Sunday, February 23, 2020

Someone is hacking at my Vanguard account and Vanguard can't stop them locking me out

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So this has been happening. Every few days for the past few weeks I have received an email from Vanguard like this: Of course it'...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Apple can beat Google Maps -- by investing in bike route maps

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Google Maps seems unbeatable. Every time Apple does an upgrade Google does three. It seems Apple can't win. But Google has weaknesses....
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Bodies are weird, episode 26

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My right wrist hurt the other day. A sudden sharp annoying pain. Maybe a tendon, maybe my arthritis acting up. So I did my usual amateur se...
Friday, December 06, 2019

The killer application for Apple's AR glasses will be driving

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Sucks to get old. At 60 my night vision is probably half of what it was at 25. I drive slowly at night to reduce the risk of missing a pedes...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Carbon sequestration

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It’s the year 2,500. Civilization has long recovered from the chaos years following the Trump regime. Alas, even that catastrophe only tran...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Clark Goble 1967-2019

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Clark and I had different opinions on the future of ISIS. This was years ago, when we conversed often on app.net /ADN. He under his own name...
Monday, September 09, 2019

Bicycling North Dakota's Maah Daah Hey trail with Western Spirit

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Last week I bicycled most of North Dakota’s Maah Daah Hey trail . The New York Times’ John O'Connor described it in 2018  (emphases mine...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Sorrow for the Long Tail - the memory machine I will never see

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There are several software products I want nobody will build. For example, I want a “screen saver” that will randomly select from a collect...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Rough personal notes on review of management of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis with lumbar spinal stenosis and pseudoclaudiation

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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 ...
Tuesday, August 06, 2019

Warmer climate on the earth may be due to more carbon dioxide in the air. 1956.

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Originally published in the NYT Oct 28, 1956 by Waldemar Kaempffert . Reprinted as Climate Science in 1956 and 2015 | HuffPost : The gener...
Monday, August 05, 2019

The rules change

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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...
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Saturday, May 11, 2019

My exercise program towards the end of year 60

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Current exercise guidelines are more demanding that the “12 minutes a day, 3 times a week” standard of my youth ... For substantial healt...
Saturday, May 04, 2019

Gordon's platform 2020

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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...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Healthcare reform 2020: Public option based on the VA healthcare model

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Medicare for All won’t work in 2020. We have an insurmountable path dependency problem. We can, however, implement the ACA public option. I...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Primary care 2019 vs. 1989

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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...