Gordon's Notes

Somewhere in my twitter stream mention was made of the "virtual camera" and its advantages for videoconferencing especially as a r...

I'm a fairly average sleeper for my age, but this morning I gave up a bit before 4am. With the unexpected time I finished Yuval Harari&#...

I usually share my blog posts to Pinboard, and from there some creaky old services create tweets and an archive on kateva.org/sh. Not this p...

This is the last in a short series of post that  began on Nov 11, 2020 , shortly after Biden won the presidency for the first time. Back the...

I'm on the way to writing about what I think should be Biden's #2 priority (#1 is undoing Trump's executive orders). Three previ...

Every three years I have to do a quality improvement project to maintain my family medicine board status.  This year I decided to focus on m...

In the Fall of 2020 the American people decided to dump Trump. Americans didn't agree on much else; voters rejected significant change. ...

What would make someone "middle class" in 2020? I like to think of this in terms of what a "middle class" 30 yo adult sh...

A few days ago I listed about 25 reasons that Donald Trump should not be President . Any one of them is sufficient by itself. There are lots...

It's Nov 6, 2020 and I believe Trump's presidency is ending. I look forward to forgetting him, but one day I'll be asked what al...

The combination of RSS and the basic blog post is almost perfect. There are, however, a few things that would make them even better as a way...

 My Great-Aunt was born in the 19th century. She spent most of her life working in data processing. She, and thousands like her, did read, d...

I've written only a few COVID-19 posts , mostly about masks and activities. Looking back at them today they hold up pretty well. This fe...

In my various explorations of next-level masks I found this one on Amazon (Via Rolling Stone, the acting public health division of the US go...

The COVID battle with Delta May 1, 2020: Delta canceled a flight for daughter and I to Korea. I spoke with the Delta rep and was told we'...