Gordon's Notes

There are several software products I want nobody will build. For example, I want a “screen saver” that will randomly select from a collect...

Every so often I review a medical topic and stick my notes into Simplenote for later reference. The reviews are quite messy since it’s just ...

Originally published in the NYT Oct 28, 1956 by Waldemar Kaempffert . Reprinted as Climate Science in 1956 and 2015 | HuffPost : The gener...

On the 9th of August 2009 I wrote a post on at the start of my 51st year . It included an estimate that I was at "70% lifetime strength...

Current exercise guidelines are more demanding that the “12 minutes a day, 3 times a week” standard of my youth ... For substantial healt...

It is my privilege to announce that I will running for the Presidency of the United States of America. I understand that, as a foreign born...

Medicare for All won’t work in 2020. We have an insurmountable path dependency problem. We can, however, implement the ACA public option. I...

There’s been at least a 200-300% increase in care complexity between when I started medical practice and today. Many new classes of medicati...

I ordered the Greenlight cards for our children. Only one is a minor (and she uses a regular debit card) but two are special needs adults w...

My son bought me a slim book on rock climbing techniques. Rock climbing was my brother Brian’s gig , but I could see doing it when my knees ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr showed up in a scrum of pro-measles whackos recently. It  me wonder how he got so nuts. There’s an extensive wikipedia...

I am a strong-AI pessimist. I think by 2100 we’ll be in range of sentient AIs that vastly exceed human cognitive abilities  (“ skynet ”). Su...

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...

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...

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...