Posts from July 2000

Home Shopping Network Direct

My office at Home Shopping Network Direct used to be occupied by the person in charge of deciding what got on the air. There are a hunka buncha file folders next to my computer. The things that didn’t make it. When my mind wanders … when I’m thinking of non-computer-related stuff (which is once every

I walk out of my office …

I walk out of my office and I take off my shirt. It’s hot. It is ridiculously hot. It is so hot that you imagine that it could not possibly be any hotter on any other place on this planet. It is so hot that you can’t even get out the door before you are

Being Honorable

As a matter of fact, being honorable sucks. Just so you know. Dishonorable David … now that’s a cool nickname. (Way better than MuffinAss, you freak.)

Large Hot Pipe Organ

Okay, this one‘s for TheBrad …

One Actor

Bry! You forgot Days of Thunder! How? How could you forget Days of Thunder?! And what about Glory? Liar Liar? Are you not paying as much attention as I thought you were?

It would be cool to know that I can download songs from Less Than Jake‘s album Pezcore for $.99/ea at eMusic. It would be if you couldn’t get the entire album for free everywhere else on the net. Whatever. You don’t even care, do you?

2024-01-19: Dead links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Heh. Three consecutive posts beginning with heh.

Heh. I was only kidding. Yes, I am a computer programmer. I wasn’t kidding about that. (Although “computer programmer” is not usually what people think when they think of me.) But I wasn’t really worried about getting this thing running with a sound card. Hello? How hard is that? I freakin’ built Bud from scratch, y’know? Fooling with HSND02 here is not that big a shmeal. So now we are ready to go. Woo. Hoo. Goodbye MiniDisc action, hello mp3s.

Hardware Sucks

Heh. Cool. I’m a computer programmer. I am not a hardware guy. I am using a server as a development machine. The hardware guy just gave me a sound card and a screwdriver. Let’s see if I can do this … <Dr. Nick>Good night, Everybody!</Dr. Nick>

Being Honorable Sucks

I don’t like being honorable. Not. one. bit.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.