Posts from October 2000

Rock Paper Scissors

Want to try and best me at a game of digital Rock, Paper, Scissors? Go on, I dare ya.

“The thinking of genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.”
Dorothy Thompson, American journalist (1894-1961)

Web Services

Megnut mentioned one of those ‘net services a few days ago. The mylackey.com and askjeeves.com sites are nifty, to be sure, but I just found a place that is even more useful. While I was in San Diego this weekend Chris showed me Food.Com and I was astounded. What a wonderful web site! You enter

Signs of Aging

I guess I’m safe for now. I could identify with less than 30% of dink’s aging signs. (Although … the fact that I actually grabbed a pen and paper and did the math to figure out that statistic frightens me.)

The English Language

The English Language

I really get aggravated when people try to argue their way out of what are really meaningless mistakes by saying that the English language is flexible and there aren’t any hard and fast rules and who cares if they’ve spelled something incorrectly because it doesn’t matter as long as you get it and blah, blah,

Gator Links

Gator Links

For a team coming off an open date, the Gators are a little bit banged up. More football head coaches in the SEC call their plays than in any other conference. Steve Spurrier has a long memory when it comes to the storied history of the annual Georgia-Florida game. Spurrier said, “This Georgia game shapes

Shotgun Rules

I like the rule All shotgun arguments settled by “rock, paper, lethal injection.”

Automated Duck System

I am sad to see that, in some small way, I may have contributed to this. The world certainly could use more ducks on automated voice-mail systems, and I will be disappointed if this one disappears.

San Diego

Service Interruption I’m off to visit my friend Chris. Regularly scheduled blogging should resume when I return from San Diego. Be good, eat your veggies, clear the table, and do the dishes.

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.