

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I have bought things for my children that I dreamt of as a child — but were out of my parent's price range. Shockingly, my children hav...
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...
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