Gordon's Notes

The 70s were pretty weird, but I was too young to notice. (Not coincidentally, the Toffler/Farrell Future Shock book was written then.) By ...

First check out the Time magazine covers for 1965 . That was a very long time ago. Things have improved. Now look at the April 2nd issue an...

I wrote this in 1997 and found it in my old pre-blog Web 1.0 archives. I decided to republish it here because, you know, I could. Some of it...

Copied from a tweet of mine, a cartoon explanation of our peculiar economic situation. 1. Wealth became extremely concentrated.  2. Returns ...

Update Oct 18, 2021 : I wrote Trek a paper letter (!) about my experience and they are working on removing any references to trailside Mino ...

I entered my 63y recently. For me this means another look at what I'm doing with the old arthritic body I've got. I started doing Cr...

We've used our Schwinn IC 4 cycle trainer for about 10 months now. It was a pandemic purchase in December of 2020. The same trainer is s...

Representational drift , if validated, tells us that a memory is a set of relationships, not the specific neurons that embody those relation...

I'm a physician. Ok, so it's a very part-time practice; I'm mostly a bureaucrat trying to keep civilization together. Still I h...

My trail bike is a 2010 Cannondale Scalpel I bought used. It was a state-of-the-art racing machine in the 26" era and it's light an...

I wrote the original of this post in the early COVID era. Since then I expanded the basement home gym with a way over-specced power lifting ...

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...