Posts from September 2001

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Math

So far, more than 10,000 tons have been removed, a tiny fraction of the skyscrapers’ ruins – a combined total of 220 stories of gleaming steel weighing some 1.25 million tons, plus an unknown number of surrounding structures. Ten thousand tons in 4 days? Let’s be generous and say three days, assuming that they weren’t

Hats

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Sewing machines at New Era Cap Co. on Friday began stitching American flags onto the caps major league baseball players will wear when they resume play next week. That is so American I don’t even know what to do with myself. Once again, some simple little story brought tears to my

Interesting Slant

Hijacking Clues May Be Red Herrings

Postponed Games

College Football Postponements

State of Florida Dominates

“High school football in our state is very good,” said Florida coach Steve Spurrier. “Football is very important here. It’s a place where high school players want to play. They like to play in Florida. They like the idea of competing for a championship.”

Editorial

An editorial on ESPN.com‘s Page2: Several of the terrorists, it seems, learned to fly airplanes in Florida, and one can imagine how it must have boiled their blood to witness, say, a Florida – Tennessee game. The young, robust women with so much bare skin showing. The prosperous, ample boosters with bourbon on their breaths.

Spider-Man

This kid is wearing a Spider-Man t-shirt. Isn’t that a Chevy in the background? Or a Taurus? In the short videos I keep seeing of celebrating Palestinians the men are in a Ford van. There’s even a little Ford ribbon in the windshield. Hey, kid. If you hate me … my country … so much,

Rebuild!

Rebuild It, Bigger! America will find an appropriate way to mourn. But if we must have a shrine or monument for our remorse, let’s put it on the 200th floor, right next to the antiaircraft guns. I was thinking this Tuesday night. I don’t want a shrine, or a monument, or a memorial. I want

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

I grow old … I grow old… I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they

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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.