Gordon's Notes

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

Sunday, December 30, 2018

Why the crisis of 2016 will continue for decades to come

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I haven’t written recently about why Crisis 2016, sometimes called Crisis-T , happened. For that matter, why Brexit. My last takes were in 2...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Life goal #2 - The CrossFit Kipping Bar Muscle-Up

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In 2018 I met one of my two CrossFit Life Goals (tm) -  10 consecutive dubs (hit 42 in a wild fluke the other day). Only took me five times...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Old doctor pet peeve - disease descriptions were better in Osler's day.

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I didn’t know Sir William personally, but I think he’d be appalled by the descriptions of patient-disorders in our medical textbooks. We t...
Saturday, December 01, 2018

Quicken for Mac -- why vendors are going to screw-up subscription pricing for software services

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We’ve been using Quicken for Mac for the past year. I’m satisfied with the software, but I no longer trust their pricing and renewal. We pa...
Saturday, November 03, 2018

Amazon reviews now unreliable - negative reviews filtered (Anker example)

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Amazon reviews have long been helpful to me, and were once a big part of Amazon’s value proposition. That is no longer true. Amazon is filt...
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On certainty

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A week ago, in a Facebook group for CrossFit physicians, I read a post blaming poor parenting ( i.e. , poor mothering) for childhood obesity...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Nasty flaw in Minnesota mail ballot process

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There’s a nasty flaw in Minnesota’s vote by mail process. When you apply for a mail ballot you are asked to provider either a SSN last 4 or...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

Attack of the Clones - New disease mechanism identified

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First came CHIP - Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential  (Jan 2018) … a bizarre accumulation of mutated stem cells in bone marro...

We still need a way to explore and resurface old blog posts

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Six years ago I wrote about browsing the blog blacklist and the need to resurface content from old blog postings . Today, even in the suppos...

Why is the hamstring connected to the paraspinal muscles?

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The hamstrings (biceps fermoris, semitendonosis, semimembranosus, some include adductor magnus) flex the knee and extend the hip. The erect...
Saturday, October 13, 2018

Bostromism rediscovered

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While recently rereading Banks’ marvelous book The Algebraist I decide I ought to write a post about “The Truth”, which is basically Bostro...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

CrossFit 59 and so on

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I used to write a birthday blog post each year about doing CrossFit. I missed this year; probably because its kind of a regular thing now. ...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Random thoughts on replacing Twitter

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Twitter will become a blend of home shopping network, daytime TV, and tabloid news. That might be quite profitable. There is money in sane...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Dubs

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Ten. Consecutive. Dubs . It’s not too much to ask, is it? Oh, and one muscle-up. Or bar muscle-up . I’m not picky. Dubs aren’t that hard...
Saturday, June 09, 2018

My iOS medical references

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My iOS medical references for my small adult primary care practice (mostly I’m an admin) FP Notebook.app (I subscribe, one of my favorite ...
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