Posts from August 2001

ultracrepidarian

Definition: In a word… ultracrepidarian: (n., adj.) a person who gives opinions beyond his scope of knowledge. “Nonexpert opinion or assumed authority – Don’t be swayed (or try to sway someone else) based on the opinion of an unqualified authority. The Air Force is chock-full of people who, because of their position or authority in

Curses!

Damn! Foiled again by my puny ability to speak just the one language! Langreiter.com looks like an awesome page; I just wish I could read Dutch! (Or German. Or Nordic-Trac. Or whatever it is that this guy’s mostly writing / blogging.) And what could be a better time than now to mention that you can

NL

Somehow I got on this page: Denk je dat je alles hebt gehad…. Weblogger.nl I get very upset when people don’t put a space before and after their ellipses, or when someone uses more or less than three periods when writing ellipses, and I don’t speak Dutch. But this looks really nifty! I have no

Slim Shady

How incredible is this? I just reached into a 14 oz bag of M&M’s without looking and grabbed five green ones. Five. All the same color. Crazy.

Hot Rod Lincoln

Hot Rod Lincoln – Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

Work

I do not like this article. Not one bit. [link via BrainLog]

Terrestrial Eclipse

from Tim’s Spam Page: Astronomers have revealed that there will be a “Terrestrial Eclipse” tonight! This happens when the Earth and the Sun are so aligned that half the Earth obscures the light of the Sun from the other half. This rare occurrence only happens every 24 hours and plunges 50% of the Earth into

The Polyorchid Religious Society

The basis of the Polyorchid Religious Society is the belief in the supremacy of Dasypygal, the highest being of avuncularity. Dasypygal has taught us that we must always desquamate to our fellow people and that we must show special hydatidicity to the animals that coexist on this planet with us.

Late Nite TV

Has anyone caught the infomercial for Kurt Woodruff’s The Secret of Making Money on the Internet? No, I have no idea who “Kurt Woodruff” is either. With the notable exception of Planet of the Apes, I think the worst writing in the entertainment industry these days is being done by infomercial writers. Do they have

Wine

Dr. Tedd Goldfinger, a cardiologist in Tucson, Arizona, says alcohol can decrease the tendency of blood to clot and cause heart attacks, and raise good cholesterol levels.” But, “you don’t have to go out and spend $20 or $30 on a bottle of wine.” He said a cheaper one will do. Mmmm … good ol’

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.